I just want to laud to the high heavens the work of John Howell, one of the 
Master players who does the web site maintenance for the game. He has 
recently given the the whole thing a very graphics/flavor/map laden look that 
is a  real treat.  This is a player who is really contributing to the game 
with more than "posting."  

Additionally, I an thinking of experimenting in the near future with 
'lurkers' taking on the role of major/minor NPC's as the story evolves.  
They'll post directly to me, and then I will forward on to the players. This 
will give me a chance to get a feel of the lurkers skills and will be a 
factor in deciding who moves up to plaeyer status for replacements, as well 
as taking some of the load off my shoulders. Has anyonne ever tried this?

 It has always seemed to me that players are more inventive than the DM will 
ever be as they can take the time to be "vested" in one player and look at 
the world from that character's point of view. By using lurkers, I hope that 
they will come up with interesting and unique responses for these smaller 
characters to the saga. 

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