Life of its own

It's true what they say--an rpg can indeed take on a life of its own.

Over the past 2-3 days, I watched it happen. From one player's idea, once we got just about all the KTDARPG players involved in a group scenario, I guess you could say it was the game that took over.

Call it player dynamics. Call it the game "writing itself." I just took part in a Fort River city-wide meeting that didn't turn out quite the way I expected. The players interacted. The story shifted. The game moved.

So Fort River is gonna have its first post-Virus elections & create a city council along with a city charter that'll probably be the basis for a future set of laws & rules (as much as nobody is gonna like "rules" where we live!). And there's gonna be a new sheriff in town.

What'll will be even more interesting? Watching the Power Plays. The way this is coming together, it'll be entirely possible for 1 player to come out of the elections with almost all the game-power in his/her hands. That's...unexpected. But the players around me discussed it, decided it was worth the risk. If nothing else, the drama-level could go WAY UP as we see this scenario play out.

I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next. --Chyna

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