Thank you to the admins of r/AustralianPolitics for helping to put this together at short notice.We're one of the parties that is being threatened with deregistration by the AEC this month.
Lets talk about the Housing Crisis and the role of small parties in Australian politics. I'll be answering your questions from 8pm today AEST until we all get bored of this!
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UPDATE: the admins have said I should wrap this up. Thank you for everyone who participated! You were all very civil and reasonable even when we disagreed on something
It seems to be such a basic thing in any game that involves "parties". It is just annoying having to leave the party and inviting all the party members again (especially if you have a lot/doing customs) . I don't know much about coding so excuse me if I am wrong but I don't think it would be that hard to implement.
Good fuckin luck for the next political cycle
Hello friends! My last session went great, but a conversation happened in character that bugs me. Both an NPC said my character acts like a a good leader for the party, and some of the PC's have made mention that my character is in charge, and fully voted him in charge!
Which isn't a problem, because my character always says "No, it's a democracy, this party wouldn't exist without each of us in it". The problem is that as a player, I'm apparently leading the group, and that seems really bad! This is a big group game, it's cooperative! There's no leader! But I worry that with how the dynamic of the group is working out, I apparently (according to the DM) show the most initiative and roleplaying acumen. I worry that's a lane too close to hogging the limelight from everyone else! They all act like they're having a good time, but it feels like it shouldn't be working like this, like it should be more communal. I feel like a dnd party having a leader is problematic for the party dynamic.
So how do I best use this position? Since I'm the one most likely to be talking, do I rope over other PC's? Do I let them know out of game "Hey, I'm gonna ask you about your backstory next session" and use that as a way to probe their backgrounds? I don't want to just go "Heck, I'm not in charge, I'm not gonna make more decisions" because that will just hurt the game, but I don't want to be a bad teammate, what do I do?
