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[Resource] The Pitch

Started by Levi Kornelsen, November 22, 2006, 04:18:23 PM

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Levi Kornelsen

November 22, 2006, 04:18:23 PM
If you can, describe how you pitched one of your games to the players, how it worked, and what you'd do differently if you were going to do it again.  

This is meant as a resource list - something people can reference - so try to format it for easy reading (give your method a title and stuff), and if people avoid commenting on other people's methods in this thread, it'll make a better resource (if you give a damn).

Levi Kornelsen

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November 22, 2006, 04:26:34 PM
You Are Here.  Here it is.  Go.
For a weird little game I ran pretty recently as a one-shot, I pitched the game by telling the players "You are royal children - none of you was meant as heir to the throne, and so you were trained to high excellence at whatever you wished.  Each and every one of you wants the throne.  You have just been summoned to the Throne Room, where the king and heir lie dead.  Tell me about you."

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This was a straight grab for immediate attention and action.  I found that this worked really well - I'm not sure it would work in a game that was intended as more than a one-shot, and I doubt it would have gone well in a system with complex character generation.  Going this way assumes that the players are right there, ready to play.

fonkaygarry

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November 22, 2006, 04:44:25 PM
My Buddy Pat: I just bought Iron Heroes.  Let's play Iron Heroes.

Me: Sure.  What kind of game do you guys want with it?

Group: Whatever.

Me (to myself): Well, fuck me.

That's how it usually runs, in that I am pitched to as much as I pitch in FtF games.  That'll change pretty soon, I hope.
teamchimp: I'm doing problem sets concerning inbreeding and effective population size.....I absolutely know this will get me the hot bitches.

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Silverlion

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November 22, 2006, 05:51:29 PM
I'd spend less time working on these until I heard from the group the genre they wanted--I was told "Fantasy" by my group contact (the person who knows everyone and often gets the games together) unfortunatly they wanted superheroes ;) but all was good.

My Pitches (rough unedited mind you I was trying to get a few in about two hours time)

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http://www.freewebs.com/tome/Namora.pdf
http://www.freewebs.com/tome/gamepitches.pdf
http://www.freewebs.com/tome/gamepitches2.pdf
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David R

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November 22, 2006, 07:52:17 PM
Early John Carpenter

A stripped down Hunter game based on films such as Prince of Darkness, The Fog, The Thing etc. The pcs had to have lives - job, family, relationships etc - but(during play) found themselves being drawn into some bad shit (which affected everyone) but they were the only ones who seemed to give a damn about how things were going down.

Actual Play

More or less what I expected. Lots of interparty conflict. Examples of some of the emerging themes - police corruption, urban decay, domestic abuse...and lots of freakin' ugly monsters....

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David R
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