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Topic: Show Issue and Screen Presence
Started by: Alan
Started on: 6/14/2005
Board: Dog Eared Designs

On 6/14/2005 at 8:30pm, Alan wrote:
Show Issue and Screen Presence

Here's an idea for the second edition:

Give the Show itself an "Issue" and Screen Presence rating. The show's SP deterined the Producer's base dice in a conflict. Show SP would be 4 minus the highest SP of all the protagonists in a given episode.

This is mostly an idea from Ron's observation that when the SPs of the protagonists are all low, the show's premise is featured.


We can put episodes in three cateogries:

Spotlight - one or more Protagonists have a Screen Presence of 3.
The spotlight protagonist's issue creates the episode story.

Ensemble - Several Protagonists have 2s and no one has a 3.
The protagonists either pursue individual concerns around the show premise.

Plot Episode - All SP are 1.
The protagonists are all concerned with doing their part to address the overall premise.

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On 6/15/2005 at 9:36pm, Lord_Steelhand wrote:
RE: Show Issue and Screen Presence

It seems we had sort of the same idea around the same time. I posted a similar topic before reading this one. Sorry if I "camped" you.

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