'Magic is an infinately large tapestry, painted by every soul that has ever touched reality, an an unfathomable number of styles, mannerisms, and ways. We have, thusfar, figured out what some of the most common colours of paint might be."

my description of magic for my universe.

As a roleplayer, and writer, there are characters that I am intensely attatched to. Often these are the ones with the histories of terrible things that happened to them.
and, as many have said, it is much easier/ often better to write/play a character you are attatched to.

haha, now I get to explain it all.

The basics of a game, at least in this sense is simple.

There is the game's writer, who makes up stuff for the game. Before the game actually happens, they must write several things

-PC list, the list of all the player-characters in the game.
-Motives, write down all the motives each character has.
- The flow, which is a general idea of how the game SHOULD go.
-character sheets, a description of the character, their past, personality, what they can do, etc.
- The tease, just a short storie to open up the game, possibly provide a prologue, and set the tone of the game.

How does one regulate what players may opr may not do? You don't, really. Once everyone has gotten their  character sheets and everyone knows their motives and all relevant backstory and has gotten 'into character', the game just, goes. Everything is improved, and it might wind up following the flow, or it might  go in a completely different direction. The bad guys might win, everyone might die, or the heroes survive triumphantly, it really all depends.

The magic system for westfinder is fairly straight forward, but would take too long to describe. For a game like this, the system would be tweaked somewhat. Most of the magc would be what we call "improv magic" Where a characters reaction is based in part on what they know of the spell, and whatever specifics might guide that character (For example, thrusting your hand out and shouting "shower of nails!" at a faerie would elicit either death or extreme pain, then death, while on someone whereing armor, they woudl have the options of a) shruggin it off, b) grunting, then fighting as if in pain, or c) being severely disabled, at least until healed).

note, this is a rather incomplete description, as I don't have much time on my hands. sorry.

That would be a good idea, if my current plan doesn't wind up working.

Hello everyone! This isn't necessarily related to the rpg, but...

I am a member of a Role-playing/improv group called Westfinder (an offshoot of Wayfinder, but we're in California), and I am writing a game based upon the Dresden Files. I already have the basic flow worked out, but I'm still looking for ideas. If you have any, please post.

As well, if there are any dresden-philes in the bay area (SF, Oakland, Berkeley, etc.) anyone and everyone is free to join.

Now then, a little bit about west/wayfinder. Wayfinder is an improv/roleplaying/theater group, over in New York. The basic premise of most games is, everyone gets their character, complete with motives, history, costume, etc. Every game has a "Flow" which is the basic idea of what the writer had in mind, but games rarely go according to flow, and often get quite spectacular. Westfinder is exactly the same, we're just in California.

So, yes, I'm looking for ideas to supplement my existing flow, and people in the bay area who might want in on this.