GM mechaPoet's Serpent's Skull (Inactive)

Game Master mechaPoet

Non-Google exploration map of Smuggler's Shiv uploaded for Paulinus.

Actually, google drive started working for me again. You don't need to do anything special anymore. Thanks, though! Sorry for the trouble.

Great to hear! :)

By popular demand, I have PM'd Axolotl to accept their application for Kororinda the sorcerer. We should be hearing from them soon if they are still interested!

Hi everyone! I'm honored to be selected. There were some good candidates in that bunch. I'll have my info up soon.

Welcome aboard! :)

Rough couple of days, will try to post soon.

Hey all, not dead but I did have some RL stuff come up unexpectedly over the past couple of days so I apologize for my absence. Feel free to bot me if combat/story needs to be moved along, otherwise I'll work on catching up later tonight!

Still here; hope our GM is okay :(

Rough couple of days sometimes takes longer; I hope our Poet is okay as well!

Posting this in both my Serpent's Skull games:

Hey all, so I have good news and bad news.

The good news is that I got a new job! I was hired on from a temp position to a more permanent one where I had been working.

The bad news is that this new job takes up a lot more of my time during the day than the old one, which leaves very little time for my PbP games. (Also, my internet refused to work this weekend for long stretches of time, but I've developed into a weekday poster anyway).

There are a few things concerning this that I would like to say:

First of all, it's been great playing with you all, and I would hate to leave you hanging and let the game die. However, I don't know that I have the time and resources to keep in going in full swing.

That said, I come to my second point. Currently, I'm involved in a few PFS PBP Gameday games, and once those are finished I should be slightly freer to post. I also backed out of another game I had just joined (that I was initially wary of joining in the first place b/c of time issues, but I was selected despite an incomplete profile that I thought would bar me--anyway, back to the issue at hand). As these games have to finish before a certain date, I'm going to be focusing on them to make sure we get through them in time.

So, third, the summary and the offer: I'm pretty busy right now, but if you can accept a hiatus, I'd like to try to come back to this game. There is one more thing, though: I am somewhat discontented with the way I've been running this. Essentially, coming back to this, I'd like to run it a bit more freeform in terms of exploration and finding encounters and such. So I want to come back and do it in a sort of more cinematic way, where I more heavily fiat what you encounter when traveling, handwave the need for tracking rations, etc. I would leave combat the same, though, since I know you signed up to play Pathfinder. I just want to cut out some of the more environment and exploration simulationist aspects.

So, the rest is on each of you. I'm declaring a hiatus, and you can decide whether you want to stick around and keep your hopes up for the return, or just cut out now. Either way is fine, and in both cases, again, it's been great playing with you all.

Hate to hear that RL has you busy these days, but I'm glad you were able to find more steady employment - with the way things are right now, that's a blessing. I'm happy to stick around and see if we can pick back up once things slow down a little for you. If it doesn't happen for whatever reason, I've had a blast with the progress we've made :)

I'm in a similar situation IRL actually, and have been struggling to keep up with all my games.

Soooo....against my own desires, but with adult responsibility in mind I'm going to go ahead and back out now. I might come back later if others do (I will if I have time) but for now, I'm too busy to pay attention well. Thanks GM Mecha and everyone, hope to see you around the boards again some day! (^_^)

I just started! Shoot. If the game picks up again, I'm in. I have a bunch of moribund games right now. Must be going around...

I don't mind the hiatus - I'll stick around with Siri, don't worry too much about that. If it doesn't happen, then it doesn't happen, and it's been fun.

Hey all, so my PFS PbP games are ending/have ended, so I'm preparing to try to get back in the swing of things with my PbP GMing.

Now, you may remember that I said I wanted to run things a bit differently. I was curious how you all would feel about switching to a different system? I'm considering converting this AP to a system called Dungeon World, which is a much more rules-light and narratively driven system that was born out of a mix between D&D and Vincent Baker's Apocalypse World. All the rules info can be found here.

The classes in it are limited (it's pretty much the core rulebook classes minus the monk), but there are plenty of cheap/free supplements. I could even make some custom classes based on what you're playing now.

How do you all feel about that?

Glad to see you getting back on the DM horse, and I'm certainly excited by the prospect of playing Siri again. Though whether or not everyone else will want to play again after the long hiatus is still up in the air - not me, though. I'm quite eager to carve up some more cannibals.

No thanks! I've found dungeon world doesn't work in PBP because of the question answer thing. I've also been waiting for games to die/end anyway as I overloaded myself with PBP a while back.

I'd prefer to stick with Pathfinder rules, thanks!

I'm available to keep blasting things.

Hey all,

I'm sorry, but for personal reasons I'm taking a break from PbP games entirely. This isn't what I had planned, but I hope you all enjoyed what we played. Thanks for being patient with me, and I'm sorry again that it didn't pan out.

Yours,
mechaPoet

Can you mark the game inactive (on the campaign info tab) please?

I will, I just wanted to leave it up for a bit so folks would see the new post and message. I'll be taking it down by the end of today.

Thanks :) Best of luck~