On 7/5/25 06:35, James Catchpole - jlcatchpole at googlemail.com (via
tml list) wrote:
> Are you forgetting all the hours you spent running TTA online? Or does
> it only count if it's sitting around the same table? 😆
>
>     <snip>
>     In any case, if you actually look at the hours I've spent running
>     games, I think you'd be surprised how few they are.  Isn't it
>     supposed to 10,000 hours or something to get to mastery?  If we
>     call it an average of 4 hours per game, that's going to be 2500
>     games.  IF I ran three at TravCon (which I've done but is
>     demanding) and, say one other f2f in the year, and perhaps half a
>     dozen online in the year, that would 250 years of refereeing at my
>     pace...
>
>     I've done what, 15 of those 250?  (Plus a few rarities back in the
>     80s/90s).  I'd better make the anagathics of Batch 24381 real.
>
>     The lack of experience is probably why I'm already beginning to
>     get jitters about running Batch 24381 at North Star on Sunday. 
>     I've not run anything since the start of Covid (TravCon 2020)
>     except for Batch 24381 at TravCon last October.  And it didn't fit
>     into four hours there.  North Star is only giving me three!
>     (But there's some stuff I can chuck out and we won't have the Lego
>     to distract us (the Artemis base and Artemis rover) as I sold them
>     at the end of TravCon. Sadly.)
>
>     tc
>
I doubt just "physically around the same table" is the only one that counts.

Parental Advisory ran, roughly weekly, from just before the COVID-19
pandemic to just under 2 years afterwards, and I reported it here at the
time.  Like so many groups, that one was all online.  We'd been doing it
that way for a few years by then. MOst of the list seemed to at least
passively tolerate it, if not enjoy it.

Collision, _not only_ do you have the brute accumulated experience
(however much that is), you're one up on me.  You've also been
_reflecting_ on your experiences bi-monthly for _how_ many years now?

As for the jitters re: running Batch 24381, would it help airing them
either here, or directly in a private email?

On upside, you've run it once previously, and at least have an
experience-informed idea of the good, bad, fast and slow bits from that
previous run.

Maybe make some notes from your previous run - not only bits you "can
chuck out", but bits you can skim thru if needed.  You've got more
experience running con games than I have, so if you think this
suggestion is bollocks, don't do it, but maybe go lighter on / faster
through the setup bits to leave time for the PCs to show off at the climax?

Alex