Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn From: hutch@hutch (Stephen Hutchison) Subject: ADMIN Re: Just how many posts do ADMIN makes a week??? Message-ID: <1992Jul2.215841.11245@intelhf.hf.intel.com> References: <1992Jul1.022139.27248@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> <92184.124821ASG102@psuvm.psu.edu> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 92 21:58:41 GMT ADMIN. This is a meta-article. No plots are advanced herein. In article <92184.124821ASG102@psuvm.psu.edu> The Dreamer writes in response to a SunStorm tirade: > If you want in on >a thread, then contact the people running it via e-mail. Simply jumping in >on things can really screw things up. This is quite true. When the 'chatsubo first started up I watched a lot of storylines go stupid because of macho-posturing idiots. The same applied to alt.callahans in spades to the 5th power. Net.egotism can be an incredible pain in the ass, especially non-consensual net.egotism. > ... For example, ...sage has just absorbed >a bunch of magical energy and doesn't know what to do with it. If my guy >walkes up to him and says "Don't worry, I can absorb an infinite amount of >magic with no damage..." it could really screw up ...sage's plan for the >rest of his story (BTW, very interesting stuff ...sage.) Yeah, there are PLANS for that magical energy, keep your hands off, you greedy magic-leeches! (huffle huffle) > My point is that you have to be considerate on this group to get things >to run smoothly. Often, different characters are incompatable and shouldn't >interact with each other. Story lines form around people who do get along >well like ...sage and 'Raelf like to play interdimensional travel high magic >characters. Brycur and I like to play normal people with hopes and fears >about what life has in store for us. Kadrys likes to be mysterious and >deal with differing points of view especially in dealing with good vs evil. >There are two bard types (Rowan and Cragin (sp?)) who play sad bard-types. Well, actually, I suspect that ...sage, and I KNOW that 'Raelf, consider themselves "normal" people, and they have their hopes and fears and aspirations. True, ...sage is a bit more obsessive about knowledge than most people, even The Sage (so far as has been demonstrated); 'Raelf is a traveller and tourist, kind of a cross in personality between Dr. Who and a kender (minus the sticky fingers). But he's got as much in common with Maud the Tourist as he has with ...sage. Maybe more. Actually, one of the reasons that 'Raelf has as much visible obnoxity as he does, is to make it possible for him to talk to SunStorm without either laughing out loud or being in absolute awe. I calibrated power levels when creating the character, to fit a "hole" in the kinds of magic I've seen used, and to generally match the potential power of some of the characters. If you want to be REALLY sick go over to alt.callahans and invite the Sea Wasp to visit the Inn ... He's from a 10+ year high-power-levels campaign. Actually, please DON'T invite him, he'd feel obliged to show up, and I suspect that things like the Great Mother in the Sewers would be a light sweat to him. > [to SunStorm] If you want to have fun, find someone who writes the same way >you do and wants the same things out of the newsgroup. Take Lathan for example, >his wife was killed and he is planning on going to Ravenloft to get revenge. >He, like you, runs an intense fighter type...send him some e-mail and join >in. That's an interesting one. Also, the missing dragon is another one... Where *IS* TrueSilver gotten to? Put out a hint or two, let someone take a spin off of it, see what happens... Actually, an invitation, in the [ADMIN] section of a posting, could be used to let people know that it's OK to play with that spinoff.