Crashing and Burning on Barsoom!

[barsoomcore]

Ow.

Wednesday night's game was a really bad one. I wasn't prepared, I screwed up the one encounter I *did* have planned, my players were cranky and I just fed into it with snarky remarks, and the whole thing ended with them bailing on the entire castle and walking out into the wilderness, thinking that starvation is better than whatever's in there.

They're demoralized, they're unhappy, they're too nice to blame me but I feel terrible.

Cheer me up. Now. I have two weeks until the next session so I better send them zooming to make up for this mess.



(Me, demanding? Naw....)

 

[Teflon Billy]

They're demoralized, they're unhappy, they're too nice to blame me but I feel terrible.

Cheer me up...

Try this: everyone has one of these sessions every so often.

Not everyone gets Stewardesses as players.

You've been blessed D&D-wise.

Get back in the saddle and turn your game around.

You know you can do it.

Do it.

You owe the gaming gods.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Try this: everyone has one of these sessions every so often.

I'm not sure...

It may be that he's gone past the point of no return. He should turn his groups over to someone else before it's too late.

... say, your stewardesses don't fly into New Zealand with any regularity, perchance?

-Hyp.

 

[Oni]

Next session have tea and cookies on hand.....it's hard to be grumpy with tea and cookies.

In fact maybe you better have some tea and cookies right now.

 

[Piratecat]

Back in 2e, I was running a Dungeon module I thought was really cool. The PCs got to the climax, the bad guy retreated -- and the PCs turned around and walked out. "Too dangerous, and we don't care about the guy," they said.

Turned out that I had shoehorned in the adventure, and they felt railroaded. I let 'em leave and tried to learn from the incident. Everyone has a crappy game now and then; ask them what they would have changed, and you'll know how to compensate next time.

 

[Gnarlo]

Cheer me up. Now. I have two weeks until the next session so I better send them zooming to make up for this mess.
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Was this the stewardess game? Ouch.

Eh, everyone has these now and again. Think this must have just been a bad week; my group could feel a bad night coming on Thursday, we called it a night after about 15 minutes and went to see Matrix instead.

Give 'em a good rewind and reset and start over the session as an anomaly. Or if you are feeling very evil, make sure whatever is in the wilderness will drive them back to the castle

 

[Gnarlo]

I'm not sure...

It may be that he's gone past the point of no return. He should turn his groups over to someone else before it's too late.

... say, your stewardesses don't fly into New Zealand with any regularity, perchance?

-Hyp.

Oh, no no no no no no no. You've already been blessed. We've all seen the extended DVDs of LOTR; we know that all of you Kiwis are close personal friends with Peter Jackson and get to star in his movies and see the finished pics months before the rest of us. You've seen Return already, haven't you?! Probably saw it with Peter in his private theatre inside his underground house made to look just like Bag End! I'll bet you're sending these messages from there right now, aren't you?! While you are getting footrubs from Liv and Miranda! BASTARD!!!

As God as my witness, you can't have the gaming stews too.

 

[Hypersmurf]

You've seen Return already, haven't you?!

'fraid not... my tickets to the Cast and Crew screening say December 16th.

-Hyp.

 

[barsoomcore]

Stewardess game went great.

I think part of the problem was just too much -- my fourth game in seven days was a little too much.

Thanks for the votes of confidence, gang. And hey, stewardesses!

 

[Hypersmurf]

And hey, stewardesses!

You know, it's a little disturbing reading that line posted with quite such excitement...

... when coupled with the trivia note that "stewardesses" is typed entirely with the left hand...

-Hyp.