[quote=@Archmage MC]I'm not so great at the interpersonal stuff myself, but thats maybe due to the people I've had to test my way of doing things on. (...) And I've only really dealt with introverts mostly. will say the thing I'm sheepish with is sex stuff mostly because I'm a guy and all that steriotype stuff...[/quote]

Dealing with interpersonal stuff is tricky, and it's doubly tricky to offer advice and help with it when it involves somebody else! Especially as, when it comes to that sort of thing, there's (to paraphrase from Babylon 5) your side, their side, and the truth. As I'm part of the problem in the interpersonal relationship thing, my recounting of the problem is unlikely to do a good job of explaining it fully - I could say, for instance, that somebody is being a big ol' meanie jerk for absolutely no reason, and people might give me advice on how to act on that, but if I mistook their behaviour for being a jerk, and didn't see the reasons behind it, then any advice that could be given could just end up making matters worse by acting on my misunderstanding and flawed understanding of events.

On the "sex stuff" front, I'm one of those folks who isn't at all interested in it. It used to bug me a lot when I was younger ("Oh god, why is everyone suddenly interested in this?!"), but I'm old enough now just to shrug off my complete lack of interest in it.

[quote]Really the only thing I can say to improve on with the GM stuff so far is to give us something to react to in a combat or escalating situation, if that makes sense.
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Yeah, it does. I think part of the problem is that (as I've done multiple times before!), I've often left out stuff - I [i]think[/i] it, but I'm not happy with how I've wrote it, so I delete it, but continue to write as if it's still there, if that makes sense. "If that makes sense," ought to be a catchphrase for this game. The other part of the problem is that I'm very much used to writing for me; the point at which I would want to interject or interact if I were a player in my own game is when I'll put in a stop for somebody to react to it, and obviously the things that I'd go "[i]hey, I'd want to react to that![/i]" isn't going to be the same for when you, or Twelve, or Draco, or Valor, or DepressedSoviet would want to do it. It'll be a difficult habit to get out of, but I'll see what I can do on that front.

When I invariably stop a post to allow for people to react to stuff, and have failed to provide something that makes you go "[i]aha, I shall react to this![/i]", let me know.