Hagnk's in Trouble! Quickly, Robin! To Kingston!

[holylucifer]

Nate and I went down to Kingston today in order to help Liz with her car. Hagnk (the car) had lost the charge in his battery, and couldn't start. The attempts to convince him otherwise were fruitless. We brought Liz to her mother's house, where we were given brownies. It was a fun trip, and we got to talk about his upcoming Hunter game. It's

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[celiskywalker]

*waves* Long time no see! You should come visit us some weekend if you have time.

I think it is possible to have a GMed email or forum or LJ game with rules, but that it requires a GM with lots of patience and time and a specific type of both story and system.

I tend to find my happy medium in system/combat/etc during sessions of a tabletop and when I want RP related goodness when I'm bored between sessions either writing backstory for XP or systemless chatting/RPing with other characters or NPCs. That requires though other characters with similar interests. I find I usually end up chatting with NPCs between sessions more often than not.

[instigator_ash]

What she said!

What's worked for me is to have my own, internal rules, more stringent than the game's, that I myself must live up to. My own are:

-An opponent is not to be confronted unless the outcome is in doubt. A done deal fight is no fun.
-All plans are subject to change. All other players have the right to interrupt my plans.
-My plot must be more powerful than me.
-My plot must require interaction with other people to move forward.
-A post most contain drama, humor, or character development, or it will not be posted. Ideally it should contain all three.

These rules keep the game lively and interesting enough for me. By battling against the limitations they impose, I always have somewhere to go or something to run from, and it keeps me from falling into the "look at these cool powers" thing that people often get stuck in in free-form roleplaying. They keep me always thinking about "What are this character's problems" rather than "what are this character's resources".

[believe2000]

free time is easy to aquire, just pack in your stuff, cut out tv, and rest times, some sleep is still neccesary, but you can have fun and work full time too!

[believe2000]

True. You can ask the boy, I am either at work or on my way to work from 9-8 most days and still manage to run a table top about every other weekend. (And I still get ~ 8 hours of sleep).

The scheduling with everyone else who also has a job is probably the hardest part. ;-)

[believe2000]

True. You can ask the boy, I am either at work or on my way to work from 9-8 most days and still manage to run a table top about every other weekend. (And I still get ~ 8 hours of sleep).

The scheduling with everyone else who also has a job is probably the hardest part. ;-)

-Celi@work

[silentrogue47]

If you're desperate, there's always the Camarilla.

But that means LARPing and retarded international rules conventions, and perspectives on that varies.