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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vendetta" data-source="post: 2002589" data-attributes="member: 14961">I'd like to know the "Secrets" to this as well.  I've just started DMing here not so long ago and had one game die already and another currently working through.  It is hard to get a feel for what your players are feeling, how the game is lagging, why your players are bored, etc.  In tabletop gaming, I GM a lot and, knowing my players, I can tell when they are starting to get bored or lose interest.  I can then toss something out there to hopefully remedy the situation.  But you don't get that body language in PbP.  It is also hard to feel the rewards of a good scenario.  In tabletop, you can see your players getting excited about a hit, or nervous that they might die, their emotions are on their sleeves and that is motivating to me.  But again, here, you can't see that.  You don't know if your players are even having fun or not.  I wonder if sometimes people are just hanging around hoping something good will happen.  All I know is that when I log in and see 4 or 5 or more posts in the RP thread, I get excited because that gives me, the GM, something more to work with and at the least lets me know people are checking out the thread.  When I log in after 24 hours or so and there is no new post or only one, especially after I post a map and update the situation, it is kind of discouraging.  For me, I just assume people are bored when who knows, they could have gone out of town for the day, had a nice evening with the wife (That means no computer for most wives), Computer was acting funny, EnWorld site itself acting funny (i've often surfed away from EnWorld simply because it was SO SO SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO slow that day/time when I logged in)So... to sum it all up... I have no idea <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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