Monday 25 March 2019

Lack of Play / Let's Play!


I'm playing in a very good game of Scum and Villainy online - we manage a session once every three weeks or so. But gaming at home has seriously stalled. I'm going to need to run something myself, soon. And I'll have to make the jump to running a game online.

I love GMing, but I have, until now, only run games for people who I already know. Running a game for a group of strangers is different. Running a game for a group of strangers who I'm not going to sit down at a physical table with and establish the rapport that will, hopefully, have them forgive my missteps, mistakes, the occasional bad session, etc. is another thing entirely.

But I should jump in to test the water, finally. I'll probably run Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2e, because PCs start competent and robust and so we'll not end with a session 1 TPK, and because it is so spectacularly straightforward to run we won't end up digging through books looking for the correct procedure. If in doubt, roll 2d6 and interpret the results!
Who would be up for this? In order for it to work for me it'd be best to play on Monday evenings, probably starting about 8:30pm [edit: GMT]. I'd plump for an 'Allansian sandbox' campaign, but happy to go for other flavours, perhaps Stellar Adventures, in fact. I know that's a pretty empty pitch, but just gauging interest - if there are takers we could start next week, or in a fortnight. 

Leo Hartas' lovely colour map of Allansia


[Addendum: Click on the Advanced Fighting Fantasy 'label' to see actual play reports from previous games as well as my thoughts on how to best GM games using the system, and other miscellanea.] 

5 comments:

  1. You should probably include your timezone too for planning purposes. That is usually a killer that filters a fair number of interested people out.

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    1. Ah, yes. Of course. It'll be GMT (BST before too long).

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    2. Alas. I'm PST (+8) and have an infant which rules out daytime gaming here. Hope you manage to recruit some folks.

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  2. Andy, I would be interested in this but work means my availability is not always great.

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    1. Dominic, send me a message on aj_bartlett1977 (at) yahoo.co.uk

      I've still to work out when (and how) I'd run this game, but AFF2e is a game that can survive characters dropping in and out.

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