You too can be a DM

Does designing adventures and treasure sound like fun to you.  Do you enjoy playing monsters that die fight after fight. If this is the life style for you then perhaps you might consider being a guest DM.  What does a guest DM do you may ask.  Well in this case you would run a quick 2-5 session adventure.  Your adventure would be outside the story of the main plot and is essentially a break for me and one of you as well as give other players a chance to try out other classes.  After your adventure is finished we would resume play of the current d&d story line.  For simplicities sake I've broken this down into a who, what, where, when, why and how.


WHO
The guest DM will be based on a number of things.  The first is someone who wants to guest DM.  The second in how often have they DMed before and in the case of a number of people wanting to do it I guesse we'll just leave it up to a vote.  Maybe we'll do auditions such as prospective dm's pitch their ideas.

WHAT
 As mentioned before this would be a short one shot adventure featuring new characters for everyone.  I don't intend for this to last too long so as people still remember what happened in the last adventures of the campaign. 3 - 5 sessions seems reasonable to me.  I would like the adventure to be of 3.5 Dungeons and Dragons

WHERE 
I think it would be pretty interesting if the adventures took place in the same land as the one we all built together but in the end that would be left up to the chosen DM.

WHEN
The adventure would be run after the next adventure you are on comes to a close.  I suspect that this adventure will take some time to get through which should give the DM plenty of time to write an adventure.

If the DM choses to use the land we all made together then anytime up to the present would be fine.  In fact if one were so inclined they could run an adventure featuring the parents of some of the adventurers or something to that degree.


WHY 
A number of reasons.  The first is that I enjoy being a DM but I also enjoy being a player. Having been a DM for almost half a year now I wouldn't mind a bit of a break.  The second reason is that I'd like to give one of you a shot at being a DM.  I know when this campaign started a number of other people were considering running their own campaigns.  I've been in the big seat for the last while so I think it's only fair that one of you gets a try.  The third reason, also inline with the second one is that we all made this world together we should all get to be in charge of it at some point.

HOW
This is mainly to discuss the logistics of the adventure.  If you require any material on the world of Azurial or anything along those line just ask.  I will be willing to provide you with any information I can.  When it come to blog update I leave that in the hands of the DM but of course I will be willing to add them as a contributor to Elbatron's Adventure Dome.  Let me know what you think and we will talk about it next session.