Yesterday morning, three brave souls—Michael Miller, Keith Stetson, and Stras Acimovic—joined me for a ...

Yesterday morning, three brave souls—Michael Miller, Keith Stetson, and Stras Acimovic—joined me for a #SundayAMSwords  experiment where we veered a little left of sword & sorcery and tested #Starward , my new space fantasy mash-up of Swords Without Master and Vast & Starlit.

Mr. Miller has very capably recapped those adventures here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+MichaelMiller1000/posts/7D3LdHNPFTU

It was a fucking blast. And I wanted to share some of my thoughts on it right quick before they fade from my mind like so many Roy Batties in the rain.

• The Ritual of the Opening Crawl was easy and powerful. Three sentences and we were in. We started with the greater situation and zoomed into the immediate situation for our rogues. I may nudge those rules around a bit to ensure that happens every time.

• The Ritual of the Wandering Tone was a delight. We visited the Cascades, twin planets rotating so close to each other that water falls between them. Immediately, I swapped Glum out for Drenched and it led to all manner of trouble for the crew and especially their ship.

• Speaking of ships, I'm tempted to let folks add a Tone to an environment using the same rules for adding something to your Named during the game (pages 26 & 29 in Issue 3 of www.WorldsWithoutMaster.com), because by the end of the session, I was kind of jonesing for a Tone aboard the Lazerhawk.

• Speaking of the rules for adding to your rogue's Named list during the game, the Ritual of Duels & Dogfights pretty much guarantees that you have a chance to do just that with your foe should you want to. How cool is that?

• I need to add a Ritual of the Cliffhanger which let's everyone know that the session is supposed to end with open questions and in media res. 

• I'm going to build a campaign style based  the Novella (page 45 in Issue 3 of Worlds Without Master) but every session should end with a cliffhanger instead of an epilogue.

• I am also tempted to build a giant list of Tones that people can roll on and mash together in order to generate planets and other significant environments.
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