First time running paranoia, looking for advice for a oneshot.This friday I'll be running a Red Clearance Edition oneshot for four of my friends, I was inspired by Dale Friesen running Trouble in P4RA-DI5E and his earlier oneshot from 2017. I was originally planning on rehashing the poisoned algae vat mission but recently I've been semi-planning something original with the troubleshooters installing some important parts for a bot manufacturing plant while all four players have secret society missions to do something else mostly running counter to each other.
Part of my worry is that all of the players have expressly asked me to write up character options for them, they'll still roll stats at the table but I'll make four or five pre-created characters for them to pick between. Because of this I'm worried about how much planning I should do ahead of time and if I'm taking away too much player choice with this character decisions. For those of you with experience running paranoia is there any obvious advice you can give me? How much should I write ahead of time versus how much of the session should be improve? Do I need to be worried about railroading my players too much? Et cetera.
The preset characters I was going to offer up were the roles of: Team leader - a member of the Frankenstein Destroyers with levitation. The Science Officer - a member of the Illuminati told to do whatever the other players are already doing but take credit for everything, possibly infiltrating the Mystics. The Combat Officer - a member of the Death Leopards with Machine Empathy. And lastly the Happiness Office - a member of the Anti-Mutant Group with the Electroshock mutation. Does this seem like a fairly balanced group? I drew this from the deck at random so if you have any suggestions that will make my things more fun for my players please let me know.
I know this message is mostly all over the place but in the end I don't know what I should be most worried about. Any and all advice would be appreciated! Thank you and have a nice day.
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