Re: Relationship between Player and GM

From: "Martijn van der Kooij" <DeleteThisDev@stabiplan.nl>

Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 00:00:00 +0000

> Hi,
> Out of interest (and in the way of research for an article I'm writing),
> what do people think of the following?
>
> 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.
>
> 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 think it highly depends on which game and wether it is commenrcial or not.

I have only experience with Galaxy and i'm happy when the games run in time.
Order checking and relaying messages is automated so there's no need for a
GM to interfere. Actually I expect a GM only to look at the turns when the
engine is crashed and I never saw that happen :-).

If the turns ran as scheduled I only contact the GM after the game by mail
(not always but i've done it several times) to thank him.

Martijn van der Kooij

References

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