In a message dated 10/20/2008 12:18:02 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ric, I have figured that out myself. My character has place in the mortal bloodline thanks to Josie's work and has a SanGio Sire and even a Sibling but has had little real attachment to the family yet. If you ask why, it is because seldom when I am on IRC are there any SanGios other than that adorable Mewpet. When I originally approached people about my character being SanGio about the best thing I can say is I experienced mostly two reactions: 1) no response at all. 2) outright hostility in the SanGio OOC room. Josie was a treasure in working with me, rather than dictating things to me. There was other people that tried to help you. The response we got back at first was "No one knows the PC it was kept away from the family" and the like. We just tried to stress, we were trying to help, and the long lost child thing was wearing thin, since it seems to happen once a month for the last year. And 75% of those turned out real bad. It gets more confusing when those long lost kids, start being older than almost every other PC out there, when the family was even more tight than it should be now. Building the family is a wonderful thing and I embrace that wholeheartedly. On the other hand it was rather hard to retrofit in a chronicle length character (and I actually talked to the DPotM MST when the chronicle opened about being SanGio.. but he said "wait until it is created") into the family, though he was designed as best as I was able to from the initiation of the chronicle. This character that I play now, was made long before the book came out. I was told as long as I put the Sangiovanni name on the sheet, but play under a new name, in case what I wrote did not fit the right up, there would be no issue. I had no issue changing what needed to be change to help out a handful of people here and there. When we started getting larger numbers, it was harder for everyone else to change to fit just one person. I told another player a long time ago. We can all change a little to help you, but you need to change some things to fit in with us too. It's a two way street. All that stated, I highly agree that new characters should be a part of the Family proper. However, I think you are right that saying it softer would go a long way to ensuring that OOC family relations begin on the right foot as well It would And a lot of that is lost on email. When we ran into Tim at ICC this year, we dragged him along for a drink, got him to the meetings, help worked with him, got an idea of what he needed, put the standard warnings of "We don't do long lost family members, who were raised by pygmie midgets in New Gini, then embraced out of family, but want to part of the whole" A lot of that gets lost in the tone of email or IRC. You are talking to players who spent lots of years, money, and time trying to get this as close as we can to the book, which has a few gaps (which we are not getting answers for from a higher power) try to get it and keep it together, keep it fun, and keep it safe IC. >From day one we had the "I was kidnapped and came back" then have that player say it's not what they wanted, they wanted Giovanni and we should rewrite the whole thing now and kill off the PCs that say no. We got the "I am LS status 5, you have to like me, and let me in, just because I have LS status, but want nothing to do with being family" and so on and so on. Richard **************New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. Try it out (http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000002) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Sangiovanni Wiki can be found at www.san-giovanni.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ooc-sangiovanni" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ooc-sangiovanni?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
