On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 02:02:23PM -0600, Carl D Cravens wrote: >Now what if I want to write some root-posts myself, but I don't want >to take the time to enter into an unfruitful discussion with twenty >people every time I do? Killfiles. Or if you've got a reasonably civilised community you can say "look, I want to talk about X; I know Y may invalidate it, but for the purposes of this thread I'd like to ignore that". That's worked for me on Pyramid. Or you can separate "things I want to discuss" (which become mailing list or news posts) from "things I just want to say" (which become articles on a web site). I think the "comment on any article" paradigm of the blog is actively unhelpful in generating any sort of distinction between these two sorts of post. >The only reason you're together is because you call have "PC" stamped >on your foreheads. I'd like to develop something deeper. It's not >essential, but I think it would help me from the GM side of things. I've come to the point where I do this as part of the campaign setup. "You're all people working for this organisation, and they've assigned you to the same team" is something I say _before_ character generation, so that I won't get a bunch of loner PCs (and so that there's some justification for a complementary skill set). For my current Atlantis campaign, I've bound the PCs together only by an ominous dream they all had on the same night, and they recognise each other from it; there's a bit more in-party conflict than I usually go for, but this is a good group and they won't let it get out of hand. A quote from the most recent session: Old experienced fighter: Have you ever actually been in combat before? Young enthusiastic fighter: Yes! It's great, isn't it? Completely by coincidence, the young fighter was entirely unwounded, and the two older ones were severely knocked about (and poisoned)... -- Roger, gaming grognard Lots of role-playing stuff: http://tekeli.li/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
