The Beginning of All Things (Inactive)

Game Master Terquem

I'm also here but waiting for a better opportunity.

I thought I provided my action.

That was round 1

I'm having a bad day (bad couple of days) but I will update the game tomorrow for certain

Feel better!

No worries Terquem- the delay actually works in my favor- what with the kitchen reno going over budget, the oven needing repair, the dishwasher needing replacing...oh and when we went to get the deck ready for bbq season we found the grill had rusted out the bottom over the winter. Add that to the travel trailer getting broken into and vandalized, probably from a bunch of kids across from the reservation, and suddenly I can see why the Chinese used "May you live in interesting times.." as a curse.

I'll be off or unavailable for a large portion of the day, tomorrow. Please bot me if I'm holding up the pace.

I had hoped to update all my games yesterday, before going out of town today until tomorrow night, but I didn't get to everything. Sorry for the delay. I will try to update tomorrow night

I'm in bed, and will be for a couple of days, but I have my touchpad and will check up on games till I get better, sorry for the delay

Get well soon.

I will be unable to post this coming week due to work. Please bot me as you see fit (don't get me killed). It's possible I'll be able to post a few times but unlikely. Thank you for understanding.

This is the last time I will be checking the boards before I head off into the woods for work. Please bot me as needed. I may or may not be able to get a post or two in sometime this week but if not I will be back on Sunday for the weekend before I leave for another week.
I'm very sorry for the inconvenience.

I'll be off from wednesday the 8th till friday night the 17th of july. I'll probably log back in on the following saturday. Having a small vacation on an island along the coast.

Bot me if needed and please don't get me killed ^^. Good luck!

I am upright, should be able to update today. I'll see what I can do with Riku and Poseues

I've sent a PM to Caoraan, but I think we have lost her.

I am up, but not out of the woods (first antibiotic failed, on the second one now) and I could not stay in bed any longer, so I got up and went to work yesterday. I started updating games, but quickly ran out of energy. I am at it again today.

We will finish this battle!

But, lets recap for a moment. Caoraan has disappeared. Dieredon has respectfully withdrawn. Poseus and Riku are on vacation

Which leaves Calex and Mina involved in the battle, for now

and Marcus holding down Woodbridge

current player roster is

Calex
Marcus
Riku
Poseus
Mina

That's five players, which isn't bad, but some of my ideas and notes were for a larger number of players, so I will recalibrate, and find a new direction for the game

If you want to throw your ideas out for me I'd love to hear them.

I'm back for the weekend then heading off again for the next week. We could recruit a few more people if we want a bigger group. It seems like we're missing any sort of tank.

I don't really have any specific preferences. Mina still just sorta 'exists' in the world. She has basic goals, but the current major goal stands in the way of pursuing that (and in fact is sort of a catalyst against them).

I'll try to post a reaction to Calex's shot tonight, but I'm not certain how the battle will play out...

My maps and notes are all saved to a computer that I stoopidly, like a sheeple, upgraded to Windows 10 on Tuesday, and I’m struggling to get everything running again.

The map is updated for Mina, Calex and Riku - I will post a roll of saves tomorrow.

Well, there has been a lot of change since this began

I don’t know how much each of you is interested in developing parts of this campaign setting, but I’ve been going over the game and the other two games on these boards set in Alodoa, and making a list of things we’ve established so far. First there is a list of important events mentioned in each of the games, then I will be putting together a detail of the geography, and finally I will search the games for details of the cultures we have created so far.

If you want to have a hand in this process, just say so, and make a suggestion. I’m not saying everything that is suggested will be included, but it is open for discussion.

The Campaign Setting of Alodoa
A. Games within this setting
1. The Beginning of all things (starts in the year 1381)
2. Castle Caldwell and Beyond
3. Palace of the Vampire Queen, 5e

B. Time line of major events
1. The Beginning of All Things
a. Current year - 1381
b. Invasion of Orimar (Urandoma) by Alodoa – 1368
c. Duffy MacNorra discovers the ruins that become “MacNorra House” – 1330
d. Original construction of the buildings at “MacNorra House” - ?
e. Settling of MacNorra House by Gymnaga-folk – 1362
f. Birth of Poseus – 1364
g. Founding of the village of Kinamay Brawnoor – 1369
h. War between Iarishea and Alodoa – 1310
i. Unification of Maetaur and Urandoman people (Defeat of Tafganor race) - 263

2. Castle Caldwell and beyond
a. Current year - 1381
b. One year ago, war between Alodoa and Baravkovia
c. One Hundred fifty years ago – building of Castle Caldwell
d. Last occupants of the Castle (an unnamed family with ties to Baravkovia) leave the castle, 1367

3. Palace of the Vampire Queen, 5e
a. Current year – 1381

I think we've lost Marcus, which is sad because he was always such a kind supporter of this mess

I went to try and send him a PM, but the PM feature on all his alias accounts has been disabled.

I will try to update the game today

And as I particularly like this setting I am considering a Recruitment to bring in some new characters.

Alrighty. I'll be here in the meantime. :)

I am still here, no worries Terq. I just know that the combat is taking center stage, and don't want to try and post in the middle of it and break your focus from it :)

Thanks Marcus, I haven't forgotten you!

By the way, there wasn't any response to the post I made above about world building. For the record I would appreciate it if each player still interested in this gamer would do one thing for me

Give me the year of your character's birth, based on the timeline above, I am working up an Alodoan calendar of months

If you are not interested in world building please let me know so I don't put any pressure on you

So, I’ve got this really crazy idea.

I don’t expect that all the players, or even any of the players will go for it, but it is an idea I wanted to share.

First, let me just say Thank you! To all of you, I know I don’t move fast, and the post rate for this adventure has really suffered of late, and I appreciate everyone sticking with it through this tough time

One of the things I am trying to do to bring life back into this game is open a new recruitment. And I have no intention of ending this game, but I do have this crazy idea

See I was thinking of asking everyone to create there character (the same character you are playing in this game) as a 5e character, and opening a parallel game thread using 5e rules. Basically we’d run both games as if they are happening at the same time, but the 5e version would be more in line with the other two games I am running in this setting. It would be interesting because I would allow players to make different choices in the two different threads, so the campaign could go in different directions. We would, as always, as a group, all decide which events are the “official” Alodoan setting events.

I know it sounds crazy, and probably more work than it is worth, but it was just an Idea I was thinking about as I got ready to write up the new recruitment thread.

I'd be cool with either game... but probably not both.

If folks wish to swap to 5e, I wouldn't mind testing it out. I'm not sure how to perfectly transition Mina, but I'd be cool with it. (There is no shaman over there. A caster druid or a nature cleric might be my best bets. A warlock may have closer flavor to shaman.)

As for an age, I am uncertain. Mina would be young by Maetaur standards, but I don't remember seeing a rough 'age' list. It likely has been listed, and I likely did see it, but it escapes me.

I haven't tried 5e yet to be honest I have tried to stay away from it. If everyone is wanting to switch over I would be willing, would you allow me to make a different character?
It would be against my religion for my first character in a new system to not be a barbarian.

Well, as the two of you represent almost half the current player population, and neither one of you is interested in a dual game, I think we'll keep things the way they are.

I'd agree with Mina on this one, I'd be game for either, but not both. Never tried 5e though, so I'd be quite a newbie.

5e is -much- simpler. Unfortunately, that comes with all the downsides of simple. The 'broken' things are very easy to see, and it's not two puzzle pieces being jammed together to create the Mona Lisa. It's literally just 'pick one of 5 archetypes to completely break the game'. Attributes are way too important... and it takes until level 4+ to actually feel like you're your class (in my opinion). I started feeling like a storm cleric about the time my campaign died off. (although, to be fair... throwing people off of cliffs with lightning bolts from call lightning was amongst the most fun I have ever had as a player). Tempest Cleric was amazing. And not even one of the insanely broken options.

aaaaaaand I'm back! Sorry for the delayed response, everyone- I had some issues with my Win 10 install.

Anyway - to get caught up: Calex is about (this is a guess, since not even he knows for sure) 18 years old. That puts his birthdate at roughly the same as Poseus. Calex was found partially amnesia-tic and badly injured outside of Woodbridge 5 years ago. Despite being obviously Alodoan (he speaks with an Alodoan accent) Woodbridge is the only home he can remember.

As for 5th ed.: I haven't looked closely at it. I'm still learning Pathfinder, and tackling another system on top of that is not something I'm enthusiastic to try. Sorry Terquem I'm joining the "nay" side of the vote for that.

And in response to recruiting fresh players- I say absolutely! More is better, and while we've been at the game for a far span, our actual characters are not all that advanced yet, making it relatively painless to bring in new people, in my opinion.

Had to have a molar pulled this morning, I’ll be struggling to get back on track for a day or two, sorry for the delays.

Had to have a molar pulled this morning, I’ll be struggling to get back on track for a day or two, sorry for the delays.

Ouchie. Not fun. I hope they at least gave ya the good stuff for the pain!

You're misremembering the stuff with Mina. I'd built her to be from Woodbridge, but on November 18th (At 1:32 PM) you sent me a PM explaining that you wanted Mina's origin to be from another village.

I'd initially wanted for her to have been a traveler around the Woodbridge area who spent a lot of time learning from the Gymnaga, but went along with the story change for plot reasons. :)

Yes going back over my PMs I completely confused your background with Alomar's who wanted to be from another village and I asked him to be from Mingary Bend. I'm very sorry for the confusion.

Not a problem! :) I know I'm a problem child, I just don't want to be that much of a problem child that there are extra things that make me bad! :)

Really tried to get every game updated this weekend, but I didn't make it.

My tooth extraction of Tuesday isn't working out as well as everyone had hoped, and this Friday I go in for jaw surgery, so I may be off the boards for a day or two this coming weekend. But I will try to get this game, and the others I didn't get to yesterday, updated tomorrow.

Feel better. :(

I've always had a different reaction to having my teeth pulled: It didn't hurt. I've only ever had them removed because it already hurt pretty bad, so comparatively speaking, it was a major relief.

:( Sorry that yours got worse.

Well, that's the truth. In the past I always waited to see if the tooth would get better, and that was always a bad idea. This time, as soon as the pain started I had them look at it, and it was cracked all the way down the root, so out it had to come - but hey the good news is I get to have a bone graft done on my jaw this Friday in prep for an implant (did you know they use ceramic and bovine bone to do bone grafts, ewwwwww).

Anyway, I am feeling better, and close to ready to introduce some new player characters.

I'm still not able to PM Marcus, but, hey, Marcus if you are reading this, there is a new human, urandoman player joining this game (he is in a couple of my other games)

He is 17 year old Robert Macintyre, and his family runs a farm Lakeside.

Also, we are adding a human urandoman, Alfred Redhil, who is now in Castletown, he is 44 years old, born in Woodbridge, but has been away for years (his family, according to the player, are very religious, so we might say that the Redhill family keeps to themselves, and they have a residence, Lakeside)

lastly, we have a human, Alodoan, who lives in the marshes near Lakeside, Marwan del Hechizo, an odd sort of fellow, who probably comes into Woodbridge a few times every year.

I'm glad you feel better. :)

Dotting in here and rolling hit points for level 2 and 3. Glad to be joining you all.

HP: 2d10 ⇒ (6, 2) = 8

I'll probably be popping up a little later. See you lot in a bit.

Marcus - can I get a check in from you, I need to update you on some new citizens of Woodbridge

The Alodoan Campaign Setting

I have begun to update this journal to include everything we know about Woodbridge, and the Alodoan Campaign Setting

Please visit it, and if you have any suggestions, or need to get your own creations identified or updated, PM me with the details. I'll begin adding some of the pantheons we have created in the next few days. I'll also be adding information about Harrispania (The Castle Caldwell game) and Baylor (the Palace of the vampire Queen, the 5e version game).

Still here :)

I cleaned out my inbox, so hopefully you ca PM me again now?

All set, figure we're waiting for the current battle to clear up and whatnot.

@Marcus: If he still cannot, go to 'My Account' at the top, and scroll down to beneath your aliases. Make sure you have the box checked for private messages. :)