| From: | Bull <chaos@*****.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Tournament GMing |
| Date: | Tue, 5 May 1998 02:03:35 -0400 |
>Okay, I've finally decided that I will GM Shadowrun at the San Diego Comic
>Con. Not many of you actually care, I know.
>
Some of us do, Erik :]
If I lived even remotely close to SD, I'd love to go... But that's a bit
out of my range, especially since I've got Origins and Gen Con coming up...
>But I've never GMed at a convention or anything. I can GM acceptably well
>(while I occassionaly forget rules here and there, my players love my
>playacting of the NPCs, especially Johnny Rotten the fixer), but that's
>almost always been a group of friends or mostly friends.
>
>So does anyone have any advice? Any web pages that give pointers to this
>sort of thing (like maybe GenCon's page)? Anybody actually out there GMed
>for a tournament or convention?
>
I know a couple of people here have... *GRAcoughNITE*
I'll be heading up the FASA SRTCG TOurney at Origins his year, and will be
helping out at the FASA SR RPG Tourney as well, so I wouldn;t mind hearing
some advise as well... However, I know Gen Con and Andon's pages are
useful for this stuff...
>I imagine I probably should have enough pre-generated PCs for everyone, in
>a mix that's appropriate. And a pile of dice. All the sourcebooks I'll
>need. Caffiene. Several writing utensils and note paper. My GM screen
>since I have one (I think it's actually a SR1 screen too, but I haven't
>used it in a while; I keep forgetting it and it's not terribly important
>anyway; I don't use much written material anyway). Can anyone think of
>anything else?
>
Patience, creativity, and a backup plan :]
If your lucky, you'll get a group of creative players (I think at least 75%
of all Con Players are at least semi-decent players, in my experience...
Unfortunately the other 25% of them make up for this :( ). And creative
players are experts at completely trashing an adventure by doing the
totally unexpected.
>Thanks all.
>
N/P. though I'm not sure how much this might help...
Good luck!
Bull
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