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<blockquote data-quote="Boddynock" data-source="post: 4873558" data-attributes="member: 21506">Both covaithe &amp; P8 were able to be more constructive in their comments than I was: kudos to them.@renaug1: I'm sorry but I found that I'd finished the scotch already. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing&nbsp; &nbsp; :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />@P8: You're right, of course, that Don Incognito is already streets ahead by not attempting to run a dozen games on his own! (If only that were a joke! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />) I was aware that I wasn't really adding anything new to the comments already made ... just trying to convey some of the horror of it all.I still think, however, that PBP is better suited to smaller adventures than the grand, overarching schemes. The slow pace (even posting daily) simply makes it too hard to maintain the momentum.@Stringbean2142: It's not really that we can point you to a single record of the difficulties the mega-adventure produced. Rather, it was the toll it took over time on a community of players who were left high and dry when the initiating DM disappeared, and the hit which LEW's creativity took because just about everybody was involved in the M-A and there was no energy or time left for the non-M-A aspects of life in LEW.Perhaps <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/living-en-world/244470-lew-trouble.html" target="_blank">this</a> thread will give an indication of it. As you can see from the comments in it, LEW ran into difficulty for a number of reasons but the M-A was a not inconsiderable element of its troubles.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Boddynock, post: 4873558, member: 21506"] Both covaithe & P8 were able to be more constructive in their comments than I was: [i]kudos[/i] to them. @renaug1: I'm sorry but I found that I'd finished the scotch already. :lol: @P8: You're right, of course, that Don Incognito is already streets ahead by not attempting to run a dozen games on his own! (If only that were a joke! :() I was aware that I wasn't really adding anything new to the comments already made ... just trying to convey some of the horror of it all. I still think, however, that PBP is better suited to smaller adventures than the grand, overarching schemes. The slow pace (even posting daily) simply makes it too hard to maintain the momentum. @Stringbean2142: It's not really that we can point you to a single record of the difficulties the mega-adventure produced. Rather, it was the toll it took over time on a community of players who were left high and dry when the initiating DM disappeared, and the hit which LEW's creativity took because just about everybody was involved in the M-A and there was no energy or time left for the non-M-A aspects of life in LEW. Perhaps [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/living-en-world/244470-lew-trouble.html]this[/url] thread will give an indication of it. As you can see from the comments in it, LEW ran into difficulty for a number of reasons but the M-A was a not inconsiderable element of its troubles. [/QUOTE]

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