Posted by:
Carl
on
11/30/2009 2:01:02 PM
I told him I didn't know. Do you?
While thinking about the difficulties of scheduling sessions, and the bullshit I've posted so far about video conferencing and hanging it all up and juxtaposing that against Alexis' stuff about, "it's called a WORK of art, not a PLAY of art!" (pardon my brutal mis-quotation, Alexis, I'm going for effect) I thought of a few work-arounds for our situation.
The first one is, schedule a game and show up. Yes, this means you, reader. If I have not met you personally, and you read this blog and you would still like to play, let me know. We can arrange a meeting and go through an introduction and get to know each other a little. If you still want to play after all that, we'll figure something out. If you already play in the game and I do know you, and you still want to play, schedule the game and show up. I'll have something for you.
I don't want to fail to schedule a game because not enough people showed up. That's bullshit. If it's me and one other person, we can game. I'm throwing the party out the window here in the metaphysical sense. We have a player group that has enough characters that if even one person shows up, we can have a game.
So what happens to all the other (player) characters when their players aren't there? One simple answer is that they're in cold sleep. Another simple answer is that they're so busy attending their crew station on the ship that they were unable to participate directly in the day's adventure. We've discussed this in-person and on this blog. This will hurt continuity a bit among the players and will likely mean that when particular players aren't there, the session doesn't further their goals (which may be critical to the survival of the ship) or it may mean that the next time we all get together no one knows what the fuck is going on. That happens already, so I don't think this is going to hurt us more.
Do you want to game? Propose a date in the comments. I'll tell you whether I can make it happen or not. As of yesterday, I'm scheduled for non-gaming activities until December 19th. I have some events to attend (like the Child's Play Auction) but I will be happy to try and accommodate requests.
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