Re: Bad GM in Galaxy Game Arrow

From: Keith Wignall <k.wignall@econ.canterbury.ac.nz>

Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Steve Pritchard <Steve@spelbind.demon.co.uk> writes:
> During a bitter argument between a player and GM, the player yells:
>
>>No I'll tell you what, you fix it now, If you can't, drop me from this
>>game and either you tell the rest of the players that due to your
>>ineptness a player has droped from the game or I will.
>
> I can only asume the GM was running Galaxy on a "free play" basis? He
> was putting his own time into running this, his own efforts and had
> apparently tried to apologies for the mix-up but was - perfectly
> reasonably in my opinion - not willing to rerun a whol game for one
> missed turn that wouldn't have crippled a player so early in the game.
> The player, after repeatedly whining and then starting to threaten the
> GM with blackening his name across as many people in the game as he
> could, is surpirsed to get a vitriolic response.

I'm with the player on this one.  The GM may be running the game for
free, but having made a commitment he is bound to honour it.  The player
was not whining - he was asking the GM to correct an acknowledged error,
which other GMs seem to have little trouble doing.  He deserves a better
response than "tough luck".  If orders are randomly lost, the players
are playing roulette, not Galaxy.  The other players in the game would
want to know this.

- Keith

PS.  Yes, I have been a pbm GM myself.

References

Bad GM in Galaxy Game Arrow
hrespey@mindspring.com (H.Ross Espey )
Sat, 09 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Bad GM in Galaxy Game Arrow
Steve Pritchard <Steve@spelbind.demon.co.uk>
Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000