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The Ryth Chronicles: AT the dawn of Role Playing Games.

Has anyone ever seen the old Newsletters from the 70s? If not here is how it was in the 70s with this group. WHAT is inspiring is the huge amount of organized play and different DMs.
Give it some leeway as they were playing and making up their world and "how" to play as they went. There was NOTHING else to compare too for inspiration like we have today.

Huge pool of players and multiple DMs.

Could someone organize a community like Ryth today?

http://www.risusmonkey.com/2011/06/ryth ... -1977.html

http://www.risusmonkey.com/search/label/Ryth

I've skimmed that.

It's an ideal set up. Multiple DMs using a persistent setting with a large, rotating group of players. I think Blackmoor and Greyhawk were similar.

Back in high school, we had something similar: The Guardians. It was a long-running Villains and Vigilantes campaign. There was about, say, a dozen rotating players with 4 GMs. Picture a show such as Justice League (or, back then, The Superfriends). So you had a rotating pool of supers all stationed Guardian HQ, so PCs could be brought in/taken out depending on player schedules. With the rotating GMs, everyone got a chance to play -- even the GMs. And as a supers game, nothing was too gonzo or unusual, so you could thwart a bank robbery one day, repel an alien invasion another, or deal with a comedic super-nuisance ala Ambush Bug/Impossible Man/Mr. Mxyzptlk on another depending on the current GM's tastes in adventures. new players could be "recruited" and sent on a training run, and the experienced players were team leaders ala Bats and Supes.

It was a great system. I really miss it sometimes.

Anybody read over these yet?

sniderman wrote:Back in high school, we had something similar: The Guardians. It was a long-running Villains and Vigilantes campaign. There was about, say, a dozen rotating players with 4 GMs. Picture a show such as Justice League (or, back then, The Superfriends). So you had a rotating pool of supers all stationed Guardian HQ, so PCs could be brought in/taken out depending on player schedules. With the rotating GMs, everyone got a chance to play -- even the GMs. And as a supers game, nothing was too gonzo or unusual, so you could thwart a bank robbery one day, repel an alien invasion another, or deal with a comedic super-nuisance ala Ambush Bug/Impossible Man/Mr. Mxyzptlk on another depending on the current GM's tastes in adventures. new players could be "recruited" and sent on a training run, and the experienced players were team leaders ala Bats and Supes.

It was a great system. I really miss it sometimes.

Sounds great. I dont have any V&V experience. But I have been thinking of an Icons supers game.

We did this with a Sliders-type game that eventually morphed into a game we designed and published called Dreamwalker: Roleplaying in the Land of Dreams. We worked for a Dreamwalking team and would rotate GMs, but everyone else would keep the same characters. Made for some interesting insights, because everyone had a different take on the dream missions and goals. It's available for free download here if anyone is interested. I've thought about doing yet another system conversion, but the game never seemed to gain enough traction.

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