GM Captain Trips Curse of the Crimson Throne (Inactive)

Game Master Chad Newman

Sorry for the silence, peeps. Real life's been happening. Expect a post up some time tomorrow; sorry about the delay.

Thanks for checking in!

I'm leaving for a three day camping trip tonight.

NPC me as necessary.

Duly noted. Thanks for the warning, and I hope you have a great time out there. ^^

Sera's the DM in my RoW game. He mentioned having some troubles at work. I'm not sure how bad it is but he hasn't posted there in a while either.

Thanks for the heads up.

Wishing you the best, Sera.

Sorry for the big delay, guys, bit over my head with university right now. I'm probably going to be a bit late still. I'll have a post up on saturday at the latest.

NP. Everyone gets swamped now and then.

Hello everyone,

I must first off, apologize for the delay in getting this posted, it has been a rough few weeks and gaming took a low priority. I could give a number of reasons, but what it boils down to is that I’m stepping away from the Paizo site for a while, at least until my life settles down, perhaps longer.

RPing with many of you has been enjoyable, and for those I just started playing with, I wish it could have been longer. For games I’m a PC, feel free to bot or remove my PC however you see fit. For those I am GMing, I leave it up to you to decide if you want to find a replacement or let the game die.

If anyone is interested in a more detailed explanation of what’s going on, feel free to PM me. I may not divulge every personal detail, but I could provide a bit more to those I have spent so much time with.

Sorry

Thank you for the warning, I hope things improve for you soon.

I would suggest botting Sera for a bit, perhaps having her sit out the next assignment, and only removing her from the game if it takes a long time.

What do you think, guys?

Sera and I spoke in our other thread but I’ll repeat myself. Sorry to hear it Sera.

Sounds good RR. We can finish whatever the next story arc and see if things straighten out.

Sorry to hear the news! I wish you the best with getting life sorted out. That definitely comes first.

Agree with finishing the story arc and seeing how things are at that point.

I'm cool with giving her some time to get back. I'll miss the healing but we'll get by.

Who are we waiting on currently?

Uh... turns out it's me, my bad, I thought I was waiting on someone but I'd missed a post. Expect a post tomorrow.

The delay is on me, sorry again. Mid-session is tough. Will post ASAP.

Sorry about the delay, working hard to finish some projects for university. Will get a post out when I get a chance.

NP. My own RL is not exactly happy fun time

Okay, things really aren't improving.

Here's a heads up: I will be taking a short hiatus for the midterm rush.

Gameplay will resume on Saturday, June 21st.

My apologies for this delay.

Thanks for the heads up. I'm going to be on vacation the week you return (from the 22nd to the 29th) so go ahead and 'bot me if you need to.

Good luck

Study hard - thanks for the update!

Thanks, guys, I appreciate the feeling, here's hoping I do fine.

Whew! That was a tough week!

Expect the next gameplay post some time this weekend.

Hurray!

Welcome back! Hope you get a nice breather.

-Posted with Wayfinder

Just back from vacation and ready to rock. I will get a post up later this evening.

Welcome back!

Alright, I'll wait on your post before I move on.

A heads up. One of my Aunts passed on. I'll be driving to her funeral and I will very likely not be able to game for Friday, Saturday and part of Sunday. Please feel free to bot me as needed

Thanks for the heads up.

My heart goes out to you and your family.

Thank you. She and I weren't close, but she was, judging by the times I met her, a good woman. Her more immediate family and loved ones are taking it hard I'm sure

Hey, I'd like to to get your input on something, guys.

As you may recall, the campaign has a system of "harrow points", which varies per chapter. However, it hinges on the harrow readings done at the start of each chapter, and additionally gives bonuses to characters before specific events.

To be frank, I'm finding this system rather clunky.

What would you guys think about using the standard hero point system instead of these harrow points?

It would allow you to get much of the same benefits, while being simpler to keep track of and more versatile.

(Note: If we do make the change and someone would like to pick up a hero point-related feat, you will be allowed to retroactively retrain feats into them at the time of the change.)

I admit, I've been forgetting I even have the harrow points. So I'm fine with the change if others are

Sounds good to me. It's very easy to forget harrow points.

Sorry for the unexplained absence all. But I had the perfect storm of personal coincidences coalesce last week. Last Monday my Mother-in-Law, who has Dementia, forgot she had taken her evening medication and accidentally retook them. My Father-in-Law, who also has early onset Dementia, called 911 and the result was an overnight stay in the hospital. They currently have a caregiver who is with them from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. but apparently need 24 hour care. Both adamantly refuse to move off the farm where they live and into any sort of assisted living facility so my Wife and I have been searching for some live-in caregiver.
Even though we live almost 200 miles away we are the closest immediate family to them and have been trying to conduct interviews over the phone while we rely on various Aunts and Uncles to keep an eye on them.

Coupled with that is the minor inconvenience of an app that I downloaded two weeks ago not shutting down properly and running in the background of my phone, sucking up over 5.5 Gig of my 6 gig wireless data plan. While that may not seem like a big deal I do about 80% of my postings at work using my phone's hotspot for my laptop.

Good news is that we seem to have found someone, who my In-laws like, that is willing to take over after their morning caregiver goes home and stay overnight until the next morning starting this Monday. All of my wife's family, including an out of state brother and sister, are going to be visiting the family farm to celebrate my wife's and her twin brother's 50th birthday this weekend and to discuss the current situation, so I won't be on very much this weekend starting Friday. Also I get a fresh packet of data starting tomorrow and should be able to begin posting from work again.

Oof, sounds like a rough time, you have my best wishes.

Glad to have you back, Nicolai.

Sorry to hear the news, but family comes first. Hope to see you back!

The end of trimester rush is upon me, and my posting may slow a little while it is on for the next two weeks, but it should pick back up afterwards.

Anyone? Feel free to post whenever.

Sorry. I suppose I was waiting for a response to my suggestion.

Ahh, I was waiting to hear what the rest of the party thought.

Sorry guys, I've been distracted lately by RL events and inheriting a PbP here on the boards. Trying to get that up and running and help deal with the in-law situation has stretched me thin. I'll jump in when it's my turn to go again. Thanks for keeping my spot warm.

No problem, it happens to everyone now and then.

I'll save you looking up the nitty gritty of what happened in combat:

While you were out, one charge was consumed from your wand of Magic Missile, and no damage was dealt to you.

Gameplay post coming soon.

I'm about to take a rather long vacation of sorts, until November 10. May be reduced to posting on a phone at times. Please bot me when needed, though I will do my best to keep posting.

Marco?

Polo.

Sorry, I've been distracted for a few days. I'll get the game moving ASAP.

It's been a significant moment since we've had news from Nicolai.

I propose the following course of action:

Much like Sera, I will give his character a logical explanation for being AWOL, and an easy point of re-entry should he return.

As there are only three of you guys left, I would also re-recruit a fourth party member.

I am still in contact with the player who had been, essentially, my "seventh" pick at the start of the campaign, through another game, so I would give him first shot at rejoining if he is still interested. Otherwise, I would open recruitment to general applications, specifically requesting casters, since our party is rather short on them.

Does this seem agreeable to you guys?

Sounds great. If you don't mind me asking, who'd you have in mind?

Goes by ShadowyFox on the forums. I... don't remember what the character was, but the application was really solid. I'll leave it up to him if he wants to make a new character or dig up the previous one.

I just remembered that you'd asked about a friend who also wanted to join, Krojun. Would he still be interested? If we're going to be rerecruiting, we might as well try to get back to five, in case we lose someone else along the way.

I've played with Shadowyfox before and think he'll do well in this game.

The friend who wanted to join was part of your original application process and joined another Crimson Throne game since then. I'll see if he's still interested and doesn't mind being in two. He's a good reliable poster.