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vampmike:
hi all i have been reading the forum and looking for the aphpa tests write ups and i havent been to find any, but it brought up a issue: what sort of adventures/campaigns fit into the dresdenverse?
the books are always from harrys point of view and the side characters come and go from one chapter to the next, but rarely do they spend any real time with him, and its only when he needs their help that they give him any aid. otherwise they are really there for harry to be harry at.
now i have been roleplaying for over 15 yeras and either running a game or playing in it this sort of play is very hard to do, it is time consuming and gives the stage to 1 player at a time most of the time. most roleplaying sees the player group as just that a group [now this could be just my experience and i do run for 6-10 ppl a game, so i never run small groups], what im asking has anyone had any good adventures in the dresden universe and what were they? were the player party all mages? how did you handle that? were they a mix of dresdenvers types, and how does that work? i mean how does a white court vamp, a fae, a knight of the cross and a council wizard 1] get on 2] have anything in common, etc.
what im really asking for i suppose is other peoples ideas on adventures and the other above subjects and how if they have done did they get around them.

thanks 

Knave:
That is a tricky one, but SotC is very good at creating characters that already have a history from the get go.  As long as that much is in place it really doesn't matter what character types the PCs are playing.

TheMouse:
One thing I do in almost all of my games is do character generation all together, as a group. That way the players get to build the ways that their characters know one another. This is especially helpful when the players want to play things with no intrinsic reason to hang out.

If I were running a Dresdenverse game, I'd probably run the initial couple of games such that something threatens something a couple of the characters value. This could be as simple as something that draws local mortal attention a little too close to the supernatural world for anyone's comfort.

For example, the first game I plan to run involves a local student being murdered and having his heart removed. Not only does this bring federal law enforcement into the area, but research on the nature of the murder and the date shows that it might involve a really nasty demon. Demons are bad for the local peace, as are FBI agents poking around.

More specifics would come about based on what the PCs actually are. The identity of the student could be tied to a character or two. Involvement by the White Council would depend on character type. Etc.

vampmike:
thanks for the replys, i have just gone out and brought SoTC, and wow i must say what a great system! i love the aspects, compels etc.

Mouse, i agree that was one points, some of my core players all want to play in the dresdenvers and at least 1 wants to be a knight of the cross, and we know from the books that while they are tolerant [just look at harrys relationship with them hehe] they do only tolerate so much, and i think if a player got into playing some sort of morally ambigious character type like a fae or wizard the two players would just spend the whole time at loggerheads, now while at times this can be fun and can spawn some great roleplaying conversations, most of the time it just decends into 'mines bigger than yours' roleplaying.
as for the adventure idea, i had one that was like that, that eople we turing up dead in a gruesome manner at focal [lay lines, weak points into the nevernever etc], but ther was no discernable change in the areas.
i mean the one constant in all the books is that the core of the story is a mystery. but i would love to hear some other types of plots that dont involve mysteries at the core, that would work in the dresden files style.

Knave:
Well let's see:
- War stories -  White Council vs Red Court / Oblivion War / Fae vs Fae / Denarians vs Everyone / Order of St Giles vs Red Court
- Political Intrigue stories ( pretty much any of the Accorded groups )
- Fallen down and trying to get up, or - 'it sucks to be Black Court'
- Coming into power (anyone)
- Drafted! (Wardens / Wyld Hunt etc etc)
- Look who has come to town!  Stop them!
- Find that Darned MacGuffin!
- Joe PC, TARGET!  Now - figure out why?
- The posse
- On the Run

etc etc

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