Yeah... Preordered EX3 and waiting eagerly for it. Interestingly, they have gone over deadline for... more than a year, I think. And yet, due to their constant updates about the process, most find it well done anyway. It is going to be great.
It wasn't my game, I was merely a player.
Eventually I left. Then it happened with the next group. So I eventually left.
Then I started my own group. Then it happened again...
I think one of the reasons PFS is so popular is many gamers are flaky bastards who couldn't commit to regular attendance if you offered them a salary for it. Oh, they talk a good game, but when push comes to shove I've seen people cancel for reasons as petty as:
To go drinking,
because they're tired,
because they have homework (that they've known about all week and they literally had the day before off also but just didn't do it then),
because they scheduled an event coinciding with it - again having other days around it off but not using themand quite a few more. Stuff happens, yes, but I met SO MANY players who put regular attendance so low on their priorities that absolutely any random event could present itself and they will drop everything to run off and abandon their gaming.
I did eventually find a good group.
edit - also, it usually wasn't in a row. We'd play and every other session two players, almost never the same two, cancelled, and the GM had a strict one player cancel and we keep going, any more and we cancel rule. So we'd cancel. But when you only normally play every other week, like we did with that group, and they cancel every other game...once a month ah is just insufficient for continuity. I thought these were friends, too, so I gave them a little leeway. I have since found out leaving was the right choice, for more reasons. But yes, it kept happening...
For online games and players that are new to you just run a module first. Once you get a good group switch over to a campaign. <--What I would do now.
For online games and players that are new to you just run a module first. Once you get a good group switch over to a campaign. <--What I would do now.It wasn't my game, I was merely a player.
Eventually I left. Then it happened with the next group. So I eventually left.
Then I started my own group. Then it happened again...
I think one of the reasons PFS is so popular is many gamers are flaky bastards who couldn't commit to regular attendance if you offered them a salary for it. Oh, they talk a good game, but when push comes to shove I've seen people cancel for reasons as petty as:
To go drinking,
because they're tired,
because they have homework (that they've known about all week and they literally had the day before off also but just didn't do it then),
because they scheduled an event coinciding with it - again having other days around it off but not using themand quite a few more. Stuff happens, yes, but I met SO MANY players who put regular attendance so low on their priorities that absolutely any random event could present itself and they will drop everything to run off and abandon their gaming.
I did eventually find a good group.
edit - also, it usually wasn't in a row. We'd play and every other session two players, almost never the same two, cancelled, and the GM had a strict one player cancel and we keep going, any more and we cancel rule. So we'd cancel. But when you only normally play every other week, like we did with that group, and they cancel every other game...once a month ah is just insufficient for continuity. I thought these were friends, too, so I gave them a little leeway. I have since found out leaving was the right choice, for more reasons. But yes, it kept happening...
I got really lucky with an online group, decided to run iron gods since I have no one to play with locally. Ended up with a solid group, now we do a book of iron gods follower by another gm running a book of mummys mask. One of my old group members has joined and is going to start rotating gm duties as well. Sometimes you get lucky.