Should BtSH call it quits?

[The Celtic Viking]

Okey dokey, thanks for clearing that up. However, I don't like the idea of these large meetings concerning all the tribes during an emergency session. What I meant by all the tribes meeting was at a market gathering/trading sesh, which I'm pretty sure they had. To me, it sounds like these emergency sessions would be a very unlikely thing to happen of it involved all the tribes.

Gah, you're misunderstanding me again! I must learn how to communicate my thoughts better.

All I meant when I said they would be like emergency sessions would be that they're 'secondary' sessions that are called when needed but not on a regular basis. Like emergency sessions in BtSH and WotB, in that sense. Anything beyond that would be taking the... whatstheword... simile? too far.

My idea of inter-tribal councils would not preclude such a market (indeed, what I think you intend should happen at that market is not covered by my suggestion of the councils at all). I very much agree with that idea.

I think it could happen during the game, should a faction (such as the Romans) invade Germania, publicly announcing they are planning to wipe out all German tribes, then maybe then we band together, But it shouldn't be a planned thing. Stop me if I'm barking up the wrong tree. We can always wait for the rules to be drawn up and revisit the issue.

You're definitely barking up the wrong tree - I'm not saying anything should be planned. (If you don't remember, I was fiercely against going against the Carthies just because that's what happened in history. I don't want anything planned like that.) If you re-read what I said here, you'll see that I said "uniting against a common foe", meaning an enemy they shared. That's not unrealistic, is it?

Even in the scenario you paint up, a case could be made that the Romans wouldn't be satisfied with just one tribe's possessions, but would continue with the others once the first tribe is down. Together they'd have a better chance than each tribe for itself, one at a time. I'm not saying it they should be forced to do it, but the choice should be there. It was one of the examples I used for what could be done in the inter-tribal councils.

I wouldn't worry about a player base yet, Navarro. Plenty of time to sort that out, and I'm pretty sure we can get a decent one up.

I think if we get a good, solid system of doing things, then we can set up an easy and simple way of each tribe getting their seperate income and console work. The console work won't be too much if we split it up between ourselves. This of course means that one person (aka: Navarro) won't be able to keep everything under wraps himself, thus not being the omniscient GM. However, I think this will allow the game to move quicker, smoother and heep less pressure on one person. Not that I doubt you could handle it, Navarro, but whenever you were gone for more than one night in BtSH, the whole system stopped. I think we have a core of solid, loyal players now, in Navarro, TCV, Everyone, myself and CDF, and some commendable players like Swiss and Mini. If we all work together, then we can create an efficient and fast flowing game, creating more interest and player numbers. That will also be quite different from the other PBM's, adding to the originality of our game.

I certainly hope you're correct here, and I'm actually semi-positive. I think it will be easier to have more players come and stay for a new game too, since it's easier to be in from the beginning than to jump in somewhere in the middle of the action, when there's so much to learn about the relations between the pre-existing players, general history and what-not.