RE: discussed rule changes

[Daniel Lawrence <dan@aquest.com>]

Well,  it is time to say this.

	I find myself getting into stupid arguments with my friends, and not able to make any forward moves with out extreme bitching happening about.. anything... i try to do.

	I have tried to be polite. I have tried to respect everyone's opinions, I have tried to let everyone have a voice in what is going on.

	But it is now to a point where I can not accomplish any positive things for the game without a lot of finger pointing and political infighting going on.

	This is not acceptable.

	I started this campaign. I abritrate what happens in it.

	This is not now, and has NEVER been a democracy.

	It is not a government. It is not arbitrating people's lives, it does not determine your salery, it does not tell you who to vote for, it does not tax you and it does not determine whom you can like and dislike.

	It controls the fictional rules and fictional events of a make believe world in a game I play to have fun, which I have allowed others to share.

	I have had the highest respect for other's opinions... bending over backwards to give them a voice, to consider their ideas, to incorporate their solutions.

	But in doing so, I have given you the false impression that simply by shouting load enough and getting enough people to bitch that you could control what happens in my campaign on my fictional world.

	Well that is not true.

	I control the rules, and I arbitrate events of global import.

	I have, up until now, had enough trust in the good sense of many people here to work with them in resolving issues that they found important.

	But we have reached a stage where the arguing, the bitching and the abuse going on here has brought my ability to help people have fun to a halt.

	More than one person has already been turned off to GMing and/or playing because of the arguments. This has greatly disturbed me.

	This stops here.

	I make the rules. I decide on events of global impact on Jaern, my fictional world.

	If the club no longer wishes to host my campaign, then they need to vote and tell me so.

	If individuals can not deal with this, I will without hassle duplicate all their player records and give them my best wishes running their own campaign.

									Dan