'Pre-title' scenes

[Eternally Lost Zeppo]

In the rulebook there is a sidebar about using prologues or 'pre-title' scenes in games, this is something I've always considered trying out but have never done before. The advice in the book is to either play it out as a game sequence with the players temporarily taking over pre-gen NPCs, or to have players read from a script. How do people here on the board go about this, if at all?

[Craig Oxbrow]

I rattle through it purely as description in about a minute flat. Not a very involved method, but it gets the job done...

[zebaroth]

a gm did a cut scene in a world of darkness game i was in he handed out one page
of us and we read the lines he told us to and was very interesting

[Eternally Lost Zeppo]

Thanks, I'll probably experiment with different ways of handling it over the course of the campaign. I'll see about doing a 'minute or less' description for the first game on Monday night, assuming I can get myself prepared to run it in time... ^^;

[imajica]

If you can get hold of them, the old West End Games Star Wars adventures had little scripted scenes for the PCs to set the scenario moving.

[ugavine]

Apr 6, 2011 12:18:03 GMT imajica said:

If you can get hold of them, the old West End Games Star Wars adventures had little scripted scenes for the PCs to set the scenario moving.

I'm a big fan of the WEG Star Wars RPG but that was the one bit I never used because the lines never fit the PCs.

Generally when starting an adventure I either just do a quick GM cut-scene or throw the PCs right into the middle of the action.

[NurseRani]

We usually start with the TARDIS materializing somewhere, and then throw our Timelord and his companions into the mix with whatever NPCs are going to be involved in that "episode".

[da professor]

One of the PCs in my game has precognition, so the pre-title is often his dream of the night before the action starts.

[stahlman]

As I am running this online I usually start a scenario with a couple of paragraphs as intro.
The very first scenario featured the second Doctor ,Zoe and Jamie as a sort of series 6b link to the player characters so I pretended I was a much more talented person than I am and imagined I was writing as target novelisation.
I tend to refer to my PCs as 'the time travellers' out of respect for the old days.