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Paddling in the pool of GMing

A long standing player in our group is looking to take his first steps into GMing and is wondering where to paddle. As one of the two GMs (with combined GMing of 60+ years) for our group I have offered to help him find a system and a genre/background.
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We are a group of gamers that have been playing together for 25+ years and generally myself or one other has been the GM.

Well, one of the players has decided it is about time (we all agree) that another try GMing. Unfortunately he has built 'GMs' up and feels he cannot measure up, given that we two GMs wiil be players.

I have assured him it's not like that and we all started, often very messily, somewhere and he can too.

So, I thought it might be of use to others out there in a similar situation, first-time GMs for new and old groups alike, to those looking at something new, and anyone else interested.

We have played a fair handful of games/systems for the purpose of this post I shall reduse the list to more recent plays:

Bushido
HERO 4th, 5th (also Fantasy Hero, Champions, Justice Inc and Danger International)
DragonQuest
Cyberspace
Palladium, Heroes Unlimited, RIFTS
Judge Dredd
and all manner of Dungeons and Dragons, Basic, Advanced, 3.5, etc..
and plenty of others, you get the idea - we have been playing a long time and tried a lot of things.

So, what next, he (the new GM-to-be) wishes to make his mark on the group whilst being within his depth.
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Fred Behrendt
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Savage Worlds is the next likely stop in my GM sojourn. Have you considered it?

It is open to multiple campaign settings (but is not so incredibly fiddly as, say, GURPS). I'm probably going for a swashbuckling, pulp-style campaign.
 
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