Some interesting advice on techniques to use in swaying your group towards playing the game that you want to GM. Reading it makes me glad that it is a concern that I really don't have as a GM>
The 4 Ways to Choose Your Next Game
"When your group is ready to start a new game, there are a numbers of ways to handle deciding what to play. By far the most common approach I?ve seen is this one: The GM says, 'I?m going to run this game,' and the rest of the group says, 'Okay' (or sometimes, 'No thanks, we?re going to go play World of Warcraft').
"There are some obvious downsides to this approach, though ? so let?s look at the 4 ways to choose your next game (and there really are only 4 ways!), and then ask an open question: How does your group tackle this?
"This list assumes that you?re not in the market for a new group ? in other words, you want to start up a new game with your regular group. (Things are a bit different if you want to GM, but don?t have any players. In that situation, joining another group and waiting for your chance to GM, or picking a game and looking for folks who want to play it, are the two best approaches.)"
