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  1. GM's "rights"

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    Re: GM's "rights"

     

    Way over in many cases. Though I think Rachel may think that more than some of us. ;)

     

    Listen to the rodent, TheHermit. He knows whereof which he speaks. lol

     

    And Rachel's stayin' away from the boards at the moment, so a lot of the restraints are off!!

  10. GM's "rights"

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    Seriously, what do you want me to say? I don't know bblackmoor, never talked to him, couldn't tell you his real name. Jack's plagarist bit twigged me to something I'd wondered about when I was looking at the GG pages last week. I asked him about it, and it carried on from there.

     

    He acted like it wasn't a big deal, and then I pointed out that since he said he was creating almost everything in the GG universe, yeah, it was a big deal. He tried to treat me like a fool by throwing up a link and a page that not weren't there last week, but that just a little searching could find out hand't been there for a year before, and saying "Didn't you see that?" I called him on it, and now he's just calling me names. (Okay, I called him a weasel first. Shouldn't have done that.)

     

    Instead of getting "We need to get that up" or "We forgot about that" or something normal, not only do I get this crap, not only do I get lumped in with the rest of the folks that might have said a discouraging word that Jack heard, I become one of those other people.

     

    So, yeah. I've gone from a guy who had a question about a website to a guy who's wondering just how tightly wrapped the guy at the other end of the computer line is.

     

    Actually, that's probably a good rule for Internet users everywhere, come to think of it.

     

    Personally, I'm usually unwrapped. :winkgrin:

  12. GM's "rights"

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    Its clear you have a personal problem with how Worldmaker runs his PBEM, which you have doggedly pursued in numerous threads at this point. Not every game is for every player. No one is compelling you to play in WM's game and no one is compelling his players to play in his game. They play in it because they've found they enjoy it. To suggest that the fact that they enjoy playing in a game or game style you do not care for means they have no self-respect is arrogant in the extreme.

     

    I am known for being an open-minded GM who is willing to negotiate insofar as the concept doesn't change the overall nature of the game or make my life difficult in plot and balance areas - and I honestly don't think you'd last in my game. The first time you turned to the other players to "get consensus" on your character they would shrug and send you to me and I would send you packing. I've got a good thing going and there are other games out there for you to enjoy.

     

    Yes, the players need to have a general say in the genre and style of play, but once a game is afoot the GM has invests a great deal of effort into building that vision from the ground up and should have a lot of say in maintaining it and keeping it on course. Worldmaker's game is a pre-existing game world that has been running for some time and has players who enjoy the way things are. A new player coming into that world, especially since its a PBEM game, should fully comprehend the fact that it has a direction its headed in and "auditors" to ensure that the whole house of cards doesn't come crashing down.

     

    I ran a successful and popular game (three interlaced campaigns, really) that lasted for thirteen years. That kind of endurance and players who kept coming back chomping at the bit for more week after week tells my I must have been running something they liked - but it was a game with limited possible origins and characters who had to meet a specific set of parameters. The players accepted this, and because it required them to consider and invest in their characters - led them to be its biggest enforcers.

     

    New players coming into that game had to understand some concepts were okay and some weren't, and that I was going to audit the hell out of not just their characters, but them as well. And my auditing system was suggested by one of my players after we had a bad experience with a newbiew who wouldn't get on the page with the rest of us. I can't have been that big a tyrant - I've been asked to start a fourth freedom patrol campaign as a PBEM game.

     

    Everytime this general topic comes up and WM makes a comment you take the opportunity to attack his game and the way he runs it. Its demonstrative of a bigger problem on your part than his from where I sit. There are a lot of games on the wide-world of the net. His simply wasn't for you. Let it go.

     

    Disclaimer: I am not now, nor have I ever, played in Worldmaker's game.

     

    Is saying "I love you" in response to this post inappropriate? :D I'd rep ya if I hadn't already done so recently.

  13. GM's "rights"

    in Champions

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    Re: GM's "rights"

     

    Frankly' date=' I find the entire concept of an "auditor" way over the line: way past being merely "heavy handed" (which is bad, but tolerable). Any self-respecting person who would put up with such nonsense must be truly desperate. If I were that desperate, I'd find another hobby. No one should submit to that sort of abuse, and no one needs to.[/quote']

     

    I don't get this at all.

     

    You're running a world with well over a hundred characters and you want it to be consistent. How is an auditor or team of auditors bad? That's what a GM does with every single character in a game. He audits them. Is it the term "auditor" that causes the over reaction on your part?

     

    Or do you think that there should be no controls placed by someone in charge of a shared gaming universe?

     

    I have plenty of self respect, thank you very much. Your attempt at belittling me and the other GGU players was woefully misplaced and pretty much unappreciated. Or are you trying to make this personal with people?

  16. Longest Running Thread EVER

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    Re: Longest Running Thread EVER

     

    THIS ....

    ... is my thousandth post. I am posting for the sole purpose of self-aggrandizement regarding that particular milestone. Carry on. :D

     

    Actually, most of us just start a thread. More self-aggrandizing that way. :winkgrin:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Well, Rachel never has, but someone always seems to pick up on it and post one for her. lol

     

    Congrats! :D:celebrate

  17. The cranky thread

    in Non-Gaming Discussion

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    Re: The cranky thread

     

    People who have no sense of humor concerning jokes about their candidate shouldn't tell jokes about the other candidate. Or post threads telling "jokes" about the opposition.

     

    Especially when it's readily apparent by the tone that they're doing it out of nothing more than spite.

     

    Grow up already, boys. Please.

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