Episode 159: You're Not Going To Like the Bit Where Your Eyes Start Glowing

Role-playing games Improvised Radio Theatre with Dice
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This month, Mike and Roger look at socially grounded characters and ask what difference a game’s schedule makes.

We mentioned: En Garde!, Traveller, RuneQuest, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Scotsman in the lift, graphviz, Roger’s notes on game recording, and Monads.

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Music by Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com and other royalty-free sources.

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I try to run my current game every two weeks (fortnightly), but we often have to shift or reslot sessions based on my players’ schedules. My ideal would be to have 2 ongoing, interleaved campaigns with 2 GMs, each running fortnightly.

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That’s pretty much the Wednesday group, fortnightly campaigns with two GMs alternating, as I may have said. We tried it with Whartson Hall as well but it was too much context switching for comfort.

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I’m in:

  • a weekly game which runs about 3 weeks in 4.
  • a weekly game which runs about 3 weeks in 4, but (a couple of times a year) will suddenly be cancelled for a whole month.
  • a fortnightly game which is pretty reliable, but there’s one player who habitually wants to end the session early because they’re tired.
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I was going to do a poll wasn’t I?

Which of these game schedules are you currently playing? (For individual games, not overall.) Approximate as needed.

  • More often than weekly
  • Weekly
  • Fortnightly
  • Monthly
  • Less often than monthly
0 voters
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I’m GMing seldom and irregularly, and have been for years. Playing a character even less often. I’m starting to wonder whether I ought to give up RPG as a bad job, and take up something like macramé instead.

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Other career exits include RPG writer, RPG pundit.

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Join a macrame class and lure them all into the RPG world! :smiley:

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For comparison purposes… I am in 3 games, two of which are (allegedly) weekly and the other is fortnightly.

  • January: 1 session played, 4 sessions run & 1 session of chargen.
  • February: 4 sessions played, 2 run & 1 session of chargen.
  • March: 6 sessions played, 2 run, plus 1 session of a one-off run for visitors.
  • April: 2.5 sessions played (very late start to one), 3 run
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I have a weekly Wednesday game, which meets a little more than 3 weeks in 4 (as in, we often have several months where we meet all 4, and it’s rare we miss more than one week in the other months).

There are also some occasional games a friend runs, which average out to about 6 Saturdays a year.

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