Denalz
Explorer
So long story short: I accidentally emailed a brand new player my document which contained all of my antagonist's motivations/plans/backstory and also my major campaign plot twists that would not have been revealed for another year or so most likely. The worst part is I didn't know I emailed him this document until after he warned everyone else in my game not to trust a key NPC because he's probably in cahoots with my main antagonist.
To be clear, this was 100% my own mistake. I meant to send the new player some documents that would help bring him up to speed on our campaign so far and I accidentally clicked my master file as one of the email's attachments. I even told him that anything on the files I sent him were free game for him to reveal to the party as his PC's own personal knowledge.
Needless to say, I am completely demoralized. I have been planning this story for over 7 months. Our group only plays once every three weeks so they were only just now really getting into the meat of the over-arching plot. I was finally starting to feel like I could relax on the over arching plot and just focus on fleshing out my world and each individual session. Now I feel like I need to go back to the drawing board and frankly I feel like giving up.
As it stands, two of my players are mostly done with one shots they want to run just to try DM'ing out, but no one has expressed interest in taking of the DM seat for any substantial amount of time. We are all adults and most of us have families so DM'ing is a huge commitment for us. I asked my players if they were attached to the story we had going so far and they all expressed a desire not to change anything but I really don't know how I'm going to keep up the intrigue at this point.
I enjoy DM'ing, I really do. I don't want to give it up. I'm just not sure I have the time/energy/and inspiration to figure out how to fix this problem. Has anyone ever done something like this before? What did you decide to do?
Lastly, if anyone thinks this game is worth salvaging and wants to help me out on patching up the cosmic hole I blew through it last night, let me know. I'll post the story I had planned and explain what my players know and thus what details must be changed.
To be clear, this was 100% my own mistake. I meant to send the new player some documents that would help bring him up to speed on our campaign so far and I accidentally clicked my master file as one of the email's attachments. I even told him that anything on the files I sent him were free game for him to reveal to the party as his PC's own personal knowledge.
Needless to say, I am completely demoralized. I have been planning this story for over 7 months. Our group only plays once every three weeks so they were only just now really getting into the meat of the over-arching plot. I was finally starting to feel like I could relax on the over arching plot and just focus on fleshing out my world and each individual session. Now I feel like I need to go back to the drawing board and frankly I feel like giving up.
As it stands, two of my players are mostly done with one shots they want to run just to try DM'ing out, but no one has expressed interest in taking of the DM seat for any substantial amount of time. We are all adults and most of us have families so DM'ing is a huge commitment for us. I asked my players if they were attached to the story we had going so far and they all expressed a desire not to change anything but I really don't know how I'm going to keep up the intrigue at this point.
I enjoy DM'ing, I really do. I don't want to give it up. I'm just not sure I have the time/energy/and inspiration to figure out how to fix this problem. Has anyone ever done something like this before? What did you decide to do?
Lastly, if anyone thinks this game is worth salvaging and wants to help me out on patching up the cosmic hole I blew through it last night, let me know. I'll post the story I had planned and explain what my players know and thus what details must be changed.