Templates for successful groups
April 28, 2002
Remember how the Carebears had a grumpy bear… maybe called Grumpy? The Seven Dwarves had a Grumpy. Sesame Street had Oscar the Grouch. South Park has its Cartman. Who’s the grump in your group? Does having a grump in a group make it successful? Arguably these groups have had their success in their years. What about other personalities? There’s usually a leader character who throws out morals and makes claims of friendship and trust, there’s usually a nerd, a tough guy, a couple “normals”, someone who refers to him or herself in the third-person, there’s usually someone of a visible minority (be it an ethnic minority or of a different social class) - these are your standard groups.
Now looking into our group…who’s who? I don’t think we really have a grump - all of us get grumpy once in awhile, but no one is grumpy all the time. We have a few computer nerds (more than our alotted quota of one nerd), we have a crazy pyro (Hi Sunny) who definitely is the most dangerous in the group, we have crazy death metal man Dennis (who also happens to be a computer nerd, but I guess mixing OCCs is ok - they let you do it in AD&D if you’re not human. Who’s our leader? I don’t think we have one, well, maybe Shannon, I’m afraid of her and her crazy Pokemon Attack Guards. I’m the crazy kung fu guy I guess. Jeff would be our big guy, kinda like the lion or the elephant in the Carebears, or Snuffalufagus (sp?) in Sesame Street. Andrew strikes me as a normal. Jesse is the quiet computer nerd who one day comes out with an earth shattering secret, something like he can fly or lift 10 tonnes. And Justin and Dave are more like normals too. We’re missing a leader and a visibly different ethnic person, I think having a Rabbi or a Tibetan monk would be awesome. OH hey I got it! Michelle, bring your white boyfriend into our group and we’ll have our ethnic minority! I don’t think Eri counts because she doesn’t visibly look different. We’ll also need a pet. Most groups have some sort of faithful dog or dizzymon or something. Considering that my parents have a pet shop, let me take care of that (Attack Budgie). This works out perfectly guys! We are now officially a group. I nominate myself to be Dark Supreme Overlord, on account of my good overlording skills. All we need now is a band of arch nemeses with weird powers - Frogman, Dr. Wily, Yosemite Sam, Shredder, Gaybot, Cutman, you know the drill.
Anyways, if I missed anyone in the group, you shouldn’t be too offended, I just forgot about you that’s all. You’re probably the crazy doesn’t-show-up person anyway so consider yourself cut from the group. And if I did name you and you are offended, oh well, then this episode in our lives will be you and me making amends and hugging in the end and proclaiming that we’ll be friends forever, after defeating a wicked villain first (Cutman probably).
