It's always difficult to figure out the best amount of DM involvement. How to give the players as much freedom as possible without losing control of events. For everyone to have fun, you'll have to place at least
some amount of trust in your players. Chances are the original idea gets lost somewhere along the way, but as long as people are having a good time that's fine. As DM, you are also allowed to act at any time you feel the players are overstepping their boundraries. But I think even a very tightly regulated game would work, provided you could find players and get started.
The fact that you can't seem to find any when all you've done was place some limits on character creation is rather clear evidence that the forum is getting low on posting visitors. I myself am too busy getting my own game to run smoothly, though once it's well and truely on the rails I may give this one a shot. Like Larry said, most of the regulars are hindered. Participating in many games at once both makes it harder to keep characters from blurring into one another, and reduces the quality of the posts. Personally I prefer having a few good games over lots of medicore ones (I'm not trying to say this one would be medicore, it's speaking in general
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A post in GD might help, but I think it's more or less season related. But we'll see how it works out. Keeping my fingers crossed for you [img]smile.gif[/img]