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I just wanted to post a thank you to JB and the others who keep this place up and running. The range of topics that I am able to comment on and learn from are many.

Thank you for your efforts and hard work.

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Thanks for your participation and input. You seemed to have settled in nicely. We actually have a section for Feedback: Source 4 that you can share your thoughts about the features of the Community.

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I realized while reading the J-man's post there that you ARE more or less "new" aren't you, Oliron? You've fit in so well in the game and I've seen you post here and there on topics that I started classifying you as "another of those members that was already here when I started becoming active in it", but you came in after. I'd say you're doing quite well too! Good work.

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Oliron you're just as active as me now. Keep it up because just now medieval will be available. Too bad we're already going in future earth.

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Eh, O' well, I'll catch the next one.

Hey Pundit, if it comes up or you get a chance can you mention the campaign I am trying to start up to others. I just feel like once the thread falls from Latest Replies, it seems like people might not be aware of it. Source 5 is the treads location.

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Probably like create your character anyway maybe JB will squeeze you in but I like don't know so don't say I said he will.

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Oliron I just replied to your post hopefully you can get others unless you have them lined up already.

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No it isn't really too personal a question to ask why I'm not comfortable with games with just a GM and one or two players, I just don't know if I can say I have an answer.


When I and my friend first started playing my D&D redbox game, we made characters and played around with the random tables and had some fights to get used to the combat system. From there naturally, slight improvised "adventures" came about, still very closely tied to the fighting, more like "there is movement in the bushes near where you killed the goblin", nothing much more intelligent than that.


We got to where we could run somewhat coherent adventures for about an hour or so for each other, again, nothing approaching a plot or semblance of reason, but we had begun developing, to a primitive extent, character personalities and such, and I don't know, it seems like around that time, it kinda got to where I just felt there was something offputting about talking to just one other person (being two guys probably didn't help), making things up, basically telling each other fanciful stories, in our late teens - he was playing a large number of females quickly, but that really didn't bother me particularly, it wasn't really that (though I did think it was a little odd)...

I don't have a particular certainty on what factors are at play, but I had a 10+ years older friend run Runequest for just me for about a month, and while he was an experienced GM and could do much better at presenting a more objective and professional narrative, it too was not to my liking, interaction-wise (though getting to play my first non-D&D system was cool).

It's just too intimate, is the only real answer I have. I'm not a social butterfly, I have to have my time alone, to myself, sometimes a lot of it, sometimes days. I hate the phone, direct personal interaction, I don't really hug, or high-five or shake hands or pat people and don't generally like any of that done to me - I just immediately withdraw from it, instinctively, not from any particular intent.

Especially responsibility for others, being the focus of attention, direct interaction and and customer service and performance, causes me enough anxiety and stress I had to quit jobs.

Willfully placing myself into a situation relating, directly, one-on-one with someone else, face to face, when not used to being really "close" with anyone I even know well, really even family members or good friends, is just right on the edge of what I'm able to do comfortably/without feeling pretty "weird".

This is probably why I do okay on forums and chat to an extent, it's mostly anonymous, I can write a lot from a fairly objective and detached point of view, a lot of people can read and respond, and I can read a lot of other peoples' stuff, and there is a general sense of group or crowd activity, and though I'm also stressed by crowds, not as much as one-to-one because I'm not usually the focus of a crowd...

So of course I get voted Party Leader, and was the head of a small niche community for almost ten years, and am a moderator on three forums right now. Because I'm non-social. So that was a long post but I think somewhere in there there is probably an explanation but I don't really know where it starts or stops.