The OOC thread.
Dotting in. I'll have a post up tomorrow.
dotting as well, I should have one up by tonight.
Dotting.
Playing in 20+ games and running 29 (soon to be 30) is time consuming. Outside of the boards I have a fairly busy work schedule and of course a life!
Often I find that if I fall behind in updates, I need to make time to simply update a Discussion Thread to inform the PCs of a particular game that I am either going to be posting later in the day or week or will be on a break form the boards for one reason or another.
To save time updating so many damn threads I am going to open this thread and link all of my DM aliases (and PC aliases) to this thread to inform people as to status.
Of course if people feel the need to ask other questions outside of PbP feel free to do so but mainly this will be a thread dedicated to ensuring that my PCs know my status and to assure everyone that even though I may have some absences away from the boards (or particular games) this thread will always be up to date with my status.
This will be the first among the game that I update tomorrow. My Status thread, assuming you have been following it, has noted my health issues this past week but I believe by tomorrow I should be tip top once more.
Sorry for that long delay but what can you do?!
Interviews are up, these are not easy questions and I think will be fun to answer. They will enable each of you to really flesh out the background of your PC. Obviously, each of you will be selected but I felt the opportunity to RP was worth starting where I did in the process.
Looks like 3 more interview to be completed here. I will give it till Sunday for those who have yet to post (I did not exactly make it easy!) and (hopefully) move the entire thread forward that night.
It was only after I gave up on actually answering the questions, that I was able to put a post together. Needless to say, I would have absolutely no chance in such an interview IRL:(
I'm just realizing I cant do all the answers. my brain hruts.
It was only after I gave up on actually answering the questions, that I was able to put a post together. Needless to say, I would have absolutely no chance in such an interview IRL:(
Think of the RL skill that playing a game just taught you! ;-)
I'm just realizing I cant do all the answers. my brain hruts.
Do it in pieces, just do your best to have it done by Sunday! :-)
When I get home tomorrow after doing what needs doing, I'll get to this. I just haven't had the time to sit down and devote to this specifically, I've had the same problem with one of my games. I'll get to it tomorrow though.
Sorry, couldn't get it today. I'm preparing for a trip to go visit my brother in Atlanta and it took longer than I expected. I have a long drive tomorrow, so I'll think on the questions while I'm in the car and I'll post when I get to the hotel.
Sorry, couldn't get it today. I'm preparing for a trip to go visit my brother in Atlanta and it took longer than I expected. I have a long drive tomorrow, so I'll think on the questions while I'm in the car and I'll post when I get to the hotel.
OK.
I ran out of time last night, I am going to try to get to this tonight though just an FYI.
I tried to get to this one on Wednesday but the site crashed. Regardless, I'll have updates for everyone soonish.
The "cover identities" are comprised of a combination of successful submissions to other Ruins PBP's here on the boards, submissions which were not accepted, and a few I just made up. If I could remember where I got them all from I'd give credit but my time is limited so I figured I would just mention it. :-)
Jeanuel Azmeren, I had to make a slight shift to your Cover, please disregard the initial cover I posted.
I want to make sure that our 4 man/woman team has had all questions asked and answered. Thereafter, I'll describe the journey to Almas and get the full group there in one post.
We'll spend a bit of time in Almas.
After that, fast forward through the trip to the Colony where the ACTUAL adventure begins :-)
A heads up for all my games; I'm going to be camping from Monday to Wednesday, so I won't be able to post. I should have Internet on my phone, but posting from my phone is a real chore (even ignoring the logout issue I still have on mobile) so I will be silent for a few days. I may keep up if I can get Paizo to reliably work on my phone, but if not I'll catch up when I get back.
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.
Hey guys, give me a day or three. I just got out of the ER earlier today after an episode. So I'm not 100% in good health and good feels to drop even semi quality posts. I hope to be back at it by Monday.
I'm going to give Illena one more day and then proceed.
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.
I can understand that. I got games I have to update tonight
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.