[UA] Unbeatable PCs (way OT)

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- "con_job at excite.com" <con_job at excite.com> wrote:
> but when
> I go to the local game store there are always a
> half-dozen gamers kicking around talking about
> wanting to be in a game of something.  If I wanted
> to I could probably be running or playing in seven
> different games a week with seven gaming groups. 

Hmmm.. by different games, do you mean games you want
to play or games people are willing to play?  White
Wolf is very popular here and, if I didn't hate Wwolf,
I'd have lots of games to pick from, too.

In this instance, the problem, once again, is me.

Who's the only person keeping me from having a fun
game? Me. (And possibly Stewart Weick.)  Who's the
only person complaining? Me.

Also, my wife says you have a point, but we got into
an argument about it and she stormed out.

> 
> My Sunday night game and I have been playing
> different games for over two years now.  Every time
> we're going to change games, PC's, or GM's, we take
> one week off from playing, talk about the sort of
> game we're going to run, and what will and won't fit
> in  it.  If someone has zero interest in a
> particular game, people have left for the duration
> of that game and then come back when we switched. 
> This creates a win-win situation, where the group
> can play a fun game, the one person not interested
> doesn't have to play a game he doesn't like, and it
> spares you having a game that no one wants to play
> where you make a group of completely innapropriate
> characters who do something innappropriate for the
> game.

It's the coming back part I hadn't heard about. 
Usually when I get kicked out, it's for good.
I was gonna suggest it next game, but I got confused
on the last part of your post. Anyone care to skip
down and iron it out?

> I can't imagine anything about the situation you
> described as being even win-lose, much less win-win.
>  It sounds like a miserable lose-lose situation. 

Well, I don't like your terms ("win-win" has always
hit the wrong buttons with me, as has "professional"
or "quality-added"), but you're right.  Most of my
games HAVE been pretty miserable of late.  Then again,
this current group has been the only one willing to
let me GM something that wasn't D&D or Wwolfie crap.

Also, I'd rather roleplay badly than not at all.  Even
though I'm grateful to have the little bit of gaming I
get in, I'd still like to improve my situation (the
whole gaming schmear, for that matter, could be
better, a little more accepting*. I'd like to have a
hand in that.)

> 
> You also noted that he was unwilling to "make any
> concessions to the rest of the group."  Pardon me if
> that seems like a warning sign.  I thought
> role-playing games were all about interacting with
> others and being part of a team.  

There is no "I" in team. 

Sorry. Couldn't resist that one.

> I didn't realize
> acting like a baby who took his ball and went home
> was the sort of behavior you want to encourage.

Well, of course I don't, but I've got a problem.

I agreed with your ideas (and my wife certainly
agreed, she hates that other guy - but, then again,
several people in the group hate her) until I got to
this last bit. Aren't you advocating "taking your ball
and going home" for a few months in the rest of the
post? Or is it more like "sitting in the punishment
corner" for adults? 

*Unless you like White Wolf.

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