[admin] GM policy note

[yhlee]

vass brought up the question of party-splitting in this thread.

My policy (as posted there, and reiterated here) is as follows:

I agree that having anyone's character sit out while others Do Things is generally not fun, and that I want to avoid that happening unless it's prearranged (e.g. someone is on vacation for a couple weeks and needs their character to be off doing other things). If you choose to have Iawa stay behind, vass, I will make sure that there is stuff for you to do. From my perspective splitting the party for any length of time is not ideal simply because it reduces inter-player interaction and the more independent plots there are, the harder it is for me to coordinate them. But if that's how you want to handle it, I will definitely make sure (say) Iawa gets juicy plot time.

Any questions or concerns, please discuss in comments or message/email (yhlee / yoon at yoonhalee dot com), whichever you feel more comfortable with.

Comments

[zuhrovet]

I left a comment along these lines in the other thread, but I want to say this here, too: our Space Radios mean we can coordinate party actions without physically having all eleven of our characters in the same place.

As a GM I have previously found this kind of instant private communication somewhat irritating, and as players we probably should accept some limitations on the reliability of our Space Radios. But plot-strand togetherness and physical togetherness don't have to match up (thank goodness! It would be really awkward if we all descended on Remi's dance practice, for instance.)

[Off-topic: not canon and not RPG canon either]

[yhlee]

It would be really awkward if we all descended on Remi's dance practice, for instance.

Nirai Remi was busy practicing his chaîné turns when he noticed the eleven strangers who joined the ballroom dance class. That's odd, he thought. I was under the impression that foxtrot was out of fashion even with the Shuos...