Zindaras wrote:Mr. Flay wrote:Uhm, because that would make in an Invitational, which you have to get permission for??
I thought that was just the official invitationals.
Exactly, me too.
BrianMcQueso wrote:Some of my fellow scummers have mentioned that it is acceptable as long as it doesn't come as the result of personal grudges. However, if a moderator decides to ban a player, that in itself is a subjective decision.
Yep.
I might make the subjective decision, having spent a couple dozen hours working on a subtle, interesting setup and waited 3 months to get to run a game, that I don't want player X who always acts like a chump essentially shoves a load of white noise into peoples' scumdars and who's hurt more than one game I've played with him. Others may have lower standards, find it amusing, or try to metagame him in-game.
Others may, for whatever reason, want to be able to guarantee that their game's pg-13. If you run a search on game-thread instances of the word "fuck", you'll get a pretty good idea of some people you wouldn't want in such a game; is it unfair to say "the forum states pg-13yness and you fail to keep to it, so I can't be sure you'll keep to my rules, so you can't join"?
Or if you're running a game you know oftentimes lurkers would kill stone dead, and replacements would really really hurt...
etc etc etc.
). So I certainly agree that invitationals shouldn't be the norm (though if they were I suppose the A-list and B-list players would have to turn down so many that newbies still did get a look-in). But what's the harm in thinking "I've worked really hard for a good set-up that I know Zindaras, MeMe, Stoofer, Fritz, AniX, Pooky, Rainbow Brite and CES would really appreciate - and all the more if they could play it with one another", what's the harm?