[HPFGU-OTChatter] Harry Potter and the Heir of Ravenclaw

[Kathryn Cawte]

>
> The game honestly went really well - my maps and floorplans of
> Hogwarts were a hit - which feels really good - and everybody
> seemed to really enjoy themselves. I'm already semi-committed to
> running another game next year - at the moment, I'm musing about
> how a group consisting of James Potter, Sirius Black, Peter
> Pettigrew, Remus Lupin, Lilly Evans, and Severus Snape might
> function... (-8
>
>
> Yours Without Wax, Dreadnought
> Shaun Hately


Wow that sounds like a great deal of fun. I'm not surprised that your
players wandered off the plot - in my experience if the entire group stay on
plot and do what you expect they're probably sickening for something :)

I've never played in a non-online HP RPG but if someone ran something like
that I'd love it. I have played (and run) Middle Earth and Hercules games
and I always found that bringing in the 'stars' of the show/book as player
characters or npcs really limited things anyway. I don't know that I'd want
to deal with kids as young as some of your players though, my hat is
definitely off to you, I always had enough trouble with 'adults' (well
university students anyway, sometimes I doubted how adult they actually were
<g>) and in a game with magic too! I always hated running those most because
it made it more difficult to guess what people might do in any situation
(and it's highly frustrating when you need the players to be captured for
some reason when they come up with an innovative escape plan you couldn't
have bargained for).

Have you ever tried any of the Kobolds Ate My Baby rpgs? They're
downloadable (I'll try and find a link) and basically players and the gm can
score points for certain things (in the case of the gm by killing the
players, uh I mean characters obviously - not that I haven't been tempted
from time to time) and you get a 'winner' at the end. Players go through
several characters in a session and things generally get very amusing. It's
a nice game to lighten things up when you've been playing more 'serious'
games for a while.

K