Sibling Rivalry
So, my littlest sister, Chatterbox has become this excellent gamer. I mean, she's just about everything I could want in a player: pro-active, quotable, enthusiastic, fairly forgiving... it'd be nice if she had a slightly longer attention span, but that really is part of growing up.
Rainbow K, on the other hand, has made it Very Clear that she does not want the Chatterbox to play in The Phoenix Exodus Campaign. [Which would also be up to our GM, of course, but it's not even an option for Rainbow K.] Which means that I have Chatterbox begging me to run something on alternate days so she can "Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame."
(We did a five-week or so break over the holidays from the Exodus, and I heard from both the LintKing and Rainbow K fairly regularly that they wanted to "Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame." [sigh])
Chatterbox is going to need a little more schooling for PBeM. (Not so much as you might think, at least from some of the D&D PBeMs I lurked in my youth... [end snark])
Now, Rainbow K isn't allowed to game unless she's gotten her homework done. (The parents have been awfully lenient, but even so, we're going to have to put our feet down on this.) My suggestion was to use:
The Power of Sibling Rivalry.
I was going to recommend that if Rainbow K doesn't get her homework done, she'll have to stay at home and do it, and the Chatterbox can come in and play a character.
I'm not evil. I'm just...um... neutral. That's it.