From:	Terry Amburgey <xanth@****.UKY.EDU>
Subject:	gamemastering
Date:	Tue, 22 Aug 1995 15:58:29 -0400

Justin Elliott wrote
>Subject: Re: munchkins and game masters
>
>>[snip]
>>>Whaddya think?
>>
>
>Just a question, was this a serious post ( as the others seemed to have
>thought) or just a bit of light hearted humour (like I thought it was)?
>

Both. Think about the problem. I want to discuss something that I see as a
'sacred cow' [gm as dictator]. If I do a straight post, only a guru or two
responds. If I'm lighthearted and plaster it with smilies then it's totally
ignored. If I do it in an outrageous way I get the personal pleasure of
poking fun at a sacred cow, I provoke people into responding that wouldn't
have responded [or at least in the same way] ottherwise, and the only
downside is ad hominem flames. List.member.grumpy [bless his soul] flamed me
sufficiently to get a thick skin so it's cheap at the price.

I may be wrong but I suspect that if I'd done a straight single/multiple
referee post I would've never got the response from Eve that a
munchkin-as-larval-gm approach got. What say you Eve?

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