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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eluvan" data-source="post: 1955463" data-attributes="member: 24812">Edena - my sudden horror wasn't your fault. I posted this as a reaction to your email, yes, but you don't need to feel guilty. Your email just prompted me into realising that I needed to do something soon, which in turn made me realise that I didn't have any idea what I wanted to do. You don't need to feel like you're driving me off.  Also, it is worth noting that I was probably unfair in my appraisal of how much time I have spare above. In all honesty, if I wanted to, I could probably make the time to devote as much time to this IR as anybody does. I could spend an hour every day when I would normally be playing Neverwinter Knights instead poring over Greyhawk websites, conducting diplomacy, and dreaming up plots and schemes. But I lack that level of commitment. I'm not prepared to elevate this so far over and above all the other games I play. I feel I need to make that clear, because I don't want to deceive anybody into thinking that I'm snatching ten minutes out of a hectic schedule every day to post here.  My problem is not really with not understanding the rules. I realise that that does not have to be a problem, and frankly it wouldn't take more than half an hour to figure them out once and for all even if I did think it was a big deal. My problem is more general than that - I just feel kind of bewildered. So many players seem to be constantly plotting away and spending vast chunks of time writing fiction related to the IR. Even those players who are not so active give the impression of having a well-defined plan - Creamsteak, for instance, spoke a few pages back of 'having plans' and being 'sure that everybody else did too' (that's paraphrased, and may be misattributed). Well, I sure don't. I have no idea whatsoever what it is I want to achieve, beyond some general concept of 'win' or 'stop the world being destroyed'. Hell, I don't even know the first thing about half of the territories I'm controlling. Peopel are making alliances and pacts and talking to devils and blowing stuff up and relocating their entire races and god only knows what else that has been communicated privately. Meanwhile the League of Athyr just sits there, completely disconnected from the rest of Oerth, because I have no conception of what any of this means, or what reaction would be appropriate - let alone how I might go about taking the initiative for myself in a sensible manner. Admittedly, that is entirely my fault. If I devoted more time to this game I could have done the research and could now be feeling confident and ready to execute my plans. But... with all the blame in the world palce dupon my shoulders, I still don't know what I'm going to do.  I don't mean to whine, and everything I've posted above is something of an exaggeration, born of all the stress I'm feeling right now just being allowed to run rampant. I'm sure that I will be able to come up with something sensible, and get a template submitted at some point in the near future. But right now it's not feeling fun. It's feeling like a losing uphill battle to keep abreast of everything that's going on. Right now I'm in the game out of duty, not desire. I hope that will change once it gets underway.</blockquote>

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