Well, I recently bought the Your Story book and ran a small adventure called Neutral Ground's which I downloaded. It proceeded a lot better than expected considering the only system the players used previously had been classic D20 3.5 Edition D&D.

Unfortunately I'm finding it difficult to find a proper forum to share idea's for a campaign and relay my stories back (I'm not even sure TDF forums are great for that either).

So, considering DLP introduced me to the series I thought I could come here for idea's.

The campaigns set in Glasgow and the players are roughly in a Pre-Storm Front weight-class, they've dealt with one dipshit Red Court Vampire and a power hungry enthralling sorceror (Who tapped into a leyline underneath George Square). I've set up to have the White Court providing the Sorceror the knowledge of the leyline so they're the PC's main antagonists (Although they don't know what The White Court are yet).

The PC's don't have ANY background in the series which i'm counting as a blessing more than a curse.

The party is pretty mixed with a Summer Court Changeling, a Apprentice Wizard and a Vanilla Mortal.

So, anything you would like to see done in a play session and relayed back to you?

 

I've run a few games of Dresden Files for some friends, its a very interesting system to work with. And of course the world is perfect for rping in.

Glasgow is an excellent setting for a game, I actually considered it for my DF campaign before settling on York.

You're definitely right that the characters having no direct tie in to the books is a blessing, I can't imagine trying to work a game around the canon plotline to that extent.

Your party mix is interesting. A changeling is always a good character to have, what's their specific style? An apprentice wizard...thats ok, but a bit restricting. In a low level game I would personally have avoided a purely magic character in the game. They aren't going to feel particularly effective, and its going to be challenging for you to make them particularly relevant. (On the other hand, some people enjoy that sort of character and it can lead to some interesting roleplaying opportunities.) A vanilla mortal...I have to say, its a completely, unutterably boring character to play when you consider all the other opportunities presented. Now, don't get me wrong...its a character thats unlikely to go wrong. But really, why would anyone choose to play a basic mortal when rping DF?

The White Court as the bad guys...interesting I did that as well. However, they are very difficult to make good bad guys unless you are good at presenting subtle manipulations, and also your party is good at recognising and reacting to them. The party I was running for, they failed at the latter.

 

The Changeling is essentially for social interactions, his backstory set him up as a kind of Summer Court plaything, the sidhe look at him as more of an entertaining "Oh look, he wants to be one of us" although the character thinks he's making contacts etc. The Wizard is surprisingly unblasty, whenever playing D&D his player would usually think up creative uses for spells and that's definitely translated over to his use of Thaumaturgy. The Mortal says that he's planning on branching out a bit, and i'm thinking of introducing the Denarian in the mix to provide some temptation for him and drama.

They've been extremely perceptive so far and they were immediately suspicious of the White Court representative and they've began to grasp the "proxy's behind proxy's" nature of The Dresden File's.

 

A social changeling makes sense. A thaumaturgy specialist...well it would be the only way to allow a low level wizard to do much. I would still say its a bad choice of character to play at such a low level, unless of course you plan on powering them up quite quickly.

How does the Mortal plan on branching out?

Introducing the denarian would be difficult to balance at such a low level IMO. I assume you are playing at either Up to Your Waist level, or Chest Deep. I would be hesitant at using the Denarian against Submerged characters. Unless the players had said they wanted the games to be horrendously difficult to the point of failure being the greatest likelihood. But at a lower level the Denarian are just too powerful to involve in anything but the most abstract way.

Out of curiosity, how experienced a GM are you?

 

I'd say I was about mid level experience when it comes to classic fantasy D&D romps, i'm definitely having more difficulty changing over to the Fate system. We're playing at the Chest Deep level so there's still a lot of flexibility. I'm not really planning a lot of combat against powerful figures such as Denarians and Faerie Courts, mainly offers and bargains for the players to make, it provides a pretty good dramatic source and seems great for compelling later. In D&D I always felt it was a cheap cop out when an infinitely more powerful NPC would force you into questlines and i'm trying to create a kind of subtle parallel in that these NPC's exist in the Dresden-verse, you can't beat them but if you're smart you can work your way round them and if you so choose work with them (Under your own terms).

At best i'd say I was trying to capture the feel of the initial series, a mystery series with the supernatural political maneuvering that Dresden himself takes part in.

 

I always thought Istanbul (Constantinople) would make a really good setting for a DF RPG game. Maybe the Denarians are trying to wipe out the descendants of the Byzantine emperors, in order to reduce the number of potential Sword-wielders? That sounds like the sort of short-term fun/long-term payoff that Denarians get up to. It also means you could drop some interesting obstacles in their way. Maybe there are several descendants left and they're all in organised crime, so the Denarians start a gang war (working smarter, not harder).

 

...GENIUS!

Totally nabbing that as a game at some point mate! Nice one!

 

You could always add the spirit of the Last Roman Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos who stalks the city and watch over his descendants. Constantinople is an awesome city to play in. Rich history makes it easy to make connections with Dresdenverse. The Walls of Constantinople (both the Wall of Constantine and Theodosian Walls) turned back many invading enemies and they are still easily seen on the maps. Not to mention the city role as an ancient gateway to Asia, filled with historical landmarks that can easily be Dresdenized (sp?).

Also I would recommend getting "The Fall of Constantinople 1453" by Sir Steven Runciman to get some ideas.

If you don't mind I'm going to steal the idea of playing in Constantinople and present it to my group.

 

How does one go about getting into this sort of gaming? Can't say I've heard a great deal it. Sounds awesome though.

 

I got into it at my University, I now help run the society. Most Uni's have groups that do it, whether they're official or not is another matter. It can sometimes be a bit difficult to track them down. But its always worth a try.

The other thing you can do is look around online. Most countries have a website that is the focal point their online rping presence. The UK one is ukroleplayers.com, I have no idea what the Australian one is. But thorough use of your google-fu should solve that problem.

 

Get enough people, a die bot and a strict schedule, and you can do it online as well. Some groups use vent, I know some of the DLP fags do it in IRC channels on occasion... Different games, obviously, but the theory holds the same. I've never had the chance to do anything more than create a character since they all fizzled out. :|

Would be interested in seeing if we can't get some others here into a game.

 

I'd be willing to run something at some point via a Hangout if people would be interested?

 

Could probably get enough interested. Interest is nothing. But DLP? We has bitches on every continent! Scheduling would be a BITCH.

 

You make a very valid point.

The first thing to note is that a proper role playing session will take between 3 and 6 hours. I could run it for longer (my record is 14 hours straight with only a few short breaks for food etc) but I'd probably it at a max of 6 hours. More likely though it around 4 hours. So you'd have to be able to clear your schedule enough for that.

I'd be willing to make the sacrifice at some point to be up particularly late to have a one off trial run with folk, see if you enjoy it and want to continue. After that we ca work out something more convenient.

I'm GMT. Who is definitely interested, would be able to clear enough time in their schedule and wants to give it a go? If so, what timezone are you in, and are there any restrictions on when you could get online for this to happen?

 

I'd give it a go, but my only days off are Friday and Saturday. I could probably go for after 7PM on Sunday as well. CST/UTC-06

 

I'm keen. UTC/GMT +10. I'm generally fine on a Friday evening, although the way my jobs go my shifts are fairly irregular...

Completely inexperienced in this sort of thing though, so I'd be learning from the ground up.

 

Knights of the Blackened Denarius

Anyone interested, join up here. D: Can discuss further DF RPG shits as well. D:

 

Loving this thread so far, I fell in love with the idea that rival sports team's are caused by the Faerie Court's, and the riots around these game's also represented big fights in the Nevernever, So for my Glasgow campaign Ranger's are a Winter team and Celtic are Summer, the violence and general belief in these football team's allows the courts more influence.

 

I'm in, I can bring back that sorcerer character I thought up a while back.

 

Due to massive procrastination over my exams, find attached some notes about Istanbul in a DFRPG game. No obligations, I was just messing around.