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Sundering Artifice

It's basically been a week since I last got to post anything here. And that forces me to pose a difficult question.

Now I understand that people have different obligations and stuff and I ain't trying to push anyone or complain. I have a 40 hour work week my self to look forward to. So it's not like I am blaming any of you or anything. God knows I am busy my self.

But at the end of the day just sitting around waiting for days and days with nothing to do is simply not fun. 15 minutes a week to write a post and than wait another week to again get 15 minutes is simply not enjoyable for me. Quite the opposite in fact. It downright makes me burn out on a game.

And that is what is happening here. I can feel the burnout creeping in. I can feel my self getting frustrated, bored and frankly loosing all interest in my character. So I need to ask right now if this is going to be the expected speed this game is taking.

Again, there is nothing wrong if you guys want it that way. All the more fun to you. But if it is than I need to know now so that I can quit before I get to that burnout stage and before my character gets so entwined in plots with the rest of you that it becomes a problem that spoils the game for others. That way I can save both you and my self a lot of frustration.

RPing Ain't Always Easy : A Collaborative Guide to the Stuff that Makes This Hobby Less Fun Sometimes And How to Make It More Betterer

Really though you'll get the best results if you can find a bunch of people like me for whom RPing is the main or better yet only source of entertainment and who thus want to do it all the time. Like not once a week to change things up in between doing other stuff. Not when they are bored of doing all the other things they do and go "Well gosh. I guess I might as well post. Nothing better to do." But as their main and primary source of fun.

People like that will check the forums constantly and get off multiple posts a day and just keep the game going and fun like crazy. They actually form a community around the game and push each other to play like real friends.

I used to have a group like that back in the day. And frankly its something you have to experience to understand. It's like a high basically. But that was many years ago. And I think I'll newer find a group like that again.

So if you do find one don't let them go. You'll be regretting it for the rest of your life.

Sum up your week in roleplaying in just 3 words

Very frustrating wait

Improv style RP?

Well if that's the sort of thing you like you might want to try a thing I used to do a lot years ago back when I was in high school. Basically the GM sets the stage as you, playing your self (or a character you make up as you go along) having just an ordinary day. Except he throws in stuff at random. So like, when I was doing it I might literally start the game by saying "You look out the window while reading this post and see Chutulhu. React." Or I might say "Your PC shuts down because the power went out." And the story develops as we'd run along as just improvise the whole thing.

That was quite fun actually.

Sundering Artifice

Well, no clue what the future holds but I'm here and interested now, don't care if it's large group or as little as 2 others

@Jade Kiyo

Same here.

Although I must admit that on this forum games have such a slow posting rate that my mind tends to race off far ahead of the game to the point where I get quite frustrated. I mean, maybe I am just crazy but when I think off a cool character and join a game that interests me I tend to get hyped. And when I am in that state I tend to think about the game a lot. Like it consumes my free time. I develop all these cool ideas and things I want to explore about the character and the world and stuff and than it hits me that at this rate it will be months before we ever get to the point where I might be able to post any of that. Months in which ideas will just keep piling up more and more.

So like when a game passes a few days without a single post, let alone a single opportunity for me specifically to post in it I just get frustrated to no end with it. And frankly after a week or so I am probably going to be done and move on.

Like, RPing is my primary source of entertainment. And being dry for days tends to really kill the mood.

EDIT: I did not intend this to become a rant but it happened. Sorry. I guess I had to blow off the steam.

RPing Ain't Always Easy : A Collaborative Guide to the Stuff that Makes This Hobby Less Fun Sometimes And How to Make It More Betterer

If anyone else wants to chime in too they are welcome to. I'd love for this to continue on into another (more focused) conversation and this little guide to grow.

@BangoSkank

Well if you want more wisdom here is a simple one for you. Don't join too many games. You won't be able to keep up and you'll stall all of them as people are waiting for you while you get anxiety about having to post in all of them and end up posting in none. My personal limit is something like 1-2 games at a time. 3 if I am feeling adventurous.

This is likely what is going to kill a game I am currently in.

Ultima

After reading the entire thing you wrote in OOC I'll have to inform you that sadly I am out. Put simply you did a very good job at describing exactly what sort of god you want. And that's basically the elemental aspect (light, darkness, chaos etc.) type. And I personally just don't find anything fun or interesting to explore in that. So rather than trying to shove a square peg into a round hole with all the strength of a god I have chosen to not join.

I wish you all a good game.

Sundering Artifice

We alive?

@Jade Kiyo

I certainly hope so. Although with the OOC being lively as it is I can't really get my hopes up. These things are in my experience a barometer for the health of the game.

This said, honestly it sounds like our friend simply joined too many games and can't keep up. I know the temptation to do so is heavy on a forum where people post every year instead of every day. (Am sadly guilty of the same...) But ultimately there is a reason why I have decided to keep it to a maximum of 3 or 1 if I am the GM.

Dragon Ball: Shattered Worlds

Than I'll leave it up to the monkey girls to take the first bite. I'll be back by my PC tomorrow evening.

Dragon Ball: Shattered Worlds

What can I say. She's a girl that knows how to laugh at her self. :)

Also random fun fact: All my characters are created by taking an aspect of my personality and turning it up to 11 and than building a new person around that. I wonder if you guys use the same or a similar method.