All out of character questions can be posted here.
The Campaign Info thread has a town map of Falcon's Hollow and a description of the town locations. Feel free to roar around town.
I have added the interactive map of town so please move your character and then post in the gameplay thread.
After you have moved your token in the town map hit the Enter key and a new website address will show in your address window. Please copy and paste this to your post. This will save your location and let other players use your map to move their tokens.
I claimed one of the houses as Serila's, and placed a star on it on the map to mark it. It seemed to make sense Serila has a house, because she lives in Falchon's Hollow.
If there were other plans involving that particular building I can of course move her house elsewhere :)
@ Serila that looks good to me.
Free free to roleplay with each other but the Campaign will not start until Monday night 6pm PST. Once we get all the players I want and we all can use the maps we will start.
Then I'll assume the shop's closed when I arrive ;)
I will be using the private message system to send character specific info. So please make sure your account can accept private message. I will check by sending a private message welcoming all the players to the campaign.
I have added a NPC spoiler to the Campaign Info Thread check it out for the newest NPC's as the game continues. Click the NPC's name to see a picture of them.
I expected the name Laurel to be that of a man, oops. Maybe because Laurel from 'Laurel and Hardy' was the only Laurel I've ever 'known' xD
I have chosen a rogue for the party and I may pick up one more player if the druid does not post by Tuesday Night. I have an updated map in the Campaign Info thread with the new character. please use this one to make your moves. After play starts I will have the updated map in the same location and next to my DM Giants Picture for easy access.
Hello everyone!
I just have received an email about 30 minutes ago I was chosen. Yay! Hello and I have made my first post as well as moved my icon.
I use Chrome so I hope I don't have problems some of you reported. I moved it and double clicked the icon to save it, then linked the url. I hope that's how it works, I wasn't entirely sure. Ohhh, you have to hit the enter button to get a new page. Figured it out.
@Keanan Garnet-Gold great to see you. Campaign will start tomorrow Monday Jan 6 at 7pm Pacific Standard Time.
I have chosen a rogue for the party and I may pick up one more player if the druid does not post by Tuesday Night. I have an updated map in the Campaign Info thread with the new character. please use this one to make your moves. After play starts I will have the updated map in the same location and next to my DM Giants Picture for easy access.
If you were referring to my rogue as the "new character" added to the map, I am not seeing an avatar/pic for my PC. I have tried using both Firefox and Chrome, btw.
Moondragon/Keanan: Are you a Florida State alum or fan? The garnet & gold name made me think of FSU.
Map has been updated again. Try it now.
Random Dwarf Name Generator FTW.
Although I'd rather see FSU win than Auburn tomorrow night, which is what I'll be watching! Tomorrow night is going to be a slow night for posting.
I have added the Game Date to the Campaign Info thread and to my DM Giants profile for easy access. In first adventure time will be a factor that will affect the success for failure of the quest.
I claimed one of the houses as Serila's, and placed a star on it on the map to mark it. It seemed to make sense Serila has a house, because she lives in Falchon's Hollow.
If there were other plans involving that particular building I can of course move her house elsewhere :)
I moved your star (location of your house)
I have moved Alpherion Greenleaf to his house within Falcon's Hollow and put a Cyan Star marking it as his house.
@Alpherion please move your token and test the map again.
I just read how to properly update the map, as my first attempt didn't take.
Here is my updated position
http://beta.ditzie.com/12/52cad0b2b2149
I see some folks have homes here. Well, as a Druid wandering the forest it probably isn't likely for me to have a home. I wander around in the woods and make camp near the town. Not opposed to staying at someone's house for the evening, but I'll sleep on the floor Crocodile Dundee style.
Lastly, I just put the link to the unchanged map on my post because it probably is just easier for folks to click on the last post than scrolling through posts trying to find the last one.
Augustine try to embed the map link with in text. Like "August Movement" See "How to format your text below" it will show you how to add a website into your text.
Okay...so I just reviewed everyone's character sheets now that I am in the campaign and I noticed that almost all of us have the paranoid drawback. We might have a hard time trusting each other enough to adventure together given how messed up we all are. ;)
Seriously, though, DM Giants, I am thinking it might be best if I dropped or changed my drawback to avoid this odd situation.
You sound paranoid about having the paranoid drawback. Ironic!
@Alpherion sounds good I was going to bring that point up as well after I saw most of the characters had it.
How detailed/anal do you guys want me to be about weather, traveling, food, water and etc.. I would like to run a game that everyone will enjoy.
Personally, if it gets in the way of telling a good story, I'd rather skip it. If it's important to the story, then let's do it.
I'd say we need to eat, drink and sleep, but please don't be too anal about it. If we skip a meal once or if we skip just a few hours of sleep in a single night, I doubt that'd have much of an effect on a character. Though if a character skips sleeping or eating every day, things may happen to him/her.
I'd love some weather effects every now and then. To me it feels like those add a bit more depth to the surroundings in a story.
@Serila, what you said is how I like to run things. I don't want to have to make sure everyone is eating but if people are blatantly not sleeping or don't have food or water in their inventory then its not adding to the difficulty of being away from civilization, which is why everyone is not an adventure.
Does that make sense?
I would like to add weather effects just to add a little flavor.
@DM Giants: Makes sense. My idea exactly :)
I'm content to let you run the game as you see fit,DM Giants. I have never found the minute recording and accounting for rations/water and such to add anything to my enjoyment of the game, but I always include them in my inventory for verisimilitude.
Btw, I went ahead and dropped my drawback all together (as well as my 2nd trait: Elven Reflexes...goodbye +2 to Initiative). I considered taking Avarice as that would make sense for someone who had grown up poverty stricken and in Falcon's Hollow but I think it would create too much tension to always be whining about how much loot I was getting.
I just read through Serila's background and discovered that she is also a local resident of Falcon's Hollow. I'm wondering how well (if?) Serila and Alperion should know one another.
My PC is from the lower class caste and a half-elf with strong elven appearance to boot, so our interactions might have been somewhat limited. However, Serila is obviously "different" because of her Celestial sorcerous background and that might create some sense of affinity between the two IF Serila experienced any discrimination/problems due to her unusual appearance in what seems a rather provincial backwater village.
What say you GM Giants? Serila?
@Alperion: What about the following? Serila and Alperion didn't really know each other prior to the illness, only having seen each other on several occasions. Alperion will have known the name Gudlinck, and maybe have recognized Serila as the Gudlinck's daughter. Then, when the illness spread and Serila tried healing people, Alperion's mother was one of the people Serila tried to heal. It was then that she and Alperion came to know each other a bit better.
@Alpherion and Serila build whatever relationship you want to have. She is from a upper class family and you from a lower class family.
@Alpherion and Serila build whatever relationship you want to have. She is from a upper class family and you from a lower class family.
I have an idea on how Alpherion and Serila could be friends you guys can use it if you want or create something else.
Since Alpherion's mother was injured permanently by goblin raiders and Alpherion has had to find work to support the family, Serila checks up on her from time to time to try and heal her and keep her company. Serila could also have been the one who heal Alperion's mother after she got attacked.
For those of you in the gameplay thread that have not gotten a Roleplay reply from me, I'm sorry but I have posted that the Campaign will not start until 7pm PST Monday Jan 6. I work full-time and have a baby boy that I spend time with often. I'm still working on some of the background stuff for the Campaign as well. I thank you for your patience.
@Alpherion and Serila build whatever relationship you want to have. She is from a upper class family and you from a lower class family.
I have an idea on how Alpherion and Serila could be friends you guys can use it if you want or create something else.
Since Alpherion's mother was injured permanently by goblin raiders and Alpherion has had to find work to support the family, Serila checks up on her from time to time to try and heal her and keep her company. Serila could also have been the one who heal Alperion's mother after she got attacked.
I'm fine with that connection between our two PC's.
Okay...so I just reviewed everyone's character sheets now that I am in the campaign and I noticed that almost all of us have the paranoid drawback. We might have a hard time trusting each other enough to adventure together given how messed up we all are. ;)
Seriously, though, DM Giants, I am thinking it might be best if I dropped or changed my drawback to avoid this odd situation.
I will read through them again and see if I can make one of the others work into my background fairly well.
I would rather not drop it. I like the idea of having a drawback.
2 people with it is fine(Nebdel and Serila). Just remember it while your role-playing.
"Pisanthrophobia" is the fear of trusting people due to bad past experiences.
Seems like it might be going around!
@DM Giants & Alperion: Seems good to me! Let's use it :)
@ Keanan and Augustine you guys can roleplay meeting at The Sitting Duck before Keanan left or we can just assume that you guys met and Augustine is now with the group at Roots and Remedies. Which ever you 2 want to do.
Since I already moved to the Roots, I don't think I can really role-play it back a bit. I told him to come down to the store when he was done eating, about all I knew to do.
I'll post in a bit, dog-walk time.
@ DM Giants - I don't see the Brookman's well on the map. Is that intentional?
It's north outside of town not on the map. You might have encountered it if you came from the mountains north of town. We roll to see if you did and then roll to see if you are affected with the sickness.
We roll to see if you did and then roll to see if you are affected with the sickness.
I assume when you say "We" it means you are rolling that check. Not sure should I do a Fortitude roll or what, and if my +2 Disease/Poison conditional modifier would apply.
As for the "Blacksour Taint" in the notes of Laurel, it says it is a fungus and not from around the area. Is there a Knowledge (Nature) or Survival check I could make to determine if I know where that type of fungus is from?
I'm thinking that if someone or something grabbed this fungus from somewhere and deposited it in the spring to the North of town, that maybe someone saw who went and got the fungus (perhaps speak with animals spell used at the location of the fungus might reveal information). Or perhaps someone would know of a local resident who was gone for a certain amount of time a few weeks ago, which would point to a suspect who went and got the fungus and put it in the spring.
Let me know and I'll post in character in the gameplay thread.
There are many springs, streams and small rivers in the Darkmoon Wood north of town which you would have traveled thru. I'm going roll a percentile to see if you happen to be in contact with the infected water source or any that may have been affect down stream of it. Lower then 20% means you did come in contact.
Close but you did not come in contact with the sickness.
All your other ideas are good ones.