A Typical Game Day

<BODY BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#C0C0C0" LINK="#FFFF00" VLINK="#808080"> <TABLE WIDTH="400" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0"> <TR> <TD> <P ALIGN="CENTER"><IMG SRC="../images/mhb1.jpg" ALT="Magic Horizons Title Graphic" ALIGN="BOTTOM" WIDTH="398" HEIGHT="162"></P> <H2>A Typical Game Day</H2> <P>A game day is the work of several people, all working as a team to pull it off. In much the same way that a successful stage production is the results of the efforts of the director and the stage hands, a game day is made up of the game Staff (working as stage directors of sorts) and the NPCs (working as stage hands) for the benefit of the players (working as actors).</P> <P>When you first arrive at a game day, you'll be presented with a waiver to sign and a sign-up book. You'll be asked if you want to NPC or PC; if your <A HREF="experience.html#gpc" TARGET="_top">GPCs</A>are negative, you may not have any choice but to NPC. From there, you'll be asked to pay your entrance fee.</P> <P>Once you've gone through sign-in, you'll need to take your weapons to the safety marshal to be safety-checked. Once that's done, take the time to change into your costume, finish your breakfast and get a large drink of water.</P> <P>If it's noon, the game will open and everyone can play. What happens from here depends on the type of game. Outdoor games tend to be very freeform. Players go on patrol to find monsters, look for lair cards, go on missions for the Port Mahon garrison, and if they find monsters, get into battles.</P> <P>Producers will often stay in town, making things for adventurers, or dealing with the town encounters, making deals and doing price fixing among themselves. Just because producers aren't out there hacking monsters to bloody gobbets doesn't necessarily mean that they don't have fun.</P> <P>Indoor games tend to be more structured, as the smaller area to play in results in less flexibility for setting up wandering bands of NPCs. An indoor game will usually revolve around a defined objective. (Rescuing the kidnapped child of a prominent citizen, escorting a band of refugees to civilization.), and most encounters will be geared towards the completion of that goal.</P> <P>Once you've completed your adventuring for the day, brokered your deals, and tallied up your haul, it's time to check out. Characters with Merchant skill will take this time to describe what they're importing and exporting, Scholars and people doing Quests for new items will note their progress on their research and quest forms in the quest book run by the game committee.</P> <P>The final step of checkout is to tally up your experience, your SAPs and your GPCs. If you make a level, you need to record the new hit points and choose where your character's <A HREF="creation.html#picks" TARGET="_top">picks</A> will go</P> <P>Finally, police your gear, load it into the car, and prepare to head back home. Several roleplaying teams will often get together to share a dinner before everyone heads home, recount the things they accomplished in this game day, and speculate on what they'll do next time.</P> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0"> <TR> <TD><A><IMG SRC="../images/left_h.jpg" ALT="Left End Of Scroll Bar" WIDTH="32" HEIGHT="116"></A></TD> <TD><A HREF="../info/info_toc.html" TARGET="_top"><IMG SRC="../images/info_h_n.jpg" ALT="[Logistics]" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" WIDTH="45" HEIGHT="116" NAME="info"></A></TD> <TD><A HREF="../game/game_toc.html" TARGET="_top"><IMG SRC="../images/game_h_n.jpg" ALT="[Game Info]" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" WIDTH="60" HEIGHT="116" NAME="game"></A></TD> <TD><A HREF="../misc/misc_toc.html" TARGET="_top"><IMG SRC="../images/misc_h_n.jpg" ALT="[Miscellaneous Information]" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" WIDTH="62" HEIGHT="116" NAME="misc"></A></TD> <TD><A HREF="../faq.html" TARGET="_top"><IMG SRC="../images/faq_h_n.jpg" ALT="[Frequently Asked Questions]" BORDER="0" WIDTH="58" HEIGHT="116" NAME="faq"></A></TD> <TD><A HREF="../new.html" TARGET="_top"><IMG SRC="../images/new_h_n.jpg" ALT="[What's New]" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" WIDTH="52" HEIGHT="116" NAME="whatsNew"></A></TD> <TD><A HREF="../index.html" TARGET="_top"><IMG SRC="../images/home_h_n.jpg" ALT="[Magic Horizons Home Page]" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" WIDTH="59" HEIGHT="116" NAME="home"></A></TD> <TD><IMG SRC="../images/right_h.jpg" ALT="Right End Of Scroll Bar" WIDTH="22" HEIGHT="116"></TD></TR></TABLE> <P>Problems with the page? Email <a HREF="mailto:burnside@itis.com">Ken Burnside</a>.</P></TD></TR></TABLE></BODY>