Top 8! Way to go Steven.
On a case. Might be busy.
Congrats Steven!
And go get 'em Issac!
Verik, did you have an answer for Akiros on the possibility of adjusting those goggles, or making new ones, that could enhance his distance vision?
And I was thinking I'll wait to post until Verik gets the results of his linguistics check.
Verik, did you have an answer for Akiros on the possibility of adjusting those goggles, or making new ones, that could enhance his distance vision?
And I was thinking I'll wait to post until Verik gets the results of his linguistics check.
Yeah I was going to come back around and bring up the subject on my next post, though Verik's opinion is very much couched in spiritual terms. As far as a quick OOC study of 'eye' slot items, Verik doesn't have the spells to craft Eyes of Keen Sight even if he knew of that item, which probably is of most direct benefit. Probably the only 'eye' items he could plausibly learn to make in the near future is the Inquisitor's Monocle or Spectacles of Understanding.
Since we're waiting a bit, if you want we can always move forward with that conversation, and then come back to the Linguistics results when DMB is back with more time. I have a big work event I'm prepping for tonight, but should be able to post tomorrow.
Success! Except that I now have to catch up on my school work. Hopefully I'll get some posting in this evening or tomorrow.
Congrats dude. Way to get the bad guys. Now if we can only start working to stop conditions that allow babes to grow into the kind of people who can do these kinds of terrible things.
Should I change Berrin's Order to Lion? He just swore to a lord after all...
Btw; Good work Isaac and love your location/encounter Steven. I want to play that mega-dungeon.
Posting for Verik today to follow-up from Akiros' post.
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I think we should take him up on his offer as a double agent. If he works out, we need the info. If he doesn't, Nikolai beheads him. No wiggle room.
I don't know that Verik has come around to this point yet, but as a player I'm definitely thinking there might be an opportunity here. Not necessarily to send him back to Pitax (as I think he'd get whacked), but to have a spymaster again.
This is what Akiros is thinking, at least if he and Verik can somehow become convinced that they can trust Hal
So as soon as Akiros and Verik wrap their scene, we're going to push forward to the next time jump to 10 Pharast (March) 4710. If you've got something to wrap up in the New Stetven or First World Vision scenes, get it done and we'll get moving!
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Congratulations to our own Steven T. Helt for making the Top 4. I have seen a glimpse of his submission to win this thing in order to give him feedback, and y'all are going to love it.
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Congratulations to our own Steven T. Helt for making the Top 4. I have seen a glimpse of his submission to win this thing in order to give him feedback, and y'all are going to love it.
Congrats Steven! Great encounter to put you up there! My only concern is that Barcas is going to throw some deadfall dwellers in our next outing, which are super creepy. Not that I want to tangle with a leechroot either mind you...or a floodwalker witch, or a...
That's awesome Steven. All your hard work and dedication is clearly paying off. Whether you win or not, you must be super pound and happy about it all. Best of luck and hope to see you in the top spot!
Re our Game, I'm not sure how much Akiros knows or doesn't know about Taisper's 'extracurricular' activities, so forgive me if I stepped out of bounds there. As for the scene with Hal, I'm fine to skip forward now. Unless you want to RP the contract negotiation?
Works for me. Curious as to what the big guy has to say ; )
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Inspired by Archbanker Verik's demands that Nikolai Rogarvia's gratsword be named for the writing of histories this open competition has been organized in an attempt to find the blade a suitable name!
Competition Rules;
*This contest is open to any who feel they have input to the story of DM Barcas's Kingmaker.
*Contestants are free to submit as many names a they want and are encouraged to lay forth as many ideas as they can come up with.
*The names will be voted on by favorites from first to third by the members of the game and a winner determined by it's rank in points. First favorite garners three (3) points, second favorite two (2) and third favorite one (1) point.
*The competition will be open for submitions for three (3) days from today (16.3.2013) at which point the voting will begin.
The Burning Manhood would be a most excellent name.
*'Dragons Talon'
*'Eldbrandur' (poker used to stir fireplaces)
So "Flame On!" is out right? :P
Drat, I just realized I've been spelling 'Rogarvia' wrong all this time in my posts.
Did you guys finish that scene up? I'll move us along if you have.
Meowzebub, are you still with us? I had hoped for some insight into Zander seeing his father up close. I see that you were quiet for a month on your main alias, but have posted recently.
Going to post tonight to get Verik rolling on some interaction with the wedding - might eventually send Verik Jemini's way to have some talky-talk fun with she and Kesten.
Hey, life is coming at me pretty fast right now. I should be clear of it soon, but I'm running rather slowly at the moment.
Still waiting on some folks to write their responses, though!
Congratulations to our very own RPG Superstar, Steven Helt!
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ZA-POW! Look at that! Really great, solid work Steven, in all rounds really. It's very subjective and hard to pinpoint, but you have a great "old school" vibe in your entries that I and many others dig. I think you took the round-by-round critiques well and improved your entries at each level, but never got away from your foundations of what works - with respect to both game-play and what appeals commercially.
That being said, if we get ambushed by deadfall dwellers at a forest river crossing led by a floodwalker witch, and Verik gets sucked into the witch's quicksand cloak, I'm going to know who to blame, so just puttin' that out there :)
Congrats!
Congratulations Steven! Great job! We now have... expectations!
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As we're now on the second week of April with only two posts total in the last seven days, I'm going to put forth an opinion with as much respect as possible. From a posting perspective, the players are way too infrequent in posting to this game, to the point that it's getting frustrating. It's been trending that way for some time now.
Admittedly, this is my only PbP game and the first I've ever engaged in besides running posts for my home game between monthly sessions. That being said, it seemed all the players were much more prolific even a year ago, perhaps double the posting counts on average. Not sure if this was just a "feeling" in my head, I looked at the overall posting counts for March and February. Not including Dan who has been out since mid-December, the players are averaging only 1 or 2 posts per week. Overall we've averaged a total of less than 2 posts a day, including the DM's posts. Take DMB out of it and we're lucky to average even 1 post a day with player posts in a given month.
I know there are times where characters may be "stuck" talking to an NPC and can't progress a thread forward, and of course there are times players have to go on short-term hiatus because of RL. I don't think anyone expects a post-per-day demand for this game (outside of combat rounds perhaps). That being said, it's my opinion the frequency of posts simply needs to be higher if we're going to sustain momentum and take advantage of the various storyline elements in the campaign.
I take responsibility for not posting enough. It should be my job to lead from the front, though the vagaries of my life and job slow me down sometimes. I will increase my efforts to give everyone something to respond to. Do you all have any suggestions or comments? (More combat, perhaps? Less navel-gazing? More big moments?)
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With respect, there should be an understanding in any pbp game that life takes priority. I'm not saying anyone's priorities are screwed up. But if I don't have the energy to post as often during Superstar, I expect that will be understood. Currently, I have to make time to think of a unique wedding gift to offer the happy couple, so Isaac is waiting on some of us to do that. Then again, I responded to his treachery with the little girl (:b) and haven't gotten a response to Nikolai's awkward post. So we're waiting on each other.
And, hey. It's much better than in Dan's game, where we all got hot and excited and then he got abducted by aliens.
Sometimes a pbp game can move too fast, also. I just lost a year developing my relationship with Jemini. I was thinking of awkward romantic fascination. Maybe requited, maybe not. I also want Nikolai to rapidly grow as a political force and we've skipped over some of that. I am okay making up some of that in flashbacks. But mostly, we have a great story going and the pacing of pbps is always gonna require some patience and forgiveness.
I get your frustration, but that's the beast. We'll just all agree to do the best we can and understand that there will be gaps in posting sometime.
- Posts in this series:
- Akiros: 1
- Berrin: 2
- DM Barcas: 10
- Jemini: 2
- Nikolai: 2
- Verik: 4
- Zander: 0
Unless Meowzebub returns, I will be moving Zander to NPC status soon.
I'm just going to tie this part up and move us along. Hopefully it'll jump-start us.
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And...no sooner do I post on the weekend but get sidelined for 24 hrs. by family and work.
Okay, three things and then I'll be quiet about it...
It should be my job to lead from the front, though the vagaries of my life and job slow me down sometimes. I will increase my efforts to give everyone something to respond to.
We know you've got a lot going on with RL, and in my opinion have given very fair notice on times you're busy with cases or needing to be away. As long as we know in OOC you have to go on a short-term hiatus or have to be post-lite for a time, I have no issues with it as I can understand what's going on and adjust expectations.
To be fair Isaac, you have posted lots of hooks and opportunities for players to sink their teeth into. That's why to me this is so peculiar. Sure, you may not have the time to run full once-a-day dialogues with four different NPC's now, but you absolutely set the scenes for us. It's up to the players to make something out of them, in ways at times that maybe you don't expect, which in turns creates new angles for you to think about and interact with. With a game like Kingmaker it's clear not every NPC and side-story is going to get development, and some interactions may not lead anywhere pivotal, but then again that's a problem of having too much to post about and not the other way around.
To the players, I would just say that IF there is an issue with character where you feel boxed in, down on your character emotionally or having trouble with his/her development, please talk with whomever is necessary to work out some things and get your character to a better place. I don't think it's metagame to bounce some interaction ideas (and boundaries) off of players and/or DM if that's going to make it easier to roleplay in-game. I can tell you that Dan and I had to chat a bit about the Taisper-Verik relationship and work on it being engaging for both of us, which produced some good stuff last year between the cousins. Similarly, I know I appreciated Steven asking me about the antagonistic interactions between Nikolai and Verik, so that we were both comfortable in pushing it strong without misinterpreting it as a player thing...which builds trust and makes it easier to post.
But if I don't have the energy to post as often during Superstar, I expect that will be understood.
Absolutely. I felt it wasn't proper to cite specific situations in my initial post, but let me say that of all the players, you were the one that would easily earn the pass in the last couple of months with RPG Superstar (heh and I'm sure we're all glad that you didn't cut short any time in your efforts there). Actually, even with all of that you were still one of the more prolific posters. This is also with a character who is brooding and not one to generally seek out interactions (except with Jemini perhaps), so it makes it harder for you as a player to get your posts in where they don't seem forced. I personally didn't feel it was lacking in the slightest, and I thought you made full use of the Tandlara interaction.
Do you all have any suggestions or comments? (More combat, perhaps? Less navel-gazing? More big moments?)
My comments are aimed at the players and not the DM, for the reasons mentioned above. Maybe some folks think they have to have a huge post every time, which makes it harder to write frequently. I've been in that trap. To me it's more important that the players all know each other is there and engaged, even if a post is light on word count here and there. Even a minor post of an expression or internal thought gives new insight to the players to draw from. That being said, the campaign doesn't need to be simplified to its lowest common denominator - there's plenty of PbP's that are all one-line posts and pretty shallow in story development, and that's not what we're here for.
My last comment is that if a player is on vacation or away from the forums for a period of time, there's a proactive communication on it in OOC. That little courtesy will help to set expectations and keep someone from wondering why their conversation just dropped off, so he can be creative about it in-game.
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Oh. Well, I didn't mean Superstar was a more special circumstance than others might have. It was certainly a priority, but others have big things, too. I was just saying, I feel your frustration when a game slows down, but I know people have priorities so I give them some room.
Except Dan Clark. I'm sending ninkas after that dude.
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Oh. Well, I didn't mean Superstar was a more special circumstance than others might have. It was certainly a priority, but others have big things, too. I was just saying, I feel your frustration when a game slows down, but I know people have priorities so I give them some room.
Except Dan Clark. I'm sending ninkas after that dude.
Yeah I routinely lurked on three of his PbP games, and your Mists of War campaign definitely got halted in a precarious spot. I'd love to see how it turns out. Dan being AWOL for the past four months is a big bummer.
Hey guys, I'm still here, just been busy. Vorduvai; I get your concerns and I apologize for not making the time to at least pop in and at least tell you guys I'm busy, but I'm still here and I'll try to catch, and keep, up.
Might be a little slow to post for the next few weeks, but I will keep trying to squeeze something in when I can. I have a busy schedule until the end of the month.