Arioch

Re: Things you do to acheive immersion

49% of me says "get a life' date='" 51% says "Can I join the game?"[/quote']

 

I was actually on vacation when I prepared the last couple of games, and had not game mastered any kind of pen and paper role-playing game for over 15 years, so I decided to go all out.

Re: Things you do to acheive immersion

For my newest campaign what I've done is taken immersion to a new level (at least for me)

1. three-dimensional renditions of all major villains and heroes (thank you city of heroes modeler)

2. Pre-recorded descriptions of backgrounds of major scenes combining an appropriate soundtrack with a morphed version of my voice (thank you audacity and morphfx)

3. movie and or television sound clips that can be used as generic statements for the appropriate characters for example

stormtroopers -> agents (there he is, blast them)

Darth Vader-> megalomaniac bad guy (your powers are weak)

4. A web site to organize all the resources

5. Photographs of artifacts /locations (taken from smallville\Superman\Lord of the rings, etc.)

6. My computer connected to a projector so that everybody can see above images (as well as the hero combat simulator that I use)

7. Miniatures and three-dimensional maps (thank you heroclix, urban mayhem)

I'm basically going for as much multimedia content as I can possibly get into the scenario, not to replace my descriptions which I still have, but to enhance them.