That would be Not My Sandbox Syndrome, a label I'll ascribe here to a psychological reluctance to mess with things not of one's own creation. It came up recently in some conversations that I don't "run" much on FurryFaire. A couple scenes in sequence with very little plotline and involving only a PC or two? Sure, I do that maybe a couple times a week. Any longer continuity, any wider influence on the setting, and I pretty much skip it. Why? A lot of reasons, actually, some of which I may discuss in most depth later. Inspiration is fleeting and fickle - I can't just conjure up applicable ideas at will, but its easier to manage in this area if there are other things going on to play off of. Time can be tricky - I have had numerous scenes fall by the wayside because when I was interested in pursuing them people weren't around or something else required my attention. My GMing skills, especially online, have waned - I have enough trouble wrangling two or ...
*grin* I took the day off from work - so it should be good! :) Thanks! Hey, how was yours? Decent, I hope...
ReplyDeleteWent okay. Nice dinner, but nothing too unusual otherwise.
ReplyDelete*grin* my dinner was take-n-bake pizza. nothing fancy for me, but good. Although today I was realizing that my birthday was also my weekend - I'd worked Mon-Mon, and came back to work yesterday... so it was good to have a day off, but it wasn't really enough to improve my mood. Ah, well. Really it's just another day, right? :)
ReplyDeletesorry i missed saying happy birthday. for what it's worth, mine stared with E-Harmony telling me that this will be the year I find true love, and that there are 0 matches for me in colorado
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