The following games have no current activity: 7thorder arcainus forge postcon rumors who-rpg They, and their archives, will be moved offline shortly, unless someone registers an objection promptly. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Game(s): The Whole Phoenyx Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/
I left one off that list: "morethings". -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Game(s): The Whole Phoenyx Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:10:59PM -0600, Karen J. Cravens wrote: > The following games have no current activity: > > 7thorder > arcainus > forge > postcon > rumors > who-rpg > > They, and their archives, will be moved offline shortly, unless someone > registers an objection promptly. You can also move morethings offline, as that game is also dead.... :( -Rob -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Game(s): Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Robert A. Knop Jr. wrote:
RAKJ>You can also move morethings offline, as that game is also dead.... :(
You'll have seen that I caught that one. The others were dead, that one
was undead. ("Current" activity that was really just someone saying "Hey,
this is dead." Fools the status-checker script, but not the humans, who
are just a little slower.)
So on a positive note, here are the games that appear to be alive:
akus
alienlight
bohavia
celandra
cragbain
fantasy
glitglam
greatforest
kalyr
realms
A couple of those are barely breathing; gamemasters who need help (of any
kind) should holler.
Aaaand, I'll be writing a scholarly paper soon on "Tendencies of PBeM
Games To Be In The First Half Of The Alphabet." Clearly I'm going to have
to reverse-sort the pbemlist page soon.
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Karen J. Cravens wrote: > So on a positive note, here are the games that appear to be alive: > > akus"It's alive, Alive I tell you!" Akus has been suffering from real-life, burnout, and logistics problems for some time, but through it all we keep chugging along. We're coming up on 8 years now! I've got three threads going: trying to rescue a kidnapped 8 year old girl, looking for a "lost imperial library", and dealing with a murderous gang of ner'dowells...and now we have two ships to deal with. :) I think the two ships are going to split up for a while taking half the pc's off on one adventure (the library) and the rest of the pc's off on the other (the rescue and gang). Eris -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Game(s): erisred@bellsouth.net Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/
"Karen J. Cravens" wrote: > > The following games have no current activity: > > 7thorder > arcainus > forge > postcon > rumors > who-rpg > > They, and their archives, will be moved offline shortly, unless someone > registers an objection promptly. > -- -------------------------------------------------------------- > Game(s): The Whole Phoenyx > Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/ *Objections* Will probably get some activity on who-rpg, just as soon as I can tell them what I do for a living ... and failing that, when the new series comes back on March 26th. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Game(s): Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/
> The following games have no current activity: > > rumors > > They, and their archives, will be moved offline shortly, unless someone > registers an objection promptly. No objection on /Rumors/. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Game(s): Rumors of War / Science Fiction Category Editor Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/
UUSupers is alive and kicking as well. We took a break for the holidays but are in the process of getting spun up again. ;-)
Have Fun,
Darren
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Robert A. Knop Jr. wrote:
>
> RAKJ>You can also move morethings offline, as that game is also dead.... :(
>
> You'll have seen that I caught that one. The others were dead, that one
> was undead. ("Current" activity that was really just someone saying "Hey,
> this is dead." Fools the status-checker script, but not the humans, who
> are just a little slower.)
>
> So on a positive note, here are the games that appear to be alive:
>
> akus
> alienlight
> bohavia
> celandra
> cragbain
> fantasy
> glitglam
> greatforest
> kalyr
> realms
>
> A couple of those are barely breathing; gamemasters who need help (of any
> kind) should holler.
>
> Aaaand, I'll be writing a scholarly paper soon on "Tendencies of PBeM
> Games To Be In The First Half Of The Alphabet." Clearly I'm going to have
> to reverse-sort the pbemlist page soon.
>
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 InfinitePossibilities@comcast.net wrote: > UUSupers is alive and kicking as well. We took a break for the holidays but are in the process of getting spun up again. ;-) For some reason, I always mentally put that one in the "discussion" category, I dunno why. And which includes so many semi-private lists, I never know which ones I should mention here. The Fudge List, GAMERS, and TAO-RP (from one activity extreme to the other) are the three public ones I know of. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Game(s): The Whole Phoenyx Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Karen J. Cravens wrote: > TAO-RP (from one activity extreme to the other) are the three public ones I'm kind of waiting for school to finish before I really start trying to get TAO-RP fired up. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Game(s): Fudge, Worldmaking, Fantasy Co-Editor, Phoenyx Co-Owner Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:10:59PM -0600, Karen J. Cravens wrote: Speaking of Deadwood, anyone got any good suggestions on how to perk up a slowing game? Generic or specific, either's fine. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Game(s): Alien Light Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/
Charles Frederick Goodin wrote: >Speaking of Deadwood, anyone got any good suggestions on how to perk up a >slowing game? Generic or specific, either's fine. One of my New Year's Resolutions is to try and respond to player posts in Kalyr more promptly :) I tend to catch up on posting at weekends, but if I'm away for a couple of weekends in succession we can get an unacceptably longish pause. And I'm going to be away at a con this coming weekend! One problem with Kalyr over the past year or so is that several players (not you!) are very sproradic in posting. Better than one of my games on Dreamlyrics, which is on hiatus because one of the players is in jail.! See http://www.livejournal.com/users/silkenray/ and read from the bottom upwards :( -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Game(s): Kalyr Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Charles Frederick Goodin wrote: CFG>Speaking of Deadwood, anyone got any good suggestions on how to perk up a CFG>slowing game? Generic or specific, either's fine. It sort of depends on where the slowdown's happening. Are the players stumped? Are the players bored? Is the GM stumped? Is the GM burned out? Is real life interfering too much? -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Game(s): The Whole Phoenyx Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:55:19PM -0600, Karen J. Cravens wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Charles Frederick Goodin wrote: > > CFG>Speaking of Deadwood, anyone got any good suggestions on how to perk up a > CFG>slowing game? Generic or specific, either's fine. > > It sort of depends on where the slowdown's happening. > > Are the players stumped? I don't think most of them are. > Are the players bored? Possibly. > Is the GM stumped? Not really. > Is the GM burned out? I think maybe a little. > Is real life interfering too much? Maybe a little. I think it's just that the slowness of posting reaches a critical mass or something, and then it seems like getting back on track is too much effort for too little return. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Game(s): Alien Light Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/
Charles Frederick Goodin wrote: >I think it's just that the slowness of posting reaches a critical mass or >something, and then it seems like getting back on track is too much effort >for too little return. > > Whose slowness of posting? Players interacting with other players, or GM having to wait on a number of players who space out their responses, or... ? -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Game(s): The Whole Phoenyx Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:33:59PM -0600, Karen J. Cravens wrote: > Charles Frederick Goodin wrote: > > >I think it's just that the slowness of posting reaches a critical mass or > >something, and then it seems like getting back on track is too much effort > >for too little return. > > > > > > Whose slowness of posting? Players interacting with other players, or > GM having to wait on a number of players who space out their responses, > or... ? Any or all of the above, in my experience. Also add Players waiting on the GM, which is what I've been guilty of :/ -Rob -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Game(s): Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:33:59PM -0600, Karen J. Cravens wrote: > >I think it's just that the slowness of posting reaches a critical mass or > >something, and then it seems like getting back on track is too much effort > >for too little return. > > > > > > Whose slowness of posting? Players interacting with other players, or > GM having to wait on a number of players who space out their responses, > or... ? Well, all of the above, but I have a few players who are pretty fast and reliable, a few more who post in fits and starts (which I do too) and then I vary from often to rarely. I seem to be getting in a reactive mode, where for a little while I'll only post in response to PC actions. This doesn't really work even in face-to-face...maybe having ID'd this I might be able to do more about it. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Game(s): Alien Light Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Charles Frederick Goodin wrote: CFG>Well, all of the above, but I have a few players who are pretty fast and CFG>reliable, a few more who post in fits and starts (which I do too) and then CFG>I vary from often to rarely. CFG> CFG>I seem to be getting in a reactive mode, where for a little while I'll CFG>only post in response to PC actions. This doesn't really work even in CFG>face-to-face...maybe having ID'd this I might be able to do more about it. We've had some thoughts along these lines, at least as far as technology can help: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamehawk/bryar.cgi/id_153?comments=1 -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Game(s): The Whole Phoenyx Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/
Karen J. Cravens wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Charles Frederick Goodin wrote: > > CFG>Well, all of the above, but I have a few players who are pretty > fast and CFG>reliable, a few more who post in fits and starts (which > I do too) and then CFG>I vary from often to rarely. CFG> CFG>I seem > to be getting in a reactive mode, where for a little while I'll > CFG>only post in response to PC actions. This doesn't really work > even in CFG>face-to-face...maybe having ID'd this I might be able to > do more about it. > > We've had some thoughts along these lines, at least as far as > technology can help: > > http://www.phoenyx.net/gamehawk/bryar.cgi/id_153?comments=1 I like the "cookie" idea, to deal with stale threads. I've been guilty of "forgetting" a player and letting their thread hand for much too long from time to time. I've had the game bog down somewhat, too, when certain players don't respond promptly to posts...I keep waiting for them and eventually end up NPCing a move for them, but if they got a cookie reminder they might move ahead faster, and they didn't and *I* got a reminder that they haven't replied after getting a reminder *I* could move ahead faster. There might be times when I want that cookie set for 2 or 3 people though, not just one person....like, here's a post that Bruce, Suz and Greg need to reply to before we can move on, so cookies could be set for all three and if they don't reply in X days I get a reminder and can move the game on. OTOH, I'm playing in a game where the GM just made a rule, that if you didn't respond to one of his game posts within 24 hours, he would NPC your character for that return post, and everyone would move on. He's strict with the rule, and if you don't like it you can quit...it seems to work in that game. Of course, *he* sometimes disappears for a week or two and we can't NPC his gameworld while he's gone. :) Eris -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Game(s): erisred@bellsouth.net Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Eris Reddoch wrote: I posted the response at: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamehawk/bryar.cgi/id_155?comments=1 (I need to get by-web replies in Bryar working again, but that's all over on the test server right now so it's a little awkward.) -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Game(s): The Whole Phoenyx Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/
>So on a positive note, here are the games that appear to be alive: >A couple of those are barely breathing; gamemasters who need help (of >any kind) should holler. I'm going into surgery this week (little things like unexpectedly having a baby...oh dear, that didn't parse right; I had my baby unexpectedly early, how'bout that?) and such has interrupted the flow, but GlitGlam is still going! (Some of it in private mail, too.) Going to hopefully add some stuff to my co-GM's workload, too. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Game(s): The Glitter and the Glamour Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/
Karen J. Cravens wrote: >The following games have no current activity: > >7thorder >arcainus >forge >postcon >rumors >who-rpg > >They, and their archives, will be moved offline shortly, unless someone >registers an objection promptly. >-- -------------------------------------------------------------- >Game(s): The Whole Phoenyx >Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/ > > > Due some personal and professional issues, postcon has gone silent. I've been intending to do something with it and your little note may just be the impetus to do it. Please bear with me for the time being. Steve of postcon -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Game(s): Steve Hill Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/
At 03:38 08/01/2005, you wrote: >Karen J. Cravens wrote: > > >The following games have no current activity: > > > >7thorder > >arcainus > >forge > >postcon > >rumors > >who-rpg > > > >They, and their archives, will be moved offline shortly, unless someone > >registers an objection promptly. > >-- -------------------------------------------------------------- > >Game(s): The Whole Phoenyx > >Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/ > > > > > > > >Due some personal and professional issues, postcon has gone silent. I've >been intending to do something with it and your little note may just be the >impetus to do it. Please bear with me for the time being. For a long time I haven't done anything with forge... better erase it, yes. Sorry. Best wishes for the new year, Bruce Humphrey -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Game(s): Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners/
Hi,
I'm not sure what to do about Bohavia at the moment as there's nothing
happening with it at the moment. A couple of players have volunteered to
keep it going, but then they just let it languish.
I really wouldn't want to see it die after all the years (and the millions
of words that it has generated over that time), but I am most definitely not
in a position to take it back over myself.
In mid-December I started a strange business in a strange city in a strange
country only to have my business partner quit after ten days because she
couldn't stand the workload, so I'm struggling to say the least. I only
packed enough to last me a couple of weeks and I've been out here a month
already with no possibility of leaving for a couple of months at least.
So we're talking many, many months, if not several years before I may be in
a position to kick-start it back up again.
Has anyone got any suggestions as what to do with it in the interim?
Thanks for your help with this.
Bye for now,
Nick
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From: bounces@phoenyx.net [mailto:bounces@phoenyx.net] On Behalf Of Karen J.
Cravens
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 7:00 AM
To: managers@phoenyx.net
Subject: Re: MGR: Deadwood time
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Robert A. Knop Jr. wrote:
RAKJ>You can also move morethings offline, as that game is also dead.... :(
You'll have seen that I caught that one. The others were dead, that one
was undead. ("Current" activity that was really just someone saying "Hey,
this is dead." Fools the status-checker script, but not the humans, who
are just a little slower.)
So on a positive note, here are the games that appear to be alive:
akus
alienlight
bohavia
celandra
cragbain
fantasy
glitglam
greatforest
kalyr
realms
A couple of those are barely breathing; gamemasters who need help (of any
kind) should holler.
Aaaand, I'll be writing a scholarly paper soon on "Tendencies of PBeM
Games To Be In The First Half Of The Alphabet." Clearly I'm going to have
to reverse-sort the pbemlist page soon.
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