A DM for a Day???
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Id spend 3 hours organizing the forum, taking away the huge package of unanswered plot hooks etc.
Id spend an hour hunting down semi retired or burned out dms, lighten up their spirit, and showing them that someone has to take the first step to mend the gaps between dms, player and server, or else we wont have a server in 6 month.
Id help Thunder for about 2 hours with the enormous project of getting things back on track he is doing, and tell him if he kept me on board, id help even more.
Id poke every Red Hart or Legionare player on Irc, announce that the war was getting settled today, and spend a good 6 hours finishing up the plot.
Id post a "Nobles are returning, so you must also" on Facebook and on the forum, locate 10 or so semi retired players, place them in my new noble houses, and give all ten of them a Big ass Prelude, telling them if they want this to stay, they have to work for it.
Id kill off Maleen and Kanthea, tell the Mage Guild Players if you want the faction to stay, you need to work for it, and if you do work for it, Id suggest one of three or four routes.
Id go through the player list, find which ever character above lvl 8, spend half an hour with every one of them, asking them what they are doing to involve new players, how they are doing with their concepts, suggest paths to take to reach the end goals.
Id eat some dinner while looking through applications, approving and denying, and locating the denied ones players, helping them remake them to better fit the server.
And finally, before I went to sleep, id announce V5 had arrived, which new factions I had created, and bid everyone a good night.
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I'd spend most of the time learning the client, lol, then maybe try a quest or something.
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id toss olouth in a hole without internet after the war was completed
and have a silver dragon come tell stories, since a red would more likely eat the audience then talk to them, which would lead into the clever listeners finding out of a hidden trove of netherese items, lies through a catacomb, and they have to search and find the entry that has been sealed for ages
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My honest thought.
If I were DM for a day -
I would most likely fumble around trying to get my bearings, struggle with trying to make a decision on how to use my power for the betterment of the server, notice that I was running out of time at hour twenty and do something rash and controversial in the last couple of hours.
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Once I had inadvertantly Jumped All Players on the server to a single location a couple of times…
I'd siege the city with an Orc/Giant/Goblinoid army and see how long it would take for someone to realize that while the PCs may be successfully holding the East, North and West gates, what's going to be released into the surrounding countryside when the sieging horde breaks through the South gate?
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I would find the one person that doesnt want any DM attention and troll them all day, spicing their quests, stopping them buying stuff by possessing the merchant, makign sanders chickens run up to the stormhorns, shit like that.
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Visit as many players as possible and spice their day up a bit in any way. Everyone loves a little visit from a DM just to change things. Nothing spectacular (well sometimes), just a five, ten, 20 minute visit and on to the next. I never got involved in big plots as a DM, just kept making the expected completely unexpected.
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DM for a day huh, Well first thing i do.
I look around watch some players who are not in preformed groups and try to get a mix people bend together by luring them with say the promise of a special one time merchant with rare items or gold. Once this small group is gathered up. I would give them a small quest based 1 part combat/1 part problem solving/ 1 part chance. Once that is done with give them a small reward.
After that i would watch players bounce around, (especially newer players) and maybe possess an NPC or do a simple little things.
By the end of the day i like to give a PC faction some love by helping them with a small event, since i know how hard it is to start up a Pc faction from scratch.
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resign in frustration as you are unable to achieve any desired wishes, as you spend the greater part of 4 hours dealing with player requests, especially about plots you have no clue about. then go get drunk.
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I would turn everyone into weregnats. Then there would be a tournament between all of the weregnats on the server. It would be glorious. Then I would incorporate a new language taken after the Khoisan click language in Africa. Everyone would be forced to learn it since there wouldn't be any auto-translator for it. I would then continue to convert the Temple of Tyche into a Temple of Gnatticus, the uprising God of Gnats.
In the end there can only be one.
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I would have the CoG create a nuke and blow the city up. Offically turning CoA into Fallout 3
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I would have the CoG create a nuke and blow the city up. Offically turning CoA into Fallout 3
Screw that, my apocalypse was better.
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ban all the other dms and be dm for eternity.