Sounds good!
I am away at a convention tomorrow through Sunday, please bot me as necessary.
My family and I are heading to Boston for the long weekend tomorrow afternoon. I'll try to get a post or two up when I have a minute.
Sorry for not being around as much. Last week was just kinda chaotic and capped it off running 2 PFS mods yesterday. BTW, I'm trying to get my 5th PFS star so if any of you need something run.... :) .
Well, I've found a solution on how to post during my lunch hour: I bought my own laptop and am bringing it to work with me. I am typing this from the staff lounge!
('Staff lounge" sounds so grandiose... It's really a just break room, but that's what's printed on the door.)
I hope to bring my posting rate back up to where it had been.
Awesome!
No update today-- I'm spending my lunch hour prepping for the final battle of Book I of my IRL campain "Champions of Old Korvosa," which I'm running tonight.
It's gonna be epic: The PCs are facing a high-level priestess of Urgathoa in a temple to the Pallid Princess built by Krang, the first Runelord of Gluttony! I've got a three-part encounter including a bound leukodaemon, a squadron of Thassilonian "wight knights," a pretty devious trap, and the proestess herself... who will use the petrified heart of Runelord Krang to transform into a Daughter of Urgathoa after the party defeats her!
If we break early, I'll update after tonight's game ends; otherwise tomorrow.
I have a convention this weekend and will likely not have a chance to post Friday through Sunday. Please bot me as necessary and I will catch up when I return.
Sorry for going dark. I'm dealing with some family issues right now, and it may be a few more days before I'll have the time and mental energy to post.
I think I'm back! I hope to get a new gameplay post up tonight.
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Sorry for going quiet. I vastly overestimated my ability to get a cell signal this past weekend.
This coming weekend, I will again be out of town and in a rural area. I do not know whether I will be able to get online during that time. I will try, and if AT&T cooperates I will continue to post throughout the weekend. Otherwise, most of Friday and all of Saturday and Sunday will be a no-go for me.
Thanks for letting me know!
While I'm striving for daily posts, I think I need to be realistic and let you all know that I'm probably going to continue posting 3-5 times a week for the foreseeable future.
Nothing bad: I took on some new responsibilities at work, and I'm now usually working through my lunch hour (today notwithstanding). I also have some volunteer commitments that are currently eating up more personal time in the evenings than ususal.
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No worries here. I am of the opinion that the current pace is actually working pretty well. 3-5 per week gives the story some room to breathe, but keeps us moving forward.
As to RP domination, I feel that everyone is contributing. That said, if anyone ever feels I need to change my posting habits feel free to chime in. I am relatively new to this after all.
Overall, I am enjoying this experience quite a bit. Everyone has such well developed PCs and everyone is doing a great job portraying them!
Anyway, that's enough sunshine and rainbows from me. Back to the salt mines!
Work travel turned out to be horrendous - precious little internet access and stuck in France for nearly two extra days due to strikes affecting my Eurostar trip - plane back to the UK this evening... Time to catch up with family and sleep and I will get back to normal posting some time tomorrow!!! Thanks everyone for your patience...
Not sure who Verran's comment is directed at but will also rein in posting if people feel Petracleus is hogging the limelight...
I am going on a working vacation starting on the 30th until July 17 or so. I should be able to get on at least once a day to check in on things, but there may be a day or two without access here or there. (I'm going to Georgia to be with my family and give the grandparents a break from taking care of the niece and nephew.) If you are in my game, please bear with me and I will update as often as possible. If I am in your game and seem slow, you know why. Thanks.
I expect to post an update later tonight that should move things forward a bit. Sorry for the slow pace.
Hey, folks.
Sorry that this campaign is dragging. My life has been uncooperative with online gaming of late. I hope to get a new post up tomorrow, and hopefully back onto the 3-5 posts a week shortly thereafter.
Thanks for sticking with me!
Better late than never, the Gameplay thread is updated!
I've also linked a map of the Village of Barovia on the campaign header.
Obligatory apology on the perpetually slow posting. I've got a lot going on right now, and it's hard to make my PbPs a priority. New post soon.
Understood. Don't beat yourself up about it.
BTW. I am running my home game group through Rise of the Runelords and every time I search the boards for ideas/answers for upcoming play sessions I see posts from GM Haladir with excellent advice. So thanks for all the info and help! haha.
Glad that you found my old Runelords posts helpful!
Going to GenCon next week. I will be out of contact from Tuesday, July 28 until Wednesday, Aug 5. Please bot me as necessary during this time.
Have fun at GenCon everyone! I have other plans that week-- we're driving down to NYC to put my 16-year-old on a plane bound for India for a year-long student exchange!
I shall be on holidays for the next week with uncertain internet access – please feel free to GMPC as appropriate and don’t wait for Petracleus to pitch into any decisions – happy to go with the flow…
Sorry for going dark, folks.
I'd rather not get into details on a public forum (even one where my real identity is masked), but life took an unexpected and unpleasant turn last week. I feel like I was figuratively sucker-punched. I've needed to focus my energy there, and not on gaming forums. (And, no, this isn't related to the Ashley Madison hack.)
I think things have settled down for now, and I'll try to get some posts up shortly. Honestly, the distraction of GMing should be good for me right now.
On a completely unrelated and positive note, I'll be hosting a foreign exchange student from India starting next week! I know TTRPGs aren't really a thing in South Asia, so maybe I can infect him with the gaming bug.
I hope everything works out for you.
Let's just say that being the target of an Internet mob is not a lot of fun, and really makes you want to avoid computers. I think it's pretty much calmed down now. At least I don't think 4Chan got involved.
I'd rather not get into details because I don't want to be followed here.
Understood. Welcome back, and glad you're back! :)
Sorry to hear things got rough. Hope the storm has passed.
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If anyone fancied proposing a character (I am recruiting over the next week and a half), the thread with all of the character creation rules plus links to the games is Here.
Hey, folks.
You have probably figured this out, but I am having a very hard time keeping any momentum going with this campaign. As much as it pains me to say it, I think I have to be realistic and throw in the towel. I have a lot going on in my life right now, and just don't have the time to run this game the way I want to run it, or the way you all deserve it to be run.
I still very much want to run Ravenloft in PFRPG. I hope that I'll be able to try again at some point. In the meantime, I wish you all the best, and i hope to see you around the boards.
This was a lot of fun, and I thank you all for your understanding.
Too bad, but I understand; real life sucks that way. It was fun while it lasted. Thanks, and if you decide to pick it up again, I'd be interested.
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Drop me a line when you want to start up again. Hope everything works out!
I had fun while it lasted GM – life happens and when you put as much effort into the GM’ing as I know you do, sometimes you can’t reconcile the two… Petracleus will doff his proverbial cap to everyone and, once more, ride into the sunset… I had fun playing with the other folks here as well and hopefully we can find ourselves in other games together in the future.
Thanks again, everyone!
If things ratchet down for me, I'll let you know via PM, and we'll see if we can get this off the ground again.
Campaign re-activated!
I PMed all the players asking whether they would be interested in picking this campaign back up, and have so far received three "Yes!" responses.
I know that DM Crispy ("Merrick") stopped posting abruptly a few months ago on all aliases. (He had been in my Runelords game.)
I'm going to hold off recruiting new players until we know for sure who's here. Please check in when you can!
Petracleus here... Glad to see the game re-activated and looking forward to gaming with you good folks once more...
It's good to be back!
One dour Pharasman reporting for duty!
Looking at player posting history, it seems that WhtKnt ("Countessa") is still posting currently (last post this past Friday), but Waaaghanitor ("Aymehn") hasn't posted since November. DM Crispy ("Merrick") went suddenly silent in October, and no one knows what happened.
Assuming that WhtKnt is still interested in continuing, do we want to proceed with four PCs, or would you rather we recruit for another character or two? I'd be happy with continuing with four PCs... I have a thing or two in mind for what might happen to the characters with the missing players... Mwah! Ha! Ha!
WhtKnt is indeed interested in continuing, though my posting may be a little sporadic due to convention season being upon us. I have two cons in the next three weeks, one of which I serve as staff on (I'm the Game Operations Director (G.O.D.).
I'm good either way.