Sorry to hear this, Harmony. I hope you're feeling better soon.
Take as much time as needed, your health is more important than the game.
Absolutely. Take care of yourself.
Thanks for letting us know Harmony. Hope you're in a good headspace soon.
OK, updated the thread. Feeling much much better than the last two weeks.
As they said Harmony, this will always take a back seat to life
Speaking of: Sorry guys, life kinda threw me a curve ball! I shall get on and reply when I get home tonight!
Btw the loot from taking the ship, Plugg and Scourge. Are we splitting that up or leaving it for the ship fund?
I think that's what we have to use to squb the ship. Unless we have another 2,000 gp lying around somewhere?
Yeah I would assume so, unless we take out a loan with insane interest rates.
We also have scourges masterwork handaxe we can sell, it's still an extra 150+ gold.
I think that's what we have to use to squb the ship. Unless we have another 2,000 gp lying around somewhere?
The AP is MUCH more interesting if you don't Squib the ship... ;-)
Works for me, Rizz does not want to be out at sea on a raft again.
Fun fact, water created by the spell create water only lasts for one day.
On the plus side, it's not a big deal when you can cast the spell till you drop.
wife is in labor will be out a bit.
wife is in labor will be out a bit.
Congrats!
Oh! Congrats!
I think there's a bit more inter-party RP here to go before you are all ready to head out, so I'll give people a chance to post further before I update again.
I'm just waiting to hear back from the half-elf before I respond to the artevious.
Also, congrats!
Indeed! Huzzah!
I'm just waiting to hear back from the half-elf before I respond to the artevious.
Also, congrats!
I'm gonna do the half-elf response as a spoiler in my next post :-)
He is certainly a potential crew member but won't head out for this trip into the jungle.
Looks like we're on the same page.
Whelp, time to build up my starscreamesque crew.
wife is in labor will be out a bit.
Aw, babbies!
We appear a bit stuck, I'll unstick us.
Hey guys, I just wanted to let you all know I've been down with the flu these past few days. I feel like I'm on the tail of it so I'm going to try and get to a few rps tonight before I head to bed early since I have to go back to work tomorrow. If I don't get to our game tonight I will do so tomorrow if work doesn't exhaust me.
By the time you leave Squibs you should have at least a few NPC's who can fill out the crew. :-)
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Sorry for the long wait, between RL and the site being a f&@*ing mess we were delayed but finally underway once more!
Well that's a good way to start combat right out the gate.
Checking in so you guys know I'm not dead. Just had a busy two-weeks-before-finals week.
^ Yay! (about the not being dead part)
To all my games, I am going to be leaving tomorrow for a humanitarian trip to help those in need. I will only have access to my smartphone at the time, so I will not be able to post during this time. I estimate my return to the boards in the first week of January.
If I'm a player and you find this absence unfavorable, I understand if you remove me from the game.
If I'm the GM, and you'd rather leave the game if it stalls for this long, I understand your withdrawal.
In either case, message me and we'll get things sorted out.
But I do wish everyone Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Have a wonderful time Rizz and thank you for your humanitarian service!
Merry Christmas everyone!
Be careful out there Rizz! We'll see ya when you get back!
Hope everyone is enjoying their holidays! ^_^
Back guys! hope everyone had a good holiday!
It lives!
I have managed to finally successfully update.
I do not quite see clear skies ahead but I'll try to keep up as best I can until I am feeling 100% better and back to normal so bear with me.
An update in less than a week! Still not the rate of posting that I find ideal but at least I am moving forward. Glad you are all still with me on this one! :-)
Yay! Glad to see things are improving, DMP.
Well... so much for things improving. Perhaps THIS will be the week things improve.
Anyway, update now!
Alright, better than my last stretch but not as good as I want it to be.
Good news is that I'll be filing the final Divorce paperwork tomorrow. Then a meeting with the Judge and that'll be behind me!
Glad to hear things are moving along for you.
Good luck with everything, DMP!
It’s pretty late at night as I am writing this. I’ve been through a significant amount of struggles through the past two years (actually through the past 41 but especially the past 2). I’ve had worse stretches of time before but I believe that these past struggles were due to my own lack of maturity and self-awareness at the time those events took place.
Likely those events were necessary for me to experience to survive the events of the past two years and get through them as well as I have. Physical ailments, getting older and requiring more sleep, bankruptcy, and ultimately divorce. You know life is not going swimmingly when going to work feels like a vacation.
Regardless, when I first started getting involved in PbP on the boards it was a chance to play, finally! I’d been DMing for the bulk of the time that I’ve played table top that I was enjoying being able to be a player for once. Then with so many damn flaky GM’s I just started running games and well, things snow balled from there.
Life was fairly stable at the time the normal ups and downs. Then about two years ago, I started getting into PbP as a way to escape reality. Sort of the same ways drugs were casual and enjoyable for me as a teen and ultimately led me as close to suicide as I ever want to get again.
I am not saying that PbP has made me suicidal but I am saying that I recognize that I was using PbP as a coping mechanism to avoid a bad marriage. PbP did NOT lead to the failure of my marriage but it did contribute to my ability to tune it out.
I make a decent living but between bankruptcy and divorce I’ve little to show for it (well except for this killer book and RPG collection ). I could point the finger at my soon to be ex-wife but when you point one finger at a person, three more point back at you. I could have prevented things from becoming this bad and I chose not to. I did it, ironically, because I believed that if I had the marriage would have ended and ended badly, so much for best intentions. I am not going to second guess myself, what happened happened. As divorces go, this one has been rather amicable as we have put our daughter first and ourselves second.
Being married to someone who makes as much if not more money then you (depending on sales that year) places one in a position to “take it easy” when it comes to being aggressive about making money (well it placed me in such a position anyhow perhaps because making money does not move me).
Early on in my career I had an opportunity to become a premiere M&A Financial Services Tax Attorney in a Big 4 Firm. It’s a big deal and potentially a lot of money but I did not really want it because I knew I would be working a lot and traveling a lot. My ex agreed that I should turn it down as she did not want to be married to a workaholic and that was not who I wanted to be anyway. Nor do I want to be that person now. (In yet another twist of irony, she has become a workaholic, funny how things turn out).
I do not regret the decision though I do lament the loss of income that such a decision would have brought to me.
All of this rambling nonsense is leading to the point of this post, I need to work more. Not at my current job nor do I want to get a new job, I actually like being there as odd as that sounds (to me). I need to get a second and perhaps a third job, side gigs. At 41 about to turn 42 with no retirement and no savings for my daughters college, I can no longer hope that the ex’s business will come through as an investment plan. Even if it does, I will not be the beneficiary of that largesse. I need to make up for 11 years of being “comfortable” simply working.
Thus, it is with heavy heart that I am announcing that I will need to close down a number of the threads I run and withdraw from a number of the games I am a PC in.
I suppose this decision will not be a surprise to many of you as my posting rates have been abysmal since these events took a turn for the worse (in some respects the better to be honest) since Thanksgiving of 2017.
I am not generally a person that feels remorse or guilt but I do feel a level of disappointment with having to make this decision. I apologize for disappointing many of you who put work into PCs relying on my consistency as a GM/DM over the course of the past several years.
My plan had always been to run a hardcore dose of RPG’s until my daughter was a teenager and then, spend my free time writing the novel I had been working on since before she was born. I had hoped that over the next 9 years or so I could wrap up most of these campaigns and the few that remained would be more manageable.
Life has not worked out that way.
The good news is that I will still run several games but the current load is too much for me to handle in this transition. The further good news is that I believe this will allow for those games to move along much more quickly.
By tomorrow I will have made my decision as to which games I will keep and which I will shut down.
Thank you all for taking the journeys with me despite the lack of length or resolution of so many of them.
I will still be around just in a diminished capacity so this is not goodbye just a “be seeing less of you”.
As someone dealing with a lot of heavy crap IRL as well, I wholeheartedly say that "take care of yourself first". Especially when life is being particularly stressful, the absolute last thing you need is adding the weight of, "I haven't been posting enough on Paizo" on top of all the other crap. There will always be more PbPs down the line to DM and to play in. Don't worry about us; do what is best for you. Period.
Sorry to hear of all of your travails, SS. I'm glad you've identified some issues and are working to resolve them. You run a lot of games.
I agree wholeheartedly with Harmony's sentiments. Do what is best for you. That is the most important thing.
Thank you all very much for the support.
Unfortunately, this is one of the games that I will need to close.
As this is an AP, you may be able to find a replacement DM, I will be happy to give a synopsis for any DM who could potentially take over with respect to the side twists I placed here.
Good luck and good gaming all.
It was wonderful playing with all of you! If you wish to continue together and find another GM I am up for that, just let me know if you are successful! ^_^
It's unfortunate to see you go, but I understand. It's time for us to become forum wandering refugees.
Good luck storyteller, hopefully things get better for you.
Best of luck to you SS. Please mark me inactive.
Thanks to all of you for a wonderful time. I really enjoyed playing with all of you! Hope to run into you again at any point!