Re: open ended games

From: Carol Mulholland <Carol@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk>

Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:00:00 +0000

> I'm working on an open-ended fantasy wargame. One of the problems
> I'm faced with is how to enable new players to survive in what
> could be a very hostile world. I'd appreciate hearing some
> ideas/opinions on what
> I can do to make life easier for the newbies.

Maybe the best solution would be to design this as a finite game
rather than an open-ended one? Could be less trouble in the end?

Player positions always develop more rapidly than the GM expects,
and the long-term guys will object to any GM intervention to
'restore game balance'.

The usual 'solutions' are (a) to reserve separate areas for
newcomers, with some plausible safeguards before they encounter
long-term or (b) to build some sort of system of factions, so that
it's in the interest of the long-term players to support newcomers
or (c) to offer new methods for advancement that new players can
take up as the game proceeds.

Maybe other people here can think of more? I discuss this sort of
problem in part 3 of a series of articles called 'So You want To Be A
GM?' which you can find on the  Flagship website:
http://www.antsnest.demon.co.uk/flagship/index.html
It was issue #65, or you can find them all under 'Carol'.

Hope this helps - Carol

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Thu, 17 Aug 2000 01:38:46 +0000

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