Adventure Paths for multiple parties and multiple GMs [?]

[obernardo]

I am certain many others have had this idea, but the search engine is not helping me a lot here, so I would like to ask you to share some of the lore on the topic: I was thinking it would be cool to have an AP acting as a chronicle, with maybe three or four parties taking part, and this would be mostly a PbP effort.

If you have any resources or suggestions, I would be glad to see them :)

[obernardo]

Of course, that poses a major campaign management issue, so that is why I was wondering whether and how it has been done. I was thinking that the most straightforward way to do this would be to have three or four parties with one GM per party, plus an extra GMM (Game Master Master, or, if you really like to focus on acronyms, CM, Chronicle/Campaign Master... I think "Chronicle Path" is a pretty cool name :D) to supervise the four parties.

Now, the nice thing is that a band of 12-24 player characters is a small army, and they can set in motion a lot of world-changing events without necessarily being epic characters.

A few other thoughts:

• Such an a AP would have to be set in such a way that the events interconnect and achieve large-scale impact, which means the adventures would have to be run and then the outcomes synchronized before the next adventure.
  
• Controlling/predicting outcomes could be harder.
  
• The volume of text would be large, so the GMM would have to read summaries provided by the GMs, which adds a potentially serious bookkeeping overhead to the GMs...
  
• Players could switch parties throughout the adventures :)
  

[Lord Fyre]

What you are asking for is actually as Pathfinder Society Season?

From Season 2 on, each season has a meta-plot which ties most of that season's scenarios together, but the scenarios are not dependent on each-other. Where as, buying the PDFs of a full six volume AP would be about $84.

So you would need to decide if that Multi-GM feature is worth the extra $24.

[Lord Fyre]

Lord Fyre wrote:

What you are asking for is actually as Pathfinder Society Season?

From Season 2 on, each season has a meta-plot which ties most of that season's scenarios together, but the scenarios are not dependent on each-other. Where as, buying the PDFs of a full six volume AP would be about $84.

So you would need to decide if that Multi-GM feature is worth the extra $24.

That did not come out quite right. trying again

What you are asking for is actually as Pathfinder Society Season?

From Season 2 on, each season has a meta-plot which ties most of that season's scenarios together, but the scenarios are not dependent on each-other.

Pathfinder Society Seasons 2 and 3 already have compilations that cost about $108; where as, buying the PDFs of a full six volume AP would be about $84. (Season 4 should have a compilation after Gencon.)

So you would need to decide if that Multi-GM feature is worth the extra $24.

[DM_aka_Dudemeister]

Alternatively, you could set multiple groups in competition in Serpent's Skull. With multiple factions to ally with, the players could really make for some interesting asynchronous competition.