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Whiterook · #20 (**permalink**) April 16th, 2008, 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by MAGNA

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Originally Posted by Double Deuce

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Originally Posted by Whiterook

This Game Forum, if you notice on the title page, says "Other games too..."; so we have given it a bit of latitude on purpose. Again, the key here is that we want to keep WWII being the primary focus...but there is more to gaming than just WWII games. So let's have fun!

WWII should be ok as a predominant theme. There should be enough games to cover a wide variety of format (RPG, Naval, Air, etc). It will just be a matter of organizing, recruiting players and keep it (them) rolling along. We should aim to keep everyone involved but not string people out among too many ongoing games so that they get burned out. Keeping the game moving at the right pace is critical to keeping interest up.

Those are really important points. It would be good if players can give some kind of idea to a game organiser as to their level of interest (curious/wanted to have a go/won't sleep till the next move is available) and perhaps their own opinion on their current gaming level and experience.

It may then be easier to help people start out in beginners games and move on to more complex things when ready.

I think the simple solution to that would be:

Each player can inform the Game Master as to their Individual Level of Interest by PM or email...makes sense, as it's administrative in nature work, in the game organizing for that particular game.

But for the Gamers' Bios which highlight things like gaming experience, we can have a specific thread titled "Gamers' Bios", where each gamer can submit just one post, indicating their gaming biography, if they so choose. In this way, the gamer should always have the edit option on their screen (correct Jim?), of which they can go in and update their Bio accordingly. Please, no one do this just yet however...we're still feeling things out, and I need to maintain a modicum of conrol here! Lets just say I have evil plans afoot!!!