QUOTE (Jonny Reload @ Sep 7 2010, 09:18 PM)
Neurosis: I'll answer all your stuff from the PM on here as well so I can give as much information as possible to all that are interested...
After reading your post, the first thing I gotta throw out there is that even though I love Shadowrun as one of my favorite RPG's of all time, 72 hour doses is just a weeeeeee bit extreme for me.
I mean I could do bi-weekly or even WEEKLY games. Maybe even a 2 day game event every once in a while for special games but a 3 day event sounds more like a LARP then a table top at that point (Not that I'd mind a Shadowrun LARP but that's a completely different topic all together.) If you'd be up for a weekly or bi-weekly game, my players could accommodate that.
As for my group and there habits and quirks. The youngest is in there mid 20's some of us are just hitting our early 30's but we can all make time on Saturday nights or Sundays and Mondays. We come from very very deep role playing roots and my friend who is currently available has been playing Shadowrun alongside me for a long time now. So while we emphasize "ROLE" playing over "ROLL" playing, we'd be pretty ashamed if we made characters that could handle ourselves on a mission as well as pull our own weight. Some missions we tend to not even use a single bullet since we take the "Oceans 11" or "Leverage" approach to certain jobs that involve pure RP and puzzle solving logic that goes outside the box of conventional thinking.
We've run games from action-packed octane hit & runs to (My personal favorite) survival horror psychological missions. Mood music (not crappy songs with mood breaking lyrics but orchestral or background scores from movies) are usually a priority in our games to help with atmosphere but we could forgo that if it means that we'd still be playing with a group that focuses on role playing an immersion within the story and there characters. I know you said your game is winding down but would you consider perhaps maybe wanting to co-GM a game with me? That way you get back some of your inertia to GM again or is the setting itself wearing on you?
Basically when it comes down to it, would you still be willing to GM and if so, will it be for a while or are you getting burned out already?
Do you wanna co-GM or are you fine on your own?
When would you be available to play?
What do you have in your group so far, etc.
Gogo stream of consciousness:
I was misunderstood. It's more play shadowrun for eight hours, then sleep/eat/screw around/do whatever for a while and then come back to the gaming table. It's more that we're just kind of chilling in the same place for like three days or so. (I actually run a LARP in Westchester and have for going on five years. It is like Shadowrun in some ways.... Ironically, THAT we only play for two eight hour sessions in the same weekend, once a month. ) I have a shadowrun soundtrack but is probably not like your shadowrun soundtrack and I am afraid you would not like it.
I am have never 'Co-GM'd' anything and I don't know how it would work. I'm afraid that I might not work well with others in that respect, but I can't say I'm not intrigued by the concept.
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Some missions we tend to not even use a single bullet since we take the "Oceans 11" or "Leverage" approach to certain jobs that involve pure RP and puzzle solving logic that goes outside the box of conventional thinking.
Some runs I design are built around this but my players aren't very good at it.
When I'm available is...unfortunately, a sticky subject. Ask me in a week or two and I'll have some better idea of my plans. But basically here is the situation:
1. First I have to finish the campaign I have running. That probably won't happen before October 1st, realistically.
2A. Then, either I would have to decide to start another SR Campaign instead of the WoD thing I wanted to do OR...
2B. You guys could join one/both of the campaigns that my girlfriend is running. I am just PCing in those, not GMing in them. OR...
2C. YOU could GM something and I could bring my crew to PC that.
I can tell you a little about us by PM if you still want to know.
Either way, I would imagine we would be available for maybe one weekend per month, maybe more after November. But when that would start is up in the air. Life is pretty complicated right now.