What Is The Team Roleplaying Challenge?

What Is The Team Roleplaying Challenge?

The Team Roleplaying Challenge is an annual tradition at GenghisCon. Most of us regard roleplaying as primarily a cooperative experience. Still, sometimes it’s nice to pit your skills against others and be recognized for being good at it. The goal of the Team Challenge is to give people a chance to show off their roleplaying and teamwork skills. Competition is between teams, not between players on the same team.

Some common questions:

“How does scoring work?”

The objective of the Team Challenge is to reward players/teams for good roleplaying. But of course “good roleplaying” is a fairly subjective concept. So to maintain some consistency across different GMs, we’ve attempted to create some reasonably objective scoring criteria. Teams are graded based on:

1. Roleplaying the characters as written. If your character is supposed to be “fearless,” you might get points for boldly leading a charge, or lose points for cowering in fear.
2. Roleplaying interactions with PCs and NPCs. If your character is supposed to be in love with another character, you might get points for roleplaying appropriately – especially throwing out “hooks” for your teammates to roleplay off.
3. Story Advancement. You can get points in each encounter for achieving certain plot points, accomplishing certain tasks, etc. Teams that have won in past years tend to be the ones who strike the right balance between “fully roleplaying each encounter” and “getting through the module.”
4. Working together as a Team, both in and out of combat.

“So what does the winning team get?”

Bragging rights! Validation of your roleplaying skills! Your picture on our website! And your Team’s ribbon added to the Team Challenge Banner, which your team gets to hold onto for the next 12 months!

(What, you expected cash?)

“Is this a Living game?” / “Can I play my Living XXXXX character?”

Sorry, no. Every team will play the same PCs, specifically written for this adventure.

“OK, I’m sold! Now what?”

Put together a team of 5-6 players, ideally people you know and have gamed with before. Once registration for GenghisCon opens, the Team Captain (and ONLY the Captain) should register for the Team Challenge event on the DGA’s website.

“Do we have to have 6 players?”

We’ve listed 5 as the minimum number of players per team. However, there are some scoring points that it may be hard to achieve without all the 6 PCs in play. So we highly recommend 6 players per Team, even if you have to draft someone at Muster!

“I have other questions…”

Please post them to the Yahoo Group (http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/rp-artisans/) and we’ll do our best to answer it. Good luck!