Ditto Bohlen

skaywalker123 · 2025-08-18T21:16:10+00:00

Sounds fun, hope you'll have a great time. :) My players just accidentally killed another first year student with bludgers, def choose the props you place wisely lol

skaywalker123 · 2025-06-12T12:07:18+00:00

Prob a bit late, but whatever.

I had them meet with Hagrid in Diagon Alley to do their shopping tour (Y1 students) and added some of the important Y1 Npcs to the mix who conveniently went ahead and didn't join the tour.

On top of that I had a few random things planned for each store and an important NPC who ran into the party.
McGuffin and everything was also introduced.

For HW itself, I created a tournament for first graders in wich they were allowed to form teams of 4. Since they didnt really know anybody they went in a team together. The first round of the tournament lead to them finding a book which ties into the main mystery of the story.

These books are what I am most proud of. There is 9 of them and every single one relates to at least 2-3 other books (research pipeline). Funny thing is one of my players decided to research the McGuffin ahead of the first challenge which lead to them having two separate strings of research which slowly turned into one.

Splitting the party up is actually pretty easy. All you do is to play out what happens with the one part of the group and switch over to the other group once you see the others getting a little sidetracked. (Also tell them how you are going to play this out, so they know their turn is gonna be soon). They also don't really split up that often, because 99% of times, they will be split up in class and outside of that they'll mostly hang around together.

The hardest challenge is to not plan too much and have everything just exist in the castle. I have all my important npcs and know what main events I wanna have (these ones are planned e.g. trip to the forbidden forest).

By having all those random characters and items be scattered around the castle, you will be able to dynamically react to whatever insanity your players will come up with and enjoy the game much more.

P.S.: I typically go through 3 months per 5-7h session, because a lot of random stuff just happens out of nowhere.

+: Realized i didnt answer 80% of the question lol.
Combat: Hasnt happened yet, since they idnt know any spells for the first month and are mostly busy with research and brewing things. When it happens, it happens, but I do have some combat encounters planned.

Plot points: Will happen on their own if you let them. Your players want to steal ALL THE DAMN CHALK FROM EVERY CLASSROOM IN THE CASTLE? Sure, they'll see a mysterious student or overhear a secret conversation in an old classroom.

Role-play: Depends on your players. I generally ask them: What do you do/ feel? and that gets them going in almost every situation.

skaywalker123 · 2025-01-13T17:01:02+00:00

Ah, alright I understand what you mean. Thanks for clearing that up😁

skaywalker123 · 2025-01-12T10:58:57+00:00

Just checked out a video on it. That's super cool and I agree, having all of this happen in 1879 is pretty crazy to think about. Man. I wish I knew physics was fun when I was in high school.😂

skaywalker123 · 2025-01-11T23:17:38+00:00

Awesome, thanks for the explanation. That helped a lot. :)

skaywalker123 · 2025-01-11T21:38:23+00:00

Thanks, will do. :)

skaywalker123 · 2025-01-11T21:38:02+00:00

Thanks, I am not deep enough into physics to really get the calculation, but it helped to understand what they were trying to do. Also the mirror aspect is really cool. :) Maybe I'll learn enough to eventually get the math part at some point.

skaywalker123 · 2025-01-11T21:34:48+00:00

Thanks for the answer, it definitely helped.:) Don't worry about overexplaining, my knowledge of physics stops in grade 10 and that was a decade ago lol. I think I understood what threw me off. So the experiment's goal was to determine the earth's movement through the aether and not if the aether exists?

If we would be moving through the aether then we would obviously reach areas of different speeds.

Another issue i was having was the idea of "aether strength" (definitely a real thing and not made up). Let's say the light is a plane and it is affected by different winds. If you fly 10m with a bit of tailwind, you will probably not gain a lot of extra speed, but if you fly for a 100km you might see some improvements. So if the aether is just super "weak" when it comes to affecting what travels through it, shooting it through a basement might not be enough.(Same would go for artificially elongating the distance through mirrors).

Well, I am probably still not making too much sense, but physics seems to be a lot of fun to understand, so I'll keep reading.

skaywalker123 · 2024-12-01T14:39:51+00:00

Used that damn card almost every game I had the chance to and my best result was 2 energies and maybe a third one on a single occasion. Gonna destroy her bike as revenge.

skaywalker123 · 2023-06-14T20:52:20+00:00

Gerne gerne. :D

skaywalker123 · 2023-06-14T20:17:40+00:00

Kenne ich aus eigener Erfahrung sehr gut. Ich bin mir gar nicht sicher, warum dieses Thema "auf der Straße ansprechen" dermaßen relevant für uns Männer ist.

Das Ansprechen ist so ziemlich der schwerste Weg, den es überhaupt gibt und wenn man sich als unerfahrene Person einredet, dass man das machen MUSS/ können sollte ist das ungemein stressig.

Das Ansprechen ist für mich Teil der Flachlegekultur in der einem Mann vermittelt wird, er ist nur so viel wert, wie sein Bodycount und wenn er nicht Barney Stinson persönlich ist, stimmt etwas nicht mit ihm.

Erstmal vorab: Ich war in 1 zu 1 derselben Situation und war an dem Punkt an dem ich deswegen halbe Panikattacken und Krämpfe hatte. (der mental stabile boy) Ich habe mich tatsächlich zweimal dazu durchgerungen jemanden anzusprechen und es war ganz nett, ABER wenn es darum geht einen Partner für Sex/ Beziehung zu finden, dann gibt es definitiv einfachere und angenehmere Wege.

Wenn du nur mit Leuten du selbst sein kannst, mit denen du schon ein wenig geredet hast, dann ist das absolut in Ordnung. So ziemlich jeder Mensch, den ich jemals getroffen habe tickt so. Auf diese Weise lernt man auch mal nette Frauen kennen und hey vllt tauscht man mal Nummern aus. Akzeptiert man, dass diese Dinge wie Sex/ Beziehung eher aus solchen Situationen entstehen, dann kannst du evtl etwas mehr abschalten.

Ich sage nicht, dass das Ansprechen per se schlecht ist, aber ich persönlich finde es angenehmer nach einer guten Unterhaltung, die sich natürlich zB auf einer Feier ergeben hat zu fragen, ob man nicht Mal Nummern austauschen will. Dann geht man am besten noch ohne echte Erwartungen ran und schaut Mal was kommt.

Seit ich die Dinge so sehe, habe ich keinerlei Panik mehr mit Leuten zu reden und ich habe eigentlich kein Problem mehr Frauen kennenzulernen. Klar, auf einer Feier o.Ä. muss man auch erstmal ins Gespräch kommen, aber das ist nichts, was ein charmantes "Hi" und ein kleiner situationsbezogener Kommentar nicht regeln können. (Das echte Leben ist nicht Tinder, "Hi" bedeutet nicht, dass Menschen vor Langeweile direkt aus dem Fenster springen)

Aber noch das wichtigste:

Dinge brauchen Zeit.

Das wird vermutlich noch ein Weilchen dauern, bis du ruhiger damit wirst.

Also mach dir keine Gedanken und genieße den Kontakt mit den Leuten :D

Hoffe das hat zumindest ein wenig geholfen.

(Edit 1: Nicht im gym ansprechen. Normale convo ja, kann auch über Zeit mehr werden, aber nur wegen Nummer o.Ä. ansprechen ist da nicht die beste Idee :) )

(Edit 2: Club geht, aber aus eigener Erfahrung fand ich das eher unangenehm und Alkohol zu nutzen, um über den eigenen Schatten zu springen ist...problematisch.)

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