NC Game Day VII - April 23!

[Jeph]

This time I can definitely make it. Yay!

...assuming, that is, that school doesn't interfere. (grumble, bloody education, grumble)

But yeah, this time I can almost definitely make it. Anyone up for a Dogma-style Angels Versus Demons game using the new WoD/Storytelling system?

 

[Clueless]

Re Henry: Awww - I've already been begged to play in the morning for another player (Toras...)

Hm. We may end up doing a great shuffle at this rate to try and coordinate the webs of who wants to play what when and where.

 

[Mark Causey]

On the round robin, of course you can modify it however you want, but it still has to maintain some verisimilitude. For example, the last game I ran, the first DM had us in a tavern where we were listening intently to this wonderful storyteller weave interesting stories, and this guy comes in, and starts talking crap to the storyteller, telling him that he can't run forever, and that the he's finishing things once and for all, yadda yadda. This guy also has some "thugs" that accompany him. The storyteller vanishes, and the bad guy leaves, only to have the thugs do the dirty work.

So then I take over. The "thugs" start hitting the PCs really hard (I'm rolling d6s for fists) and one of the players is like "that's not right..." and then this illusion breaks down, revealing the thugs to be zombies. Oh, the look on the previous GMs face was priceless! Since he didn't intend for them to be zombies, but there wasn't anything stopping me from turning them into zombies! So, you work with what you have, and things change as you go. You can't just take over the reigns and say "suddenly you find yourself on a ship!" No, it doesn't work like that.

I use d20 rules for round robin just out of convenience. It's not tied to that. I could use HARP rules, but fewer people are familiar with those, and you have to be GM to play in the round robin game.

It does sound wonderful. The concept really loans itself to a system that doesn't require much to 'stat out' NPCs. If you'd like, I'd love to try it in FATE. Give it a look, I'm not married to it though

 

[kylekatern]

hmmmmmm

Hey balen, what type of game will you be running this game day?

So many possibibilities mentioned and yet not enough posted as games with slots to pick as of yet.......

 

[der_kluge]

die_kluge-
Looks like I'm going, but we won't be coming through Richmond. We're going down 29south from C'ville to get to Chapel Hill before headed to Raleigh, and I might be staying with friends there. Hope this doesn't mess up your plans. I'll let you know if anything changes.

Rich

Don't let me thwart your plans! I may come down with my family, so it all works out.

 

[Narfellus]

Dang it! Game slot filled up. Oh well, maybe i'll just lurk around and KO someone when they're not not looking.

 

[der_kluge]

I'm trying to get some games added. I'm waiting to get GM status. Unless that's something I can do on my own. I sent the request off that that ncgameday email address. Anyone read that?

 

[Henry]

Rel and Morgenes are admins for the site, so they are the only ones that can approve GM status. The good news is, once approved, you never have to be approved again to post new games under your account. However, they ALWAYS have to assign tables to new games, even if the events are listed in the overall event list. Doesn't stop people from signing up, it just means you don't have an official table assigned.

AND, as Old One just found out, if you change something about your event listing after they've assigned it a table, it has to be re-assigned to a table. So once you post a new game, make sure you have everything correct on it and then ask them to assign it to a table.

 

[Rel]

I'm trying to get some games added. I'm waiting to get GM status. Unless that's something I can do on my own. I sent the request off that that ncgameday email address. Anyone read that?

I sent you an e-mail just a few minutes ago indicating that I manually set your status to "GM" so that you should be able to submit games now. Let me know if you have any further problems.

Unless I'm really busy I try to check the site a couple times a day and approve and assign tables to every event that is submitted. Given the intense interest right now and the fact that I've got a bit of free time then I'm checking much more often than that.

 

[Rel]

Rel and Morgenes are admins for the site, so they are the only ones that can approve GM status. The good news is, once approved, you never have to be approved again to post new games under your account. However, they ALWAYS have to assign tables to new games, even if the events are listed in the overall event list. Doesn't stop people from signing up, it just means you don't have an official table assigned.

AND, as Old One just found out, if you change something about your event listing after they've assigned it a table, it has to be re-assigned to a table. So once you post a new game, make sure you have everything correct on it and then ask them to assign it to a table.

Your first paragraph is correct, Henry. The second isn't quite. If changes are made to the event it still keeps its assigned table (frex, I didn't have to re-assign a table to Old One's game). It just drops out of the event listing and nobody can sign up for it until we re-approve it. So you don't need to fear losing your table if you make changes to your event but it might be "off the market" for a while until we re-approve it.