Nice. Great things for any current or aspiring guild leader to sink his/her teeth into

Excellent article Hades!

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Awesome article! Good solid reasons why guilds fail. Adding to that, guild members who don't or won't check guild websites to keep up on happenings can add to the pressures. After all, a guild is a communal effort.

Good insight into guild mechanics!

Hades knows all about guild mechanics. Great read.

Great post

Nice job Hades. I think you're overall understanding of Guilds and the many many years of you leading LotD makes you probably the most experienced Guild GM I'm aware of. A lot of people are not even aware of your experience writing articles for some of the major gaming web sites either. It's been an honor to be in your ranks the past two decades.

Nice job Hades. I think you're overall understanding of Guilds and the many many years of you leading LotD makes you probably the most experienced Guild GM I'm aware of. A lot of people are not even aware of your experience writing articles for some of the major gaming web sites either. It's been an honor to be in your ranks the past two decades.

Thanks for the comments. FYI I've always said that LotD rebuilds a lot of its membership for each new game we play. That said, I have to work very hard to rebuild 80% new membership in each game while training leaders and avoiding some of these very same pitfalls.

I talk a little more about this in the Revolution G podcast, and its Episode 6 "Guilds and Games" on the news here.

Very well writen I learned some what about making a good guild from your articles.

Valuable information here.

Very Interesting and makes some good points, from experience the focus of the guild is one of the biggest issues relating to guild collapse.

My Old Counterstrike clan was originally set up by two players who wanted a casual play group, one fixed training session and maybe a max of 2 matches a week and happy enough in Enemy Down div 3, which suited me fine and the first gen. of players reflected this.

Then the clan started taking on a small number of new players around the time of Valve going Steam after the Co-Creators decided it would be good to push the clan a little higher on the rankings. the introduction of these new players caused significant friction as they wanted to go top division, but the majority of members didn't want to or hadn't the time to make that kind of commitment.

Eventually the founders by a combination of real world commitments and getting pissed off with the friction stepped down and became part time, the 'hardcore' players replaced them, but had no respect from the majority of the clan and struggled to organise anything.

To my knowledge the clan has fizzled, died and stayed dead. Just one anecdote that proves the article

I would think that all guilds should make a case study of Case Study: Why Guilds Fall Apart! This was thoughtfully written, and those guilds who read this study will benifit from doing so, like continueing on. Truely a guide to guild building. Hades I for one thank you and commend you for your wisdom!!

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It is here on guildcafe, under Favorites...Most Popular. Its currently the #1 user submitted article.

Very nice read! would have to agree with almost all your points there. Wish I could find your article on building and maintaining a successful guild, I guess I'll have to delve a bit deeper once i get home from work.

Again great article!

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double post not intentional.

This isn't meant as a fly catcher to cover every situation, just some of the bigger mistakes I've seen over the years. Feel free to add comments and I'll update it from time to time.