Brawldennis
2015-08-26, 01:52 AM
Hey playground,
I'm looking for some opinions on a matter. Some time ago I started recruiting a player for a 1 on 1 campaign on roll20, I wanted to do something unique, so I was looking for someone to play the villain for my campaign at home. During recruitment I talked with a lot of people, having them really flesh out an idea so I could find the best match in a player with whom I'd have fun playing with too (and mostly to prevent playing with something like Killy Mcevilguy). Some of the people wrote whole paragraphs of background, which really helped me get an idea as to who would be a best fit. Now my problem comes right after the moment that I had decided on a player.
I thought it would be common courtesy to send the ones I didn't decide on a message, thanking them for their time and effort, but that I'd chosen for another player. Some of them just lost it. I got accused of stealing someone's ideas, to use with the others player. Another accused me of just making the game up to waste his time and yet another just starting swearing at me. In hindsight I really am glad that I didn't go for those players as they're not the type of people I'd like to associate with, but it made me wonder. Is this something that happens a lot?
This isn't my first campaign I run online, but I've never had this type of behavior from potential players before so I was kinda shocked about it. Or do you think it was because of me asking questions about what they had in mind and how they see the character in their eyes? It's just that for something so personal as a 1 on 1 game I'd like to know more about a character then "He's a wizard necromancer that wants to become a lich."
I'm looking for some opinions on a matter. Some time ago I started recruiting a player for a 1 on 1 campaign on roll20, I wanted to do something unique, so I was looking for someone to play the villain for my campaign at home. During recruitment I talked with a lot of people, having them really flesh out an idea so I could find the best match in a player with whom I'd have fun playing with too (and mostly to prevent playing with something like Killy Mcevilguy). Some of the people wrote whole paragraphs of background, which really helped me get an idea as to who would be a best fit. Now my problem comes right after the moment that I had decided on a player.
I thought it would be common courtesy to send the ones I didn't decide on a message, thanking them for their time and effort, but that I'd chosen for another player. Some of them just lost it. I got accused of stealing someone's ideas, to use with the others player. Another accused me of just making the game up to waste his time and yet another just starting swearing at me. In hindsight I really am glad that I didn't go for those players as they're not the type of people I'd like to associate with, but it made me wonder. Is this something that happens a lot?
This isn't my first campaign I run online, but I've never had this type of behavior from potential players before so I was kinda shocked about it. Or do you think it was because of me asking questions about what they had in mind and how they see the character in their eyes? It's just that for something so personal as a 1 on 1 game I'd like to know more about a character then "He's a wizard necromancer that wants to become a lich."