In my profile, I have a private messages option. So far, nobody has wrote to me. I do not know if I have my PM slot open to all or what.
Done with work. I have tonight and tomorrow to fix this. Not sure why I cannot get my PM to work, perhaps I need someone to send me a message. I'll figure it out soon.
I can see what happened here now. What looked like the most excellent and realistic RPG dialogue in the game went downhill. Not going to point fingers, but it just looks like things got out of control and nobody addressed it to me. My fault for not having my PM set us like I thought.
My ruling is that continue with the dialogue as you have done but use a bit more tact and avoid ALL ill feelings before deciding to snap back and quit. Perhaps I should have stepped in sooner, but again, I saw no real conflict between players on this. So, just use better judgment on the dialogue and keep it in game. The one thing I wish to avoid is to tell you how to roleplay, not going to happen.
With that, we are now short one player. I will keep the party at five until folks leave or PCs die in-game. In regards to leadership, I shall leave it up to the party to decide on three options:
#1, I create an NPC of higher rank and level to start you off until you folks develop a better grasp of how things roll. Then later on, receive a battlefield promotion.
#2, leave rank out of this completely.
#3, continue on, with Celebrindal is team leader or someone else chooses.
Personally, I like #1 best, but I want a vote from all five of you on this tonight if not early Sunday.
Finally, I shall step things back in game to the briefing room scene and go from there.
This is our course of action. I don't want something like this to happen again. There will be no more discussion about this except about the three choices to vote on.
I have changed my profile settings. Someone send me a PM to test this for us all.
I am not entirely sure what you mean by 'until you folks develop a better grasp of how things roll'.
I personally would vote for option 3. I, personally, am having fun so far. All of Fellorian's reactions have been only hers.
EDIT: Test PM sent...
With option #1, I would add in an NPC as leader until one of you PCs emerge as the "chosen one." In which case, the NPC would just be reassigned to another mission as dictated by the higher ups. Now that I think about it, simply thrusting everyone wasn't the best idea. In reality, no brand new unit would be sent downrange without some sort of veteran leadership in a competent military. However, OUT OF GAME, the Elonalryn was testing everyone to see what would happen.
So far, I see two votes for continuing with Celebrindal as leader, one vote with an NPC leader, and one abstain. Unless Celebrindal votes differently, we shall go on with Option #1.
Now that I have opened up my PM, your thoughts have flown in like a flood. I have heard everyone's opinions, concerns, thoughts, grips, complaints, compliments, another DM ruling is in order. From now on, keep the little flame comments and such to a minimum. We must avoid turning this into a bullying problem which is almost dangerously close to being that. Many of you didn't think of it that way, but in some regards, it is. I am not asking you how to role play, as that takes the fun out of multiplayer gaming. But it is what is it. I have zero intentions of ending this campaign, prefering to dismiss players and bring in new ones. This may come off as the DM being a butthead, but lines have to be drawn. Believe me when I say this part of gaming really sucks. I'm supposed to be a nice guy (without a girlfriend or sex partner...heheh), I want to keep it that way.
Ok, my lamenting and butthead personage is out of the way. Give me a few hours this Sunday in order to backtrack a little bit and we will continue the game. May the Dice Be With Us.
Thanks folks.
I try my best to make the trust worth it.
I will resume the game in a new thread: Coming of the Elves, Kingmaker Alternate. If the new thread does not show up in my campaign profile, I will revert back to the first one.
Okay .. I reposted Fellorian's action in the new thread ..
I will do my best to open up a Roll20.net gameboard for players to use during combat and other good stuff. I will also set up a Google Docs for maps and other good stuff. All of you could use coordinate graph board for details.
http://www.calendariu.com/tag/coordinate-grid-paper
Until then, we shall simply use our monitors as the base for orientation. For those who don't already know, the top of your screen will be north, bottom is south, left is west, and right is east. EVERYTHING will start with the group in the middle of the screen unless separated in some way. Distances will always be in feet, except in certain cases such as maps, etc. Once I get a mapboard set up, the squares will represent 5 feet which is the area of a medium sized creature or PC.
I must warn you all that I am technically challenged, even after graduating from college. So be patient with me as I figure out how to do things the modern way.
At the bottom of the field into which you type your posts, there is a thing that says :
How to format your text
And it has a button marked 'show'
If you click the button it will give you instructions for how to format your text using Bold text, , Italicized text, and other types of useful things.
Fellorian, was it really that simple? That all I had to do is look for the FORMAT thingy? I should really just crawl into a hole and hide...
No problem, ElfChamp. I had to be told where it was too. It was just so long ago now that I didn't even think of it until I saw the url you posted.
The one thing I will say about formatting is this: Do not use the [dice='nameofroll'] tags that they suggest. If you do, and someone replies to your roll with dice rolls in their reply it does weird stuff...
I always use the following:
[ooc]'name of roll': [dice]
(of course, remember to add the appropriate end tags)
Join in the others and the gm will close the old for good I guess!
How do I close the old thread?
Campaign info, edit this thread,
and mark the box this campaign is no longer active
AHA!
If I have done this correctly, there is a map of the Stolen Lands in my Google Docs. Unless all of you have downloaded the pdf from Paizo (free of charge), I can share this with you as part of your maps that each of you have taken with you.
Everyone list what spells you have prepared for the day. This would be Fireday, 4th day of Gozran, at the encampment of the strange statue with the Malkyythel Squad.
Mine are listed in my profile under the spells spoiler.
Same here under extracts
Has anyone downloaded the Kingmaker Players Guide? If not, then I shall use Google Docs to share what I have for the party. I will do my best to set up the documents tonight. To best set up the field briefing, the party will need maps of the place.
As I have been recently advised by people from Paizo, when I told applicants for a PbP I am setting up that I would share the player's guide with them, even though it is free, you are not allowed to distribute it. Anyone can download it for free "here".
For the sake of good relationships with Paizo, no one should redistribute it to anyone else.
Elf Champ .. to answer an old question of yours:
To deactivate the old campaign threads, do these steps:
1) Click Here to go to the campaign page for the thread.
2) On the left side of the screen, click the link.
3) Directly under the field displaying the campaign name, put a checkmark in the checkbox.
You can repeat this with any other threads you wish to close, such as the one you used for recruitment, by clocking on the name of the campaign as step one.
I have shared a map that I made on my own of the area. If everyone can provide their emails to view, great. I have this uploaded into Google Docs. It is a hand-drawn.
Once all of you are fully assembled at the campfire, the elf lord casts a spell, and retrieves a map from his shoulder pouch. He lays out the map that floats on air as if onto an invisible table. With that, he begins.
First off, I shall tell you about the area in which we will transfer responsibility to you. This forested area is called the Narlmarches. It is a combination of forest and swamp, well, the swamp areas which is south and west of here are more like soft ground with little standing water, but it's swamp nonetheless. Everything east, north, and southeast of here is solid. At the narrowest point which is north of us," which he points onto the map, "is about thirty to thirty-six miles across. From where we are at, the Narlmarches widens out. The north-south axis is roughly over three hundred miles long, making the place look like an angular bottle."
He pauses briefly."This entire area is full of water entities. The most northern river is called the Thorn River. It is apply named for the thick briars and sharp brambles that line both sides of the river. The width ranges from thirty to sixty feet wide, and isn't very deep; thirty feet at the most. South is this is the Skunk River. This is also well named for the sulfuric springs that gives it that nasty smell of rotten eggs. This one is wider, but equal in depth as the Thorn. This last one inside the Narlmarches is called the Murque River. The origin is south of us with dangerous swamps lining the flanks. The wet grounds give way further east though. Not deep at all, but you can still drown in it, and judging the width is difficult due to the swampy areas."
"As you may expect during your arrival, the vegetation here is dangerous. The ground cover restricts your line of sight dramatically, but once you get into the trees, you're fine. Plenty of strong trees allow travel into the canopy if you all have the skills. Looking down into the thickets is a problem but only if you are trying to spot something standing still. Movement usually reveals a trespasser's location. Access to water is plentiful here, there are dozens of small creeks that all drain into the three rivers mentioned earlier."
"That's the easy stuff, now it gets interesting from here," he adds with a more serious tone. "This entire area is hostile. There are few spots that can truly be called 'safe' from predators, marauding bandits, undead filth, and monsters both wandering and domestic. There's plenty of docile animals here, but the rest are not to be taken lightly. Everything from dire wolves, goblins, kobolds, mites, trolls, tatzlwyrms, owlbears, giant boars, and plenty of bandits are here. Don't get me started on those will-o-wisps!" he said with a tinge of bitterness in his voice. His face got dark and foreboding but he quickly regained his majestic composure. "Next up are some of the details of some of the more distinct denizens inside the Narlmarches, starting with the fey."
You posted this in discussion.
DAMMIT!
Question for all: How would you like for me to run combat? Use Roll20? or just dialogue? Perhaps a better idea comes to mind?
Question for all: How would you like for me to run combat? Use Roll20? or just dialogue? Perhaps a better idea comes to mind?
I like to use Roll20 for my pathfinder games.
I have just been hospitalized, at least for a week. I won't have access to maps, but will try my very best to keep up.
Hey folks, there hasn't been a posting in the gameplay thread for a week. Is there anything wrong besides all of us having a life?
Hmm, looks like posts by players have been few and far in between. I would like everyone to post more often, say once daily or once every two days. We are getting bogged down with too many long delays. Hoping that people are not already getting bored as you are about to start running into things: humans, wandering monsters, potential quests, and so on. As you DM, I shall also do my best to keep things flowing despite my work demands.
If there are any concerns, please feel free to PM me.
Not sure.
What is the elven equivalent of Brah?
Really?
Right, so, what really is the problem with the lack of posts here?