#Captin planet rings how to#

There is great help when it comes to making your teens – they get a Means (in what style they fight authority) a Motive (why), an Opportunity (an edge they have that lets them get away with it and a MO (the method they prefer to attack with).

We will come back to the heavy lifting later. This game can get pretty confrontational so built-in safety matters.Ĭoming up with systems of control might not be easy and certainly this game requires some heavy heavy lifting my all, but the rules use examples as a way to help this. In turn the GM gives them one exploit they have over that system and again it helps that the gm gives them this power. If they decide everyone has a chip in their brain they can’t complain if the gm uses it to hurt them. Letting the players not the GM design their own enemy and target is good buy in.

#Captin planet rings how to#

We can more easily imagine how to break a fantasy system than one we suffer under.

Punks, not deadĮach teen player makes a Systems of Control which they can break down or attack through play…which is where the SF matters. If people stop thinking journalism is super awesome then they don’t get to go to parties with powerbrokers any more. Not a person or body but a way of thinking. Its Visage (im such a sucker for alliterative stat names) is Systemic. ts Vice is Utopianism, because it believes that showing both sides of everything is a virtue. Wisely, it is strongly suggested you add a dollop of SF to keep it from being too real and work in metaphor, but the first Authority I built was the Mass Media Consensus. Authorities are defined by such things as their chief Vice, their particular Victims, and the Visage they wear and the systems of control they use. You start by building the Authority that’s got the boot on your PCs neck, which basically builds the world around it by implication.

It’s the genre of rpg I like most and tend to write: the setting content is not specified but the themes and structure ARE. But the mechanics of this game are also about bringing down authority and are also interesting in their own right. I skipped this one until now because my adolescence was literal torture so anything about being a teen is a trigger for me. Now reading: Misspent Youth by Robert Bohl.