John_Geeshu
February 14th, 2009, 22:14
I’m interested in exploring co-running a D&D campaign with one or more DMs. If after reading the sketchy details that follow you are interested as a DM, please PM me so we can exchange e-mail or PMs and hash out the details. If you are interested as a player, posting a response to that effect will give us DMs an indication of how much player support there would be for this type of campaign.
This campaign would involve multiple DMs, each with their own group of players, who are all playing through multiple, dependent storylines that interweave across the various groups. The basic idea of this then is that actions taken by one group affect the campaign world in meaningful ways for other groups, creating a more fully interactive experience.
Formally, and ideally, the adventures in this campaign would be of a competitive nature. The simplest example of which would be a set of search and recover quests with a limited number of items that all groups were required to collect.
This kind of direct competition would present all sorts of opportunities to the DM and players for making game play interesting. Competing groups could:
1.) “poison the well” by sowing misinformation in advance in key areas;
2.) encourage false rumors to mislead;
3.) hire mercenaries, assassins, spies to prey on other groups; etc.
Participating DMs would collaborate on the overall storyline, and then share the burden of creating campaign material (maps, personalities, treasure, obstacles, monsters, etc.), which would be shared amongst them. Thus, group A enters a dungeon area, partially explore, find the information they seek and then leave. Group A’s DM makes the required alterations to the dungeon area and sends it to the other DMs. Later, group B enters the same dungeon and discovers traces of group A’s explorations.
The campaign format also lends itself well to pitting groups of different alignments and motives against oneanother, and might involve alliances between similarly-aligned groups.
Eventually, the campaign format would lead to direct interactions between groups. This would obviously require some kind of special joint session, the details of which can be worked out amongst participating DMs.
If you’re a player who would be interested in this kind of campaign format, please post a reply in this thread.
If you’re interested in being a participant DM, PM me.
Cheers.
This campaign would involve multiple DMs, each with their own group of players, who are all playing through multiple, dependent storylines that interweave across the various groups. The basic idea of this then is that actions taken by one group affect the campaign world in meaningful ways for other groups, creating a more fully interactive experience.
Formally, and ideally, the adventures in this campaign would be of a competitive nature. The simplest example of which would be a set of search and recover quests with a limited number of items that all groups were required to collect.
This kind of direct competition would present all sorts of opportunities to the DM and players for making game play interesting. Competing groups could:
1.) “poison the well” by sowing misinformation in advance in key areas;
2.) encourage false rumors to mislead;
3.) hire mercenaries, assassins, spies to prey on other groups; etc.
Participating DMs would collaborate on the overall storyline, and then share the burden of creating campaign material (maps, personalities, treasure, obstacles, monsters, etc.), which would be shared amongst them. Thus, group A enters a dungeon area, partially explore, find the information they seek and then leave. Group A’s DM makes the required alterations to the dungeon area and sends it to the other DMs. Later, group B enters the same dungeon and discovers traces of group A’s explorations.
The campaign format also lends itself well to pitting groups of different alignments and motives against oneanother, and might involve alliances between similarly-aligned groups.
Eventually, the campaign format would lead to direct interactions between groups. This would obviously require some kind of special joint session, the details of which can be worked out amongst participating DMs.
If you’re a player who would be interested in this kind of campaign format, please post a reply in this thread.
If you’re interested in being a participant DM, PM me.
Cheers.