North Carolina Game Day VI: January 29

[Belen]

Help!!

I have no idea what to run here guys. Anyone have any preferences from the following list?

Blue Rose
Castles and Crusades
d20 Future
Midnight d20


Oh...and bump. Shame on us for letting this hit page 4!

 

[Gerzel]

Decitions Descitions

Well I've decided that I'll run in the morning.

I'm going to post the offering this Friday it will be one of the two:

Paranoia XP - Stepping out citizen.
It will be an exercise in perversity, betrayal, cowardice, incompetence, and of coarse fun. Fun is mandatory, citizen. The computer will guide you on your journey through Alpha Complex AND BEYOND! All this will be done for the entertainment, edification and pleasure of the righteous good and just ultra-violent…er violet citizens and their computer.

Teenagers From Outer Space - I'm your goddess!
This will be an exercise as above but with less of the computer and more super powers and being assigned to help out some mortal boob and make his or her life better. You will be assigned by an over-god who sees to these sorts of things and you his elite…well no you’re his incompetent troops that he is sending to a place where your screw ups will do the least harm. Put all the screw-ups into one basket. Never mind that that basket is soaked in lighter fluid, and don't look towards the approaching man with a blowtorch.

 

[der_kluge]

Oh wow, I may have to play Teenagers from Outer Space. I love that game. I even wrote a character generator in Pascal when I was in college.

 

[Belen]

No one?

 

[Henry]

I'll be glad to give you an opinion, understanding that I'm already committed for my two slots: I think you might have some takers with either Castles & Crusades, or with Blue Rose (If I weren't already in Rel's game I'd definitely take up a C&C just to see what it's like). The only downside to C&C is that I'm running the AD&D game, and those to whom that appeals C&C would also appeal.

I'm also definitely of the opinion that it's early yet, and not to be discouraged if we're not getting a lot of response beyond the first rush.

 

[Clueless]

What are the options like? I've never heard of any of em / they can be run in different ways.

 

[der_kluge]

This may be a dumb question, but are we going to end up with more DMs than players there? Seems like there are an awful lot of folks running stuff, and not necessarily enough folks signing up for stuff. Or am I wrong?

 

[NCSUCodeMonkey]

This may be a dumb question, but are we going to end up with more DMs than players there? Seems like there are an awful lot of folks running stuff, and not necessarily enough folks signing up for stuff. Or am I wrong?

It's not a dumb question at all, and you're at least partially right. The last several gamedays have had games that came in under quota, but I'm not aware of any that didn't continue in some form. However, a lot of what you are seeing is the fact that the DMs are the ones that get in early and start chatting; the players will start posting more in mid-January. What usually happens is that a game or two gets cancelled and the entire roster does musical chairs a few days before the event. Plus, we usually see several walk-ins. We won't really know what games are empty/full until the week before the event.

In other news, be looking for a game announcement on the gameday site sometime this weekend. I'm madly dashing about trying to finish a project, and I'm planning on taking a sizeable break this weekend (finsihed or not!). It looks like I'll be running in the AM, since Rel has expressed an interest and he has a PM game. Any one else like the sound of childish, superhero action?

NCSUCodeMonkey

 

[Rel]

This may be a dumb question, but are we going to end up with more DMs than players there? Seems like there are an awful lot of folks running stuff, and not necessarily enough folks signing up for stuff. Or am I wrong?

Basically what CodeMonkey said. It's pretty much like this every time at this stage of the game. To be honest, it's actually rather comforting. It lets me know that everything is moving forward on pace.

And, as I've said historically, the "too many chiefs, not enough indians" problem is rather self-correcting. If things come down to the wire and we have a game or two that is completely empty and a couple that are understaffed, those GM's with empty games will tend to cancel and jump into one of those open slots. But in practice this has very rarely happened as last minute sign-ups and walk-ins have filled out most of the games in question.

 

[Torm]

No one?

I'm not even 100% certain I'm going - my life is in too much flux to commit yet, and certainly too much to plan to RUN anything, which is what I thought I might be doing this time when the last gameday ended - so take this for what little it is worth. But out of the games you named, I think I would be most inclined to join a D20 Future game. And it would avoid the genre conflict Henry mentioned.