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Okay, this isn't a 'what' question, it's more of a 'why' question. I tend to run/play a lot of PbP/PbD and also run/play AP games. These tend to take a long time to go through, and I know my player is 'locked' during that time and can't receive credit for more than one game at the same time.
When it comes to playing multiple multi-session games, even with pre-gens (like with APs in Campaign Mode), I can see why this rule exists. It seems pretty obvious why you can't play a character in more than one scenario at the same time. There are so many ways that's broken and unmanageable. Likewise, it seems obvious why you can't run scenarios for a character you're actively playing, or vice versa. Even if there weren't ways to 'break' that, the paperwork nightmare alone makes it obvious why you wouldn't want to allow that. (Even though this can bring up a weird problem if your first game happens to be Signal of Screams or 1-00 in a PbP and you would have no fame to clear out conditions on the pre-gen unless you were allowed to play/run some low tier scenarios to do so.)
What I can't seem to figure out, though, is why you can't GM multiple games for the same character (simultaneously). The only thing I can think of is that this is to prevent 'power leveling' or possibly to prevent a character from being stuck in a weird place where their 3-6 scenario ended (leveling them to 5) before their 1-4 and now they can't actually get credit for the 1-4.
Neither of those seem unmanageable, though. And since this only comes up for people running PbP or APs, which take a relatively long time compared to 'normal' scenario gaming, I don't see the power-leveling thing as being a valid reason not to allow it. And, honestly, as a GM I wouldn't allow myself to get into the situation where I couldn't get credit for something that I wanted credit for, so I think the corner case of leveling out of something can't be the reason to prevent it.
So, more out of curiosity than anything, and with a genuine interest in understanding, does anyone know why this isn't allowed? Is it just to make it 'fair' or 'simple'? Or is there something broken that I'm just not seeing?
Venture-Agent, Minnesota
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Clarification: You can GM multiple games for the same character simultaneously.
It's allowed. Click the link to see the forum ruling from John Compton.
Hmm
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