Comments on: The Great Next Campaign Debate http://www.gnomestew.com/gming-advice/the-great-next-campaign-debate The Game Mastering Blog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Scott Martin http://www.gnomestew.com/gming-advice/the-great-next-campaign-debate/comment-page-1#comment-9640 Scott Martin Fri, 28 May 2010 19:00:30 +0000 http://www.gnomestew.com/?p=6839#comment-9640 Each of my groups has a similar but not identical process. In each, each potential GM presents an idea (or two) that they'd be happy to run. We then select from among the proposed games. It basically requires consensus: if one person has big issues with a game, it's eliminated and we select from the games that are left. It's tricky, because you have the same issue as GMs often have running a game-- you can get mistake rejection of your game as rejection of you. That's something we tiptoe around at the moment... We tend to do the selection in person at the end of another game's session. Usually we've planned on presenting games a couple of weeks in advance. There's a lot of discussion and "I like" statements, which helps keep it in the realm of opinions instead of "you suck".<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('9640','Scott Martin'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> Each of my groups has a similar but not identical process. In each, each potential GM presents an idea (or two) that they’d be happy to run. We then select from among the proposed games.

It basically requires consensus: if one person has big issues with a game, it’s eliminated and we select from the games that are left. It’s tricky, because you have the same issue as GMs often have running a game– you can get mistake rejection of your game as rejection of you. That’s something we tiptoe around at the moment…

We tend to do the selection in person at the end of another game’s session. Usually we’ve planned on presenting games a couple of weeks in advance. There’s a lot of discussion and “I like” statements, which helps keep it in the realm of opinions instead of “you suck”.

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]]> By: Razjah http://www.gnomestew.com/gming-advice/the-great-next-campaign-debate/comment-page-1#comment-9637 Razjah Fri, 28 May 2010 14:53:47 +0000 http://www.gnomestew.com/?p=6839#comment-9637 Most of the time for our group it involves a GM saying-"Hey, I'm thinking about running this game, is anyone interested?" I tend to start with a campaign idea and see give a list of systems and let my players vote on them. This way they can choose the system and I know that I am comfortable running it. I really like this method, it seems better for people who have a solid group of people and have pretty solid schedules. I think it is a great way to make sure that the game isn't just because the GM wants to run it. D&D 3.5 is good, the third time in a row gets a little repetitive. I have a question though- does your group rotate GMs or is it pretty much you<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('9637','Razjah'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> Most of the time for our group it involves a GM saying-”Hey, I’m thinking about running this game, is anyone interested?” I tend to start with a campaign idea and see give a list of systems and let my players vote on them. This way they can choose the system and I know that I am comfortable running it.

I really like this method, it seems better for people who have a solid group of people and have pretty solid schedules. I think it is a great way to make sure that the game isn’t just because the GM wants to run it. D&D 3.5 is good, the third time in a row gets a little repetitive. I have a question though- does your group rotate GMs or is it pretty much you

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