Today's #WestMarchesWednesday is about player concepts. For a West Marches campaign, your players aren't being "main characters", they're just regular (heroic) folks. If one dies, they can be substituted, rather than having ongoing plot relevance.
If your players are coming fom a game where their plot relevance is very high, this can take some adjustment, and needs to be something you discuss with them in your Session Zero. They need to understand, and base their character concepts on that. Often people write their character backgrounds like main characters, rather than ones who might be supporting characters. So rather than writing a character concept about someone who's the last descendant of the slain King, they might be last descendant of a slain noble. Rather than an assassin hunted by their whole guild, they might be an assassin hunted by their old partner. Get them to think of characters who have occasional plot relevance, and can share the limelight with other players who will also have their own subplots. Now, while today's post is specifically relevant to a West Marches game, it's valuable to all roleplaying games- getting your players to play nicely with others is quite rewarding, and means less friction at the table. Also posted on Game Masters Stash on 22 April 2020. Comments are closed.
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