Adapt storyteller to scenario

[Falc]

I've tried to like the new scenarios, but I feel that right now the storytellers simply aren't that well adapted to them.

The worst example, I feel, is the Rich Explorer. One single person against the entire world? Yeah I wanna try that, I want to see how long I can last when I have to do everything 'myself'. This'll be fun!

And inevitably, within a day or two, "Wanderer joins!" happens. No longer alone. One game I even hit Alt-F4 right away in disappointment when the wanderer who joined my intrepid explorer... was his mother. Yeah that really wasn't the game I wanted to be playing...

So I tried the tribe start, more people but less tech, yeah okay this'll be interesting. Again a wanderer joins within a few days, bringing a Pistol with her... And she was even a Brawler so she didn't want to keep the damn thing herself!


All in all, this just leaves me with the feeling that some work should be put into adapting the storytellers for these scenarios. Or give us more storytellers, or give us a bit more settings to tweak for each storyteller...

How do other people feel about this?

[winddbourne]

I totally agree . . . I keep feeling like I'm being forced into the crash landing scenario. They even still have the "build a ship to escape" sitting there as a "win" condition. Wait a second . . .

If I'm a rich explorer don't I already have my ship in orbit? Plus a ton of money that I could use to buy passage out if I so desire? Maybe I would like to be able to RECRUIT people into my thriving colony. But perhaps not!  Don't EVER just give me a wanderer as if I have no choice. Also what is MY win condition? It certainly isn't escaping the bloody planet.

Survive X number of years?
Found a thriving colony with X wealth level and Y number of people would work too.
Found a thriving colony and maintain X happiness and safety levels for Y number of years.

All of those could be fun. I actually feel like each of the new official scenarios needs it's OWN set of story tellers.

The ones we have are obviously based entirely around telling the castaway story. They even do a pretty good job of following the plot of the classic novel "Swiss Family Robinson" where a family winds up ship wrecked and has to survive and thrive until they can get rescued.  That's one of my favorite books but it doesn't work for any of the other scenarios.