tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2465863144787683153.post2312653952029536588..comments2024-03-17T09:20:56.531-04:00Comments on BARKING ALIEN: The PointAdam Dicksteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04840144928096089178noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2465863144787683153.post-33347191546069866772016-09-27T20:47:03.442-04:002016-09-27T20:47:03.442-04:00Ah, you beat me to it in a manner of speaking.
I ...Ah, you beat me to it in a manner of speaking.<br /><br />I have announced to the group that I will be taking a hiatus from GMing for a time. My goal is to determine how best to mesh my approach with one best suited to the group as a whole.<br /><br />Wish me luck.Adam Dicksteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04840144928096089178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2465863144787683153.post-36969018334938515492016-09-27T18:19:36.431-04:002016-09-27T18:19:36.431-04:00So, you aren't enjoying GMing for this group, ...So, you aren't enjoying GMing for this group, nor do you think they appreciate your style. Yet you like them and you have a good time when it is your friend who runs the game. Maybe you should just take a break from being the GM?Miguel de Rojashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15762364029464337239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2465863144787683153.post-77640698189245152832016-09-26T21:46:53.239-04:002016-09-26T21:46:53.239-04:00I really can't put my finger on it exactly.
T...I really can't put my finger on it exactly.<br /><br />That doesn't mean I don't have some ideas, but I really couldn't tell you why it feels like they give me the business more so than they do the other fellow. They do it to him too, don't get me wrong. Just much less so.<br /><br />I keep saying they, but much of the agita comes from one player in particular. At the same time, they simply aren't as flexible, or adaptable a group as others I've gamed with in the past. They don't (even after all this time) have the inherent, almost instinctive trust in me that my NJ group did, or any of my old NY groups. <br /><br />So, combine "I only like things my way", with "And your way seems different and suspicious" and you can see what I'm up against. Add in a touch of meta-gaming, and...does anyone have any aspirin? Adam Dicksteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04840144928096089178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2465863144787683153.post-88267980102923247232016-09-26T11:32:35.134-04:002016-09-26T11:32:35.134-04:00I feel you on this one. There are the games you...I feel you on this one. There are the games you'd love to run, the games you're OK with running, and the games your group will play. Hopefully there's enough of an overlap there that everyone is happy and you have at least a few things to choose from. <br /><br />It sounds like your problem with the one group is more personalities than games though. Have you asked the group why they're resisting what you're trying to run? "Why are you fighting me on this?" is a legitimate question. Is the the premise? The system? Or is it something with the way you run the game vs. the other GM? It seems solvable if it's any of these things. Blacksteelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16289298640828309072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2465863144787683153.post-19000290283877230372016-09-26T10:22:21.767-04:002016-09-26T10:22:21.767-04:00Hang in there man! The pendulum always swings back...Hang in there man! The pendulum always swings back! Jay Exonautshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11336829684749993354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2465863144787683153.post-68436258837043754152016-09-26T10:08:14.341-04:002016-09-26T10:08:14.341-04:00I would settle for 'hassle free', on the s...I would settle for 'hassle free', on the scale between good, and perfect.<br /><br />As to what game particulars I enjoy most with my current players...I don't know how to answer that exactly.<br /><br />My online group is pretty awesome. A few snags here, and there, but none that have me leaving the game overly frustrated, or bummed out.<br /><br />My once a month group is going along OK, but I am not super jazzed for various reasons. It's like watching a TV series where you loved the first three seasons, and it's still pretty good, but you mostly watch out of habit. It just needs a recharge. Or I do.<br /><br />The last group, which meets almost weekly, is just...wearing me thin. As Bilbo Baggins said, 'Butter spread thin over too much bread'. When my friend GMs for the group we all get behind it, and he also does a great job. He gets minimal flak on his decisions from our most flak intensive player.<br /><br />When I GM it feels like a combination job interview for a position I'm not qualified for, and an obstacle course on American Ninja. I criticized on the technique I use to pass the hoops I'm made to jump through.<br /><br />I miss being Willy Wonka to my old group. The razzle, dazzle King of the Gaming Table. Some posts back I mentioned seeing those guys, and gals at a wedding for one of them. There were people I hadn't seen in 12-15 years that remembered our game verbatim. There were people I'd never met who said they'd heard the stories, again and again, and were happy to meet the guy who ran them.<br /><br />Is that is? Am I now old, and past my gaming prime? Must I live off the great, nostalgic tales of yesteryear?<br /><br />Geez, that sucks.Adam Dicksteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04840144928096089178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2465863144787683153.post-2019468848826261762016-09-26T09:53:56.682-04:002016-09-26T09:53:56.682-04:00Thanks shlominus.Thanks shlominus.Adam Dicksteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04840144928096089178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2465863144787683153.post-41117418397863385562016-09-26T09:23:34.393-04:002016-09-26T09:23:34.393-04:00Oh man, sounds exactly like what I have been going...Oh man, sounds exactly like what I have been going through over the past year or so, and so far I have not got the old spark back.<br />Tom Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03033893106948323810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2465863144787683153.post-22494059840220240392016-09-26T08:31:59.175-04:002016-09-26T08:31:59.175-04:00Have you ever heard that "perfect is the enem...Have you ever heard that "perfect is the enemy of good"? I am guilty of ignoring it too many times in regards to gaming, and maybe you should take a look at it. Yet, I understand that this is killing your motivation. So I'll ask, what game/style/situations do you enjoy the most <i>with your current players</i>?Miguel de Rojashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15762364029464337239noreply@blogger.com