Assuming that this campaign isn't dead – Shadow has had RL issues, and has got a lot on his plate, so I would totally get it – can I make the odd request that all the information at the top of the page be place in the Campaign Info Tab? My OCD acts up every time I see my current campaigns, and this one takes half the page!
I know. It's ridiculous.
That being said, here's to this campaign starting anew in the new year! Happy holidays!
Sure, I can put the info in spoilers :-)
Certainly not dead, just in Torpor.
I'll be resuming DMing tonight, not sure I'll get to this but I'll update by Friday at the latest.
I am making the best of a difficult situation(s) :-)
Good news is that my head is finally right for posting once more. Hopefully, I can get back to being up to date as a DM and PC in all games this week, that will feel normal once again!
Of course, over the weekend there will be some Holiday service interruptions.
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Having become the owner of a tiny little female human a week ago, I am a bit busy at the moment. However, with my returning back to work in four to five days, posting should resume at least somewhat.
According to the latest summary I am supposed to act in R1 still. Just wanted to clarify that I did post my R1 actions. A moment ago I posted my actions for R2 as well.
OK thanks Eddie, with a long gap between updates I may have just missed your Round 1 action.
I'll likely be updating this thread again post Holidays. I am looking to next year to get back to heavy duty posting. It's not been a great few years, here's hoping next year will be! :-)
Apologies for another long delay, finally starting to feel better mentally. Hopefully all will stay well moving forward!
Hooray!
Between the magic and the losses already sustained, I would think the Goblins would flee.
Plus with the long delay, I wanted to get the group a chance to RP with Lotani!
A heads up, but I seem to be randomly and rather often getting logged out, thus being unable to see notifications about new posts and such. Anybody else experiencing this?
A heads up, but I seem to be randomly and rather often getting logged out, thus being unable to see notifications about new posts and such. Anybody else experiencing this?
Yes.
I was planning updates for the DL game earlier this week but I got sick and have been out of commission since Sunday.
I'll have new posts up (hopefully) not later than Saturday.
It’s pretty late at night as I am writing this. I’ve been through a significant amount of struggles through the past two years (actually through the past 41 but especially the past 2). I’ve had worse stretches of time before but I believe that these past struggles were due to my own lack of maturity and self-awareness at the time those events took place.
Likely those events were necessary for me to experience to survive the events of the past two years and get through them as well as I have. Physical ailments, getting older and requiring more sleep, bankruptcy, and ultimately divorce. You know life is not going swimmingly when going to work feels like a vacation.
Regardless, when I first started getting involved in PbP on the boards it was a chance to play, finally! I’d been DMing for the bulk of the time that I’ve played table top that I was enjoying being able to be a player for once. Then with so many damn flaky GM’s I just started running games and well, things snow balled from there.
Life was fairly stable at the time the normal ups and downs. Then about two years ago, I started getting into PbP as a way to escape reality. Sort of the same ways drugs were casual and enjoyable for me as a teen and ultimately led me as close to suicide as I ever want to get again.
I am not saying that PbP has made me suicidal but I am saying that I recognize that I was using PbP as a coping mechanism to avoid a bad marriage. PbP did NOT lead to the failure of my marriage but it did contribute to my ability to tune it out.
I make a decent living but between bankruptcy and divorce I’ve little to show for it (well except for this killer book and RPG collection ). I could point the finger at my soon to be ex-wife but when you point one finger at a person, three more point back at you. I could have prevented things from becoming this bad and I chose not to. I did it, ironically, because I believed that if I had the marriage would have ended and ended badly, so much for best intentions. I am not going to second guess myself, what happened happened. As divorces go, this one has been rather amicable as we have put our daughter first and ourselves second.
Being married to someone who makes as much if not more money then you (depending on sales that year) places one in a position to “take it easy” when it comes to being aggressive about making money (well it placed me in such a position anyhow perhaps because making money does not move me).
Early on in my career I had an opportunity to become a premiere M&A Financial Services Tax Attorney in a Big 4 Firm. It’s a big deal and potentially a lot of money but I did not really want it because I knew I would be working a lot and traveling a lot. My ex agreed that I should turn it down as she did not want to be married to a workaholic and that was not who I wanted to be anyway. Nor do I want to be that person now. (In yet another twist of irony, she has become a workaholic, funny how things turn out).
I do not regret the decision though I do lament the loss of income that such a decision would have brought to me.
All of this rambling nonsense is leading to the point of this post, I need to work more. Not at my current job nor do I want to get a new job, I actually like being there as odd as that sounds (to me). I need to get a second and perhaps a third job, side gigs. At 41 about to turn 42 with no retirement and no savings for my daughters college, I can no longer hope that the ex’s business will come through as an investment plan. Even if it does, I will not be the beneficiary of that largesse. I need to make up for 11 years of being “comfortable” simply working.
Thus, it is with heavy heart that I am announcing that I will need to close down a number of the threads I run and withdraw from a number of the games I am a PC in.
I suppose this decision will not be a surprise to many of you as my posting rates have been abysmal since these events took a turn for the worse (in some respects the better to be honest) since Thanksgiving of 2017.
I am not generally a person that feels remorse or guilt but I do feel a level of disappointment with having to make this decision. I apologize for disappointing many of you who put work into PCs relying on my consistency as a GM/DM over the course of the past several years.
My plan had always been to run a hardcore dose of RPG’s until my daughter was a teenager and then, spend my free time writing the novel I had been working on since before she was born. I had hoped that over the next 9 years or so I could wrap up most of these campaigns and the few that remained would be more manageable.
Life has not worked out that way.
The good news is that I will still run several games but the current load is too much for me to handle in this transition. The further good news is that I believe this will allow for those games to move along much more quickly.
By tomorrow I will have made my decision as to which games I will keep and which I will shut down.
Thank you all for taking the journeys with me despite the lack of length or resolution of so many of them.
I will still be around just in a diminished capacity so this is not goodbye just a “be seeing less of you”.
Happens. Hope for your wellness; and hope to see you as a playwr still in Dragon's game.
Unfortunately, this is one of the games that I will need to close.
As much as it is fun it never quite got where I wanted it to go and it requires complete sandbox prep due to the lack of material for the time period. Too bad too because I think I could have made this into a really amazing Chronicle but RL has interfered and well what can you do?
Good luck and good gaming all.
No problem Shadow, you just hang in there.
It is quite understandable and entirely fine. Real life and your self take precedence always. Take care and I wish you improvements on all fronts sooner rather than later. Be seeing you around, mate.
See you around!
(Don't forget to make the game inactive?)
I will, just leaving it open in case anyone wants to post in Discussion. By the weekend I'll shut it down.
Thanks for the chance to play with path of war rules. Best of luck to you, Shadow.