Well, we had our Halloween party here Friday night. It went pretty well, although people didn't really start showing up until nearly an hour and a half after the stated time.

None of my friends from the old game group came, but that's OK because I never actually got around to sending formal invitations (informal invitations, however, were sent and recieved).

I picked up Games of Divinity, which has got me back in an Exalted frame of mind. The upcoming Lunar book is sure to make that worse.

Of course, I'm also floating back into an Amber frame of mind, which rereading Doyce Testerman's Things in Heaven and Earth doesn't help at all.

On the plus side, I think we are going to start a round-robin system for the Friday games to replace Huntington. That should let us get some of these other games out of our system (or at least give them a fair chance to build a following).

The system works thusly:

Every five sessions, we take a vote. One of the options on the list is to continue the current game (as long as the GM is willing to continue running).

Each person can, if desired, propose one game that they are willing to run. These are automatically eligible to be voted upon. They may also offer up one game that they are hoping that someone else will run. Those are only eligible for voting upon if someone else will claim them. (Thus, if you want to be sure a game gets a chance to be run, it's really best to offer running it yourself).

Once the list of options is complete, each person in the group ranks the candidates according to their order of preference. This is basically a popularity vote: you do not have to vote for EVERY option, just the ones you are actually interested in. So, if there are four games offered, but I only really care about two of them, I can prioritize only those two entries and leave my last two entries blank.

Then, you add up the votes using what amounts to a Borda Count system. (It looks complex, but it's really simple. In my example, if I ranked a certain game first place, it would get four points, and the game I ranked second would get three points. The other two games would get no points from me because I omitted them, but if I hadn't, they'd have gotten 2 points and 1 point for third and fourth place respectively.

The proposal that gets the most points, when all of the players votes are added up, wins.