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<blockquote data-quote="Swarmkeeper" data-source="post: 7563224" data-attributes="member: 6921763">If you haven't checked out these resources already, they would be worth a read/view:<a href="http://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/78/grand-experiments-west-marches/" target="_blank">This is the website of the person who first(?) documented the West Marches style of game. </a><a href="http://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/78/grand-experiments-west-marches/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/78/grand-experiments-west-marches/" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGAC-gBoX9k" target="_blank">The West Marches, Running the Game #30 from that guy with the book and the stream</a>I've been running a shared world for a few groups of players with some overlap.&nbsp; We've found that it solves the problem of &quot;Bob and Mary can't make is Saturday so we need to reschedule&quot; - instead it's whoever can make it becomes the party for that session.&nbsp; Some players even have multiple characters that they play.&nbsp; I've found it helpful to keep everything synchronous - especially where a player and their chosen PC might show up in multiple sessions exploring the same area.&nbsp; You can't very well &quot;reset&quot; the clock in that case, unless you want a confusing time-travel vibe.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :P"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />&nbsp; As it is now, I do most of the scheduling as the DM, but my hope is someone else will take up the reigns from time to time to run without me OR I might actually get to play in the campaign.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Using something like Slack or Discord or MeWe would be useful to keep everyone informed of the storyline.&nbsp; Directly related to that is the concept of a &quot;home base&quot; town or village where the PCs hang out during their downtime between adventures to rest and share their stories with the other PCs.&nbsp; Speaking of which, the players who can't show up for a given session might appreciate the opportunity to exercise some downtime for their PCs - a good chance to explore those options in Xanathar's.Anyway, hope that is helpful.&nbsp; Have fun!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Swarmkeeper, post: 7563224, member: 6921763"] If you haven't checked out these resources already, they would be worth a read/view: [URL="http://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/78/grand-experiments-west-marches/"]This is the website of the person who first(?) documented the West Marches style of game. [/URL][URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGAC-gBoX9k"]The West Marches, Running the Game #30 from that guy with the book and the stream[/URL] I've been running a shared world for a few groups of players with some overlap. We've found that it solves the problem of "Bob and Mary can't make is Saturday so we need to reschedule" - instead it's whoever can make it becomes the party for that session. Some players even have multiple characters that they play. I've found it helpful to keep everything synchronous - especially where a player and their chosen PC might show up in multiple sessions exploring the same area. You can't very well "reset" the clock in that case, unless you want a confusing time-travel vibe. :P As it is now, I do most of the scheduling as the DM, but my hope is someone else will take up the reigns from time to time to run without me OR I might actually get to play in the campaign. :) Using something like Slack or Discord or MeWe would be useful to keep everyone informed of the storyline. Directly related to that is the concept of a "home base" town or village where the PCs hang out during their downtime between adventures to rest and share their stories with the other PCs. Speaking of which, the players who can't show up for a given session might appreciate the opportunity to exercise some downtime for their PCs - a good chance to explore those options in Xanathar's. Anyway, hope that is helpful. Have fun! [/QUOTE]

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