Using prophecy in you game, the nifty way

1. Using prophecy in you game, the nifty way

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   http://www.gamegrene.com/node/923
   
   While I found the introduction/hook to be extremely foolish and off-base, the idea this GM presents is sound. Has anyone (aside from MH, who's done everything) done something like this? Prophecy is a rather important part of the fantasy genre, and while not all systems have magical foretellings, sometimes it comes in handy, such as in the Prophecies of Redemption campaign AG did a few years back.

2. Re: Using prophecy in you game, the nifty way

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   Some ideas pulled from the spur of the moment chat.
   
   9:28 pm: The concept is there. Prophecy... and visions of the future are great plot pushing techniques
   9:29 pm: You give them a clue in one form or another. Let them follow it up from there.
   9:31 pm: But that works as a party rescue technique.
   
   9:32 pm: I have had a time traveller interviene once or twice
   9:33 pm: well once, but such an event was still in play
   9:33 pm: time traveller that is
   
   9:34 pm: Only other time has something like that happened in a campaign and the players have not walked away
   9:35 pm: The GM had a TPK and he had one of the PCs wake a day or so earlier....
   9:35 pm: it was all a dream
   9:35 pm: The players ended up having a second chance.
   9:36 pm: Did they decide to go at it anyway?
   9:36 pm: Or did they take it?
   9:36 pm: They still fuffed up, it was only a party slaughter instead of tpk,
   9:36 pm: (The article I read did roughly the same thing. TPK, in detail, then rewind to the present, where it's all just a prophecy.)
   9:38 pm: They went and only slightly modified the plan, rather than anticipated things
   
   9:41 pm: This concept only works if you lay the groundwork for it
   9:41 pm: You have to set the precedence for the campaign.
   9:45 pm: If you are going to do the "rewind" trick
   9:45 pm: You need to lay the ground work for it early
   9:45 pm: So the dreams the characters remember become clues for the future or events.
   9:46 pm: You need to know that "the (possible) future is knowable".
   9:46 pm: And that you can change it...
   9:46 pm: otherwise people go "DAMM this is the future and nothing we do will change it"
   9:48 pm: So they need to know that these are "trustworthy clues".  The ground work is required. You need to create that pyramid of belief.
   
   
   9:52 pm: But a well written prophecy (or my favorite six panels of ancient artwork on a cave or tomb all) can be a great motivator.
   9:53 pm: (and one of the panels has to be ruined/ broken/ stolen)
   9:53 pm: All items of prophecies that "must come true", a missing piece allows you some wiggle room
   9:54 pm: lol
   
   9:55 pm: C&P this into the forum thread, "MH's Threadkill Crash Course in Prophecy"
   9:52 pm: LOL

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