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Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{2} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{4 cm} x{4 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Character Goals}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Think about your character's backstory, abilities and traits. Explain them to the group. Come up with a long- or mid-term goal. & Is the goal achievable? Does it seem fun? How could it fail forward? \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 7) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Does it meet the criteria? Share goals with the table and adjust to collaborate better is needed. & Record each player's long-term goal. \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 5) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Create one to two short term goals to achieve the longer goal. & Is the goals achievable? Do they seem fun? How could it fail forward? \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 4) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Do they meet the criteria? Share these goals with the table and adjust to collaborate better is needed. & Record each player's short term goals. Think about if any of these goals involve the same places, people or objects and make a note of that too. \tn % Row Count 24 (+ 8) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Player Goal Criteria}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{Players should have at least one mid or long term goal and two to three short term goals to achieve these longer goals.} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Short}} - Can be done in a few sessions with current power} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Mid}} - Typically longer than 6 sessions to complete and need to gain power, skills or hard to get information to complete} \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Long}} - Campaign long goals (achieve godhood, or learn to love again)} \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Goals must be measurably achievable}} I want to become powerful vs I want to win the martial arts tournament.} \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 3) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Goals must have consequences for failure.}} Failure to warn the settlement of an impending attack will bring about grave casualties when the people are unprepared. There is no consequence if the goal is immediately repeatable.} \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 5) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Goals must be fun to pursue.}} (Read the book pg. 30)} \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Factions (Good start for a given settlement)}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{{\bf{Identity}}} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{Government} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{Labor} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{Crime} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{Religion} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2.584 cm} x{2.508 cm} x{2.508 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{3}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{NPCs}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Allies}} - Goals align with player goals & {\bf{Villains}} - Goals conflict with the player's goals & {\bf{Patrons}} - Grants the players access to the resources of a faction so long as the players advance the patron's and/or the factions goals \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 11) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Goal Alignment - Not all goals need be perfectly align. Diverging goals create their own conflict. & Villainous - Unless your a novel writer, don't go with a morally ambiguous. & What resources does their faction have? \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 8) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Method of Pursuit - Do they use charm or violence? Do they fight at all? & Powerful - Strength, resources, cunning. This guy can hurt the players & How powerful is their faction relative to other factions? \tn % Row Count 25 (+ 6) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Allied Factions - Do your players know a group or person related to the ally? Are they on good terms? How far will the ally go. & Goal Driven - Concrete goals that overlap and are at odds with the players goals. Long, Medium, and Short goals & Personality - Generous, greedy, ambitious? \tn % Row Count 35 (+ 10) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2.584 cm} x{2.508 cm} x{2.508 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{3}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{NPCs (cont)}} \tn % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & & What are their long and short term goals? \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}---} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}