Certain things that always seem to happen with me and multi-player online games:
\n1. I make a wise-cracking, relatively-fragile, power-throwing character that I really enjoy playing.
\n2. I make a more serious, older, “uncle” character who can take a pounding.
\n3. The wise-ass character joins a group of some kind.
\n4. Very shortly thereafter, the wise-ass is given some level of responsibility in the group.
\n5. Not too long after that, the more serious character is given (shared) control over the group.
\n6. Every one of my characters takes a hit in the play-time department as a consequence.
\nI’m going to do my damndest to avoid six, because somewhere in there, I start keeping my characters secret from everyone I know so I can actually play, but then have no one to play with, because I’m hiding from everyone I know online.
\nRepeat after me: it’s just a game. It’s not a job. Recruiting is not my thing — if I must have responsibility, let it be to lead others to good in-character play by providing an example — let it NOT be ‘paper-pushing’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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