Dyluth
Good evening friends. One of (the very many) reasons I haven't been able to begin the planned updates to my Star Wars: Dawn of Darkness campaign as of yet was because this past weekend I was lucky enough to be a GM in a "Great Gaming Weekend" at my hometown university, where over the course of two days about a dozen GM's ran one shot adventures open to friends and strangers alike for the purpose of expanding the local ranks of gamers :).
It was a complete success, and plans are already underway for yet another such weekend. My question is, would it be appropriate to set up a campaign page for one of these one shot adventures? If I were to do it it would be for the purposes of sharing characters and what not with others so that other GM's might run a similar one shot or borrow the characters for their own adventures. Is this already done here on OP or is this sort of thing taboo?
Any feedback or thoughts would be most welcome indeed!
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I think it would be great to have a "one-shot adventure" section on the Portal so that GM's could easily just run one of these in the event that a) one or more of their players doesn't show for a session (God forbid!) b) just to mix up their sessions to keep their players' interest or c) just cuz they wanna.
You're on to something here, Dyluth.
Also...now I want to go to one of these gaming weekends, that sounds awesome. I think my hometown University should put one on...who did yours, and how would I go about learning more?
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
Not the guy to be taking on this project, though, everyone. Don't think that I'm volunteering for this. Damn, did I just volunteer for this?
Also, I don't know where you're from but I wish I was from that area. I am totally feeling the same as Poutine. We gotta get something going on in our respective areas.
edited for spelling, hehe
Poutine- I think you just volunteered to help. hehe
These tools aren't exclusive to the long-term game. We use Obsidian Portal like a canvas for our ideas. Whether those ideas entail a massive campaign or a one-shot adventure, they represent the expression of our innate need to create, and to share our creations with one another.
So, please, make your new campaign wiki, fill that canvas with the dazzling brilliance of your ideas, and share your success and excitement with us. That is why we're all here, after all!
For instance, you could use the adventure log section to present the mechanics and story of a particular adventure rather than a recap of how it went after it was run... or both.
On the Saturday we gamed from noon to midnight, and on the Sunday we gamed from noon to seven. We all got one hour breaks in between to rest and reload, but almost all games (and mine included) ran long and stretched well into those hour in between breaks, which of course lead to the breaks being pushed back and start times being pushed back... these things happen with role playing after all.
We were able to secure a good section of a student building to run the games in with a large open classroom for each individual game, and I truly tip my hat to the McMaster Nerd Club for making that part happen as it. I don't think the facebook events page is still up anymore, but if you have any more questions about the event I'd be glad to answer them. We ended up having a large walk up crowd as well in terms of players, as I guess word spread around campus on the weekend that there was a role playing event going on and gamers and geeks alike were just drawn on in :).
Are you inviting people to add to your new campaign site their own one shots? Or just have a links section at the bottom where people can link to their own one-shot campaigns they set up in OP? Just wondering how it will work. Good concept though.
/me waves fabulously since she is once again fashionably late to the thread.