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Haha welcome to the illustrious Masters club. What are you getting it in? My schedule has been pretty rough the last few months too. Work from 8-5 then LSAT class from 6-10. Finally took the test last week and working on apps now. Seeing the Eagles tonight and Tom Petty Tuesday, so things are looking up.

I'm laying the over/under for someone proposing to start a new Westeros game at three days after the WoIaF comes out.

Also, I don't actually know how sports betting works, so I'm probably using "over/under" wrong.

Erik, that had occurred to me as well. Someone may need to kick me if the book makes my brain goes into planning mode. I really want to be a player next time but I do have a tendency to get over-excited by random RP ideas.

I'm sure we are all hoping for that. GRRM said in an interview a few months ago that he was cutting down on his public appearances to get on with writing because he is for some reason unable to write when he's travelling. I'm sure he has to do a certain amount of publicity for TWOIAF. So my hope is that he will get cracking on it in any free periods this year and as much as possible next year too. I know he skipped out on writing an episode for series 5 in order to have more time for TWOW. So fingers crossed!

I still haven't forgiven him for never mentioning Dornish waterbenders. -_-

But I'm pretty sure that the Ultimate edition is free on Origin (EA's Steam copycat) right now. Aranya, you were swooning over Dragon Age's graphics, if I recall. Which is ridiculous, but whatever.

Whose turn is it to admin? I am not up again yet, right?

What we need is some kind of set up that doesn't call for admins. Cause we are super unreliable.

Maybe some kind of commune? Where all of the proletariat get a vote.

Or like where we take turns. And admin for a month and then pass the baton to the next guy.

I'm sure once the worldbook comes out we'll see a slew of new games inspired by it. Smith makes an excellent point though that we should brainstorm a proper solution to our admin problem before then. The duumvirates historically seem to have worked the best, but only until one of the admins becomes otherwise engaged or burned out. We definitely need a way to tag folks in or pass the baton, as the injection of fresh blood and ideas regularly should keep things from getting stale or one person working themselves to death for the benefit of everyone else.

Maybe do admin teams of two where one member switches out each month. So let's say it starts with Smith and Stranger in January. In February Stranger would step down and return to being a player with a randomly selected member of potential admins (or just draw lots from the entire player base) stepping up, let's say Marie. Then Smith and Marie would admin all February, with Smith stepping down in March and Felix stepping up to admin with Marie. That way you always have someone from the last admin partnership to fill in the new admin stepping up. It also makes sure the entire community takes responsibility for the game, rather than one or two. And if one admin has to bow out for personal reasons, there will always be one waiting in the wings to take the reins.

For the reason that everyone is adminning at some point, it means we'd also have to pick a setting in which we're all generally on the same team to prevent OOC knowledge being used against players once an admin steps back down. Something in the vein of Bloodgrove or Bloodfeud where we're all a member of the same family or working toward bettering a group. Once again, I'm sure the Worldbook will sort out when and which family. We can brainstorm for ideas once the book comes out.

TBT I never cared for having admins due to the fact that their unreliability could and usually did kill games. It's far too much reliance on one part of the system, with no failsafes to keep the game running. Something more player focused where we all pitch our ideas/plots or just agree as we go should be better than having a plot lain out with one driving force. The simple amount of ignorance most players had for the big plan made it to where even if the players wanted to continue when the admin(s) quit, you couldn't without completely remaking a plot or trying to run with it from that point on, like how Crew failed.

TLDR: I want a democracy not a monarchy, like everything good.



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The graphics were good when they came out, but that was what, five years ago? Not to say they're hideous by today's standards, but we have come a little ways since then. 

The admin rotation idea is kinda interesting. There's an RPG that should be getting published soon (I hope, fucking kickstarted that shit so long ago) called Red Aegis that uses a system like that as standard. In that, you're each playing different clans over the course of thousands of years, and the GM-ship rotates between the players for each era.

That game sounds freaking awesome Eric. How long ago did you back it? I hate lingering kickstarters. I have been lucky but many a friend has been burned.