Re: Relationship between Player and GM

From: Sam Palmer <Sam@homeway.demon.co.uk>

Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000

>What are players entitled to expect from their GM's? In terms of general
>service, friendliness, availability to talk on the phone, speed of
>response to email queries, willingness to correct errors in player
>orders, compensation for GM input errors etc.
>

Play should expect, hard work, passion to run the game from the day to
day. Even when half your players leaves the player still expect the game
to run. Some players think that you don't have a life so so expect you
to turn-out on the run up to Xmas and Easter. Yeah you have to be
friendly even when the player e-mails you over your gaming list to ask
how they play the game. As for answer queries I try to answer on the
same day if I not then I get to them when I can, that depends on on the
amount of mail I have. Thats about it, I don't mind talking to players
on the phone as long as they ring at a good time.

>What are GM's entitled to expect from their players? In terms of
>willingness to respect request to ring only during certain hours,
>general politeness, making orders legible, keeping accounts topped up
>etc.
>
I like players to give me at least a weeks notice if they are going to
be away from the game for any length of time. Players just going
inactive is bad news. Players should also stick to the posting rules and
so and thats it.

--
Sam Palmer
The Forgotten Front
www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Castle/6834/usswilliamsen/index.html

References

Relationship between Player and GM
ColinForbes <timewyrm@suilven.demon.co.uk>
Fri, 28 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000