don't be jelly i was a handmaiden of satan in another life

[socksuke_uchiha]

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Current and Former Mods

[(Anonymous)]

What were your worst failures or best learning experiences?

I'm feeling discouraged as a mod for reasons, and I want to hear other mods' stories.

Re: Current and Former Mods

[(Anonymous)]

It's been a long time since I modded and probably never will again, but here's what the best learning experience was. Do NOT trust your fellow mods. I've had many great mods I worked with, and when you've got a good team together, you can continue a game near indefinitely.

On the flip side, I've dealt with one who broke their own rules to exceed the character limit by creating an alternate persona claiming to be a new player, a mod who completely fucked off after she became obsessed with SPN and left me to run the whole thing when I'd been only a list mod before, and some chick who probably was bipolar and threatened to delete the comm every other week (Her exact phrasing being like I'LL BURN THIS PLACE DOWN!!!1!) till I finally changed the password on the mod account. And the last time I was a list mod a couple years back, the main mod got upset when I wouldn't ship our characters just the way she wanted, and kicked me out claiming I was "too slow" in updating the lists...after taking a whole day to update them. She then lied to the comm saying I'd stepped down because I had too many other commitments.

Worst failure experienced was not communicating enough with my players. I had several plots crash and burn because I played things too close to the chest and didn't leave enough clues or ask for enough input from the players. They were left very confused and complaining they didn't even know how to play out the plot because they felt so out of the loop.

Re: Current and Former Mods

[(Anonymous)]

I've never had a mod team member go rogue, but I have had some go a little AWOL. It sucks to pick up the slack but it's clearly not the worst thing that could go wrong.

The resentment from players who aren't playing by the rules and get called out for it never gets totally easy to take when attempt to villainize you or your mod team on the anon comms. Which is inevitable I suppose but damn it also doesn't stop being tiring.

But beyond all that my biggest effing bummers are when we can't drum up enough interest to just SEE if our idea for a game would be as great as we think it could be... I still have so much heart for game ideas that have never gotten off the ground.

Re: Current and Former Mods

[(Anonymous)]

How many games have you tried to get off the ground that didn't make it?

Re: Current and Former Mods

[(Anonymous)]

Depends where you start counting from I guess. Only one that I worked on with someone all the way up until after test driving stage that just couldn't get enough players to keep running on it's own steam after it officially opened. Other's have just been great ideas co-mods and I have jotted down, had long impassioned discussions about how to run, maybe even outlined in some google docs, but ultimately never turned into anything more than an account name to squat on.

I love ttrpgs and game mechanics as much as story premises, icon making and css styles so part of me just likes to dream up these things, but I still wish just ONE of them could get good run.