Come to think of it, isn't GameHoleCon in Madison next weekend.
People I would like to play with....sorry if I misspell anybody's name...I assume you mean game with in RL as you don't PbP correct :-)
I can assure anyone who has not gamed with him that Kretzer is great at a table, he remembers the rules better than I do!
I have played in a lot of games , I would play with anyone here who makes it into a group. A lot of solid to great players on these boards.
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I forgot this guy..hopefully my character survives the next session. ;)
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For me I enjoy playing with people who have a good sense of humor, willingness to be a team player, and are enthusiastic about the game. Few things are a bigger buzzkill for me than GMs and players who seem to be phoning it in consistently (periods of such due to RL busyness are a different matter of course).
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I forgot this guy..hopefully my character survives the next session. ;)
All you need to do is snatch a Goddess from a major Demon in a well guarded fortress in the middle of the Abyss, what could possibly go wrong?
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Everytime I read this thread, something bugs me about it. I hesitated to mention this before because the people participating in the thread are all happy, and because I feel like my saying this will appear like sour grapes. Still... I think I should bring this up since this is an open board.
The same names get mentioned over and over... which can be really affirming for the circle of people who are all telling each other, "I really dig you and your posts." However, it also by design leaves others out in the cold. If your name isn't mentioned, it is easy to feel a little sad and lost.
Maybe instead of a thread that mentions names, we should make a thread talking about the qualities that make someone fun to game with. What makes some of these posters attractive to you?
Humor?
Openness?
Responsiveness?
Originality?
Generosity of spirit?
Or do you just want to date their Avatar?What do you look for when you are thinking, "Hey, I'd really like to share time with this person?"
Hmm
Though it's admirable to be conscious of potential exclusiveness, even that can get turned upside-down and become dysfunctional. Not wanting to compliment anyone by name, instead keeping all praise and verbal affection anonymous? That's reached the point of dysfunction.
It's okay to tell a specific individual that you like them, and it's okay for someone else to hear it sometimes.
If your child does something praiseworthy in public, you don't need to wait until you get them home before you mention it.
When you're with a group of people and one of them keeps making you laugh, it's okay to complement them while the group is there.
When you've run a good game of PFS, Venture-Agent Hillary Moon Murphy, your players don't need to wait for the other GMs to leave the venue before they can tell you you're a great GM and they want to play with you again.
Yes, sometimes a person might feel left out or hurt because someone else got a complement and they didn't. That pain is real, and shouldn't be minimized. However, it also needs to be recognized that such pain is the result of a broken sense of identity/worth, and the brokenness needs to be healed, not shielded. By trying to simply dodge the pain, we enable the broken systems which produce it to keep functioning. We keep things broken.
Pain is a warning system, alerting us to brokenness. When words hurt, something is messed up. Sometimes the brokenness is in the speaker, sometimes it's in the listener, sometimes it's in both. If all we do is try to avoid painful situations, we can never learn what sort of brokenness the pain is trying to alert us to, and can never heal it. If instead we look at and address the pain, we can learn what's broken, and find a way to get better.
In this case, pain from hearing someone else get a compliment means one of two things is a broken system: either the act of complimenting someone is hurtful (which is ridiculous), or the listener has some broken beliefs about identity and worth. I've known some people who have struggled a lot with feeling pain when someone else was being praised. What's helped some of them is to remind themselves (and be reminded by others!) that their worth is not relative: someone else having strengths and virtues does not take away their own strengths and virtues. We and our abilities and our qualities exist independently of everyone else's abilities and qualities, and nothing can ever take that away.
That's the thing the pain is pointing us to. That's what needs fixing: the belief that to value others is to devalue us. The problem is not the action of complimenting someone else by name; the problem is a broken understanding of what that means about us.
Let's not prevent that brokenness from getting healed by just trying to dodge it forever, eh?
:)
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Hmm, you are on my list... seriously.
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Ditto. I like your posts from what little I've seen. And I want to date your avatar, but that's basically how I feel about all gnomes.
Don't tell the other kobolds.
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I never feel hurt or left out if my name never comes up in threads like this. I never expect it too. While it does kinda suck that I haven't made much of an impression on other posters, I don't blame them. I am not nearly as active, especially compared to many of the posters who's names have been mentioned (some multiple times).
Now, what would have been surprising is if my name actually was mentioned. Such an occurrance would probably have given me a brain fart on how to react.
As for my list? I haven't had much interaction with many of the people on this board to make any sort of decision. I vaguely remember thinking "That person seems like they would be fun to game with", but the names that go with that statement escape me.
Adding more smurfs is a great way to be remembered.
The tomatoes thrown at me are unrelated.
Or so I tell myself.
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At least half the people that have ever posted in the Succubus in a Grapple thread. Probably more.
Adding more smurfs is a great way to be remembered.
The tomatoes thrown at me are unrelated.
Or so I tell myself.
UGH JOKEY SMURF! *throws tomatoes followed by throwing captain yesterday himself*
DEATH TO THE BLUELINGS!
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I'm more of a lurker and observer here and I havent actually played Pathfinder for almost six months but hell I'll give it a go. There are more on this list but this is whats at the top of my head.
Todd Stewart
Neil Spicer (Mostly because he hasnt put out an adventure that I havent enjoyed)
James Sutter ( Seems very imaginative and down with weird ideas)
Kalindlara (She seems like she would be an excellent GM and she is genuinely nice.)
Captain Yesterday (If your playstyle is like your forum behavior, you would fit right in with my regular group)
Kobold Cleaver (Most of your posts have made me chuckle and you are a great world-builder.)
Mark Hoover (The worlds this guy has made make me jealous. I also feel the pain of having players not appreciate them.)
Gorbacz (I enjoy his humour as well as his pokes aganist a couple of posters Im not fond of on here.)
Skeld (We'd get every new supplement first.)
Freehold DM (Even though you only watch anime subbed :p )
Scythia (You seem pretty cool and I'd love to game with, both tabletop and video games.)
Yes! I made the list!
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I'm more of a lurker and observer here and I havent actually played Pathfinder for almost six months but hell I'll give it a go. There are more on this list but this is whats at the top of my head.
Todd Stewart
It took me 5 pages, but I finally merited a mention here! Woohoo! :D
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I absolutely would have, but I didn't think to mention contributors. :-)
Sorry!
Consider yourself on my list, also Jason Nelson, and Mike Welham, whom I mentioned as Badger in my first list (as he's known around FaWtL).
I personally, would probably faint if I got to game with Wes Schneider, or Sutter for that matter.
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When you've run a good game of PFS, Venture-Agent Hillary Moon Murphy, your players don't need to wait for the other GMs to leave the venue before they can tell you you're a great GM and they want to play with you again.
Though to be honest... Sometimes now I wish they would. My tables always fill. There are people who RSVP not with what adventure they want to play, but simply stating they want "Hilary's table." I think that can hurt the feelings of other local GMs at times, especiallly when they're having trouble getting a table to fill.
I've got a good GM reputation, and I'm proud of that, but... I also want the other great GMs around me to get the kind of recognition that I so often get.
I just want to see the praise circulate to more people
The praise of total strangers is worth... little in the estimation of some.
Many lists (including mine) are limited due to focusing on those we have actually had more than a couple of interactions with.
Not saying we wouldn't enjoy gaming with people not on them, but we're not exactly going to immediately think of people we don't "know."
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There are a number of people I'd like to play (or play more with). I played with Rogue Eidolon only once, but would be fun to play again with. Same with Ssalarn. A game with Endzeitgeist would be very interesting (and he uses so much 3pp that I wouldn't even be able to metagame capabilities!).
Wraithstrike would be good fun as well, I feel.
RavingDork would be amusing to watch play. Not sure if I could handle his type of games tho.
I'm also wondering once again where Mikaze went.
I'd enjoy a game with CalebTGordon, Abraham Spalding (Who is back from serving, apparently!), Umbral Reaver, Steel Draco (who I learned from another forum is doing Savage Fallout. I'll join that one, thanks.), Diego Rossi, TacticsLion, Robert Brookes, ....
Now that I think longer on it, as long as there's pre-gens and beer, I'd probably play with most people.
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Jiggy, fair enough...
I hope that you all didn't mind me bringing this thought up. I just want to see the praise circulate to more people!
Hugs to all
Hmm
More praise is usually a good thing. :)
Bleaching out the names so that nobody is praised individually does not accomplish that. Instead, it dulls/weakens what praise there already was, adds no new praise, and still "leaves out" anybody who might not realize/believe they have the qualities being praised.
Solutions that might be more effective could include:
• Working to foster a culture where people offer praise more consistently (i.e., where it's normal to praise whatever is done well, rather than only the mind-blowing moments).
• Working to foster a culture of humility and self-improvement, wherein people are comfortable facing their own imperfections (and are therefore not threatened by uneven praise - or by criticism, for that matter) and aren't allergic to the idea of approaching the target of praise in search of guidance (i.e., "How can I get to where you are?").
• Something else that I can't remember but will probably jump to mind later when I can't get to a keyboard and then I'll forget it again when I come back. Blarg.
Much of the above applies to your specific situation, I imagine. Players flocking to your table will be easier for other GMs to swallow if they're simultaneously being praised for whatever aspect of their GMing they're doing well. Similarly, the subculture of experienced D&D/Pathfinder GMs isn't exactly famous for its humility. If that group could be nurtured toward a healthily-accurate self image that faced its flaws honestly and had an attitude of normality toward putting work into self-improvement, then "uneven praise" could shift from a source of pain into an opportunity for GMs to ask each other for pointers.
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I'd expect that I'd enjoy playing with anyone through which I've slogged through a spirited "forum discussion". It'd be healthy for most of us, I think, to be able to have some personal experience with our verbal sparring partners beyond a faceless, "this guy who doesn't know how wrong he is AGAIN" internet persona.
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So I'm thinking about starting a play-by-post with no strict narrative—a loosely-plotted story about a journey through a strange and mysterious fantasy world. I'm talking the sort of world where humans in one village have never even journeyed beyond the eastern forest. I'm talking the sort of weird journey that traverses rivers of oil and forests infested with dolls. No strict overarching plot, but plenty of story and roleplaying. No races are banned, because who knows what lies a week's travel northwards?
Magic items are rare, and the Big Six are replaced with static bonuses at higher levels. Also, monster identification is way less convenient, since that ten-legged lightning dragon you're fighting might be all-but-unique for all you know.
I'm just curious if anybody here's interested. If so, just favorite this post—I don't want to clutter the thread up too much. I hope to post the Recruitment thread before the month's up.
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Hey, guys, I've started a Recruitment thread for something. Y'all should check it out.
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I would as ever enjoy playing with Turin the mad, who I've gamed with since 1982, and Pheonixhawk, who I've gamed with since 2000.
Add to that:
Wraithstrike/Concerro
Sir Charles Evans (25)
Capnvan, a like-minded gent
Capn Jose Munkamunk, former player
Hexen Ineptus (though he'd likely refuse)
Yoda was right, former player
Psionichampster, former player
And awesome fellow posters on my Age of Worms, Return to the Tomb of Horrors, Campaign Classics and other campaign journals: You guys rule!
Orthos
Dennis Harry
Ilaletin
Yasha0006
Arcmagik
Heathansson
Wampuscat43
Teemuu
Arctaris
Fatespinner
Calavingian
Meomwt
PH Dungeon
Carborundum
Archlich
Olaf the Stout
Tearlach
Galli
Salama
Brent
Cato Novus
Samnell
Jebadiah U
Snorter
Dazylar
Silent man
Steven Tindall
Adeptus
Technicanus
Legendarius
Beercifer
WmTell
Missingno
Sheep999
Squee!
Mergy
Macharius
Rithralus
Bellona
& Richard Pett
I would love to lose at least 2 or 3 characters in a Killer GM game! :-)
I still remember the Cthulhu journal Turin the Mad posted of the Horror on the Orient Express. IN fact it encouraged me to start a CoC game here on the boards. Beyond the Mountains of Madness! The sad part is I have lost 12 PC's to RL not a single one to any of the Great old Ones. :-( The good news is there is plenty of time left...
Turin the mad was hoping to continue our Cthulhu campaign using that adventure, but for reasons I don't recall, we ended up going to the 1-session Carrion Crown, where we had 2 TPKs in the first session. Might as well have been a Call of Cthulhu game, given the casualty count.
I'd gladly have you in the group, if you live in the DC metro area. I hope your game pans out nicely. -KGM.
There are a number of people I'd like to play (or play more with). I played with Rogue Eidolon only once, but would be fun to play again with. Same with Ssalarn. A game with Endzeitgeist would be very interesting (and he uses so much 3pp that I wouldn't even be able to metagame capabilities!).
Wraithstrike would be good fun as well, I feel.
<smiles> x 1000
I would as ever enjoy playing with Turin the mad, who I've gamed with since 1982, and Pheonixhawk, who I've gamed with since 2000.
Add to that:
Wraithstrike/Concerro
Sir Charles Evans (25)
Capnvan, a like-minded gent
Capn Jose Munkamunk, former player
Hexen Ineptus (though he'd likely refuse)
Yoda was right, former player
Psionichampster, former player
That would be nice just to see if I could avoid the Red Folder, but if the Dice gods look upon me and judged me unworthy then Red Folder it would be.
I appreciate the offer KGM! Almost moved down there several years ago to take a job at an international tax law firm but it didn't pan out.
It would be awesome to play with each of you. ☺ Failing that, I will try to do better at posting for my current, albeit only monthly, campaign. My players are currently screaming in Tegel Manor. Regards to you both. Al
