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The bite of the freeform
Monday, June 6th, 2005 01:37 amIt's interesting how the universe dishes out coincidences.
DT has just come back in a not altogether happy mood from running his Camarilla game; apparently he had to execute a character - which he didn't want to do - because the player was effectively ignoring warnings and in complete breach of Rule 7. The player took it badly; in fact took it personally.
This lead to a reasonably long chat about the nature of writing and running freeforms, and the various responsibilities of players and writers. There is no point in writing and running something if you're getting no fun for the effort. It seems that this is the point - at least with this person - that DT has reached. He doesn't make money out of his efforts, he doesn't charge the players - the venue is free, I understand, provided that there is a reasonable take at the bar when the game is being run. So the position is quite simple, either DT or this player removes himself from the fray. Whether or not it is DT remains to be seen, certainly if he is still interested in running the game, it should be the player who goes. Especially as the player is a) taking it all unreasonably personally, and b) making real-life assertions and accusations about DT, which anyone who knows him even vaguely, would find completely laughable.
It's time for that person to go, I'm afraid.
This lead us to a general discussion on plotting freeforms and such, and inevitably that skirted onto NWO - though we were careful not to discuss forward plot (easily done, we ain't written anything, yet). But it's got me thinking about the final NWO game, and also, despite my reluctance to get writing again, brought me to the realisation that we need to bite the bullet and get started in some form or other.
And so we come to the coincidence.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pax_draconis has noted in his journal that an initial mail out to writers is about to take place. We have, I think, much to discuss. We have a lot to live up to after Rome.
DT has just come back in a not altogether happy mood from running his Camarilla game; apparently he had to execute a character - which he didn't want to do - because the player was effectively ignoring warnings and in complete breach of Rule 7. The player took it badly; in fact took it personally.
This lead to a reasonably long chat about the nature of writing and running freeforms, and the various responsibilities of players and writers. There is no point in writing and running something if you're getting no fun for the effort. It seems that this is the point - at least with this person - that DT has reached. He doesn't make money out of his efforts, he doesn't charge the players - the venue is free, I understand, provided that there is a reasonable take at the bar when the game is being run. So the position is quite simple, either DT or this player removes himself from the fray. Whether or not it is DT remains to be seen, certainly if he is still interested in running the game, it should be the player who goes. Especially as the player is a) taking it all unreasonably personally, and b) making real-life assertions and accusations about DT, which anyone who knows him even vaguely, would find completely laughable.
It's time for that person to go, I'm afraid.
This lead us to a general discussion on plotting freeforms and such, and inevitably that skirted onto NWO - though we were careful not to discuss forward plot (easily done, we ain't written anything, yet). But it's got me thinking about the final NWO game, and also, despite my reluctance to get writing again, brought me to the realisation that we need to bite the bullet and get started in some form or other.
And so we come to the coincidence.
pax_draconis has noted in his journal that an initial mail out to writers is about to take place. We have, I think, much to discuss. We have a lot to live up to after Rome.