Wai o wai
Why, oh why did I get involved in this?
So, being Prince was really more of an out of character decision than anything. Yeah, that's right, I meta-gamed to become Prince. I thought that I could make the game better, by making the hard choices. So I stood up, and I took the ball, and I'm running with it. Right into a wall. A maze. An obstacle, what have you.
I'm going to do something I don't think a group of players will like at all, because it has to be done. I can't reward people for not being here, for not interacting with people, and for just generally sitting back and watching the fun happen. I can't do it. I won't do it.
People who come to gave, who try to get into their characters, and who want to have fun should be rewarded. They are the ones who want to make the game better, and who have engaged it, who have taken my new found sense of "Hell yeah!" and ran with it. I want to make this game more fun for them, so that they'll bring in more people, and make the game more fun for everyone.
There are people who get in my way. Who are going to. They further split into two groups: those who are active, and want to change the game dynamic to suit their character needs, and those who stay at home, and watch from the sidelines.
The group who will get in my way while being at game? I don't mind that. I look forward to that (sort of). I can interact with them, and don't have to shout at them over the internet about how much they suck. I can tell them that to their faces. ;) We can laugh at afters! I can look back and say "Damn he's good!"
People who don't show up? People who think they're entitled to something because they got in at the ground floor, and haven't done anything for it? What can I say? I'm supremely frustrated.
It's one thing to come to game only a few times in a year, because you live far away (and hell, some of our players come anyway) but that should be part of the character. Either that, or you should make the sacrifice in time and money, as some of thos eplayers have. Who show up, and play the game. But players who sit back, who don't live particularly far away, and who cling to what power they have without working for it?
It frustrates me.
I got into this wild craze with Mage. I'm doing the internet thing, I'm loving my character, and I've played him like...twice. I've had a lot of weird and cool conversations with him about having sex with concepts, about the nature of memory and Wisdom, and I feel like his is a rewarding play experience. I -love- playing Kujang. He's one of my favorite characters already, and he's less than a month old.
But I'm lost trying to play JP. It's just a game, and I'm agonizing over the next few days, because I will be unleashing a shit storm. I dunno where it's going to go, and all I want is the game to go on alright. All for a little stability.
I encourage anyone who has Chicago to read the section on Prince Maxwell,. He's in the exact same predicament. The difference is, his covenant may not like him, but they respect the fact that he has the authority to do it. I dunno if I have that, so I guess we'll find out.
So, being Prince was really more of an out of character decision than anything. Yeah, that's right, I meta-gamed to become Prince. I thought that I could make the game better, by making the hard choices. So I stood up, and I took the ball, and I'm running with it. Right into a wall. A maze. An obstacle, what have you.
I'm going to do something I don't think a group of players will like at all, because it has to be done. I can't reward people for not being here, for not interacting with people, and for just generally sitting back and watching the fun happen. I can't do it. I won't do it.
People who come to gave, who try to get into their characters, and who want to have fun should be rewarded. They are the ones who want to make the game better, and who have engaged it, who have taken my new found sense of "Hell yeah!" and ran with it. I want to make this game more fun for them, so that they'll bring in more people, and make the game more fun for everyone.
There are people who get in my way. Who are going to. They further split into two groups: those who are active, and want to change the game dynamic to suit their character needs, and those who stay at home, and watch from the sidelines.
The group who will get in my way while being at game? I don't mind that. I look forward to that (sort of). I can interact with them, and don't have to shout at them over the internet about how much they suck. I can tell them that to their faces. ;) We can laugh at afters! I can look back and say "Damn he's good!"
People who don't show up? People who think they're entitled to something because they got in at the ground floor, and haven't done anything for it? What can I say? I'm supremely frustrated.
It's one thing to come to game only a few times in a year, because you live far away (and hell, some of our players come anyway) but that should be part of the character. Either that, or you should make the sacrifice in time and money, as some of thos eplayers have. Who show up, and play the game. But players who sit back, who don't live particularly far away, and who cling to what power they have without working for it?
It frustrates me.
I got into this wild craze with Mage. I'm doing the internet thing, I'm loving my character, and I've played him like...twice. I've had a lot of weird and cool conversations with him about having sex with concepts, about the nature of memory and Wisdom, and I feel like his is a rewarding play experience. I -love- playing Kujang. He's one of my favorite characters already, and he's less than a month old.
But I'm lost trying to play JP. It's just a game, and I'm agonizing over the next few days, because I will be unleashing a shit storm. I dunno where it's going to go, and all I want is the game to go on alright. All for a little stability.
I encourage anyone who has Chicago to read the section on Prince Maxwell,. He's in the exact same predicament. The difference is, his covenant may not like him, but they respect the fact that he has the authority to do it. I dunno if I have that, so I guess we'll find out.