Re: [DL] Hack and Slash Deadlands

["Bob Fletcher" <bobfletch@erols.com>]

> I am in a rather similar pickle. My summer group, who
> I luckily won't have to play with for another eight
> months, fought against detective work tooth and nail.
> I don't think they came around in the slightest the
> entire campaign to wanting to solve it. They got so
> bored they wrote off the murders, didn't notice the
> villain escape and plotted how to kill each other.
> Half way through the summer I gave into the killing,
> threw bad guys at them and just made up the fun
> thinking stuff on the side for NPCs to figure out just
> to keep myself from quitting. I would just drop the
> group but they're having so much fun (one of them just
> bought F&B specifically for they're character and if I
> quit on them they wouldn't play at all anymore and
> they wouldn't buy any more books)and they have no idea
> that I'm hating how they play.
>
> Wow, I sound like a big, whiny weenie-head.

    You're not a big weenie-head, I just think (if I may be so bold ;-)
you're putting the group's desires way too ahead of your own.  The whole
reason we, as Marshals, run games is so that everybody gets to have fun,
ourselves included.  I think it's very noble that you've persevered this
long for them, but I know that I would just get more and more dissatisfied
with the way the game was going.  I think this dissatisfaction is reflected
in the second line of the inclusion above.  I'd suggest talking to them
about it when you are getting geared up again eight months from now and talk
about what everybody wants out of the campaign, including yourself.