Hot damn this thread is tricky

I have mountains of RP failure stories to tell from the perspective of a player, a GM and of a co-GM

But so many of them involve drama on some level and while I do love me some dirty laundry, I at least make a token effort to not air it out.

I guess my most innocent example would be [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/178548-re-unison/ooc]Re:Unison[/url]. A cool RP idea about people who use their super-powered partner to fight rogue monsters and each-other. I found early success, my players were cool, TREE WAS THERE, and generally it looked to be on the up and up.

[i]So how did I fuck it up[/i]?

So my first mistake was not seeing the trees for the forest. I had a midgame, I had an endgame. The whole seven yards... except I conveniently forgot to plan out the starting line. You can really tell I was scrambling together an opening to get the characters settled at that point. Second, the scenario I [i]had[/i] come up with was super restrictive. I, as a GM, was kicking myself because I felt like I was funneling my players in one specific direction which was no bueno. Third, there was some very clear instant regret over one of the characters I had accepted. Not going into detail on that one.

There was also the fact that it only took about a week 1,5 from me coming up with it out of the blue to me posting the thread itself. I rushed the production of Re:Unison way too hard, got too impatient. It's also at a time where I felt like I had to GM something to... prove my worth, I guess? There was also a bit of drama with a friend of mine who wanted to join, but who I wouldn't allow because it'd create drama with another player I already had. Issues upon issues compounded and eventually I decided to pull the plug on R:U before it ever got a chance to truly keep going.

I am still super sorry to all my players for that one, as the RP's downfall is 100% on me. It wouldn't shield me from fucking up my next GM attempt, but at the very least I didn't repeat the mistakes of R:U.

Nah, I just made a bunch of new ones instead :-)