My friends want me to run a Sword Art Online campaign. My concern

>>50613036
Ask your friends why they want to do so. If they say "BECAUSE IT WOULD BE COOL!!!!111111XD" then all you will get out of it is like 1 session then they get bored and you wasted your time.
SAO is literally WoW but with "deadly" stakes and other dumbshit tacked on. Ask your friends if they enjoy WoW.

>>50613036
>My friends want me to run a Sword Art Online campaign

Well there goes option B. Your Friends' tastes are too shit to save. Just put the bare minimum effort in.

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>>50613036
Abandon ship. If you can't then just use pic related.

>>50613036
Make it nightmare fuel. Think of the horrible implications of being trapped in a VR game. Use Madness mechanics of some sort.

>>50613200
>Think of the horrible implications of being trapped in a VR game
Hmmm. The background music never stops? People begin valuing EXP and rare items over human life. Players start questioning which is the real world now. People commit suicide. The front line players all get killed so the rest are stuck in there until they all die or someone shuts the VR down. The fact that %99 of players probably never fought before so a lot of noobs will die after the beginning.

>>50613247
Don't forget that small groups heading out to fame and never returning is the normal. And like %70 of all players are under the age of 17 so these are children dying, which makes it twice as edgy.

>>50613036
>SAO campaign

Restrict Song Of Swords to swords only.

Run MAXIMUM FECHT.

Honestly you're better off not playing.

>>50613036
Get new friends. I'm not even joking.

I would suggest that you use a different genre than RPG to keep things fresh and so your players don't know what to expect, but it could end up just like a normal mystery/action/whatever game but with game stats, so be creative in what you do