An Investigation Plea
Posted by Pax on 06/03/19
Also, as I look back through the various placeholder clues I'll need to fill out, it reminds me of a plea I should make here: please, please put context in your investigations. Take pity on those of us who write the clues.
Every time I go to write a new clue and the investigation that generated that clue says, "X is looking for information relevant to her project." or "Y is looking for answers to his questions." some part of my soul dies a little bit. In those cases, I either have to spend a bunch of time looking at someone's plots, recent actions, and sometimes even messengers in hopes of figuring out what 'his questions' or 'her project' refers to, or else I have to just throw my hands in the air and write something generic to the topic. (And if the topic is something like 'dragons' or 'shardhavens' or 'demons', that's fairly broad.)
Help us help you with your story, and save our (or at least, my) sanity; context in an investigation makes life so much easier, and leaves that much more time to deal with actions, on-grid GM'ing, and everything else!
Every time I go to write a new clue and the investigation that generated that clue says, "X is looking for information relevant to her project." or "Y is looking for answers to his questions." some part of my soul dies a little bit. In those cases, I either have to spend a bunch of time looking at someone's plots, recent actions, and sometimes even messengers in hopes of figuring out what 'his questions' or 'her project' refers to, or else I have to just throw my hands in the air and write something generic to the topic. (And if the topic is something like 'dragons' or 'shardhavens' or 'demons', that's fairly broad.)
Help us help you with your story, and save our (or at least, my) sanity; context in an investigation makes life so much easier, and leaves that much more time to deal with actions, on-grid GM'ing, and everything else!