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From: Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.misc
Subject: Re: What have you been playing in MARCH 2024?
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 10:21:01 +0200
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On 4/8/2024 5:04 PM, Justisaur wrote:
> On 4/8/2024 5:20 AM, Kyonshi wrote:
>> Spalls is doing this all the time in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, 
>> which for some reason is the only one of those computer game groups 
>> that seem to get any kind of real engagement. And I was thinking... 
>> why don't we do that here in rec.games.frp.misc as well?
> 
> I tried to do that years ago, and the problem was no one was doing much, 
> of course that was after the group had mostly died.

Well, that's why I will try to do this a bit now. Maybe we can actually 
get some discussion going again.

> 
>> So, what have you been playing in March 2024?
> 
> None.  I haven't played or run anything in more than a year now.  My 
> last was January of last year running Dungeon Robber (the tabletop 
> version) on Rpol which does play by post.  Unfortunately I burned out on 
> it as I was posting way too frequently. I also found a lot of flaws that 
> were irritating to me, I wanted to fix but would likely require a 
> reboot, and I was down to 3 players who really only wanted to play solo.

What's Dungeon Robber?

> 
> It seems to be getting harder and harder to get players who are 
> interested in non-5e play.  Or maybe I've picked up bad habits and am no 
> longer a good DM.  I'm not sure.  Ah for the days I was running 2e with 
> 7 players for years on end.
> 

I sure hope not, I still haven't jumped on the 5e bandwagon. I just 
don't feel enthused enough about the game to actually buy the books (or 
even read that far into material that's in the public.