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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reapersaurus" data-source="post: 874809" data-attributes="member: 1194">Shalimar's got me feeling combatative and confrontational (or maybe that's just because my work's setup is blowing up and costing me 2 hours tonight), so I have to ask Tokiwong what I usually ask DM's online that I'm not familiar with:What are your qualifications to DM online? Experience, in other words, and what are your approaches to speed of posting (how often will you post, etc), whether mapping will be done for combat or not, how do you want to deal with questions from players that come up? Should we email issues, or deal with them out front in the OOc thread?As for this particular campaign:Why did you choose Barcelona, Spain?I think you mentioned because you lived/researched there, but are you aware of how much of a strain that puts on us as players?And is this: still in force?We must be natives of Barcelona?What the heck do I know about Barcelona life, to make a realistic, 3 dimensional character, as it seems you prefer?And why 1978?I was 8 then, so I remember vaguely the feel of the times, but I can't realistically be expected to act appropriately for Spain, circa 1978. How bout others?Do you mind if I ask how old you are?Cause 1978 was TOTALLY different than it is today - I'd go so far as to say an alien world to those younger than 28 or so.There was no real remote control for a TV, for god's sake. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" />You bought music on an album, or _maybe_ a cassette, more likely an 8-track.Video games didn't exist.Jimmy Carter was president. This was before Ronald Reagan, before stock markets booming and the Yuppie movement, before MTV, before the saturation of world-wide media outlets.America was one step out of the 60's and we mostly listened to Walter Kronkite to find out what was going on in the world.The rest of the world might as well be in a before-1950's mode, when it comes to societal traditions and mores, probably even worse.There was discrimination rampant, not even a real attempt to level playing fields, women hardly had careers, minorities likewise...  it was just a WHOLE 'nother ballgame.And you want us, and yourself, to attempt to transport ourselves to this other world...  WHY?Because you don't like some of the later canon of the World of Darkness, I'd be totally guessing?Would it be a better idea to just ignore the aspects of 'official' WoD world-events that you don't like?Just tell us what world you want us to play in - I think from the character-talk we've been doing so far, we've provewn how much of a good group of players you're generously offering to DM for.And one last thing:I request that you let us have Merits and Flaws, regardless of whther they 'irk' you.The players have fun with them.Isn't that the point of the game?whew - glad to get that off my chest. *lifts boulder off*</blockquote>

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