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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DDK" data-source="post: 672273" data-attributes="member: 6469">Re: strikes & suchGood points......but on the flip-side, I find the term 'adult' to be too liberally used, not by you as such, just in general. People seem to lack the most basic levels of respect and the fact is that my rules and attitude are learned behaviour through fourteen years of DM'ing in which I've mostly been treated with very little respect.As you're no-doubt aware, I put in a great deal of effort into these games and I provide no illusions as to what I expect of players in return. I was up-front and honest about my expectations, so anyone who ante'd up to join this game, should be willing to live up to them.I'm tired of putting in hours of effort only to have players not turn up or come to my games half-drunk from the night before or any other of a dozen permutations of disrespect to me and the other gameers.There are six people involved in this game and my rules were made not as some arbitrary measure to make me feel powerful but to make the game fair and reasonable for all people involved and to make it the best game I feel it can be in this medium.So when someone doesn't fulfill the obligations they agreed to, it shows how little they care about not only me, but us as a group and the game itself. It's disrespectful to make everyone wait and wonder and, especially in a PBP, it causes hiccups which act to destroy the suspension of disbelief.Now, I'm not an ogre, I understand that life takes precedence over D&D and that we're all human and make mistakes, but at the same time, I'm tired of being treated like my efforts don't matter; I'm not asking for praise or any ego-stroking, just that you do your best to play by the rules you agreed to.A case in point is your retraction of the Pozo post and reposting under the Manzanita nick. That shows you respect me and the other players. You made an honest mistake and tried to correct it. I don't fault you for that and in fact credit you for doing your best.So yeah, maybe 'strikes' are childish, but so is being petty or selfish enough to not respect the DM and the players your gaming with; it's not that hard to abide by the rules of the game.I'll consider dropping the whole strikes thing but for now, I'd like to see how the game pans out and how we, as a group, settle in. Keep in mind, this is my first foray into being a DM of a PBP too, so I'm only going by what I think is best; if it turns out my methods aren't effective or fair, I'll change them.</blockquote>

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