11-23-2020, 11:13 PM
(11-23-2020, 11:04 PM)Milly Wrote: It's almost like people aren't allowed to get sick, or have things come up.
Sometimes with me it'll take a few weeks to get an event ran because i take my time in typing up the plan and don't agree on any day until AFTER the plan is approved (certain DMs will work out a day without even getting things approved. STOP DOING THIS because then people expect me to do the same).
Did you consider talking to him directly?
He's been sick.
Or maybe his motivation to run it got sapped between all of the other events he's been running.
Burn out is real.
Reasoning was low attendance. Despite it having the same attendance as a newly taken on event. The main issue isn't even that. Is that events are so crucial to everything. It requires time, dedication, planning, just to get development and it can be cancelled on a whim with zero resolution.
And I'm fine with burn out, but I was also taught you shouldn't tell people you'll do something and then just jump ship.
The fact is that at the end of the day this is a roleplaying game. There are other people I've spoken to that share the same issues. One that was in my event just up and quit because they already had the same situation happen thrice before. It gets exhausting when you see a character having run off to an event three times and yours seemingly gets suddenly dropped in favor of another which someone is OOC buddies with.
It's stressful to want to just get a plot done and being incapable of it. There's no system in place that assures anything to players. Fact is, once a GM has accepted an event, barring extreme circumstances, they should run it--it shouldn't be an 'oh ye, everyone ready' and then suddenly 'nah'.
Yes, the GMs are volunteering but the players aren't? Point being, there should be a system in place as an alternative that at least gives the players some pittance for cancellation and a way to reward players for exemplary writing. It's a roleplay game. Levels are already tied to you Roleplaying. Why can't I get a dev mat for potentially working on a 40,000 word short story with three other people?