(OOC) Transformers: Robots in Disguise!

[Vendetta]

Methinks the game be dead...

Anyway... I want to be a good GM here at EnWorld. Its quite different from face to face gaming. I'm generally a good enough GM live, but I know I've got plenty of room to grow. I'd like to GM another couple of games here, specifically, a homebrew based on my novel and a Champions(tm) adventure (and possibly a Spycraft(tm) adventure)...

But I don't want to flop those adventures. Please, help me grow as an EnWorld GM and tell me what I need to improve on here. Do I lead the players too much? Not enough? Not interesting? More descriptions? Less descriptions? I've only gotten to be in a couple of games that actually have survived and I try to mimick what those GMs do in so far as what it is that I think is successful. But I really do want to grow here at EnWorld because I think that I have stories to tell... please help me do that (Ie. be cruel if you have to... I'm a big boy, I can take it )

 

[hafrogman]

Well, it has nothing to do with you, but obviously one of our problems is the fact that Kalanyr has been lost from the net (mostly) and won't be back for a couple of months. I got really busy back in December and have had a hard time getting back to the thick of it.

Still, even if the game is dead dead, you shouldn't blame yourself.


There really doesn't seem to be a whole lot that guarentees the success of a game. You just have to keep plugging at it. The one thing I can think of that will help is to never give up. If your players stop posting, poke them with a stick. If they seem confused make some decisions for them. If they don't like it, tell them to start making their own choices again If they stop posting, get new players. The longest running games here always seem to have been nearly dead at some point or another, the trick is to just keep beating at them until they stagger back to their feet.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Still, even if the game is dead dead, you shouldn't blame yourself.

V, yeah this one isn't your fault... I'm probably the most to blame as I missed update after update. I'm not sure if others have noticed but with the loss of email notifications the number of games I'm in has decrease dramatically... Its not really a hidden fact but I have ADD and I need almost constant posts from others, or constant reminders from other sources, like email, to make my posts... It didn't help that I got pushed into leading this rag tag band and that to be honest I think I know the least amount of details about the setting... I'm always leery of posting, its almost work... and when its work its not as fun.

The story is/has been a great one and sort of posting in your player's name theirs not much you could do.

I know we also lost rangerjohn a few weeks back...

The longest running games here always seem to have been nearly dead at some point or another, the trick is to just keep beating at them until they stagger back to their feet.

Yup, a wonderful point, it’s the nature of the beast...

 

[Vendetta]

Down two players is rough... We could open for recruitment, if you guys still want to play. I can send Bushido and Phoenix off on a mission to the moon

Either way, I am willing to keep plugging along, even if it is just you two and something that only happens with a couple posts a week... let me know what you guys want to do... and don't feel like you have to play. If you'd like to just drop it and have one less game to worry about, that's not a problem... just let me know what you guys want to do.

 

[hafrogman]

Well, I'd still be interested in continuing. I seem to be loosing games (either permenantly or indefinatehiatus) a lot lately. So even if you cancelled the game, I'd just turn around and join any new game you started

One problem with recruiting would be finding anyone with the book. But I guess we could try guiding someone through creation.

 

[Kalanyr]

I'm still interested as hafrogman said. I just have hell being reliable with my dearest mother controlling my net access. If it starts up again I'll try and post sporadically and be back in full gear in late February.

 

[Vendetta]

this adventure has, by design, the ability to stay small or grow as we see fit. (I tend to always leave room for adjustments in my games just because I'm used to players being able to make it one day and not the next.)

I think Deadestdai might be interested in joining us once he's gotten his feet back on the ground, what with Juniordeadestdai arriving recently. We'll see on that. But yeah... Kalanyr, no worries... post when you can and maybe you'll be back full time. We'll just go slow and pick up steam then and see what happens. I don't mind slow, as long as I know that is what we are trying to do. I just get paranoid otherwise.

I'm not going anywhere.

PS: hafrogman, you, as well as any of you guys, are welcome in any game I decide to start here. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed your character creations... it got me SO back into Transformers (I'm working on getting some of the old classic "re-issue" transformers (with metal parts and all) that are at various toy stores. Pickings have been slim, but I got Prowl and Skywarp. They go well with my original Optimus Prime (the only surviving t-former that I still have from when I was a lad))

 

[Vendetta]

Oh yeah... there is a post in the RP section, we're moving on

 

[Vendetta]

Hello all. Just wanted to plug a game that I’m starting. It is a homebrewed adventure set in the world of my novel. I hope that you guys might be interested and at least check it out. It will use standard D&D 3.5 rules and characters.

Dangerous Legacy

Thanks

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

I guess I should have made this official sometime ago but I just lack the time right now to keep going in this game... Vendetta it has nothing to do with you or your DMing skills as there both superb, I’ve changed job responsibilities at work and my free time has become more limited, and I’m in the process of working on a setting/system for my true love from the 80’s… (I'll have more details later if anyone is interested...)

I would like to think this is just temporary but I just don’t know for sure.