Quote from: RPGPundit;346865Have you ever run campaigns that were not in any way prequels/sequels/continuations of each other, but that were implicitly set in the same game world?

I don't mean "I've run four separate campaigns in the Forgotten Realms". What I mean is, if your first campaign in the forgotten realms would be in THE SAME Forgotten Realms as the second, third, and fourth ones, and all of them were influenced by the events going on in those other campaigns, without the PCs of one campaign having any direct connection or relation to the other?

If so, here's a bigger question: have you ever done this while two campaigns of this sort were running at the same time?
(ie. one was set in waterdeep and the other in the moonshaes, but they were in the same world, at the exact same time period, and the campaigns themselves were both being run actively in the present; maybe one on tuesday and the other friday or whatever, but that they were both "live" campaigns, not finished ones)

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Oh hell yes. Until I hit the internets, I never would have dreamed that somebody is NOT gaming like this. My nerdrage at the people who do otherwise is still going on...

Yes, and yes. Both in alt-historical settings and in made up settings. For example, in our Wild Blue campaign, the players met the old men who were the characters they played in our Aces and Angels (WWII) game. Both campaigns are still ongoing.

-clash

Also, my current OHMAS campaign has three separate PC parties - each player has a character in each party - working simultaneously. All three parties belong to the same Organization, the League of Arcane Masters.

-clash

All my various campaigns have tied together in various ways, but I've never run two groups simultaneously - I'd love to try it if I had the time.

I've also often wondered about doing some real co-GMing in a shared world sense, with multiple GMs running essentially their own games, but using some kind of mechanic to allow the players in different groups to communicate, jump groups occasionally, team-up for big stuff, etc.  I had one guy who was interested in trying this in a small way (sending a plane shifted Big Bad from his campaign into mine for a bit, then setting up an eventual cross-dimensional-teamup to finally put him down), but it fell through when his group fell apart and that campaign ended six sessions in.

I'd be especially interested in doing this cross-genre somehow.  Superheroes always end up in a land of magic for an issue...why shouldn't [your] supers end up in this one [mine]?

Quote from: RPGPundit;346865Have you ever run campaigns that were not in any way prequels/sequels/continuations of each other, but that were implicitly set in the same game world?

Yes, I am currently doing so. I'm running a 1st edition AD&D campaign where there are two separate groups.

Quote from: RPGPundit;346865without the PCs of one campaign having any direct connection or relation to the other?

Ah, in my case, they have interacted and crossed over to each other. The groups are not fixed - they can cross over to each other if they attend the different games. My campaign is structured that I run an every other Sunday game and an every other Tuesday night game.

I'm about to start a third group running as an online Google Wave game where they will be truly separate by distance. It is possible they may affect things on a macro level once high level enough to affect each other, right now it would be equivalent to a 17th century common adventurer in Spain affecting another common adventurer in China.

Quote from: RPGPundit;346865If so, here's a bigger question: have you ever done this while two campaigns of this sort were running at the same time?
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Answered above.

Why do you ask?

Quote from: Chgowiz;347326Answered above.

Why do you ask?

To generate discussion. I had thought up something interesting, a recurrent concept from time to time, in its later iteration wondering if one could do a Pendragon campaign with two different, separate groups, one playing british knights, the others playing saxons or scots or whatever; occasionally having some crossover in the players or player-groups, but basically two different groups running in the same world at the same time.

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Quote from: RPGPundit;347367To generate discussion. I had thought up something interesting, a recurrent concept from time to time, in its later iteration wondering if one could do a Pendragon campaign with two different, separate groups, one playing british knights, the others playing saxons or scots or whatever; occasionally having some crossover in the players or player-groups, but basically two different groups running in the same world at the same time.

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I have not tried this, but after reading this post and others here, I want to.  My current 4e campaign has links to the past 3.5 one I ran before, nothing as interesting as this though.

Quote from: Lite Heart;347393I have not tried this, but after reading this post and others here, I want to.  My current 4e campaign has links to the past 3.5 one I ran before, nothing as interesting as this though.

I'm glad it caught your eye. And Welcome to theRPGsite!

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Quote from: RPGPundit;347367To generate discussion. I had thought up something interesting, a recurrent concept from time to time, in its later iteration wondering if one could do a Pendragon campaign with two different, separate groups, one playing british knights, the others playing saxons or scots or whatever; occasionally having some crossover in the players or player-groups, but basically two different groups running in the same world at the same time.

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It is a lot of fun to run separate groups in the same world. I modeled my campaign approach and setup similar to what Ben Robbin's did for his West Marches campaign he wrote about on his blog ars ludi. It didn't quite work out the same, as for about the first 5 months, I had only 1 group. Then I started running the game at a second location with a new group but no competition really sprang up. The first group wandered about, the second group focused like lasers on things.

They have affected the world for each other and see the results. There has been some seeding of information back and forth, but they are still pretty discrete, even within the same town. That may also be due to my learning how to run this sort of campaign.

Going forward, I'm curious to see how they work this coming campaign season (we're on haitus right now). I'm also starting an online Google Wave group in the same setting/world, but in a different area. Given the time differences in how the clock moves forward for an online/PbP game versus a tabletop, I think that's for the best. At macro levels, if either online or tabletop gets powerful enough, they could affect the others - overthrowing kingdoms, traveling, etc.

Quote from: RPGPundit;346865Have you ever run campaigns that were not in any way prequels/sequels/continuations of each other, but that were implicitly set in the same game world?

I don't mean "I've run four separate campaigns in the Forgotten Realms". What I mean is, if your first campaign in the forgotten realms would be in THE SAME Forgotten Realms as the second, third, and fourth ones, and all of them were influenced by the events going on in those other campaigns, without the PCs of one campaign having any direct connection or relation to the other?

If so, here's a bigger question: have you ever done this while two campaigns of this sort were running at the same time?
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Yes, I was doing this years ago with a Rifts group. I had 2 threads going with two different mixes of players from the group. Another GM was doing another thread with another mix. A couple characters were involved in multiple threads. It worked well for a while.

I also have a series of con adventures for Palladium Fantasy with some that are sequential to each other and other that happen at the same time. For players who play in multiple adventures at the same con they get extra story.