Revenge? (OOC)

This actually came out of a extemporaneous talk I was roped into giving at a con. I crowd-sourced the topics and the audience asked for 'alternate accounting systems' (HP and XP) "to avoid the slog of whittling down to 0 at full effectiveness", with a minor in 'playing without a GM'. I expounded on some options, both from existing games but also out of whole cloth, and they asked for a demonstration of how it might look in play, so I did a half-hour solo (crowd-sourced) play example.

I used a (only-partially-remembered) Mythic GM Emulator 'Expected Scene setup roll' and rolled that we did not start with the scene we concocted (newly arrived in Mojave Desert searching for 'something or someone' in the dunes), but had an 'Interrupt Scene' we had to deal with first.

I used this Interrupt to illustrate 'leveling' as well as the solo use of the tool to drive story. I did this by breaking my car or getting it stuck, needing to arrange a tow/rescue and then getting an offer for 'proper driving lessons' from the off-road recovery guys. This lead to the need to earn some money (they were going to toss in a more appropriate vehicle) and hence the need to do some 'jobs' (in Vegas), there was never going to be time to conclude this in that session, but I explained that, once all this was done (earn the money, play the scene) I would add Driver (and a custom vehicle) from the Crook playbook to my character sheet, no need for XP and tracking.

(I used those examples because I had not prepared anything and the MGME Chaos Chart was easy to find online, as were the MotW Playbooks, so the audience had visual aids to illustrate the points).

To get the money for the 'Level Up' we had a fight as part of a stealth break-in-mission, it was only short and a bit wonky —since I was making it up and explaining 'reasoning and options' throughout)— but I am still thinking about the potential ... egads!! like two years later this month ...

I was asked to continue the story in a solo blog, but never worked up the motivation to do more scenes, despite wanting to play it and test if it balances out and makes for interesting gameplay.