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Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 6:53 pm
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Pop culture? What's that? Its been so long that I forgot. And even when I fell into that age group, I didn't really pay that much attention to it.Jabroniville wrote:And I'm just on the cusp of being ignored by pop culture (the 18-35 male demographic).
And this, at the core, is the reason why a majority of the campaigns have leaders that are played either by Ken or myself. It is very hard to have a group leader that may or may not be there after the current adventure. In the core of four / five, Ken runs two campaigns (the CoJ and the Allied Defenders), I run three (Force d'Orleans, Las Vegas Strikeforce Consultants and B.A.D.A.S.S.), Neil runs one, Andy runs Crusader Force and Doug runs Eclipse every couple of years. As he said above, we have three other regular players that have joined us recently, but none of them have shown any interest in stepping up into the leadership role with any of their characters. Neil is a self-professed follower, disliking having to make decisions, and Andy is.... Andy.Ken wrote:As far as the number of regular players go, what isn't evident is our 90% attrition rate. I mean, I've been led to believe that keeping the same campaign world going for nearly three decades is a bit odd. Basically, there's really only 4 of us who've really been in it for the real long haul, and one of those 4 took a 5 or 6 year sabbatical. Count Zero's creator, Doug, might constitute a 5th, but he did have a 15-16 year sabbatical in there.
Our 3 "newcomers" to the group have been gaming with us for 2 or 3 years now, and I hope they're in for the long haul.
We have had other long haulers. One was in for the long haul for the first decade and a half, then took a long sabbatical, then burned his bridges and moved East. One came in around 1998, and was in for years. He, and the friend he dragged in with him are still on the periphery, keeping up with RCU news, but they haven't played in the RCU in a few years. 3 of the 4 of us at the core have had siblings that have been major players at different times.
But there's still the 75 other players who've been a part of the group for anywhere from a session or two to several years that have still come and gone.
I've only scratched the surface.