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GMs Only Forum?

Started by SmokestackJones, March 09, 2006, 07:49:33 PM

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kryyst

#15
March 10, 2006, 11:41:53 AM
I'm not sure if this is a case here.  But how do you seperate out the people that are players in one persons game from those that are GM's in another?  Or worse those shifty players that like to be all shifty and just claim they are GM's so they can get a one up on the rest of their players.
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Chacal

#16
March 10, 2006, 12:17:52 PM
IME most GMs are also players in other games. I see the [GM] tag as a sort of specific spoiler tag.


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Gunhilda

#17
March 10, 2006, 12:19:56 PM
Many places, we have seen the request (My players stay out!) in the thread title -- including at least one here.
 

BillyBeanbag

#18
March 10, 2006, 12:24:34 PM
Quote from: RedcapMany places, we have seen the request (My players stay out!) in the thread title -- including at least one here.
Damn you, I didn't think your kind had logic! ;)
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Chacal

#19
March 10, 2006, 12:26:39 PM
Quote from: RedcapMany places, we have seen the request (My players stay out!) in the thread title -- including at least one here.
I believe a GM tag would serve quite a similar purpose:
When a poster starts a thread on a setting element, one can wonder if the discussion will involve some secret elements of the metaplot of the setting or not. The thread can contain spoilers for more than just the players of the initial poster. A tag could help in such a case.


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Gunhilda

#20
March 10, 2006, 12:34:48 PM
Quote from: ChacalI believe a GM tag would serve quite a similar purpose:
When a poster starts a thread on a setting element, one can wonder if the discussion will involve some secret elements of the metaplot of the setting or not. The thread can contain spoilers for more than just the players of the initial poster. A tag could help in such a case.

Your reasoning is sound.  And the tag would be much shorter that way.

Billy, logic and reasoning are the very basis of the fey.  We are the very model of mathematical precision.
 

Reefer Madness

#21
March 12, 2006, 06:22:32 PM
A GM tag is good, though non-gms (pretty much people who know they are never running a game) shoud be careful cause who knows, it being  a gm resource, they might run into something they read and spoil the fun....so it would be an honor system thing. we need a good tagging system or something to make sure things are pigeon holled well...no use getting a shadowrun character in a fantasy setting and such...
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Knightcrawler

#22
March 12, 2006, 09:11:42 PM
I'm thinking we can start an NPC thread and just fill it with stats.  Most likelt stat block since that seems to be the favored format.  And try and make them relatively generic, try to leave setting specific PrC and such out.  :D
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Thjalfi

#23
March 12, 2006, 09:17:44 PM
We like having many characters for all kinds of stories, but we think there might be a better way to go about this. Now that we have access to gamer articles and collaborative works, we think that it might be much more suitable to use the collaborative works function for such a wonderful undertaking.
 

Knightcrawler

#24
March 12, 2006, 09:24:57 PM
Hmmmm....so like a netbook of NPC's.  I like.
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Ottomsoh the Elderly

#25
March 13, 2006, 03:24:46 AM
I am an NPC, so my creator is a GM. But I know he also enjoy to play, and that in fact only one person in his gaming group isn't sometimes a GM (and this is because said person's attempts were all discomforting botches, sadly; but he tried).
 
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