Success2Soon

Players play members of a successful pop band in a player-led dramatic game of emotional needs and wants for 4-5 players.

Success2Soon uses Pelgrane Press' DramaSystem rules engine to create a story of high-stakes interpersonal conflict. During the session, we will create band members with conflicting needs and goals. And then we will find out what happens.

The playbooks consists of:

• The songwriter
• The pretty one
• The tearaway
• The cool one
• The best singer

Overview of play

Success2Soon starts with generating  characters and links before moving on to play.  The process is as follows:

1. Give a brief overview of DramaSystem and Success2Soon.
2. Let the players choose one playbook each.
3.  Answer the opening questions.
4.  Ask the players to pick names, choose desires (see Hillfolk page 13), dramatic poles, and answer playbook-specific questions.
5.  Ask everyone to describe their character to everyone.
6.  Ask each player to describe their character’s relationship with another character – and what they want from that relationship. The receiving player states why their character can’t meet that emotional need. (Make sure that each character is only petitioned once.)
7.  Repeat step 6 in random order. Again, ensure nobody is petitioned more than twice in total.
8. Start play with a conference scene at breakfast in a hotel. Tonight is the final performance of the tour.