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[Tiruin]

Guys, I had a thought: What if we had a tournament style game where each player's 'competitors' were their past characters from other RtDs?

This happened many times before.

The only problem was this:
> GM somehow burned out or discontinued updating.

So what I'm saying is: GO RUN THAT! D:<

[Digital Hellhound]

How about an RTD where different GMs run worlds/missions in the style of of their own RTDs, dead or running. The same group of characters coukd go through a gauntlet of systems and settings, from Multiworld Madness to Einsteinian Roulette, meeting enemies and witnessing sights from Their Coming Is At Hand, Roll to Priest and Perplexicon, before diving into, say, Tales of Shattered Dreams.

Granted, you'd need a lot of cooperating GMs of popular games.

[Yoink]

I think "cooperating" is the hard part... GMing is strenuous enough when you're working alone, on your own setting.
On paper it seems like having multiple GMs should make things easier, but then it requires a large amount of coordination. That said, I hope someone does run it, and successfully, too.

[Digital Hellhound]

I meant a succession of GMs, with free reign to do your own thing, too. Cooperation'd be help converting things in case of different system, plus being aware of when to let someone else take over.

[Tsuchigumo550]

Working on a kind of adventure thing
Eight classes and four starting equipment packs so far
Warrior, Guardian, Chemist, Ranger, Wizard, Performer Paladin, and Knight
There's no limit on stats or weapons based on class, though some classes affect stats
The pictured wizard clothes come with a sword staff, so everyone has the ability to carry any weapon if they can lift it, getting a bonus to weapons their class works well with (Chemist gets flintlocks, by the way.)
Each class has a Main, Sub, and High ability.
Main abilities are often some sort of active ability- the Chemist can craft x amount of potions/day, for instance.
Sub abilities are often passive- chemist's Lab Coat gives resistance to all ailments.
High abilities are unlocked after completing some objective or something, sort of a "prestige" ability, not sure about any of these yet

[10ebbor10]

I'm pretty sure such a succession game has been tried before. I don't think it got past the first GM.

[Dermonster]

Endless RTD.

Dammit Gat.

[Harry Baldman]

How about a game where there's seven players, one of which is the GM for a select number of turns (from one to five, maybe)? And the title of GM would rotate among the players - when one takes up the role, their character goes out of their control and instead operates by the suggestions of their fellow players? Unlike Roll to GM, it wouldn't be minimalist. I'd be interested in seeing what that ends up as.

[Fniff]

I think a strict update schedule would help out with making sure GMs keep up. Basically, if they haven't posted for four days, say, the next GM is fully within his rights to pick up where he left off.

[Tiruin]

Alright, this has been gnawing at me for days. Weeks. A month, to consider all details.

I would be asking a question, but that would be later if the general consensus sees my predicament and the choices.

So I'm bothered. While I'm full on and ready for updating my RtD, I worry more on part on the response of my players--I worry if they're interested at all in it anymore. Due to problems back in October and RL stuffs which cropped up (then holidays...), couldn't update. I'm fully ok with updating again...but the tl;dr is that I worry if anyone playing in it is still interested. >_>
^{Though I guess I should just shoot out a general PM...that didn't cross my mind when I posted this and now its edited and agrghgh}

The question is: Would the factor of 'what timeframe most people are interested in' affect the game? Like, would people prefer a more medieval-type game, or a futuristic one if a new RTD was run?
^{Not even a good written question. <_<}

[Fniff]

Everyone likes a new RTD. Don't worry about the setting too much.

[freeformschooler]

Occasionally people play genre favorites (I like medieval over sci-fi), but if the game's good, it's good, and people will play.

[Tiruin]

Errm, I mean that, sans my personal IRL problems getting in the way, I'm really curious on whether people are still interested despite the wait. Because I talked to a player and he said (while he's interested) that if delays will go as such then in general the playerbase will slowly whittle out and soon the RTD will be lacking and die, paraphrased from memory and I may be interpreting it wrong..but that's what I got.

And being a newbie GM is...well it pretty much has a greater effect than one who has GMd a lot and has a beltload of experience on that matter.

Occasionally people play genre favorites (I like medieval over sci-fi), but if the game's good, it's good, and people will play.

...And said GM asking that question is unsure of her own esteem >_> But..I got it. Thank you both for that very muchly.

[Harry Baldman]

Everyone likes a new RTD. Don't worry about the setting too much.

The setting is important, actually. A medieval-type game has significantly different gameplay than a futuristic one.

What's more important, though, is how elaborate the game is (you could actually relate that to the setting as well - futuristic lends itself to complexity more, medieval lends itself to greater simplicity). Highly elaborate games tend to have extremely slow update rates. They're fun to sign up for, though.

[Fniff]

Well, what I mean is, don't worry about the setting in the context of player interest. Players can and will sign up for anything. While you will have people having genre favoritism, as Freeformer said, you'll still have people joining in despite this so it's not a noticeable loss.