Guide Requirements

All player attempting be a Guide must meet the following qualifications.

  • You must be in good standing with the community.

  • You must have attending 3 local games since the start of your experience with our chapter.

  • You must accept training & work to improve your understanding of the game.

  • You must be able to attend 80% of our games in a Season.

  • You must be willing to accept less control as a character to facilitate the role-play of others.

  • You must be willing to accept direction, coaching, and guidelines from Staff.

Types of Guides

Coordination Guide: will spend their Casting hours at the Post Office filling out cards for Agriculture, Foraging, Salvaging and other skills while maintaining an immersive experience for other players. Nice handwriting is a plus, but not a must. They will create a persona Postal-Worker to help maintain that immersion and are encouraged to make them feel as life like as possible. These Marshals are overseen by Nikki and are considered fully trained after 12 hours.

Rules Guide: will spend their NPC hours running modules given to them by the Ops Guides, which in a nutshell means taking NPCs out into the game-space and supervising them. Rules Guides aren’t exactly glorified cat-herders, but it’s pretty close! They’re the first point of contact when a player is upset with how a mod went (fight or RP), they’re the Ops Marshals eyes & ears out in the field and their attitude is often one that sets the tone for all the NPCs they guide around. These Guides are overseen by Truate/Cody/Kyle and are considered fully trained after 12 hours.

Ops Guide: will spend their NPC hours organizing chaos. Daunting eh? Well we provide you with a schedule, pre-written modules and many other tools to help! You must have completed at 12 hours of both Rules and Coord training before you can be considered for an Ops Marshal position. These Marshals are overseen by Truate and are considered fully trained after 18 hours of training at which point you will be tested on a shift with Cody/Kyle back-seating while you drive the story. Then you will be tested on a shift with Truate back-seating while you drive the story. Once Truate signs you off you are good to go!

Settings Guide: will spend their NPC hours creating immersive horror special effects make-up masterpieces, helping NPCs dress the part and sometimes other pieces that we tend to refer to as [REDACTED]. Please email at least photos of your work (make-up or costume-creation) to Beth@DystopiaRisingAR.com, as she oversees these Guides.

Part-Time Guide. These are guides that come to us from other games but cant be guides full time for our game. These guides must meet the following criteria”

  1. Dystopia Rising Arkansas cannot be your home game.

  2. You are a member in good standing of DR.

  3. You have permission from your home team to help us out.

  4. You go through a qualification training period with our lead guides in the guide position you are in.

Other Notes

All Guides are expected to be familiar with the rules and available for witnessing CvC actions such as thefts or infection loss. All Guides are expected to help with leading either set-up (limited slots) or clean-up of site.

Additionally, Arkansas team members attend a team weekend retreat at Camp Gus Blass during the winter break. Attendance is not required, but is encouraged as it gives us a time outside of game to be a family and take care of a few tasks (like training) that we aren’t able to do during the regular season.

All Guides are required to lock in for either 4 hours of shift or 6 hours of shift for the year. We can be a little flexible on this, but this cannot change month to month as we have schedules we have to manually make.

Arkansas team members are also expected to be leaders in the community, and sometimes that means we (Beth, Nikki, Cody, Kyle, Sarah, Curtis & Truate) will hold them to a higher standard, restrict some of their play-actions or ask them to steer some stories.  #WeAreBecauseYouAre is a core tenet for us and that means we all need to lead by example.