All: ♫ HAP-PY BIRTH-DAY TO YOUUUUU!! ♪
Rainbow Dash: Aw, thanks everyone! And this cake is off the charts! Where'd you get it?!
Pinkie Pie: Oh, I've got connections. HEY! You know what we should do?
Gilda: Test out our builds? I agree.
Pinkie Pie: We should make it so that Rainbow Dash is ALSO having her birthday in-character! That way, both us and our characters can celebrate today!
Gilda: What.
DM: You want to have some kind of semi-LARP pseudo-session?
Rainbow Dash: That sounds just silly enough to be fun! I'm down.
DM: Alright. In the magical land of Equestria, today is Rainbow Dash's birthday.
Pinkie Pie: Yay! Again! ♫ HAP-PY BIRTH-DAY TO YOU... ♪
WOW that was an excruciating weekend. I dare not describe the roulette of painful symptoms I went through. Time to find out how much of a hassle it is to reschedule a one-shot session.
Story Time: Integrating the current day's events into the story of your session. (Politics are banned, even if they're valid stories. Only you can prevent forest fires.)
I ran a Teen Titans campaign over the winter break back in college. We celebrated Christmas both IC and OOC. It was a lot of fun watching the PCs attempt to use their super powers for spreading good cheer to some of the villains in their Rogue Gallery. Or just caroling real poorly in front of their secret lairs. XD
This literally just happened last weekend! Two of the guys we game with just got married, so the DM ran a one-shot during the reception! (In lieu of drinking and dancing, they had a ton of games, heh.) :D While our main characters are across the continent battling ice dragons, we panned back to our little podunk town in the middle of the frontier where two NPCs were getting married. We (and some extra wedding guests) played our NPC townsfolk, and turns out a demon had taken the form of the groom, so we had to stop him from absconding to Hell with the bride and find the real groom, etc. It was hilarious and fantastic!
What's the matter Gilda? Never had a pink LARPing pony ruin your plans? Well I haven't either, let me know how that goes.
As for integrating a day's news into a game. In a semi-professional game of ShadowRun(gallop), I had gone with my family to watch a new movie that had come out (and this had gotten me about twenty minutes late for the game), so when the gaming group decided to come up with a reason I wasn't at the five minute planning bit for a kidnapping. The police knew I was a Shadow runner and had a tail following me, so I ducked into a theater to lose them.
I lost one of my tails, and it had to be surgically reassembled after I left the bathrooms. (Self-Note: stop forgetting about 'Chunky Salsa' rules)
Sounds like you had the same type of weekend I had, Newbiespud. 3 different sicknesses at once!
...I can't remember doing the incorporation of events into the story. The closest I can remember is incorporation of setting, which I mostly did at college. For oneshots in the RPG club at our events.
My rp board makes this a tradition with birthdays. We're a really close group, so often we decide to create a noncanon rp celebrating our birthdays and having a party where anyone can participate. These are just silly, there's no plot development in them because they're all optional and we don't want people to feel pressured to join, but they're really fun too.
Meanwhile, Gilda has finally reached the point where she's so focused on her version of fun for Rainbow Dash, she's forgotten to actually check if Rainbow Dash is having fun in the first place. I think her motives are still genuine, wanting to support her friend, but it could easily go downhill fast now. Gilda's phrasing, "test our builds" is particularly revealing, because it shows she doesn't really see the characters as more than a bit of math, which makes me a bit sad.
I will admit, I usually try to avoid this. If others want to incorporate their days in, fine, but for me, games help me escape from the day. (Besides, many times if I did in the games the things of note I do IRL, it'd come across as OP.)
lol. It's been awhile since I've read OotS! Ironically, I think it's also where my GM got his inspiration for my current, lovely, two-heavy-incinerators-taped-together-unique-weapon: "Vaarsuivus' Incinerator"!
As for integrating a day's news into a game. In a semi-professional game of ShadowRun(gallop), I had gone with my family to watch a new movie that had come out (and this had gotten me about twenty minutes late for the game), so when the gaming group decided to come up with a reason I wasn't at the five minute planning bit for a kidnapping. The police knew I was a Shadow runner and had a tail following me, so I ducked into a theater to lose them.
I lost one of my tails, and it had to be surgically reassembled after I left the bathrooms. (Self-Note: stop forgetting about 'Chunky Salsa' rules)
...I can't remember doing the incorporation of events into the story. The closest I can remember is incorporation of setting, which I mostly did at college. For oneshots in the RPG club at our events.
Meanwhile, Gilda has finally reached the point where she's so focused on her version of fun for Rainbow Dash, she's forgotten to actually check if Rainbow Dash is having fun in the first place. I think her motives are still genuine, wanting to support her friend, but it could easily go downhill fast now. Gilda's phrasing, "test our builds" is particularly revealing, because it shows she doesn't really see the characters as more than a bit of math, which makes me a bit sad.
Just ask Mykin!
But besides that, fire is pretty awesome. Solves more problems than it creates. :3
*whisper whisper whisper*
And That Would Be Bad.