[UA] Group whinges

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- Dylan Craig <wytchfynder at hotmail.com> wrote: 
> Quick question for the list: when you start new UA
> campaigns, how do you make
> sure there's a good degree of player investment in
> the campaign concept? If you
> play Feng Shui, you're going to kick a lot of
> Netherworld hiney and take over
> Feng Shui sites. 
Well, actually, I usually get in one-shot Feng Shui
games, if at all.  I tried a Fortean Feng Shui game
once, but that didn't go down well.  I'll cop out (in
a way unusual for me, but common in gaming) and blame
it on my players, two of which I now openly despise.

>  how equally do you split the
> task of coming up with the
> basic premise behind the game?
> 
> a - you come up with the idea, then sell it to the
> players
> b - you come up with the idea, everyone talks about
> it
> c - your -players- come up with the idea, they sell
> it to you
> 
I only get a chance to run UA at cons, which means I
only, ever use approach a).  I have a regular RiFTs
group (who I've neglected the past couple of weekends
due to work and people calling in favors and a
gamecon), but every time I even bring up the
possibility of another game they get kind of squirmy. 
Which is kind of too bad because RiFTs bores me to
tears and manages to frustrate me at the same time
(but RPG groups are slim pickins in ol' Colorado
Springs, so I take what I can get.)  There's this one
game store I go to where, I can guarantee, I will
never get into an RPG, ever.  I went there every week
for several months and, although they CLAIMED an RPG
happened every other Friday night, this was not the
case.  The closest I came was this one guy telling me
he had a belly ache and several others who simply said
the store was closing and they didn't have time (the
store ended up closing 5 hours later.) Then again,
this may all be because I'm a jerk.

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-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
The Electronic Nation of Yokeltania:
http://www.geocities.com/yokeltania/

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