Lleneth, we have not heard from you in some time over on the Carrion Crown game. Is Carol Silverkin still with us?
Don't worry about the past. A lapse around the Holidays is not unusual, so I think we'd have no problem if you wanted to stay in, and the party would even appreciate the extra help ( we're just entering Harrowstone). However, if you feel like you won't have time enough to post in the future, I understand. Either way it was good to have for a while. Cheers.
My RDO will be showing up this afternoon and will be in town again for the next day or two, so my posting will be sparse once he makes and appearance. For some reason he frowns upon playing D&D and chatting on forums while working and will monitor what I'm doing on the security cameras periodically, so it would be safe if I avoid doing such things until he moves on (which usually doesn't take long - he monitors more than 100 properties). Just a heads up.
Ok Ringtail, the program I used is called MapTools from RPTools.net. You can download it there. It is a program intended to be a virtual tabletop for live games hosted over the internet, but I am experimenting with using it for this type of forum as well. Once I have the map, I can zoom in, add the grid, so on and so forth, as you'll see during the combat that is now posted over on the CC game. Exporting the completed images can be tricky, and I haven't figured it out reliably, so I have fallen back on taking a screenshot and posting that image (it works...). The program has a lot of features, but luckily there a a few tutorials on how to use it on the website as well. I saw some posts on how some people use it to make maps for their tabletop games and then print them out, so I may give that a shot at some point as well.
The basic program comes only with a very small pack of images and textures you can use, so you need to download the image map pack before it starts to be useful (a free file you can legally download, but requires a BitTorrent program to do so). I am still learning with it, so in many cases I cheat and do things a simple way that I'm sure there is some real function that could do it better.
Give it a try and see what you think. If I can be any help, let me know.
Italy... Spain... Same thing! :P I JEST! Hahaha! Yes you are right. I am sorry.
A lot of the country's aren't perfect analogues, but mixtures of several similar cultures. Speaking of which; I'm still thinking about boycotting Golarion until we get a Mexican analogue...seriously- such a rich culture to utilize.
There are portions that I like and portions that I dislike. I like that there are many varied subsettings to accomodate most tastes and that each human ethnicity gets its own unique flavor.
I do not like how, for lack of a better word, common magic is and how high of a level the average person seems to be.
Overall I rate it above average. B-, maybe B.
Pretty decent; I'd prefer to run my own, but I don't have the time or energy to maintain and finish off my setting right now.
I usually end up playing humans. Gnomes are my favorite fantasy race, but most people seem to not appreciate them (there are a lot of preconceived notions about gnomish behavior out there). I've only ever played 2 elves and both died on the 1st session they were in (because exactly that penalty to Con). I don't enjoy playing dwarves; in my campaign setting dwarves are dark, twisted, and vaguely evil underground race- more akin to monsters than a PC race. And halflings wish they were gnomes. I've never played a half-elf in all my years of playing, come to think of it...
RPTools doesn't seem to want to load on my work PC. Must be being filtered out. Sigh- looks like I'll keep doing things the old fashioned way.
I've been down with some troubling news from/about the (maybe still) fiance so I haven't been much in the mood to game. I'm going to try to ramp back up my speed; it is just hard to keep the heart in it at the moment.
As to why I’ve been gone it will be easier for me to just copy and paste an email I sent to player inquiring as to whether or not I was all right after about a week’s absence.
You doing okay, bud?
Yeah; just buried in life. I've had some free time and have been meaning to get over to the Paizo boards (realizing just now that it has been nearly a week since I've visited, and longer since I've actually done anything), I just haven't had the effort, I guess, for lack of a better word. I've been trying to sort out finances what with taxes being altered by a wage garnishment and medical bills that are piling up from procedure after procedure. I was also recently sent an email from my fiance who was feeling guilty- apparently he cheated on me twice, once 2 years ago and again several weeks ago and wanted to get it out and apologize, which honestly I would have preferred to have been lied to and spent the rest of life ignorant of the matter. If it wasn't enough the most recent instance fell on the week that my dog died (I keep it at my parent's house since my newest apartment doesn't allow them; they foster abused animals and one got into fight with him and he didn't survive the encounter). A stroke claimed my grandmother a couple days later. For my fiance to finalize his immigration we need to have all of our papers signed and done with come the middle of April, but in light of this recent revelation I'm not 100% sure what I want. If I decide this is it for us I've wasted 4 years (a significant time investment for me) and a ton of money and ruin his chances at indefinite leave visa. If not I have to learn to deal, for pretty much ever; it is all very emotionally and mentally draining when added together.
I’ve only added to my troubles by taking on another roommate about a week ago; a friend and coworker who was more or less kicked out of his place and though he is a good guy things have become a bigger hassle than I expected. My goal is for everything to return to some semblance of normality soon. I have a busy couple of days ahead of me, but I should be able to get things sorted out enough that I’d be able to resume a regular posting schedule by Sunday or Monday evening (if you’ll still have me). I know my excuses are poor- we all have life to deal with, but suffice it to say that I’m very embarrassed about how I’ve handled recent matters.
Sincerely,
Ringtail
