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I'm still waiting for him to post my link to my char sheet...
But tis not just that. The second GM Nero hasn't been on much lately. Otherwise he probably would have started his by now. No I think its normal like this. Guilds that I abandoned months ago still havn't made ANY progress... same on most places I go in Gaia

Unfortunately very little unless mister fenrir promotes one of us to captain... or they start to actually post and take interest in their investments.
It's strange how it's always been the ones that start the guild that end up leaving it. Sure theres the excuse of the real world but thats still just an excuse. If they didn't think they'd have time to actually run their guilds then they shouldn't have made it in the first place really.
Just my two cents.

Well, first off we need a Gm that will post more than once a bloody month. Really that's all we need, someone to move at least one story along.

Now now, calm down. I haven't gone anywhere. I was just taking a week or so off, I had been hanging out online too much and was starting to get a bit burned out on it and just needed some time for my interest to regrow.

And I do agree, we do need active GMs. Let me state, up front and quite clearly (For more than the first time) that I never wanted to GM here. My vision was to create a space for people to play and organize games, I was simply going to do administration work and keep track of character sheets. The only reason I made a game was to keep things moving since I didn't have any other people running things. Therefore, the fact that I am running a game at all is a bonus. Instead of wondering where I am, you should more be focusing on what you can do, i.e. becoming a GM and running a game.

To that vein, including myself, there are 5, count them 5, approved GMs right now who all have admin powers. I can't force people to run games, but right now, I'm the only one who IS running a game at all. I only bit off as much as I could chew, I have no intention of running multiple games at the present because... Well, I think you get it by now. Every time someone has said "We need something to do", I've responded with "We need GMs." I'm not angry about it, but I can't help that none of the GMs I've recruited are running any games. I can only do so much.

I would also like to illuminate that as a GM, I post more than once a month. wink I also thought Dante's character was linked already, I'll go back through and make sure it is. It probably just fell through the cracks, which is why I have a disclaimer on the character page to send me a PM and remind me if I don't do it after it has been up a few days; it's extremely easy to miss that a character has been posted there, and a lot of people put up partial characters and finish them later, making it that much harder.

And for a little history, I've owned this guild for years now. When it originally started, it was Spirits of Gaia. That was a monster training RP that had quite a few creatures in it, and required a vast amount of effort on my part. I was doing at least an hour of work on it every day, and after about a year, I got burned out on it, and decided to end it. Later on down the road, I opened up Blades of Heaven, which lasted for a few months, but also required a fair amount of work from me (But not as much). Still, I got burned out on that too, since it required so much time. Then I decided to do something crazy stupid, and reopened Spirits, but made it bigger, badder, and a monster list of 560 went to 1680. Again, it required a lot of time and effort, but I quickly realized that I didn't have the time to devote to it, so it too only lasted a few months. This led me to a dilemma; I enjoy creating these things, but the amount of work was far too demanding. My solution was the current incarnation of the guild, where I would simply do administrative duties while the people around me played. It was supposedly a happy medium; and there's the catch. I already know I don't have the energy to do everything, which is why the guild is set up the way it is. I need the help of everyone else to make it work. You get out of it what you put in, but so far, no one is really putting in, therefore... No one is getting anything out of it, either. If no one is willing to take the plunge and run a game, we'll never get anywhere.

And that is how it stands.

Rinith: Since my answer is "What PM?" I guess that's a no. lol Send it again?

Edit: Going back and looking at your character, Dante, I now remember why I never linked it. You never fixed the stats like I asked; they are still wrong. You get 28 points to divide, but having a score of 17 or 18 costs extra, 10 and 12 points respectively.

it's just the same as in the real world, you describe things and your characters react to them. The thing with online is that you really need to keep them in order otherwise It gets jumbled up and confusing really quickly.

It's the effective use of the dice roller, and learning the flow of communication in a forum format that I need to learn.

sent a new one with the base questions

I host a game in IRC not part of the guild... it grew to 9 players in 3 weeks.... >.<