[One Can Have Her] First game!

[JC]

[Jonas Ferry]

[JC]

I like how you put the players in front of The Third Man while you were prepping the non-player characters. I'm curious, how much time did you spend on prepping on your own? I want it to be quick and easy and provide the right tools for the game master.

I'd say about 15 minutes tops

now that I've done it once before, I think I should be able to do it in 10

Do you think you could clarify your step 13 ("Joe asks Novello to help him disappear. P was losing, so M cross-plays his last card anyway: a king." followed by "Both players are out of cards") a bit? A player is only allowed to cross-play a king if a king was just played AND if the conflict isn't yet resolved. For M to cross-play the king either you or P had played a king, but needed one more to resolve the conflict. Was this what happened? Also, when players cross-play they immediately get to draw a new card, so M should have one conflict left after cross-playing. It's not terribly important, at least not in this case as it seems like it worked out fine for you, but since you want to play again I want to help you with the rules in any way I can.

you know what: I think we just messed up the rules there

M should not have been allowed to play his king

though that just means we should have played one more conflict, and that he would have automatically lost

as you say, an error, but no biggie

[Ron Edwards]

When I GMed our evening of play, I also required only about 15 minutes.

Best, Ron