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I'm halfway to a gaming group, and my first crack at GMing.
Gabe and I finally met up today to talk shop (mostly sizing up our taste for rule sets and fiction). Gabe did not trip the "creepy pervert"-dar, and it looks like we'll get along just fine. He's a portly married middle-aged technical writing teacher at IUPUI, who happens to like indie gaming, but hasn't really tried it out.
Newly supplied with a pdf of PTA, I'm gonna see if I can't change that.
Sadly, I don't seem to have any friends to bring to the table, but Gabe has some that he thinks he could talk into it, with the right schedule.
Gabe's interested in period settings and paranormal settings, so I suggested we do something kinda steampunk/Victorian, and pitched him the basic world setting for Gankutsuou (Count of Monte Cristo in galactic future, gaining new technology but losing none of the Old World charm).
Currently we have plans to do a brainstorming session at some eat/drink establishment downtown next week or the first week of December with potential players to come with the politics, characters, and details we'll need to flesh the vague setting out. We might play at Gabe's, although it's 30 mins away, or we might snag a room somewhere on IUPUI campus...and will probably do weekend sessions.
I am excited but intimidated to GM. Being PTA, I should be able to get ideas from the players, but the group won't have much experience serving as active contributors.
Here's hoping I don't scare them off of indie gaming forever!
Gabe and I finally met up today to talk shop (mostly sizing up our taste for rule sets and fiction). Gabe did not trip the "creepy pervert"-dar, and it looks like we'll get along just fine. He's a portly married middle-aged technical writing teacher at IUPUI, who happens to like indie gaming, but hasn't really tried it out.
Newly supplied with a pdf of PTA, I'm gonna see if I can't change that.
Sadly, I don't seem to have any friends to bring to the table, but Gabe has some that he thinks he could talk into it, with the right schedule.
Gabe's interested in period settings and paranormal settings, so I suggested we do something kinda steampunk/Victorian, and pitched him the basic world setting for Gankutsuou (Count of Monte Cristo in galactic future, gaining new technology but losing none of the Old World charm).
Currently we have plans to do a brainstorming session at some eat/drink establishment downtown next week or the first week of December with potential players to come with the politics, characters, and details we'll need to flesh the vague setting out. We might play at Gabe's, although it's 30 mins away, or we might snag a room somewhere on IUPUI campus...and will probably do weekend sessions.
I am excited but intimidated to GM. Being PTA, I should be able to get ideas from the players, but the group won't have much experience serving as active contributors.
Here's hoping I don't scare them off of indie gaming forever!
