The joys of Skype gaming

[em_gumby]

 Tonight while running Dark Heresy I managed to really press one of my players buttons without realizing, and that player eventually dropped out of the game for the evening.  This was really discouraging and saddening for me - one of the main reasons that I run Dark Heresy is because it affords me an opportunity to game with this particular player

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[markwalt]

Misunderstandings among friends happen in any situation. I wouldn't stress over it too much, just talk to the player and let him know how you feel about it, and encourage him to do the same.

[em_gumby]

Mark,

very true. I intend to call my friend tomorrow to try to deal with the interpersonal aspects of the problem, but without more information on the specifics of what and why my friend was upset, I can't really seek advice on that (maybe tomorrow).

But I want to use the incident in a productive way to improve my GMing as well. Since I am going to be GMing a lot by Skype, I need to learn the medium better so that I can improve the gaming experience.

[em_gumby]

Forgot to update this, but I wanted to let you know that my friend called me (about 10 minutes before I called him) and on the interpersonal level everything worked out.

I had a very interesting revelation from the conversation we had too. My friend felt bad about some things, and was very worried about how his acts would affect the game, and his relationship with me. I told him it was none of it a big deal, and that no harm had been done, and that he shouldn't spend time worrying about it.

Then I got off the phone and realized that pretty much everything I had been telling him was no big deal was stuff that I myself have fretted over unceasingly for days and sometimes weeks at a time.

Reality scores a TKO!