Re: Spellbinder Games - best avoided!

From: "Steve Pritchard" <steve@spelbind.demon.co.uk>

Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000

Roy wrote in message
<912195087.27907.0.nnrp-06.d4e42dee@news.demon.co.uk>...
>This post is hardly helpful - If you feel that a GM is obnoxious etc then
>don't play their games, but certainly don't post such a foolish viewpoint
to
>the NG because there are going to be a couple of other Spellbinder
players
>who read what you've said and laugh at you for letting ego get in the way
of
>playing!! GMs ARE obnoxious, BIG DEAL!!

Ah Roy, now here's a good person to respond. First time I met Roy I
thought he was an arrogant plonker. I summed him up as a GM who thought he
was God. If you've been on this NG for a while you'll realise this is not
the case. Though I haven't met him in ages, I feel sure that, presented
with a player telling him that he needed to change his most successful
product if it was to be any good, he would react in a similar manner to
Chris.

>Hell, I told a potential GM to piss-off years ago, and after seeing his
work
>since I've been kicking myself..

It happens <g>

>I've been called a number of names for my own attitude and ways of
dealing
>with people, but when it all boils down you have to reaise that creative
>people can be difficult to get on with - just like everyone else.
>I've lost few if ANY people from Isles and Day One thru my being
difficult -
>if it bothers people what I say then what the hell? It's the games that
do
>the talking. Some of my best players enjoy a love/hate relationship with
the
>people at Wyvern

A perfect summary of how PBM companies should operate. I have any number
of ex-players try to "blackmail" me with comments which basically say "do
this or I drop out" or even "do this or I write to Flagship". Sod 'em. No
one blackmails me with that sort of thing.

I'm with Roy on this one.

References

Spellbinder Games - best avoided!
ggshaw11@aol.com (GGShaw11)
Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Spellbinder Games - best avoided!
"Roy" <roy@the-isles.demon.co.uk>
Fri, 27 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Spellbinder Games - best avoided!
ggshaw11@aol.com (GGShaw11)
Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Spellbinder Games - best avoided!
"Roy" <roy@the-isles.demon.co.uk>
Fri, 27 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000