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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eluvan" data-source="post: 1954933" data-attributes="member: 24812">Uhhh... okay. You guys aren't going to like what I have to say, but here goes: There is no way on Earth I'm going to be ready to send my template any time soon. I have no plans. I have no conception of what's going on. I have only the faintest idea of what I actually have to work with. My knowledge of the rules is hazy at best.  Maybe this is simply because of my negligence, but... this is why I wanted to drop out a while ago. Because I saw this coming. I got back from my holidays a couple of days ago. Since then I've had maybe an hour a day I can spare to keep up with my commitments on this and many other message boards. Perhaps 50 minutes of that hour has been taken up with posting in the regular games I'm involved with, taking care of my repsonsibilities as a moderator on another board, emailing people, and general house keeping. That was true before I went away, too. So I've had, on average, maybe 10 minutes per day to devote to this game. Now... I was aware that that didn't seem to be enough. It seemed to me like I would need a great deal more than that just to keep up with diplomacy and the lightning-fast speed of posting on these OOC threads, let alone actually plotting and working out what I should be doing.  But when I expressed this, I was assured that it would be okay, that the speed of posting here was deceptive, that I didn't need to know that much about the world of Greyhawk, that if I wanted to play more as a roleplaying game than a strategy game that was okay and, in fact, almost expected. Now I'm being thrown in at the deep end, basically just being told 'okay, go. What are you going to do?'  Now I'm not blaming you guys for this. I should have realised that I didn't have the time or inclination to commit to this game what it needs and deserves, and that the protestations to the contrary I received when I tried to quit were exaggerated and misleading. I shouldn't have fooled myself into thinking I could manage it. I certainly shouldn't have let myself be so carried away with enthusiasm for the game that I not only stayed in but took it upon myself to take one of the biggest factions in the game and therefore take a major role. So... I apologise. I've been foolish. But now I see no obvious way out of this quandary. I don't really want to quit. I don't want to let you guys down like that, and despite everything I've said I do genuinely think that this game looks a lot of fun. But I'm not prepared to string you all along. I don't know what the hell I'm doing, I'm out of my depth, and I simply don't have the hours upon hours it would require for me to catch up and get on top of it all. Those are the facts. I feel like you guys deserve to know them. What needs to be done about it I really don't know. If you feel like the best thing to do would be to cut our losses and have me leave the game, I will bow out. If not, I'll od my best to keep struggling along. But seriously, I feel like I've just been caught out sitting at the back of an advanced calculus class trying not to be noticed because I never paid attention in primary school and I don't even know how to add up.</blockquote>

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