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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Grackle" data-source="post: 1791689" data-attributes="member: 23976">I'm a huge fan of the everything game, but it takes a lot of work.  This is pretty much the only way I'll GM a game (and it's probably the reason I suffer GM burnout so much).  I take everything that want, mix it together in different proportions, and stir- violently.  Sometimes it turns out not-so-good, other times it comes out great.  Maybe it's personal preferrence, but I would advise against the plane wandering type campaign.  It's hard enough to make the players feel like they're in a real "place" w/o changing it around every adventure.  It has sort of a strobe light effect on them.  The more you play in one "place" the more depth is added to that setting and the characters as they develop a relationship to/it.As far as the dream/story reality; it already is a fantasy.  It's a game.  The players won't be shocked to discover that.  Imply it, have it be dream-like, have stories be real, but don't break the bubble.  I'd say have the world be really surreal, but demand the characters believe, and behave as if it were undeniably real.  Even if you never explain how magic and tech and magitech "work," it doesn't matter as long as it seems believable in the game to the characters.  They just make their repair:magitech rolls and it gets fixed.Stick to one system you know, and let characters advance normally.  Have them fight recurring Villains, and save NPCs.  All the normal stuff.  Have them make exactly the type of the character they are comfortable with, and want to play, and would like to play for a long time.  That helps.Any RPG is about exploring the landscape inside a GMs brain.  So no matter how many random ideas you have floating around in there, they'll all have a similar "feel" to your players.  It's kinda' all melted together into one whole, or one "place."  I feel like I'm not saying what I'm trying to say very well.   :\  Does that make sense?</blockquote>

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