Comments on: Capes: My Story Games Eureka Moment http://www.lamemage.com/blog/index.php/105/capes-my-story-games-eureka-moment/ Play more Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:30:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: ben robbins http://www.lamemage.com/blog/index.php/105/capes-my-story-games-eureka-moment/#comment-1080 ben robbins Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:22:13 +0000 http://www.lamemage.com/blog/?p=105#comment-1080 If I recall correctly there wasn't any girl to start with, just bandits. Which made it even better: after you escalated by stealing my hero and I re-escalated by going over your head with the Zeus-analog, we'd diverted the whole scene away from the bandits and were doing all the "how come you never call your old man, hmm?" stuff. Jem's character was furiously fighting the bandits, but it was dull stuff compared to our father-son drama, so he grumpily said "fine!" and re-re-escalated by creating the "rescue the maiden from the [suddenly appearing] giant" goal, thinking this way he'd get to do something cool and heroic too while we were busy. Of course that totally backfired because I had the Zeus-analog blow off his son at the sight of the hot maiden, enraging both you and Jem at the same time (a twofer escalation). At which point you escalated (for the fifth time) by dropping the harridan Hera bomb to foil me. Beautiful stuff. I think it's telling that I don't even remember who actually won those conflicts -- being clever/sneaky/creative on the fly was the cool part, not winning the die rolls. If I recall correctly there wasn’t any girl to start with, just bandits. Which made it even better: after you escalated by stealing my hero and I re-escalated by going over your head with the Zeus-analog, we’d diverted the whole scene away from the bandits and were doing all the “how come you never call your old man, hmm?” stuff.

Jem’s character was furiously fighting the bandits, but it was dull stuff compared to our father-son drama, so he grumpily said “fine!” and re-re-escalated by creating the “rescue the maiden from the [suddenly appearing] giant” goal, thinking this way he’d get to do something cool and heroic too while we were busy.

Of course that totally backfired because I had the Zeus-analog blow off his son at the sight of the hot maiden, enraging both you and Jem at the same time (a twofer escalation). At which point you escalated (for the fifth time) by dropping the harridan Hera bomb to foil me.

Beautiful stuff.

I think it’s telling that I don’t even remember who actually won those conflicts — being clever/sneaky/creative on the fly was the cool part, not winning the die rolls.

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