Post by Professor X on Jan 23, 2019 13:50:38 GMT -5
I would like to address this to everyone who has played in this game be it from it's beginning back in 1992 when 5 friends sat down with adult X-Men to play a game combining our favorite universes to the players who have been around only a few months. You have made my time as GM a pleasure and Earth A the gaming love of my life. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. This has been the longest continuing run on any game I know of or have had part in. It is you that are responsible for that in all the changes and amazing stories told from that beginning til now.
However, times change and the climate of this game and several others that I play and more importantly run have changed as has my ability and desire to continue to do so. Where once running this game and others was a source of joy, pride and a place where my friend and associates gathered to make up wonderful tales of heroes, the game has become a point of division. I find myself struggling emotionally with it and it pulling the joy out of something I hold so dear. I've stopped looking forward to even talking about it and have had the hard work and plans set up for years now turned to so much dust.
While I have run this game with as few as 4 people playing and had a good time, so much of what has transpired in the last few years has left me feeling sad about my own game.
It should be fun.
It should be something I love.
Right now, running it hurts for the memory of what it was and what it should be.
As the game stands I need to do something so that I don't loose her for good and that means that a change must be made. To that end, what I do next I do with a heavy heart.
Effective immediately the following games will be in indefinite hiatus: Earth A and Titans.
I will NOT be running anything for them in the foreseeable future. I am not killing them dead, but giving both games the rest that I feel I need to be able to have anything left of them to run later. Perhaps later on, I can run them again, but I have to close the book for now. I hope that you will all understand. Please, take your characters ( they are yours) and do with them as you will, but the forums will close for all but bios as of this weekend. No more RP will be allowed in this space, nor will I be attempting to schedule any live games in the near future.
Earth B will continue with Allison Scott, Ross Anderson and myself at the helm and I will be assisting Zach in his game Legacy, my WoD game will continue where I co-run with Brian Greirson and Candis Buffington, my only solo effort will be my Year One small game. Beyond that, right now, I am done.
I hope that you all are able to find your fantasy and heroic selves. I hope that you are all able to make the RP you need or want happen and maybe one day we can all play together again.
(I will check the forums until Saturday if you need me.)
For now,
Excelsior and farewell,
Jim.
However, times change and the climate of this game and several others that I play and more importantly run have changed as has my ability and desire to continue to do so. Where once running this game and others was a source of joy, pride and a place where my friend and associates gathered to make up wonderful tales of heroes, the game has become a point of division. I find myself struggling emotionally with it and it pulling the joy out of something I hold so dear. I've stopped looking forward to even talking about it and have had the hard work and plans set up for years now turned to so much dust.
While I have run this game with as few as 4 people playing and had a good time, so much of what has transpired in the last few years has left me feeling sad about my own game.
It should be fun.
It should be something I love.
Right now, running it hurts for the memory of what it was and what it should be.
As the game stands I need to do something so that I don't loose her for good and that means that a change must be made. To that end, what I do next I do with a heavy heart.
Effective immediately the following games will be in indefinite hiatus: Earth A and Titans.
I will NOT be running anything for them in the foreseeable future. I am not killing them dead, but giving both games the rest that I feel I need to be able to have anything left of them to run later. Perhaps later on, I can run them again, but I have to close the book for now. I hope that you will all understand. Please, take your characters ( they are yours) and do with them as you will, but the forums will close for all but bios as of this weekend. No more RP will be allowed in this space, nor will I be attempting to schedule any live games in the near future.
Earth B will continue with Allison Scott, Ross Anderson and myself at the helm and I will be assisting Zach in his game Legacy, my WoD game will continue where I co-run with Brian Greirson and Candis Buffington, my only solo effort will be my Year One small game. Beyond that, right now, I am done.
I hope that you all are able to find your fantasy and heroic selves. I hope that you are all able to make the RP you need or want happen and maybe one day we can all play together again.
(I will check the forums until Saturday if you need me.)
For now,
Excelsior and farewell,
Jim.
