Re: [ORE] Re: Wild Talents: Getting over the hump

There are a few great examples I can remember. One was a character that Greg Stolze posted on RPG.net called "Tuumblor Prince of Space" that really opened my eyes early-on to just how ungodly flexible ORE can be and how much potential there is for truly creative powers and abilities. Seeing things put together I think goes a very long way toward getting it through to people how ORE works. There are, I've found two general types of people concerning ORE; 1) People who understand how it works (and hence, Love it.) and 2) People who don't grasp it and hence still wander the night looking for a truly flexible system (like Hero or GURPS) that doesn't require the constant load of bookkeeping that those systems usually chain you to, without realizing that they've already found it, in ORE but didn't grasp it, so they missed it and moved on.

Describing how the various Extras and Flaws and Capacities etc. work is great. But, I really feel there needs to be a lot more *showing it work*, seeing it in action, if you will. After the Miracle Cafeteria in the Essential Edition, there are a handful of really useful little power write-ups that show just a touch of what can be done with a firm grasp of the internal logic of the system. We need more of *that.* IMHO.

On Monday, April 23, 2012 12:21:54 AM UTC-4, Christopher Loree wrote:

What would be really good are resources showing lots of pre-statted characters, powers, devices, etc.

I've actually been looking around online a lot, trying to find ORE character write-ups that people have done and posted on various forums. I hear about them all the time on various podcasts I listen to and I can never find these mythical write-ups. 

On Sunday, April 1, 2012 3:40:32 PM UTC-4, Shane Ivey wrote:

Folks,

The most recent episode of Role Playing Public Radio featured an in-depth discussion of the pros and cons of Wild Talents based on an extended campaign. 

http://slangdesign.com/rppr/2012/03/podcast-episode/rppr-episode-71-youve-got-wild-talents/

One of the things that piqued my interest -- and it's something that's come up before -- was the observation that while WT is easy to run and allows for great flexibility in creating characters and powers, it takes a lot of effort for new players to really get it.

I would like to put together a brief primer for the blog and for free download (well, really I'd like Greg to put it together because he's better at that kind of thing, but that'll depend on his schedule) to help new players get the system immediately, so they don't have to do so much work before the light clicks on and they start enjoying it.

So, gamers who have played Wild Talents with newbies, give us your thoughts. Where were the stumbling blocks?

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