Ember - Maybe you might want talk to the writers that have been expressing their opinions here and find out what their intentions are with side threads? We might be able to plot a little more effectively that way in terms of what the collective wants to accomplish with them.<br/><br/>Once again, the point isn't to limit people and how they develop their characters. It's finding a system that works for the majority. It seems we have a very diverse collective here and I apologize if I have not been the most understanding in regards to how things work here. What I'm starting to understand is that Gm's tend to all have systems that work for them and they are all different. I was hoping to take the system that works for me and apply it but that's causing too much confusion. That's on me. I should have been more prepared to adapt to the systems that work for E writers.<br/><br/>Because of this, Ember and I chatted and I will concentrate on the story part and she is going to work with the writers on the organization. Her experience as a GM here will serve the collective well in this capacity and hopefully get us through this trial period.<br/><br/>We also have a new writer! Terris, welcome!  ;D<br/><br/>Edit: I know someone else already posted this...but here it is again...<br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Small Group Games<br/><br/>1) You may have a number of threads equal to twice the number of participants (players and gms).<br/>2) Use the same tag to start each thread title, for example [Home of the Horny Housemaids] for your game.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>So from what I understand, the issue is how to stay within the limit assigned to us but give people the freedom to be creative in side-threads. We currently have (I think) 15 active writers. I'm only counting the ones that have posted. So that gives us a total of 30 threads we can utilize? 1 is the main thread. Since pre-curse threads (fairybacks) seem like they are something people are interested in writing, would it be feasible to give each character one thread for their personal fairybacks? Or even if you want to even break it down into something simpler, maybe if someone wants to do a side-thread of any sort, they just have to pm me and I'll keep a running list of all the side-thread and the number so we will ensure to stay within the limit? The problem, as I see it, is that we just don't know how people or what combination of people are going to want to interact so assigning each person a number of side threads isn't feasible. Example : Jazz and Rumple want to do a fairyback thread....but then Belle joins them. The Belle decides to do a Storybrooke side thread with Millie and Barry. 5 characters involved....only two threads. So I guess trying to say that each person can have a limit of two threads is really not feasible. My bad. I see where I made errors there.<br/><br/>I think that the log would be a great way to go personally. But again, I'm just making suggestions.  ;D