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maybe try breaking the tasks into smaller items, and giving deadlines for each. "Let's have character concepts by the 3rd; class/race/alignment by the 10th; backstory by the 17th, so we can roll for traits on the 24th"
Thanks. I just sent a "Please give me Class, Race and reason for being in the starting town before next Friday" and already got one response. Currently engaged in some back and forth with the player to flesh out his background. So that's a huge improvement over the last few weeks.
No problem. It's how I handle the students. Big tasks get postponed, smaller tasks are easier to accomplish, and they do.
Cool! I'm definitely feeling an ebb and flow when it comes to group enthusiasm and participation. Although we have rotating DMs, characters, and campaigns with the goal of playing every week, sometimes we have to take a week or two off because we can't get enough people together.
Is anybody playing MMOs besides me? I Just had a supremely frustrating run where I was trying to tank but DPS kept running ahead and pulling huge mobs. I finally quit out of frustration. Sometimes I wonder why anyone has the mettle to tank as their main class.
Well, I got one response so far, but no others, though I did give them until Friday. We'll see what happens.
Never got into MMOs. I tried both WoW and D&D Online and they didn't really draw me in.
Anyone into the Civilization series of games? I'm downloading Civ 6 right now (2 hours!), and I thought it would be fun to compare notes, if anyone was.
Oddly enough I've been playing Civ IV today, aifg. I don't have Civ VI. Does Civ VI require a Steam account to play? IIRC, Civ V did, and got rid of my copy it as soon as I saw that it required me to sign up.
I have Civ IV & V, on steam on my Mac. I have the Xbox one for my old 360, but haven't played that in ages, and the iOS app, which is kind of a lite version of the game. Let me know how VI is. I usually wait until prices drop before buying.
I get bored playing just one civilisation so I like to use Hot Seat to play two or more but the game keeps crashing on me when I do this so I haven't played in a while.
I spent way too many hours of my life playing Civ 2 back in the day. Haven't played another since except for Civ Rev on the Xbox 360.
So only the first player to respond actually met my deadline last week. Still don't have specifics for most of them, but the party is shaping up, at present, to be a cleric, a sorcerer, a rogue and a wizard, with one player giving me no feedback at all and I'm beginning to suspect is going to end up dropping out. So no tank to speak of (though the cleric might be able to fake it, depending on how he puts his character together) and two very squishy characters. Might be a very short adventure.
