[Dreamation 2008] Serial: Satisfying play.

[Kat Miller]

[Emily Care]

Kat this was an excellent experience. I love your emphasis on playing out the lives of the victims. Each small scene is fun and engaging in watching the ups and downs of a person's life, and since we all get to jump in and play characters everyone is a part of the action.  And also, it gave a real sense of pathos when the eventual murders began. 

It was quite fun running the investigation as well. I liked being able to make directorial decisions about what got decided next, and being able to give my input by asking particular questions of the investigators. We were lucky enough to make the roll to catch the killer on the second round, but I expect it would take longer in most games so more people would get to be the chief investigator.  But have you thought about the suggestion made at the table to have some sort of mechanic that lets people vie for that position?

Serial is a great game. You guys have done a very good job of giving it fun, clean design. I"m looking forward to getting to play again soon.

best,
Emily

[JC]

And also, it gave a real sense of pathos when the eventual murders began. 

(resist joke about killer idea...)

this seems like just the kind of thing I love!

where can I learn more about the game?

[zipht]

Hey, Kat

Serial was great fun.

It was too bad that I didn't get more players for my Burning Wheel game. To be clear, Two showed. But I was not keen on playing that scenario with so few players. Then we all found other games open. So all was good. :-D

My only comment is I wish we did do some role playing during the Investigation Phase. Currently the game from the Investigator view is a little cold.
I would like to role play my Investigator's success. That would mean defining our investigators more thought. I really want to see these Potential Victim's from both sides, get small cuts of their lives. Then on to how our Investigators see them.

Also a fan mail like mechanic would be nice. For both, our Potential Victim scenes and Investigator RP. I really wanted to reward some of the awesome at that table.

Nicholas, aka zipht

[GreatWolf]

My only comment is I wish we did do some role playing during the Investigation Phase. Currently the game from the Investigator view is a little cold.
I would like to role play my Investigator's success. That would mean defining our investigators more thought. I really want to see these Potential Victim's from both sides, get small cuts of their lives. Then on to how our Investigators see them.

This was my experience of Serial as well.  The Victim Phase is so intense and so gripping that I felt like the Investigation Phase was kinda uninteresting.  Personally, I wanted to see more procedural in the game.  But again, that's only because I felt that the Victim Phase was so moving that I wanted the Investigation Phase to be equally engaging.

[Paelena]

Kat, because I know Nick Marshall, I can say with some degree of certainty that I got a few pictures of that particular game
and have it listed at my Flickr page with other dreamtion2008 pics.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/morningstar1369/2229551735/in/set-72157603815993761/

Michele