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MacFoster

Can someone help me with transitioning?

Tablecraft

Okay so I tried posting this elsewhere and I didn't get any responses then it got deleted from the page so Im trying it here. I DM'd my first game with all new players and everyone was instantly in love with the game. My friend, in whom I am very proud of, decided that he wants to try DMing our second game with his own homebrew one shot session. My questions are:

  1. How do I implement my character into this world (from being DM)
  2. How does my friends character take a break for a session
  3. How do we go from Town A to Town B back to Town A

Posted Sep 29, 2016, 1:16 PM UTC

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Emmetation•

Have you considered just having the other DM's game happen in another part of the world, parallel to your own? This would completely free you from the burden of explaining things and would give other players a chance to try out new classes.

Doing it the way you suggested is very possible though. We ran a campaign a few years back with 3 rotating DMs. Each of us would run for a month or two. When someone new took the DM seat their character would go off to do something that their character wished to do (check in on the family farm, research an old knightly order, go lift weights for a while...). We made sure that all of our characters were created to be in the party but also gave them motivations for things they wanted to do outside the main quest. This made it much easier to drop in and drop out characters and swap DMs. We typically also did a change over when travelling from one location to another so DMs could prepare in advance without stepping on anyone else's toes.

For implementing your own character now, handle it as if a player character died and a new one is joining. Have their motivations align so that it makes sense for them to join the party. Or have a "quest giver" ask the party to allow their spymaster/shieldbearer/court wizard to accompany them.

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MacFosterOP•

thank you homie

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BrentNewhallAlways Thinking•

  1. The same way your friends implemented their characters. Your character shows up, and the story begins. There's nothing special to it; you're just another person who shows up and decides to go along with the party.

  2. He just does. His character decides not to join you guys on whatever you do in this session.

  3. You just do. The DM says "OK, so you head out from Town A and after a few days find yourselves at Town B."

Now, you can integrate that into a much tighter and character-driven plot, where there are reasons for all this. But without a description of what's happened so far in the story, we can't really advise.

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