Dresden Files: Dallas (Obsidian Portal) - 1 Year+

[Wolfhound]

Howdy!

http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/dfd

Well, it's been a year and we're still going strong. We just began our "Season 2." If y'all haven't been by in a while to our version of Big D in the Dresdenverse - you should. 

Highlight Reel
~ Obsidian Portal December 2011 Campaign of the Month & Campaign of the Year Runner Up for 2011
~ A total visual redesign of the site, taking advantage of some new tools provided by Obsidian Portal.
~ An active Adventure Log (Player Blog) with over 100 posts (not only "summaries" from the GM but all the player characters as well)
~~~ These basically are a collection of short stories in the Dresdenverse. Word count is up over 130,000 words now (a novel and a half!).
~ A Character List that's pushing 100 entries (both PC and NPC). Tons of example Aspects, a few custom Powers, backgrounds, and lots of pictures for your browsing enjoyment. Need a character idea for your game; NPC or PC? Stop on by and borrow one. We don't mind.

Never Resting on Laurels
~ After our huge redesign, the Wiki itself is still a work in progress, so pardon the mess over there.

TL/DR : If you like Dresden Files "fan fiction" derived from a long running tabletop campaign, come on by. We've lots to see.

As always, comments & suggestions are welcome.

Is mise le meas,
~Matt (Wolfhound)

[Sanctaphrax]

Congratulations!

[YPU]

Yeah! Its encouraging to me and I imagine many others to see people pouring so much passion into their game and keep on doing it.

[fantazero]

sweet.
i like the idea of "Seasons"
I think that was the problem with out Miami game, it was "too big" and there never was closure to the thousands of plot threads we had .

[Wolfhound]

Thanks y'all for the kind words.

Re: Seasons
Aye we try to at least conclude one major story arc every 13 sessions or so (just an arbitrary number we picked loosely derived from TV seasons). It's really helped make it feel like we're got progress and whatnot. Plus since I allow my NPCs to gain Minor Milestones and whatnot and I allow the players the freedom to manipulate the NPCs and Locations even after initial campaign creation - they all take ownership and help keep things fresh.

In other news, thanks to HumAnnoyd (also on this forum IIRC... who has MAD graphics skills that leave me in awe) we just finished a collaborative "art upgrade" for Season Two.

http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/dfd

[HumAnnoyd]

 It is a pleasure to add to such a great effort. 

Oh and my own campaign just won Campaign of the Month for November.  Thanks in no small part to Wolfhound's wonderful tutorials and encouragement. 

http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/the-emerald-city

 

[Wolfhound]

Congrats to a well deserved Campaign of the Month nod.

So far Seattle (2012) and Dallas (2011) are doing their parts to help get the "word out" about DFRPG in the Obsidian Portal community. =)

[Elkhorn]

Hey all -

I'm one of the players in this campaign, and wanted to let you know that after a holiday hiatus for babies (among other things), we're back up and running, and in the middle of a multi-part adventure that puts us in the middle of some gangland chaos in the wake of "Changes" - check it out!

http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/dfd/adventure-log/hot-water-ii

Stay tuned!

[fantazero]

Hey all -

I'm one of the players in this campaign, and wanted to let you know that after a holiday hiatus for babies (among other things), we're back up and running, and in the middle of a multi-part adventure that puts us in the middle of some gangland chaos in the wake of "Changes" - check it out!

http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/dfd/adventure-log/hot-water-ii

Stay tuned!

Awesome?
Have you guys
1. Had the same GM the whole time
2. Played the same characters
3. Have any house rules?

[Wolfhound]

Re: 1 -Same GM

Mostly. I am the primary GM I guess, though from time to time several of the other players have stepped up to run a story arc or two. I would say I've run the bulk.

Re: 2 - Same Characters

Yep.

Re: 3 - House Rules

Only a few would I call house rules so much as codification of some soft/fuzzy areas. You can find them on our wiki area. I'll link some of my favorites.

NPC Milestones - whereby I allow write-ups / adventure blogs by my players to affect the NPCs in the setting independent of me as the GM. I can't possibly predict all the permutations the players want to explore, so I let them do it. 
http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/dfd/wikis/npc-milestones

Bennies - Fate points in return for out of game participation ... out and out bribery.
http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/dfd/wikis/bennies

Ásatrú/Seiđr - For one of my NPCs I needed to get my head around "Viking magic" over and above what Jim Butcher presented in his short stories, so I typed this up.
http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/dfd/wikis/asatru-notes

Related to that is a custom form of nordic alfar/elf that is playing a big part in our current season: http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/dfd/wikis/alfar

Cold Iron - The most recent book in the series requires us to rewrite this one, but this is how it was prior to the most recent Dresden book
http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/dfd/wikis/cold-iron

The requisite custom powers/stunts
http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/dfd/wikis/custom-stunts-and-powers


We also have a couple "work in progress" pages - nothing implemented yet, but the work on these so far pretty much guides how we treat the stuff

Faith powers/holy/etc - http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/dfd/wikis/faith-and-holy

Fae Magic (being a personal delve into fairy magic and how I use it in our games to keep it internally consistent - to me) - http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/dfd/wikis/fae-magic-notes

[Elkhorn]

Rather than make our GM toot his own horn, I'd like to direct your attention the most recent "webisode" for his character.  It's quite literally "The Story of the Spell," an extensive scene about putting wards up around his new home, AND he included a breakdown of how the Thaumaturgy works in the system, both from the RAW as well as including our house rules.

http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/dfd/adventure-log/an-sc-al-ar-an-t-ortha

Did I mention it's extensive?  Be prepared to sit a spell to read it - it's 8k words before you get to the system breakdown.  Totally worth it, though!

(If you just want to go straight to our interpretation/house rules on Thaum and skip the scene:  http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/dfd/wikis/thaumaturgy-houserules - but I don't recommend it. )

[Wolfhound]

Thanks anyone and everyone from this forum that helped make DFD one of a handful of Campaigns on the Obsidian Portal to break the "200 Fans" mark yesterday (depending on your count only 6 or 7 campaigns have that many).

Thanks y'all.

[Wolfhound]

So I'm not sure this is the correct forum for this, however, since I as GM of a Dresden RPG am fielding PMs/questions about this, I hope the mods allow a single comment on the matter. 

So, some friends of friends and acquaintances here in the Dallas area are doing a Fan Film about The Dresden Files (none of our actual players are in the film, though we know the folks involved, in some cases very well/long time).

Their first trailer is up and they have a Facebook page. If you’re a fan of the books, you may want to mozy on over and throw their page a Like or comment.

Night Light – a Fan Film of The Dresden Files - https://www.facebook.com/TDFNightLight