Re: Mindshift Design

From: Jason Paul McCartan <jasonm@mindshiftdesign.com>

Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 00:18:57 +0000

Plod wrote:

> The point is, Steve that not many people can now put Play By Mail as their
> top priority, other than a few boys and girls who run games to generate
> their primary income.

I certainly hadn't for the longest time, the main reason being having to
put food on the table. In hindsight taking on a mortgage probably wasn't a
good idea, but it's a nice house even if PBM could never pay for it <g>.

> Jason's probably been lucky enough to have his own set of pressures exert
> themselves when he was preparing games rather than running them. There are
> some like me who had to dump a perfectly good, playable and fun game
> because in all honesty the number of enthusiastic players suddenly dwindle
> when a GM with problems asks for a little help.

I suppose in some ways you could say it's been lucky that the problems that
I've ran into happened before we established a real presence. I suppose the
only thing worse than never having anyone play your games is to have people
play your games then have to stop playing and never coming back to play
again.

> Coming back to PBeM, I wonder how many GMs have packed it all in because
> they're too embarassed at trying again after their previous attempts at
> running games failed?
> I know I was close to binning it all for a good 6 months
> Its only the fact that I'm still partially addicted to the kind of GMing
> that I do that will probably get me back into PBM - if any players'll have
> me.

I'm sure they will. I remember Day One and talking it over with you online
(and I'm still annoyed I never really got a chance to play that character I
made. Damn fine character). Day One always got good reviews and had raving
players (or was that players that attended raves?).

--
Jason Paul McCartan

References

Re: Mindshift Design
Jason Paul McCartan <jasonm@mindshiftdesign.com>
Fri, 31 May 2002 19:51:18 +0000
Re: Mindshift Design
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Sat, 01 Jun 2002 01:25:01 +0000
Re: Mindshift Design
"Plod" <plod@plod.com>
Mon, 03 Jun 2002 17:26:33 +0000