I feel kind of kind of bad. My friend has been running (or trying to run) an All Flesh Must Be Eaten Campaign. Couple of weeks in and a few of the more flaky members of the campaign dropped, and he asked me to run a one-shot while he got things together, and found replacements for them.
I figured I’d run a game of AW, drop advancement to 4XP and see what happens. Two players (including the new player) have both said they’re more interested in playing AW than going back to the Zombie Apocalypse game he was running.
I’d be lying if I hadn’t kind of hoped people would like AW better than AFMBE as a system, but still I feel like a bit of a jerk. Plus, I’m already running a game ( #Monsterhearts ) on Fridays, so I’d kind of rather be playing on our Monday night sessions, not running them. Should I “force-lend” him my book, and maybe point him at one of the Zombie-Apocalypse hacks? Keep running the “better game”, hijacking his campaign?
Force-lend, or buy him a copy. Tell him to read the MC moves.
Does he enjoy the AW game?
I’d suggest the same. Lend him the book, see if he likes it.
I suggest “make him buy” and “put him on the spot” moves.
Yanni Cooper this just happened with my Monday group and did not end well at least for us. Only suggestion is to feel him out on how much he enjoyed AW and if so, try to slowly feed him that idea. Sometimes GM’s just like systems that they know.