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[kisame12794]

Niiiiiiiiiiice.

[SomeStupidGuy]

Eh, guess I'll hop in the waitlist, even though it seems statistically unlikely that I'll end up in the game proper.

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Name: Victor
Gender: Male
Appearance: Short black hair, a thin goatee, and sharp hazel eyes. Wears a navy-coloured jacket, a pocket covered vest beneath that, a pair of extremely non-descript trousers, a pair of boots and lastly, a pair of black leather gloves for the punching of people.
Bio: A ruffian of the highest/lowest caliber, that didn't actually live a rough life, contrary to most ruffians. In fact, it was actually pretty nice, allowing for a fun and useful education in the great school of magic known as 'Making-Yourself-And-Others-Go-Super-Fast'.
At any rate, he has a distinct tendency towards getting into fights and other poorly thought out situations for reasons that seemed reasonable at the outset, the latest of these situations being the rescue of Roll and Dodge.
Class: Accelerated Brawler
Strength: 1d6
Intellect: 1d8
Dexterity: 2d4
Vitality: 1d4

[GreatWyrmGold]

Why, because it seems to have stalled?

We even have all four characters posted!

[freeformschooler]

((This isn't really a fun game. For me. Like, making it.

I'm not sure how to make a fun game other than I keep accidentally stumbling onto the formula for one every once in a while.

I'll try to squeeze an update out sometime soon though.))

[Toaster]

Which part?  The plot, the art, or the setting?

Did it not turn out like you thought it would or did it end up being less fun and more work?

[SomeStupidGuy]

((This isn't really a fun game. For me. Like, making it.

I'm not sure how to make a fun game other than I keep accidentally stumbling onto the formula for one every once in a while.

I'll try to squeeze an update out sometime soon though.))

I can imagine. Doing lots of art and such seems like it'd sour things a bit quickly. :/

[freeformschooler]

((This isn't really a fun game. For me. Like, making it.

I'm not sure how to make a fun game other than I keep accidentally stumbling onto the formula for one every once in a while.

I'll try to squeeze an update out sometime soon though.))

I can imagine. Doing lots of art and such seems like it'd sour things a bit quickly. :/

That's not even it though, just part of it. I'm starting to realize something about the games I make.

The ones that I run for a long time and get invested in and have great success with are the ones I don't think out at all beforehand.

Warrens was just going to be a generic dungeon crawler parody. MKW was just going to be running about bashing goombas and making Mario references. So on and so on.

It's like, when I have an idea in mind for how something "should" be run or "should" be written or 'should" be drawn I get tired of it immediately after starting it.

It's funny. I've seen it in every GM tips thread: think things out BEFORE you start them! But, as it turns out, that corners me into doing things a certain way. Like, even if it doesn't, I absolutely hate to downsize. I don't know. Maybe those tips aren't for everyone and I should just stop making games with a story at the beginning.

[GreatWyrmGold]

((This isn't really a fun game. For me. Like, making it.

I'm not sure how to make a fun game other than I keep accidentally stumbling onto the formula for one every once in a while.

I'll try to squeeze an update out sometime soon though.))

Ah, I see now. Well, I can't make you run it and wouldn't want to if you didn't want to run it.

[SomeStupidGuy]

Well, if that's the way you feel that you've found the most success(or fun as the case may be), then GM by the seat of your pants.

Going by the past times you've done that, everyone'll inevitably end up loving the hell out of it.
Though, since this was equally loved, maybe it's just an inherent trait of every game you make.

[Toaster]

Well, if that's the way you feel that you've found the most success(or fun as the case may be), then GM by the seat of your pants.

+1

I can't speak really because I'm not playing, but you should torpedo the game now if you already don't like it.

[Xanmyral]

[If it isn't fun for you, don't continue it for our sakes. The goal is for everyone to have fun, GM's especially included. If you feel confined by a setting, or plot line, or whatever, just toss it out and do a reboot, or do something entirely different, or whatever you want.

Never feel confined with what you're trying to work with, unless you want to be, because ultimately its your thing you're trying to work with, and if it isn't what you wanted, why do it? No one will think any differently if you kill the game off, no one wants to force you to do anything you don't want to do.

That's my two-bits on the situation at least.]

[freeformschooler]

Thank you but I do feel bad killing anything off, especially so soon Also poor Errol, he probably feels like a bad luck charm in my games

One could, possibly, say that a dedicated forum game GM is constantly on a quest to find the perfect maintainable ratio of enjoyment to work - both for the players and author.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Here's an idea I just had.

Most of the games I've had or I am having fun with, I started with an idea for the start and my "planning" was figuring out how things worked--and I didn't do too much of that. Most notable examples: Metamorphican Madness II and The Art of Minimalism. The former started with "I'll stick people in a lab and have them do whatever." One's a giant trying to steal a bike that'll fit, one's a wormbatthing monster who might be founding the Worm Tribe, and dermonster destroyed the laboratory!

[Greenstarfanatic]

Here's an idea I just had.

Most of the games I've had or I am having fun with, I started with an idea for the start and my "planning" was figuring out how things worked--and I didn't do too much of that. Most notable examples: Metamorphican Madness II and The Art of Minimalism. The former started with "I'll stick people in a lab and have them do whatever." One's a giant trying to steal a bike that'll fit, one's a wormbatthing monster who might be founding the Worm Tribe, and dermonster destroyed the laboratory!

And so far, every RTD that I've done, I've just started with a basis, and added stuff as I went along. For example with Mall Fight, which started with three people wandering the mall, and is now the aftermath of a pokemon battle, with most characters gaining some kind of pokemon, and one character getting into a bonus boss fight with Darth Vader.

[Xanmyral]

...one's a wormbatthing monster who might be founding the Worm Tribe...

Make that a definitely, just gotta figure out some way to stay a wormbatthing monster to keep the looks of a proper worm shaman. Then to figure out how to force others to accept him as a shaman. Probably by water bending and hyper voicing. ...Didn't I start as a janitor that was basically Scruffy from Futurama? Damn, that game does weird things.

Sorry for the off topic, just had to make that comment.