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I suspect many of you fellow GMs out there are like me: you thoroughly enjoy devouring morsels of setting background, campaign secrets, and the truly impressive villain back stories that paizo has proven themselves capable of writing nearly every time. You also love setting up sessions and encounters for your players and seeing them pull out all the stops to survive in the face of certain death.
But let's be honest GMs: if you're like me, you would also just LOVE to freakin' PLAY once in awhile in a campaign that was run by someone just as passionate and attentive to detail as you. You're probably the player in your group who fell into that role because you volunteered long ago and your players never exactly stepped up and offered to GM the next campaign (who can blame them?).
If you're still reading and this sounds any way familiar, AND you're as excited about the new Iron Gods AP as I am, then I have a proposition for you:
I would like to run the Iron Gods adventure path *solely for other GMs who don't usually get the chance to play*. My proposition is that we build a group to play through roll20/google hangouts, and each of us would GM one chapter of the adventure path (i.e. I would GM the first chapter, "Bob Player1" would GM chapter 2, "Steve Player2" would GM chapter 3, and so on). It's certainly even possible that while GMing, one's character would move to a GM-run npc so as to maintain continuity.
Now I know there are potential problems here, right? Naysayers may say, "But NAY! If you rotate GM'ing duties, then your master race of GM/Player hybrids will know story information that they shouldn't! They will meta game and ruin everything that is sacred and secret!"
But I say nay- as GMs, we already value the power of a communally built story; we wouldn't *want* to meta game as we know it'd take away from this. Also, surrrrely no player ever reads message boards and finds out information ahead of time that he shouldn't know. Right? Right. Furthermore, we'd also be getting a variety of GMing and player styles--a veritable "best of the best" potentially-- probably an opportunity to steal great ideas from each other, AND sharing the "workload" amongst ourselves.
So again, I present my proposal: fellow GMs who would like to both play AND gm Iron Gods, send me a private message (or public one here-- I'm interested to see if anyone else likes this idea after all) and let me know if you'd be interested in joining me in this venture. I will round up everyone who's interested, try to see what schedules would coordinate and what would not (I'm Pennsylvania/EDT and EST time), and maybe we can get this technomage barbarian cyborg party started!
Would this be an online campaign? I'd be down but I'm in Ft Lauderdale.
Would this be an online campaign? I'd be down but I'm in Ft Lauderdale.
Yep! Roll20 for the tabletop and google hangouts for the voice/video. I've been running a Runelords campaign and PFS scenarios through roll20 and love it.
Alright, I'm down. I'll be more clear after this weekend, as I'm in the process of moving and will be done by Tuesday.
I will put a "summary post" here for those not inclined to read all above ;).
I would like to run the Iron Gods adventure path *solely for other GMs who don't usually get the chance to play*. My proposition is that we build a group to play through roll20/google hangouts, and each of us would GM one chapter of the adventure path (i.e. I would GM the first chapter, "Bob Player1" would GM chapter 2, "Steve Player2" would GM chapter 3, and so on). It's certainly even possible that while GMing, one's character would move to a GM-run npc so as to maintain continuity.
Post or PM me if interested!
I could certainly do the first or second adventure.
I'm certainly down with it. I'm running 2 WotR campaigns here on the forums, as well as 2 RL campaigns (the old 3.0 Drow Wars and Slumbering Tsar). I haven't actually played a character in years.
This will be perfect for me: I just started a roll20 account before the business trip that I'm on now, so I haven't had a chance to play with it. Also, I would love to try to figure out Hangouts. What I am wondering is how we are going to setup the logistics of this? That being said, definitely count me in.
I'm certainly down with it. I'm running 2 WotR campaigns here on the forums, as well as 2 RL campaigns (the old 3.0 Drow Wars and Slumbering Tsar). I haven't actually played a character in years.
This will be perfect for me: I just started a roll20 account before the business trip that I'm on now, so I haven't had a chance to play with it. Also, I would love to try to figure out Hangouts. What I am wondering is how we are going to setup the logistics of this? That being said, definitely count me in.
Awesome to hear! I figure once we see who's all interested in pursuing this (in addition to the two of you who've posted interest thus far, I probably know at least one more person I could include in the loop), I will set up an email chain and we can discuss what days/nights we might have available, and go from there. I'm also happy to teach anyone who might be new to roll20.
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I might be interested....if you don't mind a person who constanly plays aasimars haha. Although I can't do Thursdays or Mondays as I have homebrew campaigns I run those days.
Weekends would really be it, though I'd have to make sure everything's good. I've moved literally today, so I'm between jobs and looking to start school up at Le Cordon Bleu. So weekends SHOULD be okay, but it depends on how much time I want to spend with my lady friend
How would characters be generated?
If the current DM is busy DMing, what becomes of his character from the last chapter?
You do realize if you NPC your character in the group, you also runt he risk of accidentally killing your own character… once your chapters up… NOW what do you do??
I either want to play an inquisitor, barbarian, or a rage prophet, Im torn.
All those interested, please shoot me an email at jrn425 at gmail.
I will compile the names and create an email chain through which we can discuss the logistics of this (including Pendagast's questions), and hopefully turn it into the start of a great campaign (I for one am pretty damn excited at the prospect!)
All those interested, please shoot me an email at jrn425 at gmail.
I will compile the names and create an email chain through which we can discuss the logistics of this (including Pendagast's questions), and hopefully turn it into the start of a great campaign (I for one am pretty damn excited at the prospect!)
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All those interested, please shoot me an email at jrn425 at gmail.
I will compile the names and create an email chain through which we can discuss the logistics of this (including Pendagast's questions), and hopefully turn it into the start of a great campaign (I for one am pretty damn excited at the prospect!)
JRN425(at)gmail.com
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