Idea: Quid pro Quo, GM for your GM? Options

[Fuchs]

I GM exclusively in my pen and paper Shadowrun campaign, and I think there are a few more like me on these forums who are looking forward to play as well even though we could run games.

Further, given the workload running a game requires, and given how many people want to play, it’s a „GM’s market“, so to speak. This can lead to people playing what „class“ is needed by a group, which, together with the campaign theme, style and rules itself, may not be what they really want to play if they were in a perfect world.

Now, here’s an idea to answer this. It’s not perfect, not by far, and may not suit everyone, but it might be what some seek:

Quid pro Quo, or „GM for your GM“.

The basic idea is that two people team up, and each runs a single-player campaign for the other, parallel. Ideally, for each post as a player, there would be one as a GM as well. While this means that if one player can’t post for a bit two campaigns are frozen, it also may result in a faster gameplay (only one player to coordinate with/ask details from, two chances to find the motivation to post) and may also see campaigns that are tailored to the player in question (As in (hypothetical example) „You run a „Gritty Seattle Ork Underground“ campaign for me, I run a „Corporate Court Trouble Consultant 005“ for you“).

What do you think?