thread: 2005-05-03 : Creating Theme
On 2005-05-04, Ninja Hunter J wrote:
Primetime Adventures requires everyone to write down 5 things about their character: two or three people you can count on for whatever reason to do stuff for you, and two or three things about you that are incontrovertable truths (No one dares lie to me. I'm the fastest gun in the West. I'm a robot.)
You use those things to confront your Issue. This is something unfulfilled that you want. Vengeance for the death of my husband. A Red Ryder BB gun. I will find the Two-Armed Man.
Your ability to confront your Issue is determined by your Screen Presence for the given episode, determined at character creation. You're a background character for two episodes, a secondary character for two, and the pivotal character in one (for a 5-episode season. I guess you can play 9? I didn't remember that.)
What that means is that it can confront any theme you can work into a character concept. It might not do Trust as well as Mountain Witch, or Judgement as well as Dogs, but it's a theme toolkit that lets you work with whatever theme you dig up for Your Guy.
