Synopsis: Chase scenes are an underutilized element in many games. A staple of action stories but RPGs focus on social scenes and combat. This is because it’s hard for a GM to make a chase scene actually exciting. Special guest RJ joins us as we discuss ways to make a boring chase scene into an epic one. Tom does not have a letter, but we do have many special holiday shout outs and a few anecdotes.
Forum Shout Outs:
- My Rifts Experiment: Palladium offers a grab bag of random products. I promise to run a game based on what they give me.
- Junk Mail Novel: Spam is like poetry, man.
- Ruins of Lemuria Kickstarter: Learn what kind of games I’ll run over Skype and if you have any questions about the PDF then ask them here.
Holiday Shout Outs below the fold
Song: Chase Scene Through DNA Wormholes by Rubber Band Banjo
- Fear The Boot: Thanks for mentioning us and glad you enjoy the APs!
- Octopus Pie: A print collection of a funny and well drawn web comic
- The Blob (remake): Kids die in it so it must be good!
- Angel Heart: A noir/horror film featuring incredible atmosphere and a young Mickey Rourke. A must see.
- Airplane Special Edition: The comedy classic THAT ALL MUST WATCH. And don’t call me Shirley.
- Slugfest Games: Makers of fun and cheap games like Kung Fu Fighting.
- Delta Force: Chuck Norris kills terrorists and saves America from evil.
- Gangster’s Paradise: Jerusalema – South African crime epic with some great twists
- Brian Regan: Hilarious stand up comic now on tour with all new material.
- Dragon Age Ultimate Edition: I LIKE VIDEO GAMES AND THIS ONE IS BEST
- Eclipse Phase Sunward and GM Screen: Brain candy for sci fi fans – fun even if you don’t play EP.
- Hero Lab: Great character creation software for a variety of systems. Pricey though.
- Near Dark: The best vampire movie to come out of the 1980s.
- A Song of Ice and Fire RPG: Based on the acclaimed novels.
- Undercover Brother: Blaxplotiation parody and a good one at that.
- Chessex Pound of Dice: Enough dice to murder someone!
- A Dirty World: The best new game (new to us) for the RPPR crew of 2010.
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The ep, along with your A Dirty World AP’s convinced me to pick up A Dirty World. I’m going to try and run a one-shot for my group. It’ll be my first time running a game and I can’t wait! Wish me luck!
That anecdote was mine. So I thought I’d answer some questions that came up.
1.
Tom got my name right. He might as well have been Icelandic
2.
I was allowed to play that the undead paladin after he was resurrected.
3.
That paladin had some ‘interesting’ side effects of having been an undead abomination.
4.
That GM is an Evil Genius. We, his friends, are afraid of the day that he stops spending his energy on RPGs and decides to take over the world in stead.
In the end, here are my 5c about chase scenes. Evil Hats ‘Spirit of the century’ and now ‘The Dresden Files’ has great transferable rule for Chase scenes.
The rule is more or less a game of one-up-man-ship.
Example
X Chases Z. X does something crazy to get away. If Z can not do at least something as crazy, X gets one step away. Works the same way for Z. Z does something crazy to get closer to X. If X can’t match the move Z gets closer.
There is more to the rules, but that’s the gist of it.
Tom, where are your letters man? Other than that it was good to hear, def gunna put a “chase sequence” in my game.
Podfaaaaaaaaaade.
No, not really. One month between episodes isn’t podfade.