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You Are a Suggestion Game GM [SG]
« on: February 24, 2016, 10:56:01 pm »

It's evening. A decent person would have gotten a shower, got into comfortable clothes, and unwind after a long day of work. You're still in your work clothes. Showers can come later after you stop feeling like roadkill.

You go on Bay12forum. Idly, you check the sad thread. Someone got hit by a plane. You check your other unread replies. Trump had declared himself Overlord of the New United Empire. More Europol cancer. You would yawn, but that'd be cliched.

You catch up with the forum games you are following. Or at least, that would be the idea. You glance at the 5000 new pages on Rise of the Magical Secretaries and decided otherwise. An idea came to you: Maybe you should run your own forum game. But, you don't really like crunching numbers. An RTD perhaps? A suggestion game? A suggestion game.

What will you do first? Obviously, a good course of action would be to make a new thread, but you are now seized by the powers of the Bay12ers, and they'll probably tell you to procrastinate or kill the President or something.

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Re: You Are a Suggestion Game GM [SG]
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2016, 10:59:43 pm »

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Re: You Are a Suggestion Game GM [SG]
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2016, 11:03:34 pm »

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Re: You Are a Suggestion Game GM [SG]
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2016, 11:09:38 pm »

Begin the thread making process!

((Also do you want more detail or will this be enough to start? That is if we don't get derailed into assassinating someone or sacrificing the souls of kittens.))
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Re: You Are a Suggestion Game GM [SG]
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2016, 11:57:44 pm »

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What will you do first?

Post an interest check thread! Ask who would be interesting in a totally awesome game! Be sure to not include any details, like what the game premise is, whether it's a suggestion or party game, or any other unimportant details like those.

Surely our game will be completely awesome and people will all want to play regardless of those trivial little details!

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« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2016, 12:13:46 am »

Post an interest check thread! Ask who would be interesting in a totally awesome game! Be sure to not include any details, like what the game premise is, whether it's a suggestion or party game, or any other unimportant details like those.

Surely our game will be completely awesome and people will all want to play regardless of those trivial little details!
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Re: You Are a Suggestion Game GM [SG]
« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2016, 12:16:06 am »

Nihil novi sub sole. :P



> Post an interest check thread

You consider making an interest check thread, but then you realize that you haven't even come up with a concept of what you want to make.

Ah, screw it, you'll post an interest check thread anyways.

A forum member points out that your thread title is "Interest check for a forum game" and your OP is just "Who wants to play a forum game?"

You tell them that you wrote it so you already knew that. Both of you get into an argument discussing semantics somehow until Toady One came in and locked your thread before the cancer metastasize.

There's a lesson in that somewhere. And the lesson is about not making an interest check thread before you know what you want to make.

> Begin the thread making process

You decide to go with the tried and true method of "winging it". And by true, you mean nearly all of them getting abandoned in a day after the GM realizes that they haven't planned jack shit.

Shut up, you say to the voice in your head. You suppose that at the very least you should plan something.
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« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2016, 12:44:43 am »

A forum member points out that your thread title is "Interest check for a forum game" and your OP is just "Who wants to play a forum game?"

Put that scumbag in his place! We have to ensure that our wonderful players know that their GM won't tolerate trolls, so that they can have a completely healthy and friendly environment to play in. Look up his private email address from his profile and send him an email informing him that we know karate, kungfu, sushi and yakitori, and if he posts in our thread again we'll hunt him down and beat him up!

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You tell them that you wrote it so you already knew that. Both of you get into an argument discussing semantics somehow until Toady One came in and locked your thread before the cancer metastasize.

What?!?!? How dare he! Send him a private message angrily pointing out that the 18th amendment to the bill of rights guarantees freedom of speech and demand that he reinstate the thread if he doesn't want the internet police to arrest him.

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You suppose that at the very least you should plan something.

Oh, alright. How about something really simple. You know, like a D&D-style game over...some kind of program that's good for hosting D&D games online. Surely there is one and it will be easy to learn. Tell everyone to submit a character using "D&D rules." Surely they'll all know which version that is.

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Shut up, you say to the voice in your head.

Post that the voice in our head will be participating as a player, too. Assure everyone that we're a fair and unbiased GM, so they don't have to worry about favoritism. Submit a character who's a half-mind flayer/half djinn with 22 comeliness who swallowed a sentient ring of infinite wishes and can telepathically communicate with it. But only once per round, that's fair. Also, she's the daughter of Jaina Proudmore and Smaug and she's very humble so everybody likes her.


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« Reply #8 on: February 25, 2016, 12:50:40 am »

+1 to everything LB posts
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« Reply #9 on: February 25, 2016, 01:33:31 am »

> Put the scumbag in his place!

Being the 1337 hax0r that you are, you use your technical know-how to go on his profile to click the mail icon. However, the dastardly villain had turned that feature off. Not one to be stopped easily, you contact your vast network of hackers, the Anonymous.

Anonymous suggests that you are homosexual, you disagree. Anonymous doesn't do anything more useful than insinuate that you are a bundle of firewood.

The lucky blackguard lives for another day... but you will sooner or later have your dues.

> Demand Toady One reinstate the thread

You send a 25 pages document telling Toady One why he is wrong and threaten to call the internet police on him if he doesn't reinstate the locked thread. Toady One tells you that he has the Confederate flag in his house and is therefore immune to American laws.

Damn. He's good.

> Make a D&D style game. Incorporate the voice in our head as a player which is by no means a Mary Sue.

You scribble "D&D style game" on your notepad alongside a doodle of your original character, Jayne Proudsmaug, the mindflaydjinngon who is the most hottest and likable person in the multiverse.

It took a while before you remember that the GM has railroaded you into making a suggestion game.
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« Reply #10 on: February 25, 2016, 01:53:05 am »

Overthrow the meta-GM and replace them as the new supreme GM.
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« Reply #11 on: February 25, 2016, 01:57:40 am »

Overthrow the meta-GM and replace them as the new supreme GM.
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« Reply #12 on: February 25, 2016, 03:47:12 am »

Overthrow the meta-GM and replace them as the new supreme GM.
+1

We shall be the main character of our own story. No-one controls us!

+1 All day.
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« Reply #13 on: February 25, 2016, 06:27:26 am »

> Overthrow the meta-GM and replace them as the new supreme GM.

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It's evening. You have gotten a shower, got into comfortable clothes, and are unwinding after a long day of work.

You go on Bay12forum. Idly, you check the sad thread. Someone got hit by a plane. You check your other unread replies. Donald "I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created" Trump had declared himself Overlord of the New United Empire. More Europol cancer. You would yawn, but that'd be cliched.

You catch up with the forum games you are following. Or at least, that would be the idea. You glance at the 6000 new pages on Rise of the Magical Secretaries and decided otherwise. An idea came to you: Maybe you should run your own forum game. But, you don't really like crunching numbers. An RTD perhaps? A suggestion game? A suggestion game.

What will you do first? Obviously, a good course of action would be to make a new thread, but you are now seized by the powers of the Bay12ers, and they'll probably tell you to procrastinate or kill the President or something.

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« Reply #14 on: February 25, 2016, 06:28:58 am »

Download many random generators as possible. Try to think up of an SG that incorporates all of them.
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