Quote from: Abyssal Maw;423324I have no idea why you aren't getting more interest, but one thing I might try to do is actually pick a night of the week and say "this Thursday, 7PM, I'm running it.." and actually send out direct invites. With a poster you get people who read it and might be interested, but might not think about it when it comes time. If you set an exact date and time, you have a better chance of running it.

Just to put my two cents in - of people who game in this area, I'd say 90% of them generally only like to plan game things for a Fri night or Sat afternoon because of other committments with work or family; so the individual day being chosen could be part of the problem, too.

Now, the age group Rufus is going for may well not fall into the "my every weeknight is consumed by work or family" thing the way it does for older people, but just throwing that out there.

OK, let me join the chorus here:



That sounds like a very cool campaign. I'd love to play something like this personally!

Now, IMO, you should lose that last paragraph about the "evil real life." That's the last paragraph, which means that's the last impression you give to someone who has been curious enough to read the whole thing, so you don't want to go in "rage against real life" stuff there. I'd just finish with something uplifting, personally, like a "Roll for initiative!" or something similar that would make people feel good about joining the game, rather than wondering what the hell you meant with your grudge against real life.

Just some advice, bro. AM's advice is very sound too. I hope you do run this game.

I will probably take that advice and chop off the bottom paragraph.  It won't change anything but I can sort of see how some folks might take it the wrong way.  

I do hope to run it some day.  I almost had a chance to run it, but the group that was forming (and I was the only one to reply to their ad) agreed to it, then emailed me a couple days later and decided someone else was gonna DM something.  Even though while we met I was more than happy to let someone else DM if they really wanted.

That sort of flakiness and reneging alone was enough to send me running to the hills.  And that DMs game ideas mostly involved high level 4e fighting Orcus and that 80 Dollar Red Dragon Mini and sort he owned.

Not my bag.  I like lower level and a bit gritty.  They wanted powergaming muncharama.  

Last time I stayed with a group who did odd stuff like that at the start it was a bad end.  And one of the players ended up in jail for looking at the sort of material online that gets you in jail. * shudder *

Course when a group privately mentions to you to vote for 3.0 because one dude that was also there only did TSR AD&D because they thought the guy was odd and it would make him go away within minutes of walking in the door you should probably run to the hills like Iron Maiden is your soundtrack.

(Besides.  We only reached level 5-6 in TWO YEARS OF PLAY.  At the same time I was in that 3.0 game towards its midpoint I ran a 3.0 game and we reached the same level in 6 months.  I used the other group as a horror tale with the 4 pages of critical miss charts and such.  The guy who went to jail didn't do that till a couple years after.  I found out when trying to at least mend some bridges with the host over email since we parted ways negatively.  I was freaked out for months.  I still kind of am.)

I chose not to make the same mistake twice.  When you get the odd vibes just HAUL ASS.

It is nice to know some folks like my Alternate Earth Castlevania idea.  I was/am gonna use the Level 1-5 Essentials adventures as a prelude, the Expedition to Castle Ravenloft Barovia segment, then build Castle Dracula myself, probably basing the castle on the Castlevania Chronicles section, figuring the entire campaign would be a level 1-14 max thing if I put Simon's Quest's events as the endcap.

I mean, I did let them generate PCs using the hardbacks when I wanted Essentials only.  Instead of asking me to switch a few things or even giving my idea a shot they chose to switch me to player after I had my mind set on running it.  So eff that.  I do note they currently haven't found anyone else so their loss really.