Oh what tangled webs we weave...
Sep. 16th, 2002 10:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terrycloth...I should have just TOLD them I don't want to play on Sundays. Well, it's too late now.
See, I have this group that plays World Tree online on Wednesdays. And it's kind of fun, although it's a pain playing online -- people are slow (probably multitasking) and interaction is kind of limited... no visual aids or battle-mat, for instance, and rolling lots of dice (World Tree needs lots of dice) is spammy.
Now, sort of against my will, I've been elected as the game-master. The dungeon crawl (the same one I'd run for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chahala only souped up a bit) was only supposed to take one session, and then someone else would take over the week after. But online slowness and the alterations I'd added to make it suitable for five people instead of one meant that it took two sessions before they even really got to a big fight... and that they LOST. So for the past few weeks they've been building up their courage to try again.
But, in the meantime, a new player who joined and one of the existing players (Loxley, the former GM who got too burned out when he lost his job) decided that they'd really rather play on Sunday. So I told them 'no, I've got a game on Sundays'. Silverspray said the same.
However, it turned out both of us were only playing every *other* Sunday, and Silverspray thought his group might be able to switch. I wasn't really all that happy about having *every* Sunday taken up with role-playing, but I figured Silverspray's friends would probably say no, and kept quiet.
They said 'yes', of course. That's part one.
At the same time, I knew I was just about finished with this adventure, and then it would be someone else's turn to run it, and I thought that since there were two wednesdays before the first scheduled Sunday game, it'd all be over by then... and there were these people running a one-time Dragonstar game all weekend the 22nd... so I signed up for Dragonstar, and sent a message to the World Tree group saying that I wouldn't be able to play the 22nd.
I'm thinking my message didn't get through, or something... either not through e-mail or not through their THICK SKULLS, because no everyone's skipping the Wednesday games and looking forwards to playing on the 22nd. When I can't be there. That's part two.
Usually, I like to keep my promises by letting whatever I committed to first take precedence... but at this point it'd be awkward either way. And I'll probably never get another chance to play Dragonstar.
So if they didn't see my message, they can bite me. And if it ends up destroying the whole World Tree group... well, it was a cheesy online game anyway.
Don't play RPGs online. It's not worth it.
See, I have this group that plays World Tree online on Wednesdays. And it's kind of fun, although it's a pain playing online -- people are slow (probably multitasking) and interaction is kind of limited... no visual aids or battle-mat, for instance, and rolling lots of dice (World Tree needs lots of dice) is spammy.
Now, sort of against my will, I've been elected as the game-master. The dungeon crawl (the same one I'd run for
chahala only souped up a bit) was only supposed to take one session, and then someone else would take over the week after. But online slowness and the alterations I'd added to make it suitable for five people instead of one meant that it took two sessions before they even really got to a big fight... and that they LOST. So for the past few weeks they've been building up their courage to try again.But, in the meantime, a new player who joined and one of the existing players (Loxley, the former GM who got too burned out when he lost his job) decided that they'd really rather play on Sunday. So I told them 'no, I've got a game on Sundays'. Silverspray said the same.
However, it turned out both of us were only playing every *other* Sunday, and Silverspray thought his group might be able to switch. I wasn't really all that happy about having *every* Sunday taken up with role-playing, but I figured Silverspray's friends would probably say no, and kept quiet.
They said 'yes', of course. That's part one.
At the same time, I knew I was just about finished with this adventure, and then it would be someone else's turn to run it, and I thought that since there were two wednesdays before the first scheduled Sunday game, it'd all be over by then... and there were these people running a one-time Dragonstar game all weekend the 22nd... so I signed up for Dragonstar, and sent a message to the World Tree group saying that I wouldn't be able to play the 22nd.
I'm thinking my message didn't get through, or something... either not through e-mail or not through their THICK SKULLS, because no everyone's skipping the Wednesday games and looking forwards to playing on the 22nd. When I can't be there. That's part two.
Usually, I like to keep my promises by letting whatever I committed to first take precedence... but at this point it'd be awkward either way. And I'll probably never get another chance to play Dragonstar.
So if they didn't see my message, they can bite me. And if it ends up destroying the whole World Tree group... well, it was a cheesy online game anyway.
Don't play RPGs online. It's not worth it.
