Hi
Since Paul has not posted anything to the list for almost a
month (despite several requests) I'm doing something drastic.
As the list maintainer and god-father of Celandra, I'm nominating
a new GM to Qaiyore game: me.
If someone has any objections, please voice them right now.
(If someone wants to say something positive, don't hesitate
either :-). Paul, if you want to continue as GM, please respond
to this email ASAP.
1. Why me?
It's been a time since I last GMed an IH game; but I did it
for a few years, so I know what I'm getting into. Also, I'm
intimately familiar with the rules so no learning curve there.
I think these two issues have been the biggest issues for new
GMs.
Ever since I quit GMing Elyria several years ago, I have often
thought about starting to GM again, but have felt that I
don't have time for it. Now, I feel that I have both the
time and the motivation. Motivation #1 is that GMing IH-game
is fun. Motivation #2 is that I'm rewriting the IH rules,
and I will need a testbench to work them. Nothing very
big changes, but something that will hopefully make
the game more playable.
2. Bear with me
I'm not very familiar with Qaiyore - having followed the
Qaiyore game only superficially - but I'm flexible and will
listen to advice. Also, I have read "Speakers and Kings"
(and enjoyed it enormously), so I do have some kind of
background information. Other than that, please enlighten
me.
Oh, and I'm not native english speaking person, either,
so my grammar (or wording) will probably sometimes be
less than perfect. Feel free to correct me in those cases.
3. About schedule:
- I promise to keep a 1 month per year schedule.
We could go faster - 3 weeks/year - but I'll
not promise that.
- I promise to send some info to the mailing list
each week, at least, so people know what I'm doing
and that I'm alive.
- I promise to answer any questions (directly
pointed to me) on the list, or on primate email,
within a few days. This includes action
submissions.
- Exceptions to these are longer holidays, which
I'll inform the list beforehand.
- I promise to be the GM for one year (real time).
Beyond that, I don't make any promises.
- Hmmm... I suppose I should add a disclaimer here:
the above is of course only my intent - what is the
reality will remain to be seen.
4. What now:
- I'll wait a week for any objections to me being the GM.
If there are no objections:
- One week from now (well, even sooner, but I'll not
respond before), I'll except all current societies
(the list Paul gathered can be found below) to REsend
their actions for this year to the list (or me, but
I do prefer the list). I'll resolve them ASAP.
Since my familiarity with each society and their
history is somewhat lacking, please make
your actions "wordy": include any relevant history
behind the actions to the action description.
I expect that my initial resolutions will require
some tweaking / correction due to my incomplete
knowledge, but that should not take long. I except
to be able to start the next year 4 weeks from now.
- Oh, and is there anyone who would volunteer to
keep the website uptodate? (Or provide me with a
zip-file of the contents of the website so that
I can start to do it myself?)
6. Players:
Andrew Janssen, Cedonia
Ibrahim Underwood, Republic of Kaeir
Joel Elfman, East Torphan aka Burcany
M. Keaton as secondry GM, The Eerith
Paul Corrish, Tanimbar
M. Keaton as proxy for Jason Heaps, Mir
Geoff Bonn, Cormenaera
Mellian, Razians
Anyone else wanting to play, please email to the list.
Right now, I prefer all discussions to take place on the
list.
juuso
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