Two characters each

[duelt]

I very much like Jon’s current Dark Heresy game. Up until now I haven’t quite been able to put my finger on why I like it so much, until I realised that it may well be because each of the players has two characters. It seems to me that it has several advantages over having just one character:

1. It allows the player to concentrate on two things. In a

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[bakatron]

I run a 4E D&D game Tuesdays, and my players all have two sets of characters. It's a game set in the Warcraft 'verse, and we've been jokingly referring to them as mains and alts. They're not, really - I've been switching between groups, and I actually ran a 10-player fight a while back over two sessions which seemed to go really well - I was able to throw in enough bad guys to make it feel pretty damn epic :D

I think the two character thing is a nice experiment - it'll work for some games and not others, but not for some systems and not others, if that makes sense. I could really see it working for, say, Exalted!

[duelt]

Really? Cool, in that case I take back the bit about 4e.

[chinese_lily]

I think if/when my Firefly game finishes, a Babylon 5 game would be awesome.

[joey_vercetti]

Don't allow Techno-mages that way lays madness.

Also ask Jim about Kabob...

[duelt]

I don't actually remember that much about K'Bob, wasn't he a Drazi security guard or something?

[joey_vercetti]

He was Kieran's Drazi Bodyguard, who he hired from Nag'rath in DOOOOOOOWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNBBBBEEEEEELLLLLOOOWWWWWWW.

But really I just wanted to reference that game, as it was a little crazed.

[mr_t_brown]

"Nikolai"

[duelt]

I was sure that I was spelling it wrong but couldn't remember the proper way.

[mr_t_brown]

I know it's a bit of an obscure reference, particularly amongst geeks, and especially amongst technology geeks, but he's named after Tesla.

[duelt]

Ah, of course.