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TheMouse:

--- Quote from: Valarian on October 31, 2008, 01:28:07 PM ---If this is the case, and where have they been if it is, then it may be worth running a game of "mortals" who are thrust in to the supernatural world - somewhat like Murphy or Officer Rawlings. This allows the new players to explore the setting without having to worry about the complications of magic. Later, when they're more familiar, you could let them run characters who are part of the supernatural world.

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That would probably work. Just get character ideas that would likely fall into the path of supernatural stuff, then don't let them spend time looking at the supernatural type Stunts. Then drop them into a conflict between two supernatural factions who won't have the time to murder the Hell out of some random mortals.

Melkarion:
When someone spots me with a DF book and askes what it's about, I usually say something along the lines of "Imagine Harry Potter grew up rough, and found himself in a 1930's hardboiled detective novel, which then grew up rough, and found itself in modern Chicago."

Not the greatest pitch for a game, perhaps, but it usually works well for the books, so if I had to give it a stab, I'd start there.

Rel Fexive:
So I finally got metaphorical pen to paper on this.  I reserve to the right to make future edits ;)

For most people, the world is just as they see it.  Death, taxes, war, poverty, crime, love, politics, office squabbles and family arguments.  Buying a home, making friends, rush hour traffic and soaps on TV.  Simple.  Mundane.

But you're special.  You know about the things they all ignore, or that they pretend don't exist so they can feel comfortable with a nice, safe, explainable universe.  But you... you know magic is real.  You know about the three (or is it four?) courts of vampires.  You've read about the monsters that inhabit the darker corners of human cities, and even fought a few of them.  You've seen first hand what happens when one of the fae wanders into this world from the Nevernever to cause mischief... or carnage.  You've even heard of the White Council of Wizards and how the Wardens enforce their Seven Laws Of Magic.

Yes, you're special.  But that just puts you right in the middle, in no man's land, in the war between good, evil and every shade of grey in between.  Good luck... you're going to need it.

Welcome to The Dresden Files.

Shecky:
That's pretty good.

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