Matt

[Matt gallant]

This will be the first rpg I will be playing so really new and have no idea how rpgs work. In this system, will the GM can also be a player?

[Treamayne]

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On 9/1/2024 at 9:39 AM, Matt gallant said:

This will be the first rpg I will be playing so really new and have no idea how rpgs work. In this system, will the GM can also be a player?

While I have not read the preview material for this RPG (so I will let somebody who has discuss specifics), I have played over a dozen RPGs since 1982 and, generally speaking, the Storyteller/GM/DM/etc. does not also role-play a normal player character, but they do role-play as all of the NPCs to facilitate the story experience and further the narrative.

Part of the player experience is to not know what is coming (solving the puzzle, unravelling the mystery, etc.) and knowing what is coming is integral to the GM experience. I have played in a group that used rotating GMs (kinda like a serial novel) where each of us had a player character and each session a different one of us took the GM role and continued our PC as an NPC for that session (or devised a reason that "character" was not present at the time) and the whole story was built session-by-session. I am not sure if that kind of structure would lend itself to this RPG though.

I was part of a different group where we split GM duties amongst different games (in the context of Cosmere - it would be like Player A GMs Stormlight - but plays in all other games, Player B GMs Mistborn, and plays in all other games, Player C GMs Nalthis, etc.). This might work better for a group in the cosmere as each "game" remains consistent; but still allows each player to have a multiple player games and one world they GM. 

Hope that helps.

 

Edited September 13, 2024 by Treamayne
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[Lego Mistborn he/him]

It's theoretically possible, but I wouldn't recommend it for the reasons treamayne listed and the fact that it would be too much work to manage both.