[Game Chef 2011] The Daughters of Verona
Wilper:
Most of the rules text is down in print now, those who have played Montsegur 1244 will feel at home.
Remains to build all those characters. And turn them into cards.
Also, my SO has shown interest in the game. Looks like she'll add support for playing unicorns in the game. She reasoned along the lines of "If there could be fairies in a Midsummer Night's Dream, there could be Unicorns in your game". We'll see how that goes.
Wilper:
I have dodged making all those characters. First by searching the web for some pretty pictures to steal for a cover and interior art. Then by writing the setting chapter, it is four lines of text, but should cover what is needed.
Jason Petrasko:
You do realize your generalized progress reports are like a seductive strip tease to game designers right? Show us a little more leg already!
Wilper:
Right. The game will play very much like Montsegur 1244, except, in the end we don't have a pyre with all the PCs on it, but a wedding+feast with the PCs. I focus strictly on comedies here, this will be a "nice" game. Not the angst ridden, 18+ rated games I usually play. Cross play is the only "weird" element, if you are a girl who plays a heroine in disguise: you will be a girl playing a man (since all the actors are men, by tradition) dressed as a girl dressed as a man! The game will be the Matroshka doll of cross play.
Of course there needs to be conflict and obstacles for the lovers to overcome, otherwise there would not be a story at all, but it should be along the lines of what we find in Shakespeare's comedies.
There's an element of troupe play by necessity. At five players we have two pairs of lovers and a fool as main characters. Then everyone also has one or two extra characters, these would be "blocker" characters, people who get in the way of the lovers, the heroine's father, other suitors (favoured by the father) etc, and servants, and people needed for secondary plot lines.
I steal stuff from the plays like they are written... When you want to put one of your characters into a scene you call out "Enter Romeo", this should reduce the confusion of who you're playing at the moment.
I will make a deck of Complications, stuff to inspire the players when they set scenes... Stuff like "A Duel" or "Someone puts on a disguise". The Complication deck will also double as a Location deck with good locations.
The players take turns setting scenes. Five(ish) scenes per act, five acts following the Elizabethan five act structure. There's a wedding in Act V. I'll post the setting when I get back to my other computer.
fjj:
I like the idea of a Montsegur 1244-style comedy :)
Tips for creating the cast of characters:
Include old and young people.
Include men and women.
Include authorities (fathers, judges, captains, priests).
Include family relations.
Draw out a relationship map. Each character must have relations to at least two others.
The wedding at the end:
Will each main character be married? Or perhaps the game is a "fight" of whoose marriage will be celebrated at the end?
Ideas for rules for making it a comedy:
At least one main character must get married. At most one main character may choose to escape on the night before the wedding? :)
/Frederik
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