I am insane. I just signed myself up to run quinnclub's Playing Favourites at ACN this year, since he's not coming. That means I'm running two games this year. Eep! Hopefully, though, it'll get us that much closer to actually having a con...
Yay! I would be thrilled to find PF becoming a staple last slot game, no matter who runs it. In a lot of ways, it runs itself. I'm sure you'll be fine, but if you want some ideas, let me know. At one point I brainstormed like ten different ways I could run it, and chose my favorite that morning. :-)
My plan at this stage consists of "Show up and hope that a story occurs to me before anyone gets bored of watching me sweat", so any ideas you could fire over would be much appreciated... :)
In the past, I've played on the "favorite" angle: "Who is Oberon's favorite grandchild?" "What would happen if the Jewel were a five year old child who had a Julie Andrews fetish and wanted to live out the song, 'My Favorite Things?'" (Yes, I was reaching, but there is something wonderful about trying to describe "snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes" without giving the song away. Also, Uncle Caine's pr0n being delivered in "brown paper packages, tied up with string," was, I thought, a nice touch.) I think TBR was "everyone's favorite toys or weapons disappear." I've always threatened to use "my favorite plot from the con." :-)
Other possibilities: have everyone write out their favorite scene from the books, pull one from a hat and use that as a starting point. Use Tir. Shadow storms and favorite shadows. Have everyone write their favorite elder on a card and draw them at random, sending the players into that elder's head, a la "Being John Malkovitch." Due to some wacky alchemical mix-up, one of the kids has forced everyone to switch brains, so that everyone is playing someone else's favorite characters for a time. Have someone officially named as "favorite" by the king; watch the succession hi-jinks that ensue. :-)
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Other possibilities: have everyone write out their favorite scene from the books, pull one from a hat and use that as a starting point. Use Tir. Shadow storms and favorite shadows. Have everyone write their favorite elder on a card and draw them at random, sending the players into that elder's head, a la "Being John Malkovitch."
Due to some wacky alchemical mix-up, one of the kids has forced everyone to switch brains, so that everyone is playing someone else's favorite characters for a time. Have someone officially named as "favorite" by the king; watch the succession hi-jinks that ensue. :-)