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<blockquote data-quote="GlassEye" data-source="post: 5961909" data-attributes="member: 40413">How many games you can 'safely' participate in is an entirely personal number based on your free time and posting ability.&nbsp; Games sometimes move slowly and so people can theoretically handle a large number of them.&nbsp; When I first started on this site I restricted myself to one game and wouldn't allow myself to join another until that one had finished.&nbsp; These days I try to keep myself to my LPF games (three playing, one DMing) and one non-LPF game.&nbsp; I know a couple of people are in 10+ pbp games.&nbsp; My experience is that the more games you are involved in the less time you dedicate to each one, affecting the quality of your posts.&nbsp; It's hard to keep at a small number of games because sometimes you post for all of them and you still want to do more.Piratecat is an admin here.&nbsp; From what I hear he is an excellent DM and a really nice guy.&nbsp; I think his games are all run face to face.&nbsp; At least, in the time I've been here I've never known him to be involved in pbp.The Zeitgeist game's DM probably recruited a group of friends or through private message.&nbsp; I've noticed this is becoming the trend lately.&nbsp; When I first started on this site game recruitment posts were frequent and you would only have to wait a few days before something would come up that snagged your interest.&nbsp; Now it seems there are fewer games recruiting and that those games are filled by groups of friends or recruited in the background.&nbsp; I've been keeping an eye on recruitment lately because I'm interested in another game (not that I really have the time for it) but there haven't been very many games openly recruited in the past couple of weeks.&nbsp; Disappointing because I'm kinda in the mood for something a little less plain jane D&amp;D.Generally, when people join too many games they either spend less time on their posts or the time between posts gets longer.&nbsp; Spending less time on posting generally means the posts will be less interesting or won't fully address whatever is going on in the game.&nbsp; Increasing the time between posts slows down the game (already slow in the pbp environment), can cause frustration with other players who expect a certain pace, and can eventually kill a game.&nbsp; This doesn't happen with every game but it does happen and when it does you just have to let it go and find something else.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GlassEye, post: 5961909, member: 40413"] How many games you can 'safely' participate in is an entirely personal number based on your free time and posting ability. Games sometimes move slowly and so people can theoretically handle a large number of them. When I first started on this site I restricted myself to one game and wouldn't allow myself to join another until that one had finished. These days I try to keep myself to my LPF games (three playing, one DMing) and one non-LPF game. I know a couple of people are in 10+ pbp games. My experience is that the more games you are involved in the less time you dedicate to each one, affecting the quality of your posts. It's hard to keep at a small number of games because sometimes you post for all of them and you still want to do more. Piratecat is an admin here. From what I hear he is an excellent DM and a really nice guy. I think his games are all run face to face. At least, in the time I've been here I've never known him to be involved in pbp. The Zeitgeist game's DM probably recruited a group of friends or through private message. I've noticed this is becoming the trend lately. When I first started on this site game recruitment posts were frequent and you would only have to wait a few days before something would come up that snagged your interest. Now it seems there are fewer games recruiting and that those games are filled by groups of friends or recruited in the background. I've been keeping an eye on recruitment lately because I'm interested in another game (not that I really have the time for it) but there haven't been very many games openly recruited in the past couple of weeks. Disappointing because I'm kinda in the mood for something a little less plain jane D&D. Generally, when people join too many games they either spend less time on their posts or the time between posts gets longer. Spending less time on posting generally means the posts will be less interesting or won't fully address whatever is going on in the game. Increasing the time between posts slows down the game (already slow in the pbp environment), can cause frustration with other players who expect a certain pace, and can eventually kill a game. This doesn't happen with every game but it does happen and when it does you just have to let it go and find something else. [/QUOTE]

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