| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | Re: GM Recruitment |
| Date: | Sun, 9 Nov 1997 10:49:53 +0100 |
> On that note, just exactly how many of the list members here have had this
> problem? Where the players (as people) are just to lazy to take up some
> responsibility and help out the GM with a break? Mike here, several years
> ago, came to me and actually -asked- me to show him the ropes. That's been
> 4-5 years ago now (damn that's a long time). Now we've got a situation where
> we can utilize the same game time line and not interfere/destroy the effect
> for the players (who get to play their characters under both GM's with
> absolutely the least amount of friction possible.
In my current group, most of the players have not been playing SR for long
enough to GM it, and about half of the group has only a little RPG
experience at all. The breakdown of the group is something like this:
Three players who've only been roleplaying for up to a few months each; I
doubt they'd make good GMs right now. Curiously, perhaps, is that one of
them is showing a lot of interest in GMing, though he didn't even know
what an RPG was a month ago...
One player who has roleplayed for several years, but I wouldn't trust him
to GM, mainly because of the way he acts and thinks (a bit hard to
explain, this; you'd have to know him to understand what I mean).
One AD&D GM whom I've never seen "in action" as it were, but I intend to
get him to run a game for us someday.
One player with several years of roleplaying experience in general and
about 2 1/2 years of SR in particular; he GMs Mage for our group.
One player with more SR experience than is good for me :)
Every couple of weeks, I get a break because we'll get on with the Mage
adventure, but apart from that I'm more or less stuck being the GM.
Perhaps it's also because (and this isn't intended the way it's going to
come out) I'm probably the best GM in the group. Which is not strange,
since I think I've gotten to actually _play_ SR, as opposed to GM it,
maybe 10 times in the past five years :/
The guy who is interested in GMing wants me to teach him how, and I'm
happy to oblige. One of the things he came up with was that it would give
me a chance to play...
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