Confession...It's good for the soul.

[CanadienneBacon]

I say all this because I wonder, with your comings and goings, if you don't experience a similar thing.

Oh, definitely. I like to write, so PbP is the perfect instrument for me. I purposefully make probably 75% of my PbP DMing responses description-intensive. 'Cause that's how I excise my need to let my inner creative-writing demon out. But then that demon turns around every single time and bites me on the ass, ie: writing that much burns me out.

I know from past experience that I cannot DM more than one PbP game longterm. Pretty much every day I've been away from EN World's PbP section, I've had to restrain myself from starting yet another game. I love the excitement of starting a fresh game. Prollie my favorite part, actually. I come here and browse frequently. I love to DM and I love to write, so this place is the perfect medium for me.

When you sense you're going to quit, though, you gotta own up to it and let the players know. No one likes disappointing other people, and quitting DMing does end up disappointing lots of folks. But it's an easier--even if still bitter--pill to swallow if the DM shows up in the thread and says, "Hey, I ain't doing this no more because..."

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Definitely good advice, sir. I'll take it into consideration if I do ever decide to try and run a game here again. Which I might.

Naw, you won't. You won't take his advice, I mean. I know you'll DM more games here. And you very well may bail on some of 'em. I feel I can say that because I'm in the same boat as you.

But at least now we know you and you know we like you, faults included. That, sir, is the basis of friendship!

 

[Legildur]

Hey Mal, I was just getting into the Savage Tide when you Hid in Plain Sight...

I admit that I really don't get it - once yeah, but as a recidivist?

My only real complaint is that it takes time to build a character and the feeling of time lost that could have been committed to a long term game (I've been playing the same character in a PbEM game since 1996).

However, good on you for coming forward. That really does take some stones and I commend you for it.

Let me add, I thought you did a pretty solid job as a DM.

And no hard feelings here.

 

[Malvoisin]

Naw, you won't. You won't take his advice, I mean. I know you'll DM more games here. And you very well may bail on some of 'em. I feel I can say that because I'm in the same boat as you.

But at least now we know you and you know we like you, faults included. That, sir, is the basis of friendship!

Heh...you're probably right, CB. For better or worse...

I feel like we are kindred spirits, after a fashion, but with the primary difference being that you have always let your players know when you had to walk away. That's what I'll aspire to next time, as well.

I appreciate the words of friendship as well...very much.

 

[Malvoisin]

Hey Mal, I was just getting into the Savage Tide when you Hid in Plain Sight...

I admit that I really don't get it - once yeah, but as a recidivist?

My only real complaint is that it takes time to build a character and the feeling of time lost that could have been committed to a long term game (I've been playing the same character in a PbEM game since 1996).

However, good on you for coming forward. That really does take some stones and I commend you for it.

Let me add, I thought you did a pretty solid job as a DM.

And no hard feelings here.

Hi, Legildur.

I know, it's difficult to understand. I don't have any rational reason for doing what I did, except I guess that I couldn't own up to needing to end a game for whatever reason. This medium of the internet makes it too easy to take the cowardly way out, I guess.

In part, creating this thread now is my way of saying to myself 'No more of that!'

Anyhow, you've been a good player, and I'm glad there are no hard feelings.

 

[Malvoisin]

You only abandoned two games that I was in, and you are forgiven...though I am definitely missing Savage Tide. Anar was a favorite PC of mine.

Still, props for having the stones to come on here and admit to the changing screen names! It shows rare character.

Hey, Rhun. I just realized that you're the only poster in this thread that I haven't replied to...so this one's for you.

Anar was a great PC....there were a lot of them in Savage Tide, which is why it's probably the game I regret folding the most...twice, in fact wasn't it? Once announced, once unannounced. In any case, I fear there's too much water under the bridge now to recapture the magic. But I appreciate your supportive words. Thanks.

 

[Rhun]

Anar was a great PC....there were a lot of them in Savage Tide, which is why it's probably the game I regret folding the most...twice, in fact wasn't it? Once announced, once unannounced. In any case, I fear there's too much water under the bridge now to recapture the magic. But I appreciate your supportive words. Thanks.

Indeed, it was twice.

One thing that I can add from the couple of years I've been playing games here at EN World is that the people here are extremely understanding; there is no reason not to be open with them if a game becomes too much to handle. Everyone that posts here has a real life of their own, and we all understand that things happen. Whether that is taking a few months off or ending a game completely, an explanation is a lot easier to understand than a disappearance.

 

[Legildur]

Besides, if Savage Tide picked up again, who would I be to complain

 

[CanadienneBacon]

I vote we institute the phrase, "He pulled a Mal on us." Think of it, Malvoisin. You'll be (in)famous.




just kidding

 

[Malvoisin]

I vote we institute the phrase, "He pulled a Mal on us." Think of it, Malvoisin. You'll be (in)famous.
just kidding

Errrr...I'm not so sure about that.

Then again, who doesn't want to be (in)famous?