The Fate of Sunday Gameplay

While I like the idea of an early start time on Friday, it would be hard.  I, personally have a long set up time with Gwynedd's shop.  Sometimes I can be ready early but most of the time I am done after it gets dark.  I know other people are also into making their cabins and other spaces more IG. 

Sunday though,  I would like a low to mid level mod to do.  It doesn't necessarily have to be about monsters.  It can be a lot of rp.  Especially, rp that preludes into the next event.  Maybe someone meets a travelling stranger with something unique to sell.  The people talk about it for a bit and then decide to put it off until the next feast.  Or just helping a stranger and get a small reward. Or some residual monsters who don't know the fight is over. 

I also like the learning time that happens on Sunday.  Sometimes it is the only time I can find my teachers.  Also, you can find out all that happened over the weekend.  That is nice.

 

And really, there's nothing stopping you from RPing from the moment you get there.  If you and a group of people are standing around, I don't think anyone would have a problem if you RPed amongst yourselves, taught each other skills, etc.  Just make sure you're around for lay-on.  Also, really, there are going to be more "distractions" during this time than any other, because as it's been stressed by others already, not everyone has the luxury of getting there early.  So even if there were NPCs to send out during that time, the mood would be constantly interupted by people walking / driving OOG to get set up.

As far as Sundays go, real life has prevented me from being around for a Sunday mod in years.  However, to be quite honest, when I used to be around on Sundays, I rarely could be bothered to go on Sunday mod.  More often than not, I was a) too tired and b) too busy trying to get all my stuff packed up to go home to take the time to go on a mod that really wasn't very appealing.  While I think it'd be great for there to be a purpose to the mod (ie. cliff hanger for next event), this is rarely practical.  I mean, if you look at it from an IG perspective, how often does a weekend mod have a hook that can be thrown out there the event before and have people's characters go "Eh, we'll deal with that problem in a month.  I'm going home."

I think that the best we can realistically ask for is that the mods be something interesting, possibly even planned out ahead of time, that would give people a reason to want to go.  Personally, if the only point is to "use up some skills", then it's not really worth it.  If it's something that has a cool story behind it, or a serious purpose, then I think it would be appealing to everyone.

--Skimmel

<<What if we need to make announcements at 8:00, but a group of players already started and are off in the woods?>>

An excellent point, but it would not be any worse than the usual occurrance when some show up late.  Plus,if its all RP, most will hang out somewhere near the Inn.

I do not think that any teaching should go on except within the parameters of the official lay-on on friday and the hold on sunday.  It just leads to bad mojo.

I agree with Mike about the no teaching/learning before/after lay-on/game end on friday night/sunday morning. howeve i still do not see why we could not have opening announcements, lay-on, Logistics at 7 or 8 pm since some people dont show up til after layon and opening announcements anyways

I said it before, and I guess I'll have to say it again, isn't 7-8 the time when the majority of the players arrive and set up?

With all this arguing, I say we just leave Lay-on at it's normal time, 10 pm. It'll save a lot of grief, I don't know about you guys, but I kind of feel like we're beating a dead horse and have strayed off topic of the Sunday morning game play

But that's just me