The game will be on pause during weekend, as usual, but the DT can and should keep going.
I have a few questions for you:
1) I feel that the game suffers because only one of you can speak Shadar tongue. This can be resolved by all of you spending a Fate Point to gain the knowledge of the Shadar language, or by doing a mini-quest that will give you said knowledge. What do you prefer?
I'm fine with either, but Gilian has masses of FP to spend so everybody may not ok with that.
2) I am close to finishing my version of Wildlander class and I'd like to playtest it in the game. This can be done in following ways: a) One of you creates a secondary character that will leave the party after some time - ideally when you leave Shadowlands - or b) I call for new player to play Wildlander for the limited time, with a possibility of making him or her a permanent member of the party. What do you say?
We've got enough people already in the game, I think. A temp character could work as a secondary character for someone. I'm not volunteering as I've got masses amount of work right now and I'm out of town two days a week.
3) Zeitgeist seems to be steampunk/magetech setting, along the lines of Eberron. I may be interested in doing a game like that as soon as I finish with my Advanced Races game, which should be by the end of next month. Are there any interested players here? I will probably combine Ironborn of Questhaven, Iron Kingdoms, Eberron and Zeitgeist material.
I've never been able to commit fully to more than two real PbP, so I'll pass the opportunity for now.
It's probably not ideal, but Sorok has muli-classed into a level of Wildlander, I'll make the changes when you're finished with the character. I can't say he'll take more than another level or two of it as being straight Fighter seems to be the way to go, but I thought I would just throw that out there to remind everyone that we will have a Wildlander when Sorok joins in again.
Sky-Sorok joined the group pretty much right after the fight that killed both you and I think Pete as well. He might have seen your old corpse and also knows you were summoned as a skeleton by Ragnar but otherwise he has had no interaction with you. In your new body he just assumes your a new member of the party.
I'm going to try to finish Wildlander during the weekend. I hope I'll find the time to do so. In the meantime, I'd like to hear from all of you what will be your posting rate in the next month or two. It seems to me that we have lost one of the new players (the one who was to play the goblin), so I'm thinking of opening a recruitment thread for another one. I'll deal with that next week.
Guys, I should be back to regular posting tomorrow. I will move the game forward and let your characters rest in their rooms. You will return to full hit points and spell points. If anyone has any further in-game questions, you can post it in hide tags and I will reply the same way, but that will happen effectively in the past.
Should have asked this earlier, but by "You can learn it normal way." for Shadar, do you mean that we can choose to either adjust our builds to put in enough Linguistics ranks to pick it up or use a fate point? Since I have negative fate points, I'll play as if I don't know it for now (though that could be just Crunk playing dumb).
Should have asked this earlier, but by "You can learn it normal way." for Shadar, do you mean that we can choose to either adjust our builds to put in enough Linguistics ranks to pick it up or use a fate point? Since I have negative fate points, I'll play as if I don't know it for now (though that could be just Crunk playing dumb).
You don't have negative Fate Points. If your Charisma is low enough to have negative modifier, you will start with 0 FP.
You can choose Shadar as you would any other language. You can choose it as bonus language based on high Int.
Sorry for my absence, guys. I'm afraid that my health has deteriorated and I'll have to undergo a minor surgical procedure. It's nothing life-threatening, or even painful (at least that's what the doctors are telling me), but necessary preparations and tests are taking almost all of my time, and bureaucratic nonsense that I have to go through before I even reach the doctors is mind-staggering. So, I'm sorry to say that I'll not be able to run the game for a month at least (it will take me two weeks to get to the procedure, and about ten days for the recovery). I will be present on the boards and I fully intend to get back to my games after I recover, but I will not be able to give the game the full attention it deserves. So, sorry once again.
Sorry for my absence, guys. I'm afraid that my health has deteriorated and I'll have to undergo a minor surgical procedure. It's nothing life-threatening, or even painful (at least that's what the doctors are telling me), but necessary preparations and tests are taking almost all of my time, and bureaucratic nonsense that I have to go through before I even reach the doctors is mind-staggering. So, I'm sorry to say that I'll not be able to run the game for a month at least (it will take me two weeks to get to the procedure, and about ten days for the recovery). I will be present on the boards and I fully intend to get back to my games after I recover, but I will not be able to give the game the full attention it deserves. So, sorry once again.
Nightflier, I hope you get well soon. No need to say sorry, RL and health is far more important. Take the time you need to rest and recover. For having been through a minor surgery two years ago, I know how it takes time to recover.
I'll be waiting to restart the game as soon as you are ready.
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Dear friends and fellow gamers,
I just wanted to let you know how I fare in Real Life, since I feel obligated to somehow make it up to you for my abandonment of this game.
My health is better, but I am still far from surgery which will completely eliminate my illness. Now I need to change the doctors, do several rounds of tests and more medical stuff.
Also, I've started to work on another job, since I haven't been able to work due to illness, so my savings evaporated, so I am effectively working double shifts.
I will be able to increase my presence on the boards, starting Monday, but I seriously doubt that I'll be able to run the games again. Between my two jobs and health-related issues, I barely have time to sleep. So, for the time being, the game is still on hold.
Take care all.
Guys, I an now looking into opportunities to return to running my games here on Paizo (and in RL as well). Starting next month, my workload should lessen considerably and I should have enough time for regular posting in at least one pbp in which I am GM.
Of course, this game has priority, so I plan to continue with it first. If I do so, I'll need you to commit to daily postings, excluding Saturdays and Sundays. I have a lot of material prepared for the Shadowlands part of the game, and I would like to burn through it at a faster pace.
That leads me up to another question: Do you in fact like this stepping aside from the usual Midnight tropes? Would you like to return to more classical Midnight game, or to continue with the Shadowlands?
Great to hear it Nightflier. I'm especially glad to hear your work life is getting better.
I'm definitely committed to daily postings. Weekends won't be a problem for me. I may be going on a week-long canoe trip to the Boundary Waters in Minnesota in June and I will be at Paizocon and GenCon this year and have found that posting during cons is pretty hard. But, if there are any stretches like that, I will let you know and not disappear.
I don't have a strong preference for what your emphasis is right now, but would love to have a chance at some classic Midnight at some point.