Well if you where playing AD&D D&D etc there is plenty to wing it? I use
those systems exclusively and I wing it all the time :) but never play just
because you feel obligated, gaming is a lot like life, don't; force your
self to do ting you don't; want, just because you aught to, for that is the
path that leads to unhappiness.
if you don't; feel like running then don't;, Also you can't please all you
players so you have to please the majority at best or please your self. my
players are not always happy with where I go with the story, and lord know s
I am not all ways happy with what they do. and as for plot lien I have so
far written, and or rewritten the major plot line over 10 times based upon
the party and their actions.
In my current campaign that has been going on a little over a year, the
party sat down before we started and agreed that they would like to
eventually have a water based campaign and would like to become pirates.
they all started their characters off as rogues, and all have plans to multi
class their was to what they wanted to be in the long run, one a warrior ,
one a wizard , one a sorcerer etc. well first off the party ended up with
confecting personality, then they took various tern and such, and now I
currently have a vampire/rogue/wizard who is engaged to a half demon but she
doesn't know that he is half demon, and she become a vampire at the behest
of her fiancés aunt. A former Lich halfling wizard/thief, who has been
currently cured of his lichdom and has one year to free a devil from his
trap, or else he dies, and a Rogue/ warrior, who was a vampire for a while
but she has gotten better and is currently pursuing a set of magical armful
that when all the pieces are put together will make her invincible.
what a long strange trip it has been, but both I and my players seem to have
fun so I run
Ken
now don't; get me started on the campaign I am a player in, that I can't
stand to show up to, but feel obligated because the GM is a player in my
campaign, and if I don't; show up my wife wont go, and if we don't; show up
he wont have enough players to have him run
Gygax is to Gaming what Kirby was to comics.
Alas poor Elric I was a thousand times more evil then you.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert A. Howard"
To:
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 7:55 PM
Subject: Re: GM: Never again...
> At 04:19 PM 10/11/2001 -0500, Robert A. Howard wrote:
>
> >It was no fun. It was painful, just about.
> >
> >I'm glad it's finally over.
>
> Okay, then I have to ask... why did you continue? *curious look* I've
had
> slumps -- I'm in one right now due to my crew not following subplots and
me
> being unable to get them together on a regular basis. But I've always
said
> that when it comes down to being a duty, and a responsibility, and no fun
> anymore... then its time to say its over. Because at that point how can I
> be sure I'm making it fun for everyone else? And why torture
> myself? Personally, I'm not that altruistic. *smiles*
> ------------------
>
> Because I've run over a half dozen games and not had them *end*. They just
> petered out and ceased running, due to RL interfering and the like. The
> group was complaining (well, the two members who've been with me since day
> 1) that I never end a game. So I *had* to finish this one.
>
> I had an obligation of sorts, and I also cut through bits that I felt
could
> be done away with. And also things just started dragging on because the
> players sensed it with me and thus things became silly. And while the
silly
> was fun... it didn't change things. And also one of those core players was
> an adamant Hack & Slasher (ironic as I know of few women gamers who stay
in
> the H&S mindset) so I *couldn't* focus just on the silly.
>
> Perhaps if it had been a Diceless gaming system where I could wing it
> more... then things might have been different. I'm not sure.
>
> But then again I'd *still* have to keep track of a half dozen or more
things
> (NPCs, enemies, some players...)
>
> ------------------
> So I'm curious... why did you continue if you weren't enjoying it?
> -----------------
>
> Because it was my responsibility to end it. Which I did.
> Thank the Goddess it's done. *sigh*
>
> -----------------
> D.
>
> Rob
>
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