NextGen RPG isn't about controlling your games, your worlds, your ideas or your players, but we do have expectations.  So please make sure that you have a firm commitment to meet these expectations before moving forward with running a game at NextGen RPG.

What are the expectations that you have for the GMs and storytellers on your site?
This medium is notorious for games starting, and then either never getting off of the ground, or having the GM disappear before the game gets going.  This of course can not be totally eliminated, real life happens and we all bow to real life priorities.  With that said, however, we ask that potential GMs take a serious moment before creating their games, and spend just as much time thinking about whether they are committed to running a game, as they do about what kind of game they want to run.

We can help you recruit players, we can help you find the resources and tools that you need, we can help with a lot of things, but we can not get you excited enough about the game to keep you committed.  That's your job, perhaps your most important job as a GM, and it's the only thing that we ask you to commit to before running a game.  Games can end ... we expect games to end, it's even necessary for games to end. We just ask that you handle this with respect to your players.  Keep up active communication from beginning to end, and if you do that, when you want to run again, our doors will be open!

How to start a Game?
Once you're certain that you have the time and energy to run a game, take a bit to decide what kind of game you want to run.  The best advice I can offer you is to run something that you're excited about, you lead your cast of players, and you will fuel their enthusiasm, so pick something that excites you!  If you're a little nervous that nobody will like your idea, you can test it in the Forum's Staging Area, however, I'm a firm believer in - Build It and They WILL Come.  Enthusiasm, from my experience, is contagious.  When you're ready send a PM or email to China, and include the following information.

1. What's the name of your game?
2. A blurb for your game, a short synopsis of some sort that gives me some insight about it.
3. What system will you be using to run it, or if it will be free form.
4. What tools do you need that we don't have on the site to help you run it better?
5. A sample of your casting call, if you have one prepared.
6. Will this be a full fledged campaign, or a short one-off story.
7. If this will be associated with another campaign, like in the same universe, let me know so that I can start brainstorming about ways to make it easy for all GMs involved to keep track of the campaigns in your shared world.
8. Lastly, let us know what we can do to help you get your game off the ground. 

What happens next?
Consider your game approved unless you hear otherwise, I suppose there are always exceptions, but I'm failing to think of any off the top of my head.  Once the admins have finished setting up the following items, they will let you know and you can make your casting call.

1. Admin will create your Book Page
2. Admin will create your Forum
3. Admin will create your Galleries
4. Admin will give you GM level permissions to your game
5. Admin will give you permission to the GMs Lair in the Forum
6. Admin will get with you about placing your casting call on appropriate game forums to help with recruitment.

Are all games in the same world?
Nope.  However, we have no objections to GMs choosing to run in the same world, but independent games are also very welcome.  Collaborating on a joint endeavor can be more complex, but we're willing to open a higher level forum to help you with your efforts.  ...and we're willing to help put whatever tools we can into place to help your players stay in tuned with your world level efforts through our tools like Subscriptions.  Once we know individual needs we can help you on a more personal level with that.

What genres can I run?
Whatever you want.

What systems can I run?
Whatever you want, or you can use our site for collaborative fiction or free form role playing.

Maximum players?
Be aware of your own limitations, and try to stay within them.  We have no site rules regarding managing your games. You're the GM, that's your job.

Special criteria?
You tell us.  If you feel like you have a special concern or need, let us know from the start so that we can figure out how to accommodate you.

Is adult content Allowed?
We have a privacy rating system in place, that allows adult content to be invisible to site visitors and to members that are not of mature viewing age.  Whether or not you decide to allow adult content in your game, is your decision, however we do require any adult content, to be marked appropriately in the rating.  We require this on a file basis, so only the game moves or files with Adult ratings would be marked as such, the rest of the files will be available to all of NextGen RPG's community and visitors.

Where do I run my games?
One of the most common questions that newcomers have is, where do you play your games?  They wonder if the pages here are just compilations of Forum Posts (as in Play By Post games) or compilations of emails (like Play By E-Mail games).  The key to this medium of game play is that we do all of our story telling on-site using shared documents.  A GM creates a page in our editor, and then the players log into the game file and make their additions.  We treat it as a living breathing compile.  ANY document that you click on in this site was created the same way, and has the ability for multiple authors to edit it, IF they have the correct permissions.

How do I run my games?
explain bookpages/game moves.  Mention new content.

How to Create a Game Site/Guidebook/Wiki for my game?
Our current solution to making a Game Site/Guidebook, is by using our WYSIWYG editor.  You select Guide Page under Create Content, and create your home page and navigation menu, very much like the FAQ.  And as you create your additional pages, you link them in.  We're happy to provide assistance with this when you are ready.  We are also still actively working to get our media wiki solution up and running.  If you already have a game site, you can add a link directly from your campaign's main book page.