[Churchofgaming] New Games

[lev at rpgreview.net]

Hi Carl,

> Recently we have seen two new players join us. Both wanting to run
> games. I too have my eye on a few different systems I'd like to run.
> However currently we work on a fortnightly roster of two games and it
> may be a looong time before everyone gets to startg on the game they
> want to run.

Not quite true!

I can tell you now you're on the final scenario for the Young Gods story,
which was deliberately set to run for only a dozen sessions, of which
we've completed about 9-10 in my reckoning...

I also suspect that GURPS Krononauts, despite its very open-ended
possibilities, should be reaching towards an end at some point fairly
soon.... After all, it's been running for two years now (or 1 year
full-time, if you like).

The two games that have been proposed by our new players are:

Felix - Pathfinder Planescape (which would actually dovetail quite nicely
with the Young Gods game actually)

and

Redmond - Dark Heresy/Warhammer 40K  (I have a copy of Ultramarines which
we could possibly use to get into the spirit of things)

With the advantage of turning up just that little bit earlier I would
recommend that Redmond goes first :)

> Therefore I make the following proposals:
> A) That we run a different game each week of a month (4 games)
> B) At each session a player is assigned as note-taker. This person
> submits a summary of the session to the referee who edits and
> distrubutes it before the next session of that game.
> C) Any cancelations (for referee's being out of town or whatever) are
> filled with one-off games. More variety and preserving the schedule.
> D) There are a number of games I'd like to run. I'll make my final
> choice to be *most* different to the other campaigns running at the
> time.

I take Michael's point of view on this... Getting players to remember what
happened to their characters a month ago is very hard, so a monthly
timetable is not something I'd recommend.

I do agree with the idea of having some "default" games which presume a
person is ready to run in case of GM absence (for whatever reason). This
could certainly satisfy certain fringe games which we would otherwise not
have an opportunity to run.

(I can think of Earthdawn, Talislanta, Traveller 2300, Twilight 2000,
Stormbringer/Elric!, Chivalry & Sorcery and several others which full into
this category)

Another option that's worth considering is that we're almost large enough
to have.. TWO groups running simultaneously (as much as I want to play
everything that's ever been published)... And we don't just have the
conference room, we also have the hall..

> Lev can you ensure Felix gets this if he is not on the lists already.

Yep, just signed him up. *waves*

Best wishes,

Lev