2009/4/2 Padraic Barrett <[email protected]>: > I recently got a haircut. I mention this to explain how I heard the phrase "A > barber is only as good as his last haircut". My barber elaborated by asking > "Well if I butchered your hair today would you come back?" It was a good > point. > Con games are like going to a new barber. You don't know what your going to > get until you sit down. Some Cons have better reputations for games than > others. The same is true of Writers and GMs. However you still don't know > what your going to get until your in that chair. > I don't care what system we use to organise Con games. I care about the > quality of the games that are being run and that refers to both the game and > the GM. I see this as an issue that the RPG coordinator must address for > their Con. How he does it is irrelevant if it produces the best result for > the Con's attendees.
This is something I can happily get behind. My issue is that con committees are doing things because that's the way they've been done. They are adhering to a system they've learned through a game of Chinese Whispers and the con experience is suffering because of it. B.
