I’m gonna post verbatim my contributions to a big thread on RPGnet. Its on a registered-folk only section of the board so I won’t link to it. Its fairly long, but I would really appreciate feedback.
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On Saturday afternoons I run a roleplaying club that is focused on recruitment (lately we’ve been creating 2 new gamers every week, which is pretty damn snazzy).
We meet in a cafe seating area that is located in an internet barn – so there’s an island of cafe-style tables, where we hang out mixed in with random cafe people, and surrounding the tables are rows and rows of computers offering internet access. (It’s an easyInternet, for those what know the brand.)
So Saturday I was co-GMing with a guy who was running his first game (which he was doing only a month after trying RPGs for the first time) – a fun Mutants and Masterminds thing he’d come up with. As he was doing okay, my mind wandered a little and I glanced over the back of the section wall at a row of computers.
There was this guy there, who looked to be in his early 30s, and he was gazing at and writing messages in a chatroom that was bannered ‘juniorteenschatsite’ or something.
It was obvious the site was Not For Him.
I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t, in the end, do anything. To be quite honest, I forgot about him when the 14-year-old-newbie-filled game needed my guidance – he was gone by the time I thought of him again, which was at least an hour later.
I’m thinking back on it now, and wondering if I should have done something, and if so, what?
Erg. *shudder*
Day: September 20, 2004
Intl. Talk Like A Pirate Day
Arr, it were yesterday. Oh well.