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Heroic Knight
 
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Smitt (9/7/2006)
Flannelcat, did you write that off the cuff or was it something you had rolling around?
Off the cuff, although I must admit that since writing it, I've realised that I was influenced by Puppetland (Hogshead) which I read some years ago and impressed me with it's "Grim childrens-tale world gone wrong" quality. There's a review at http://www.indie-rpgs.com/reviews/21/ and I'm going to try and hunt down a copy one of these days.
[quote] I like the background ideas, I like them a lot. Have you ever actually tried to put together a Commedia Dell Arte event/play/whatever? [quote]
Hell yes.
One of the things I do is make masks in the Commedia style (some were being sold by Witchwood Worskhops at the "Foundations" Maelstrom event this year.) Aside from that, I'm attempting to set myself up as professional commedia clown / physical performer / stiltwalker / firedancer / street entertainer, and also provide entertainers for events and festivals and so forth. And, as Helen so rightly states, I organise the entertainments and lazzi at the Oxford Masquerade, a yearly Masquerade that is hosted in the ballroom of the Randolph Hotel in Oxford -
http://www.masquerade-ball.org.uk/
There's pictures. Many of the costumes were stunning this year.
[quote] The first two groups ("keep it as it is" and "bring back the old skool") are fine but the third group wont really work because everyone OC knows the Canivale is real, but a third group is needed. Hmm, I'll have a think. [quote]
Then you either rely on peoples IC / OOC boundary (as in Helens French Revolution example) or you keep the whole Carnivale background a secret to be filtered out in rumours and conversation. Or maybe a group who, rather than profiting from the lack of Carnivale, honestly believe that the world needs to grow up, and that, tough as it is, we must find a new way of life.
And I wasn't really thinking of the ways of thinking as "Groups" so clearly, not warring factions, or members of groups, merely that that's two or three possible philosophies that character sould hold. I see it as a player led game, so it's entirely likely the players will come up with interesting philosophies and permeantations of their own...
This was, of course, also just an off the cuff idea - more brainstorming. I had another idea about the ritual/lazzi/magic idea - that lazzi can be used to fuel power effects - for example - a character who is born under the sign of the Immorati, who can recite a lengthy love poem that impresses the ref, could use that to fuel a move through a locked door, into their love's private chambers.
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PD: "Gentleman" Jig, of the Wayward Scholars. White City : Orpheus DuValle / Elias Vincenzi. RL: Dom Carroll, Firecat Masquerade.
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Heroic Knight
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| Following further pondering: What if the events took place in a dream. One NPC was the dreamer and the PCs are the characters within his dream (that way at least it could be considered modern day without worrying about modern setting problems (mobile phones, computers etc). If the characters exist in a dream what is their motivation? They dont need to eat and they only exist for a few hours every night before they return the next night? Perhaps their motivation is to influence the dreamer before he wakes up? I'm in 'Alice' territory now, hold on. I like the 'life is tough, grow up' P.O.V, its something you could believe. Love that magic idea re: the love poem. I was thinking, would it be a campaign or would the story be different each time (but with the same stock archetypes?)
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