Storytime!
A few months ago, I start a S&S game here on the forums. Things were going well, until my work decided to take on some new clients, and the workload increased. Thankfully, another GM was able to step in and take some of the load off of my shoulders. GM Choon has been an invaluable help to me since then, helping run the game with me side by side.
Unfortunately, my work is shaking things up even further, and I will no longer have the time to take care of the game, at all. Choon has gracefully agreed to step in as the primary GM for the, but has requested that we recruit another co-gm to help him out, split the work, spread the load, etc.
If you would be interested, we would love to hear from you!
Hello! It is I! Choon! And I'm looking for someone to help keep this game going if life decides to kick me in the gut, like it does. I'm honestly loving this whole dual GM thing. I'm interested to see who all wants to give it a try.
How've you been dividing up responsibilities / working together? Collaboration via PMs, separate docs? Especially where S&S is pretty sandboxy, I'm curious how you're keeping on the same page. Or, regardless of what has or hasn't been working super well, are there things you want to try out with it, Choon?
We have been collaborating on any rules questions via Discord, and trading off who is actively running the game in between encounters. It seems to have been working fairly well from my side, though Choon may disagree.
I will note that our group is 6 players. I did convert all of the encounters through the end of the current book (book 2), though.
I agree that has been working well. Maximus and I have relatively different styles. He is a more crunchy, by the Numbers guy. I'm a bit more freeform, do what sounds cool kind of person. This is worked out relatively well because he keeps me more grounded and I tend to bring his PCS a little bit closer to death than the numbers might strictly require. And the dice roller loves me a little bit more than it does him. ;)
As far as future visions, I wouldn't to say no to someone who's a little bit more numbers oriented take up the mantle. However I'm more than willing to try this out with just about anybody. It's my first time really experiencing a system that actually works. It's not actually my first time doing a dual or multiple GM experiment. The other ones, however, featured different games in different threads run by different GM's in a unified narrative. This runs into issues with chronology and divergent rates of time. This method seems to have solved that by just having two GM's in one story. And I'm very much enjoying it. Having two people with eyes on the thread with authority to answer questions and move things along is very beneficial.
Bumping for visibility.
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I’d be interested in some more details here. I’ve GMd live games (years ago), and played a few PbP games, but never GMd PbP.
Been thinking about trying to GM a PbP, but I’d be doing it mostly from a phone and not sure how viable that will be.
If you are interested in letting me give this a shot, PM me and maybe we can work something out.
BUmping, again, for visibility. We have not yet found a candidate. Please let us know if you're interested.
My new position goes into effect in 4 weeks, and I'd rather not leave Choon high and dry.
If you could bring one thing into a desert island with you... :)