You in the case of my last post is addressed to each of you individually. You are alone for these interviews but for the sake of brevity I did not type the same thing over and over again in seven separate spoilers. :-)
Hopefully, the nonsense of the past two weeks stays in my rear view mirror.
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Weyve and Tsaong, I'll be updating the scenes for you two next.
Tsaong & Weyve, after the next round of updates by the other PCs, I will move you both forward with everyone.
We're at the doorstep to ending the Prologue and Beginning the AP itself :-)
Hello?
Shadow has been out of touch for a while. I don't recall the reason but there's a recruitment he was hosting that he postponed because of IRL issues. He moved the deadline for it to the 18th so hopefully that means he'll be back by then.
If you have not already dotted into this thread, I would advise it, my status is always updated there.
I'll be back to posting December 16/17.
Real life takes precedence, as always. Hope your other work is going well. In the meantime, my own unfortunate delay coincides rather well with this one, letting me jump back in before things roll forward!
Just an FYI guys:
Holiday Plans:
This Friday (i.e. tomorrow), Saturday, Sunday, and Monday I have Christmas events to attend (and I may be busy Tuesday too). I will be travelling for some of that period. I still expect to have internet access and I'll try to get online in that period but my posting frequency may suffer. Wednesday night I will be back home and things will return to normal for me.
Headed to a Boy Scout Shooting Sports campout to run the archery range. In the Hill Country and a valley, so there is no cell service after I get there.
Will be back Sunday night.
Headed to a Boy Scout Shooting Sports campout to run the archery range. In the Hill Country and a valley, so there is no cell service after I get there.
I worked at a Boy Scout camp for a few summers. Taught COPE and Wilderness Survival. Some of the most fun I've ever had in my life.
That's camp is also how I found out that I am a hopelessly bad archer.
Last week was a shooting sports event for the local BSA council.
This week is a district camp-o-ree and I'm off to camp with the troop. See everybody on Sunday!
Waaay too long of a break there. I'll do my best to try and get posting rates back up though in RL I'm not out of the woods quite yet.
Just click the button at the top that says Ionize Electrons.
Links broken but I found it anyway. I assume that's a Markov chain generator, they tend to produce amusing drivel ;)
Oh, that's funny.
So, the page is "New Age Bull S~#$ generator" and as you can see, Paizo's profanity filter kicks in, so the link itself got censored and created a bad gateway.
You'll have to google it yourself. It's worth seeing, especially for someone trying to badly pretend to talk like a monk. :)
Due to old links on SoP/SoM not working, and the existance of an own Wiki with all new links put together, Makanaky's cruch is updated for easier comprehension.
Whoops, I apologize for my absence here. This is the only game I'm in on this forum at the moment, and sometime during the long break I stopped checking in on Paizo. Sorry, I hope it's not too weird to jump back in!
Whoops, I apologize for my absence here. This is the only game I'm in on this forum at the moment, and sometime during the long break I stopped checking in on Paizo. Sorry, I hope it's not too weird to jump back in!
No worries, these things happen!
This game is pretty slow moving so I don't think you missed much.
Time for another BSA Campout at the facility with no cell signals. I head to work in the morning and then go meet the troop and head to camp. I'll be back on Sunday.
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”.
Unfortunately, this is one of the games that I will need to close.
As this is an AP, you may be able to find a replacement DM.
Good luck and good gaming all.