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 ...
dude, I just talked to my mother, and she said something about another (!) foot of snow... I'm getting together a search team, want me to throw your address on the list?
ReplyDeleteWe'll be the ones playing World of Warcraft in a snow cave. Actually, we've managed to keep up with it... more or less. The trucks are dug out as well as the sidewalk in front of our unit and a path around back. The biggest problem is that an SUV with a plow on the front isn't really cutting it for clearing the rest of the parking lot, plus we have snow and ice sliding off roofs into the drive lane. I probably could get out today (even in my 2WD truck without chains) as long as I don't hit any piled snow (which is increasingly difficulty), but I don't think I'm going to bother. Snow days, it's what vacation time is for, right? Estrella, though... well, that's going to depend on what the weather holds in the next week, I think. We haven't called it off, but I don't think either of us here want to deal with the drive if things don't look better on this end.
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