[Land of 1000 Kings] My children visit the Land of 1000 Kings

[GreatWolf]

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In Land of 1000 Kings<here<Best Friends<and vocabulary.  We all win!


Opening the Door<A Return Visit<something<chutzpah<Post-game reactions<Playtest feedback<this thing is against the Law of the Realm, so it will be harder.  Doing this

[Ben Lehman]

Hi Seth! Thanks for testing this.

Mechanical notes:

"Memory of the World" is the ghost of an old draft. Replace that with "Memory on a person of consequence."

1) The veil of the world is large! I usually only use 6-8 dice when:

a) The character is doing something scary dangerous, but there's no other character opposing them (like, say, jumping off the moon.) That needs at least 6 dice, I'm sorry.

b) The character that they are facing down is serious bad news (like King Drug.)
Usually I stay in the 2-4 range.

3) I waver on "condition, location, reception." Ultimately, I stole them from Vincent. They belong in a different game. But for right now they work pretty well. I like that you can't ever dictate someone's internal state for more than a bit.

4) There is no condition which negates the possibility of wounds, just restricts them. So, for instance, the condition "I'm fine" coming out of a fight could lead to the wound "reputation as a good fighter" so then people are scared of the character. Additionally, leftover currency can be used to eliminate your own wounds, or attack the opponent's memories (I think? Is that rule still in there?), or say what happens to the inconsequential people in the scene.

5) Be very careful with the "where do you end up" rules. Note how there are specific restrictions in how and why the doorkeeper can screw with your destination.

6) The between sessions rules are due to change drastically...

yrs--
--Ben

[GreatWolf]

I'm sure that I'll have other questions, but I have a quick one right now.

Does that "not all together, not all separate" restriction still apply?  I know that we played that way at GenCon, but I don't recall seeing it in the rules.

[Ben Lehman]

I'm sure that I'll have other questions, but I have a quick one right now.

Does that "not all together, not all separate" restriction still apply?  I know that we played that way at GenCon, but I don't recall seeing it in the rules.

Yup! It's a good rule, I think. Unless you can think of a reason it should be otherwise.

yrs--
--Ben

[GreatWolf]

Yup! It's a good rule, I think. Unless you can think of a reason it should be otherwise.

Nothing bounds to mind.  The rules forces the characters to be split up but then to cross paths again, but never completely in sync with each other.  That's a cool effect, and I like it.  Of course, you'll need to work out how this interacts with (say) three different players wanting to go to three different places.  That's part of why I split the group up how I did in the second visit.