I like continued campaigns with overarching stories, but I'm getting to the point where I can't seem to get players together on a regular basis to make it worth it. But I've still got a lot of ideas and access to a lot of scenarios and settings, and I want to start making it work. And thus begins ...
The Official DFGA Game Day!
Personally, especially lately, I've found my Fridays to be dull and boring, so I propose Friday late afternoon/evenings for the Game Day. Sunday would also work, I think, especially now that football season is over.
The concept of Game Day is a day to game - anything, something, in a format similar to the various anthology TV series (Outer Limits, Amazing Stories, Tales from the Crypt, etc.). Board games and RPGs would be the mainstay, and most of the RPGs I plan to have available with pregenerated characters for ease of play. This would allow us to play many different types of games in many different types of genres without having to worry about missing people. The goal would be to have each scenario take up a session with little or no overlap.
I also want to encourage others to take the helm of GM, as this format is perfect for many people to try their hand at gamemastering.
Here are some games/genres I've got planning right now: Shadowrun, RuneWars (board game), World War II, 1930s pulp adventure, space pulp adventures (like Star Wars), Victorian era monster hunting, modern day spy ops, Western horror, 1920s Mythos horror, D&D-esque fantasy adventures, pirates on the high seas, superheroes and villains, colonial era mystery and adventure, and many others!
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Chances are that you are already familiar with the Kevin Singer case, a lifetime inmate of a Wisconsin correctional facility who has been prohibited to enjoy his D&D games with cellmates out of incredibly bigoted and unrealistic fears he was forming a "gang".
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/us/27dungeons.html
An online petition has been started to have that absurd ruling reviewed and I think that, as fellow gamers, I thought you may have wanted to support the effort, showing that RPGs can be potent educational tools for the acquiring of social, cooperative and reading/writing skills from which the prison population could surely benefit.
The more time passes the more I am convinced that the u.s. prison system is not a corrective tool with which to re-educate and win back to society inmates but a kind of medieval torture system with which to abuse and degrade those unlucky enough to enter it.
http://www.petitiononline.com/d20d12d8/
We all know that D&D is kiddies' stuff compared to other RPGs, but I really ask you to take a minute of your time, click the link above and leave a signature,
please, there is a person who is being denied the solace and comfort of letting his mind and his imagination soar while his body is restricted in a cell, and, if you can, circulate the petition's URL link among your fellow gamers and friends.
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