10-05-2015, 02:07 PM
I'm gonna bullet point the things I have either enjoyed about the game or tend to enjoy first:
I play online with you goons bc I like the cooperative aspect of RP. As an ST I expect folks are going to be proactive and creative. As a player I hate feeling as if the ST is railroading us or that the effort I put in doesn't really have any impact. The games I've most enjoyed had everyone taking responsibility for things being fun and getting along and not taking this shit seriously. We're all doing this with what little free time we have because it's a fun way to do things we can't do IRL. Like turn into a nine-foot-tall killing machine and lay waste to some fire-breathing jerks or something.
Last year the biggest source of my not being engaged was being sick. But even when it was getting super duper bad I was able to deal with it for a scene because I felt like other people were having fun. I don't enjoy any multiplayer game if I feel like other people aren't having fun. So.
To piggyback off what Howl said: At this juncture (I just moved across the country, am staying in a house with multiple lifeforms in it, started a new job, have a PC in MtA that I'm actively playing, and I'm planning on running an SL here soon) I can't focus on another PC. Doesn't sound like anyone is ready to jump back in right this second but if we get to that point next year I'd totally be down to think about getting a game going again.
- Stable yet dynamic setting so character growth/development can happen without things stagnating.
- All of the auspice roles being represented and necessary.
- A balance between progressive politics and tradition.
- Opportunities for players to run their own stories.
- Proactive Kinfolk players and Kinfolk-inclusive stories.
- A sense of urgency or personal danger in main storylines.
- Interpersonal conflict (IC, not OOC!) is always pretty dope.
I play online with you goons bc I like the cooperative aspect of RP. As an ST I expect folks are going to be proactive and creative. As a player I hate feeling as if the ST is railroading us or that the effort I put in doesn't really have any impact. The games I've most enjoyed had everyone taking responsibility for things being fun and getting along and not taking this shit seriously. We're all doing this with what little free time we have because it's a fun way to do things we can't do IRL. Like turn into a nine-foot-tall killing machine and lay waste to some fire-breathing jerks or something.
Last year the biggest source of my not being engaged was being sick. But even when it was getting super duper bad I was able to deal with it for a scene because I felt like other people were having fun. I don't enjoy any multiplayer game if I feel like other people aren't having fun. So.
To piggyback off what Howl said: At this juncture (I just moved across the country, am staying in a house with multiple lifeforms in it, started a new job, have a PC in MtA that I'm actively playing, and I'm planning on running an SL here soon) I can't focus on another PC. Doesn't sound like anyone is ready to jump back in right this second but if we get to that point next year I'd totally be down to think about getting a game going again.
Look. I have school. And RP. And all my other time is taken up by sheer, unreasoning panic. I don't have time for Reddit.
-- ixphaelaeon
-- ixphaelaeon