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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 7757126" data-attributes="member: 6796661"><p>I'm lucky to be in an area with lots of FLGSs. Even though I mostly DM, I can always at least find an AL game to play in. </p><p></p><p>What I really miss are one-offs or mini-campaigns that try different systems. Things are crazy busy and my life is in a bit of chaos right now; otherwise, I would love to run two weekly games at my FLGS. One would be D&D 5e, non-AL, one-off sessions with pregens. The other would be non-D&D indie titles and just games I've been meaning to play but have had no time recently, such as InSPECTREs, Index Card RPG, Paranoia, 7th Sea, Dialect, Sign, Grin, Thousand and One Nights, and others. </p><p></p><p>As for ways to help encourage my GMing, I know that there are some gaming clubs that work on a point system to encourage more people to DM. When you DM you get a number of points that can be used to play in games. If you don't keep DMing you eventually run out of points and can't play. Others allow you to buy points, so if you are not DMing you have to support the club financially. New members tend to have a grace period or begin with a number of points. </p><p></p><p>Adventure's League gives you XP, etc., for DMing, which you can use to level up characters. It is a lot easier to have a stable of characters in different tiers if you DM. Not sure how much of an incentive it is to DM AL, but it is nice that AL does this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 7757126, member: 6796661"] I'm lucky to be in an area with lots of FLGSs. Even though I mostly DM, I can always at least find an AL game to play in. What I really miss are one-offs or mini-campaigns that try different systems. Things are crazy busy and my life is in a bit of chaos right now; otherwise, I would love to run two weekly games at my FLGS. One would be D&D 5e, non-AL, one-off sessions with pregens. The other would be non-D&D indie titles and just games I've been meaning to play but have had no time recently, such as InSPECTREs, Index Card RPG, Paranoia, 7th Sea, Dialect, Sign, Grin, Thousand and One Nights, and others. As for ways to help encourage my GMing, I know that there are some gaming clubs that work on a point system to encourage more people to DM. When you DM you get a number of points that can be used to play in games. If you don't keep DMing you eventually run out of points and can't play. Others allow you to buy points, so if you are not DMing you have to support the club financially. New members tend to have a grace period or begin with a number of points. Adventure's League gives you XP, etc., for DMing, which you can use to level up characters. It is a lot easier to have a stable of characters in different tiers if you DM. Not sure how much of an incentive it is to DM AL, but it is nice that AL does this. [/QUOTE]
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