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WOD Reverse Design
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Meet the cabal...
Arianna DeWinter
Order of Hermes
Jewish feminist
Goal: Take over Chantry
Winston
Virtual Adept
Technocrat enemy
Compulsive gambler
Jonas
Celestial Chorus
Catholic
Missing Mentor
Amnesia flaw
MC Jive
Hollow Ones, fatalistic
Addicted: Stimulants
University Allies
Reverse Design for WOD Games
Pre-generated plot-hooks instead of pre-generated characters adds personal hooks without taking away player freedom.
Salting
Con men would salt a mine with gold dust, small nuggets, etc. to get someone to think it was a rich vein and buy the claim...
Character History
Missing mentor
Technocrat Enemy
University allies
A character's mentor was brainwashed by an NWO recruiter, the enemy of one of the cabal members. The only mystical belief he holds is a secret catholic faith, and even that is fading...
Merits, Flaws, Backgrounds
The head of the chantry is a Virtual Adept at Berkeley who took over recently, but before the PCs joined. They slowly learn that he's maintaining his power by selling his soul to the Nephandi.
Goal: Take over the Chantry
Explicit Motivations
Virtual Adept
Catholic
Group membership
Crooked Boss-Man
Brainwashed Mentor
Goal: Take over
the Chantry
Arianna
Design is now directed...
Technocrat Enemy
Winston
The players still have agency; all the hooks have to be "used up" but no particular character is required to have a particular hook; they
just have to design to them. Each character has to have a few of
them, though.
Virtual Adept
(cc) image by anemoneprojectors on Flickr
Catholic
Missing Mentor
Jonas
Some characters are more
connected than others;
but that's OK!
University Allies
MC Jive
The best Hooks and Opportunities are found
on character sheets:
Player-Character Stats:
- Flaws (e.g. Enemy, Ward)
- Merits (e.g. Boon, Mansion, Shattered Avatar)
- Backgrounds (Allies, Influence, Contacts, Mentor)
- Nature and Demeanor (Opportunities to reach or fall)
Character facets that are not stats:
- History (character connections, locations, past deeds)
- Goals (ideals, specific achievements)
- Affiliation (Tradition, Clan, etc.)
- Membership and Position (Cairn/Chantry, Sentinel/Sheriff/Deputy, etc.)