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Do it yourself GMs?

Started by Mcrow, May 21, 2007, 01:26:42 PM

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Mcrow

May 21, 2007, 01:26:42 PM
After reading Zachary's thread on homebrewing, I figured a poll should be done.

It seems that we have a higher concentration of "DIY" GM's here than on other sites.


are you a DIY GM?

James McMurray

#1
May 21, 2007, 01:38:39 PM
I need a third option. Currently I'm generating everything from scratch, but I'm also angling the campaign towards a module I bought, which I'll run but also heavily modify to make it fit better.

Mcrow

#2
May 21, 2007, 01:42:25 PM
I would say that if you more often than not create your own worlds, systems,adventures, or other gaming material it woudl count as a "yes". You don't have to make up all of it to be a DYI GM, hacking and modifying count as well.

Koltar

#3
May 21, 2007, 01:47:58 PM
I voted ...I'm more like a two-thirds/one-third kind of guy.
 One third of my stuff is based on either GDW  or SJ Games product, the other two-thirds is stuff that I make up.

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#4
May 21, 2007, 02:39:01 PM
All 3 of my Supers settings were homebrews (Heroes Earth, Guardian Earth and the Lightbringers), I have a fantasy setting that's getting scrapped and salvaged for what I can only describe as a pulp action magitech fantasy adventure setting.  I'm also working on a Sci-Fi space opera setting.  It's going slowly though.

I just love creating settings.  I don't know exactly why, but I derive great enjoyment through world building.
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Brimshack

#5
May 21, 2007, 02:40:16 PM
11 Yes, 0 No.

Apparently, we non-conformists are all alike.

Mcrow

#6
May 21, 2007, 02:46:12 PM
I wonder if the lower % for ENworld has to do with the fact that most of the people there play primarily d20?:confused:

Sosthenes

#7
May 21, 2007, 02:47:00 PM
Even though I've been using some pre-existing settings lately, the fact that I barely run pre-generated adventures and add quite a lot during the course of a campaign, I'd consider myself firmly in the DIY camp.

I haven't read boxed adventure text in quite a while ;)
 

James McMurray

#8
May 21, 2007, 02:54:02 PM
Quote from: McrowI would say that if you more often than not create your own worlds, systems,adventures, or other gaming material it woudl count as a "yes". You don't have to make up all of it to be a DYI GM, hacking and modifying count as well.

In that case I voted Yes. While I prefer to have something to base my games off of, very little survives to make it to my table unchanged, and my players are pretty good at wandering off the beaten path and forcing me to improvise.

Gunslinger

#9
May 21, 2007, 04:35:13 PM
I guess I should explain my solo "no" response.  I rarely stray from the rules as written.  If they seem wonky, I try to make sense of them narratively as opposed to mechanically.
 

James McMurray

#10
May 21, 2007, 08:27:34 PM
Same here. I'll change a rule if I have to, but not "just because." I thought the thread was aimed at DIY settings and adventures, but I didn't read the thread mentioned in the OP, so I may have voted wrong.

Gunslinger

#11
May 21, 2007, 08:56:07 PM
Quote from: James McMurraySame here. I'll change a rule if I have to, but not "just because." I thought the thread was aimed at DIY settings and adventures, but I didn't read the thread mentioned in the OP, so I may have voted wrong.
Argghh, you're right.  I guess I'm 50/50 depending on which game.
 

JamesV

#12
May 21, 2007, 10:15:29 PM
I'm not sure how to put it, as I like to take established settings and demolish them with a few choice ideas of my own.
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#13
May 21, 2007, 10:32:00 PM
Yep. If I weren't I'd probably still be playing 3.14159, and likely would have never spent all that time at the Forge trying to figure out why modern game designs fuck me up so bad. I'm happy for the increased self-understanding but sometimes I sort of wish I'd stuck with chess instead.
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#14
May 21, 2007, 10:53:19 PM
Partly, partly. Totally depends on the game in hand. D&D has always been DIY for me (very loosely based on Greyhawk). Actually, I would probably DIY virtually all fantasy RPGs.

Or would I... I wouldn't modify Talislanta, but I *would* modify Cyradon...

Now I'm confused. What the hell are my criteria? :D
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