DM team response times / DM recruitment

[Ghost]

Hello, community.

I'm making this post to apologise on behalf of the DM team for our response times. We are rather severely understaffed right now, with some DMs winding down, temporarily busy with real life, or feeling drained or stressed due to various situations game related or in real life (for example proximity to the current situation in eastern Europe). The last two weeks we have received a tremendous amount of PMs, partially as a result of a certain in-character announcement. I'm afraid this means a lot of things are slipping through the cracks or taking a lot of time to respond to. We are trying to get through it all, individual letters and everything, but I have to admit it's not likely we will be able to respond to all of them before the ducal court on Saturday.

I must ask that you have patience with us as we work through this.

In the meantime, we would also like to encourage people to send in DM applications, especially if you have a passion for helping out with player requests. This is the most important aspect of DMing - to allow the players to be proactive and creative, and to affect the world and its story. DMing is about story-telling, true, but also about world building. We provide the world - the canvas on which the players paint and the colours they use, but the painting is theirs to paint, within the edges of that canvas and with the colours at their disposal.