hkokko Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Spotlight Cards for RQ Read an interesting article at Dread Unicorn site about spotlight cards and hipster PDA as a player reference for GM. The idea is to help GM to remember to let each player shine at the spotlight in the game. This can be especially problematic with larger groups at play same time. The spotlight card method gathers rough information about each player and their aspirations to an index card and at the bottom of the card ask the question: "has the player been in spotlight already". At the start of the game session you pick a card and make sure that person gets her spotlight in some way. You may have prepared for this beforehand already. After the spotlight moment you move the players index card to the bottom of the stack and go for next player making sure that during the session everybody gets their chance. On that page there are spotlight cards for several game systems. I thought this was an intriguing and try to combine it here with having some reference information about the player in one card which I have been thinking about how to do for some time. Here is an example (not of any of my gamers...) https://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2016/01/23/spotlight-cards-for-rq/ 3 Quote My Glorantha/Mythras blog with Glorantha Cult One-pagers and Mythras Encounter Tool updates and Mythras GM Charts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baulderstone Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 I love to use index cards when I play face-to-face, and I use Scrivener when I run online, so this idea is equally applicable in both situations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jholen Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Not exactly the same though we use index cards to track NPCs... specifically in HQ:G we track: Name Patron Diety Associated Level: Comparable, Advanced, More Advanced Desire Disposition Encountered At It's very handy! I might glean a few sections from this and incorporate into our NPCs. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hkokko Posted January 24, 2016 Author Share Posted January 24, 2016 These are good for NPCs as well. My main use at this point is for player characters. Scrivener is great - I used it a lot earlier on but then decided that I will not lug my computer to game so went the evernote route. Quote My Glorantha/Mythras blog with Glorantha Cult One-pagers and Mythras Encounter Tool updates and Mythras GM Charts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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