: Message posted on Stardate 06070.5 at 1625 hours
: Posted by Fleet Admiral Jen Herr (President) in response to earlier message.
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: How have you and Jack acted upon this ideal in the past two years as cabinet members? I'd like to hear what you've done to place the focus back to role playing, specific examples from your tenure as GMDir, and his as ACmdt, and what you intend to do in the future.
Well, I'll let Jack answer for himself, since, well, he's him. <G>
I've had the honor of being GMDir (or involved in GMD) for one year and 11 months, so I've had a number of opportunities to do what I can to redirect the focus. More recently, I performed a quick survey of all of STF's active Gamemasters to get a bearing on their workload. A burnt out GM isn't having very much fun role-playing himself nor providing the best mission possible for the crew to role-play in. From the past, I wrote the first department frequently asked questions for the GMD so that people could have a very "plain english" version of our department charter to read. In general, I've seen at least seven GMTs pass through the program successfully, personally mentoring three myself. This creates "new blood" in the GMD and allows players to experience different GM styles. I feel that these accomplishments have all created a better role-playing focus for GMs and players alike.
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: Also, you say that you want to make sure not just the government heavy-weights have a say, but everyone. How do you plan to involve more people in discussions, when attempts by presidents in the past have failed? Do you have any spiffy new ideas that haven't been tried?
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: Thanks!
: Jen