I need to pick a picture (the website is errorring on that?) and update my fluff (my notes are at home) but here is Xaeken. (I'm repurposing a profile because I like the name and it seems homonculi like)
Rough outline is homonculi cartographer who has an obsession with Chressidan geography/history {You can't alway pick who you fall in love with, lol} and as such has ended up on the mission. I chose Guild Artisan as background, any thoughts on guilds/guild names TOHG?
I'll get those other parts cleaned (contact, etc) up but otherwise I should be on my way to ready
Sure thing buddy, it sounds great.
You can be a part of the Lellardian Yorekeepers, an order formed mostly by Homunculi and Gray Elf-Zair expatriates who've escaped their home country Zophnia. The Gray have the Scroll of History itself, and these expatriates (usually male) will offer what fragmented slivers of knowledge of it they have to the Yorekeepers for a life of measurable luxury. If you want to have one of these Gray expatriates as a contact that's fine, just throwing out ideas.
- I would like to say sorry about the pacing for the past few weeks, I feel that I have been very inconsistent with posting and pacing, for several reasons; I wanted to rally all the players together, life crap, et cetera.
- I want to be more consistent with posting and pacing as we have our players coming together now, so we can have a good time over the next span of millenia together.
- What is the ideal pace for you? I like to give everyone a chance to react to a scene before moving on, but that can slow things down a bit. This is the first PbP I've run, and I'm learning.
- I will be going to on a weeklong trip to another country tomorrow, and I will have internet during my stay, but there might be some unseen hassles, so if I'm gone for a few days, that's why.
I want to have a regulated pace moving forward. I know it probably won't happen in a day, but working towards it will make something happen. I think.
My policy is over-communication is vastly superior to under-communication, so let me know all of your thoughts.
I'll start my response by also apologizing about my presence on the boards--it's been rough trying to get together enough stuff for the first post and figuring out backstory and appearance for Niko, so I didn't post in for a while. Hopefully from now on I'll be more consistent with posting and be able to react and act quickly enough.
As for pacing, I think a post a day from people is an ideal, but trying to stick to that strongly doesn't seem feasible in my experience. I've been in a number of PbPs here, and they tend to be very hectic in terms of posting rate. Some days everyone will get on at the same time and we'll have a series of twenty posts in a few hours; far more often, someone does something important or asks a relevant question and we all have to wait for a bit. I know that life can rear its head all the time, and so players often will go dark for even a few hours and result in a bit of a lag. The important part is being able to overcome those. Too often, games falter because people get impatient and can't deal with the pacing.
Personally, I rather enjoy some slower-paced games on occasion, and it can often result in longer, more detailed, and more role-playing based posts. But it's also really nice to have things move at a good pace so it doesn't take three weeks to deal with a random encounter.
All in all, it's a balancing act and a difficult one to figure out. I've been in games on the boards for some two and a half years, and it's tough to work out how best to do things. I'm not sure anyone has a key solution. I think so far things have been really good though, and I'm enjoying the setting quite a bit. It's clear a lot of work has gone into this, and I think it's going to be a great game.
Alright cool. I'm all in if you are.
Well, I'll still be in even if most of you leave.
Also, breaking bad has been consuming my nights.
that show....
...it's a meth addiction.
Okay, I lost my notes but I am almost ready, I should have a final update sometime tomorrow.
Alright buddy, no problem
OK.
Fluff is in place, a little background and an NPC. I took your advice TOHG and went with the Lorekeepers and a contact within that group.
As far as specifically my role on DH I thought I would leave that to you to determine within the structure of the mission. Between the magic and the maps I figure it more likely I am serving the navigational process but ya never know. ;-)
"Waiting on Thraxil to post his turn for Round 1."
Hey guys, I'd like to for this week thus far. The trip I've been on has been a bit crazy and internet has not been available as much as I'd like it to be. I'm going to be posting the results of this round after I'm done posting here.
In about 5 hours I'm going to be flying home, where I'll have nothing in my way to keep me from posting regularly, and we'll have a standardized pace from here on out.
Again, I'm extremely sorry about this week thus far. I want to provide you all the best PbP experience through these next months, or even years to come.
I won't give up, and if you don't either, over time we can achieve something really great and memorable.
Thanks for understanding.
No problem, DM--it's been a busy week for me, as well.
How many of the guards are adjacent to the body of the slumbering Orc?
Sorry for my lack of posting--life has been very busy lately.
The once slumbering orc was thrown into the mosh put of 14 DH men. He has since been slaughtered by them, and now from the guardsmen another orc, a man, and a homunculus have been grabbed by these same 14 men, about to meet the same blind raging end.
Hey guys, I don't mind if this game has to be at a pace of 1 post/week for awhile. If that suits you all better, or if you're just in a tight place in life, we can even take a break. But I'm not going to give up on the campaign. Life has been extreme for me as well these past weeks/months, but it doesn't have to destroy us.
On a separate note, I'd like to challenge you to a roleplaying exercise. Think about your character's desires- immediate, long-term, their life dreams, and their hidden subconscious motives all of those desires. Ask yourself how they got that way, why they are the way they are, why they have such importance to your character. Expound on the answers to those thoughts. It can really help you weave a persona together, and I find the process to be really thrilling, and make for really 3-D characters.
All of this to say that if you do this, I will respect and play towards arcs concerning your character's desires in game, and that I really REALLY don't want your characters to make decisions, especially plot-based decisions, being 'plot puppets'. Let your character be true to themselves when making decisions. I think you're all doing a great job with this so far, and doing a great job in general with this game. I'm happy to play with you all, and I really hope this ship doesn't burn down (OOC).
I hope you're all doing well in all ways currently, and I totally understand again if life is throwing you curve balls. This is a low-priority hobby. Live your life, and come over when you can. Shalom.
We are still live?? I was losing hope.
If you're here, talk to me, I'd like to talk. We need to reset our standards with posting.
I'm still here and at this point able to check in on the game on a fairly regular basis. Things have calmed down a bit for me, so I could even bring the posting back to a pretty good pace if we want. That said, I'm also fine with the game staying at a relaxed pace. But I agree that right now it's really really slow.
Mon-Fri I am around pretty persistently. My weekends are more spotty as I am not sitting in front of a terminal all day ;p But I am here!
Not sure what happened or is happening here but it looks like things are moving a little too slow for my tastes at this point. I am overextended on my games so I need to pare back on what I am playing.
To the extent it makes sense I can fade or die or what have you but at this point if my character can be marked/inactivated so as to drop my presence from the game, I would appreciate it. Sorry.