Re: Help a new budding GM

From: silver+news@phoenyx.net (Karen J. Cravens)

Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

plod@proweb.co.uk (Roy) wrote in
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>In all honesty Michael your best bet would be to GET the experience in
>RPGs you say you're lacking.
>Play a few RPGs or IF games (maybe some over the net if you can) and
>understand the various structures and systems that GMs operate.
>Once you've played, you'll then have an idea how to run a game.

Thirded, or fourthed, or whatever it's up to by the time this propagates.

One of the Phoenyx policies, arrived at by long years of trial and error,
is not to accept gamemasters who've never *played* PBeM RPG's.  We don't
even accept someone who's got decades of experience in face-to-face games;
there's just too much of a different expectation going on there.

(Now, if a complete novice came up with a sufficiently spectacular premise,
we'd try to pair him or her with an experienced GM as a mentor and go from
there, but that'd be a definite exception to the rule.)

--
Karen Cravens (silver@phoenyx.net)
Phoenyx Play-by-Email Roleplaying - http://www.phoenyx.net/
Phoenyx PBeM Banner Exchange - http://www.phoenyx.net/bp/

References

Help a new budding GM
"Michael Ball" <michael@pyros.freeserve.co.uk>
Wed, 22 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Help a new budding GM
"Roy" <plod@proweb.co.uk>
Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000