Last night

We had an interesting session last night. And it had 2 things that were a classic example of why this group is both so much fun and also so frustrating.

First, once we started we were going quite well, everyone was into the game. We were crawling through sewers then up some stairs, open a locked door and BAM! We walk into a horrendous cult butcher shop: blood all over the walls, body parts etc. the whole 9 yards. 4 of us fail our Guts check and start throwing up. And then everyone else just recovers and start walking lad de da, ooh these3 are bad guys we need to kill them, and how can we just blow the whole place up. Here was an opportunity for a classic role playing chance, and everybody just blows it off. I love this group but it is scenes like this that make me wonder how into the role playing they really are.

Soon after that things sort of degenerated, one player brought up some commercial he saw, and the focus was pretty much gone. We kept trying the rest of the night but it just never completely returned to the focus of the first 20 or so minutes, damn! Again I love this group, but they have the attention span of a bunch of sugared up pre-schoolers. I know I really want to run a game for these guys, but nights like that make me wonder how I am going to ever keep them focused to get through a decent session. And will they really care about their characters development?

But I shall endeavor to persevere when the time comes.