Please forgive me if I said anything to upset you. That was not my intention. I was saying that players should be able to put aside any risk of metagaming, concern over which is what I understood to be the issue for you when I read your comment. I was just assuring you that you should not be concerned on that account because I'm sure you're fully capable of RPing in every sense of the word. A metagamer is not a subset of 'good role-player'.  :-)<br/><br/>Players should only join group games if they have the time to fully commit to them. A character role that only means interaction with 1 or 2 other characters does not mean the character won't be fully interacting with the game world and that world is a construct that is constantly growing as a result of every post, therefore every player is required to read every post regardless of how distant it might be from their character's storyline.<br/><br/>I've been in too many games where scene A sets out some game-world facts only for other players in scene B to flat-out contradict them because they were not reading the posts in scene A. It looks poor and amateurish. I'm a perfectionist; I don't GM poor games ;)<br/><br/>Real life always comes before role-playing, especially finals. Honestly, if you're studying for finals what the heck are you doing on Elliquiy!? ;)<br/><br/>Feel free to 'freeze' David's part in the game until you are able to commit to the game. As long as everyone's aware (via an OOC post) that you need time for more important things, that's completely understandable.