I just spoke to Leo and he wished to express his apologies for not posting today because his illness is still persisting.
Meanwhile, we are both eager to continue with the game and see how things turn out :)
That said; I believe it's the GM's move at this point...
A note for those of you in my game, I have just discovered that Nodin's recent absence from the game is due to some extreme family matters. It does not sound as though he just fell off the face of the Earth or is quitting altogether, or even for that long, and as such I will be running him as an NPC in the game for a time.
Unless this turns into a month long thing, I'll hopefully expect him back within a few weeks.
Quick question about Initiative:
Any chance we could just do "Group Initiative"?
As it stands if we're waiting on individual initiative it means that players who are able to post are often forced to wait on taking actions for players who are AFK - if we do "group" then we get all the heroes to act at once in no particular order which means there's less waiting around for each player to act.
It does mean that the Party Initiative reverts to a "Party Average" and that individual bonuses to Initiative are less important; but I've noticed that ultimately if you use the "group" tactic it streamlines combat quite a bit for PbP games.
Anyhow, just a thought.
For now I'll wait for Leo to act :)
You do actually have a point there. Yeah, lets just do that from now on. Go ahead and post as you see fit.
GM - any follow-up via explanation? Also, any information on the other players at this point?
Cool - that's all for now! Have a great day and I should have something up later tonight around 9:00 PM Eastern Standard Time :)
So, update as requested:
Unfortunately we have lost Thomas due to real life stress taking its toll. It's a sad loss but as I always say, real life takes precedence. No point pushing for people to be in a game if they're going to get burned out because of it.
Also, I have not heard from Nodin at all. A quick glance at his profile showed no other noticeable updates. I presume real life is also taking a heavy toll on him, as he was in a previous game of mine and there were times I couldn't keep up with his posting rates.
With only two active players for the foreseeable future, it's not something I like to run when I was expecting 4 or more. I generally am okay with running 3, or even 2 if I expect it to be for only a little while.
So here's my suggestion: I run the game for a little bit longer, you guys are just about to hit a sort of resting point where the type of gameplay has the option to change, and then I throw it open to recruitment threads again. Or I can get you guys to the resting point and we call it there.
Not exactly a winning solution on the last option, but better than letting the game just die out entirely.
That's too bad with Thomas and Nodin; still, if it's too much right now, I understand.
Meanwhile, I'm down to going to the "resting point" and tossing up the recruitment thread thing.
If it looks like people are interested, okay - if not; well, at least we tried.
For now I guess we wait to hear from Leo :)
Me too. Toss up recruitment. We could also see if anyone we know is interested.
So are we going to open recruitment again or is this a...dead thing? ;-)
So are we going to open recruitment again or is this a...dead thing? ;-)
All things considered, I had kind of hoped it would be an "Un-Dead" thing :D
Hey guys, so I know this is not a surprising thing at this point but I think I'm just going to let the game officially go at this point.
We did get to the point where the game was ready to change but I think I just don't have the drive to go on. Sorry about the let down, you two were great players to have while it lasted.
Hey guys, so I know this is not a surprising thing at this point but I think I'm just going to let the game officially go at this point.
We did get to the point where the game was ready to change but I think I just don't have the drive to go on. Sorry about the let down, you two were great players to have while it lasted.
Thanks! I'm sorry it had to end, but it was fun while it we played :)