Guest GM
From FiranMUX
From time to time, the staff likes to gather story ideas from Firan players and help them be "guest game masters" (GMs) for a week. Players can run short tinyplots that finish in an evening or two, longer tinyplots that take a week to play out, or quests or adventures that take up to a week to complete. We consider a troupe-style story that takes characters out of the city and that requires a lot of hands-on GMing to be a quest. We consider a more general story that requires some hands-on GMing but generally lets events unfold within the city without oversight to be a tinyplot. When we say 'adventure,' we usually mean a coded system that doesn't need a GM much at all for players to have fun -- like going to the Oracle or going on the Hero's Tour.
If you are interested in being a Guest GM, send an @request (with the subject 'Guest GM') with answers to the following:
- What is the title of your idea?
- Is this an adventure or a tinyplot?
- In a very brief paragraph, what is the essence of this idea?
- How long do you think it will take to complete?
- What times are you available to run it?
- How many players can take part in this?
- Is this tailored for specific characters (by name), specific roles (by vocation, clan, etc.), or anyone? Who?
- What tough decisions will the participants need to make during your plot or quest?
- What is the worst thing that can happen during your plot?
- Does this plot require creating any new rooms, objects, or code (hopefully not)?
If we select you to run your plot, we will help you set everything up. If you do not get an answer to your @request within a week or two, it means we're mulling it over and haven't said "no" yet! Be patient. It could be a long time before we find the right time to run your plot.
If we ultimately decline your plot, we will let you know. We might decline it with advice and without prejudice, meaning that you're encouraged to fix the problems and resubmit it. I suspect that, for many people, this will be an iterative process in which we go back and forth until your plot is ready to be implemented and run.
