Discouragement
Ugh. I've been trying to get feedback on my setting ideas at RPG.net and I'm about ready to give up on the whole thing. No interest, no comments... the only replies I get it's obvious they haven't even read what I asked them about. I can only guess that folks have all, at one time or another, glanced at the blog and gone, "Eh, whatever," and now ignore my posts. I dunno.
Basically, I guess I should try for feedback on some other locations (rpg-create and the Forge are about the only other options I know), then maybe give up.
I mean, I'm trying to devise a setting that interests folks. If folks like the setting, they'll learn the rules... if they don't, the rules are pointless.
I see a few basic things I could do to try and salvage something out of this.
- Call it a learning experience and give up. Not exactly a positive experience, but I'm definitely better prepared if I ever come up with an idea that people do like. I've also honed my skills for art and layout and I'd be better able to do stuff like taking on art commissions if I wanted to.
- Just finish off the system as a generic game. If it playtests well, maybe I can use it for some other game setting.
- Finish what I have and put it out as a PDF. That might well net greater attention, since it would (hopefully) look nice and professional. That won't be easy though, and honestly, if no one's interested in the game-in-development, I doubt it'll do anything more than sit on my website and accumulate the occasional comment. Probably no one will play it, not even me.
- Backburner the project and come back to it in six months or so, if I think it's worthwhile. Maybe I'll come up with some twist that actually makes the setting draw people in. Who knows? Maybe I really just need a catch-phrase.
- Jump to a different setting and convert the rules to it. But this time I'd want to do some research and look for feedback on the idea first. Maybe something like Spiral would go over better... who knows? It may just be my presentation.
Posted by Kiz at August 5, 2004 10:43 PM