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simon cogan
United Kingdom
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Don't you just hate it when you're late to the party?
Everyone seems to know everyone else, drinks have alrready been served, there are old friends talking to each other in the corner and just about everybody knows all the hot gossip?
It's like that in games sometimes.
If you're not in on a game's inception and come to it a bit late, after an expansion or two have been out, you can seem to be that person in the party who stands at the buffet looking lonely or is that just me...)
Ask a question about tactics in all innocence and you get sneery replies. In-jokes abound between posters and it all seems to be part of a club you're not at.
Some forums are like that. BGG is certainly not like that (from my own experience anyway - correct me if I'm wrong)and I was determined from the outset that DWSSG was NOT going down that route.
In fact I was determined to set up a community for the game that encouraged new players, helped out where it could, and genuinely listened to its supporters and players.
The game has been going now for close to 2 and a half years and new players are joining all the time.
And thank God for that because new players are lifeblood.
I'm very fortunate that there are some great supporters of DWSSG here on BGG and all of whom welcome new players - sometimes faster than me in fact! Some of those suporters have been around since the start of this journey and know the rules of the game as well as I do it seems (better in some areas...  ).
I absolutely go out of my way to court players and get them interested in the game. I've recenty read some session reports that have had me almost jumping for joy in the creativity and imagination that they've shown.
And they're from new players...absolutely fantastic!
The reason the game was designed was to have players create their own episodes in their heads and 'live' out new episodes with a minimum of prep or sophisticated software or gaming packages. Good ol' fashioned imagination in fact. But some of the session reports here are beyond that and show wonderful creativity.
If I have encouraged just 1 of thos eplayers to improve their imagination or take up writing as a hobby or profession) then I consider the game a success.
Thanks to everyone who posts and supports the game.
And thanks too to all my trusty supporters who have been here for a while...
This week it was a voyage back to the 5th Doctor's era and another Big Finish Lost story 'The Elite'. A very polished story with the regulars of Davison, Fielding and Sutton on good form. This was one that you could see being on TV and moved along at a good pace too.
Solid, fun entertainment from an era that I am very fond of - 7/10 I think.
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