The Avalon Chronicles

Game Master lynora

Things I have learned this week.

1) Writing out a plot for a one shot is as hard as I expected.
2) 5e is the better system for this one shot.
3) Making a homebrew monster is hard.
4) Using an existing creature as a chassis for another homebrew monster is still hard.
5) The group I made it for has no apparent interest. :/

Dude, if you are finding it hard to make a homebrew monster, you're seriously going about it the wrong way. If you want some help on making it easier on yourself, I'll gladly help. I meed the practice anyway. since I'll be starting a gm academy stream soon.

Edit:
Actually, it would probably be better for the stream if I had someone I was teaching. If you're interested in going live for absolutely 0 watchers.

Could be neat, but the problem was mostly making a new ability.

Made another monster today, with a unique ability that degraded its AC based on what manages to land a hit on it.

That sounds interesting, so it has a natural ablative armor. How does compare to the sundering rules?

I am not sure, since I didn't look those up for it. Bludgeoning, Force, or Thunder damage reduces the AC, as does failing a Strength or Constitution saving throw.

Thunder dmg? Did I miss a system switch at some point?

See point number two in the list above. Its a 5e monster.

Dude, if you are finding it hard to make a homebrew monster, you're seriously going about it the wrong way. If you want some help on making it easier on yourself, I'll gladly help. I meed the practice anyway. since I'll be starting a gm academy stream soon.

Edit:
Actually, it would probably be better for the stream if I had someone I was teaching. If you're interested in going live for absolutely 0 watchers.

oh? Where are you streaming (I know I missed that stream. I want to get future ones)

To answer the question on what's been going on, I've been really enjoying myself in a world of darkness discord server. Nothing will ever truly replace this place, but I'm enjoying myself there

I've been experimenting with twitch. I have a horrible setup right now, and only have a few streams of me trying to be verbose while running ddo hardcore.

The gm academy is something I plan on doing in the future, but right now is not a good time. I am working 14-16 hours a day, 7 days a week, and now my mother is riding with me on deliveries until we can get her AC fixed (we live in our cars in Texas, so AC is a big deal), but that's like $1300, and our reserve just got drained again.

Therefore my progress has been slow.

Methinks I shouldn't have started re-reading things....hm.

Methinks I shouldn't have started re-reading things....hm.

Methinks you absolutely should have....

So much to re-read too.

Reread?! Heck, it became too much to read once, hence why I had to stop. I just couldn't keep up.

Reread?! Heck, it became too much to read once, hence why I had to stop. I just couldn't keep up.

I did a read through of the entire thread several years back. It was really awesome.

As for keeping up, I only read posts about characters that were either connected to my PCs or that interested me in general. Otherwise, I just skipped em.

So many things missed.....wow.

Honestly, me cringeing when I go back to read my old forum posts is just sort of standard at this point, but there's a lot of nostalgia there, too. Joining Agartha was kind of my attempt to redeem myself for how I'd handled the Off-Topic Discussions roleplays back in the day. It feels so long ago now.

It still amazes me that this made it to the 10-year mark. I wonder if that's a record on these Boards, heh.... (^-^)

Methinks I shouldn't have started re-reading things....hm.

You got me started on a re-read with this post, I'll have you know. Ahhh....

Also I had to make Vai for PFS, since I got into that at the start of COVID. Obviously I had to edit the backstory a bit to make her fit thematically into PFS and Golarion, but hey it turns out there's a "Utopian" Dragon "Empire" in there too (Hermea).

Still a great character to play, both mechanically and thematically.

I'll just start posting and if stuff happens, it happens. :)

Hermea is such a fascinating concept, and just teeming with story potential!

Also, yes please, to keep posting stuff! Missed this game, and my frendos muchly!

Hermea is such a fascinating concept, and just teeming with story potential!

Also, yes please, to keep posting stuff! Missed this game, and my frendos muchly!

Have you played Age of Ashes? Part of it happens in Hermea :D

Good to see this going again. Saturday I will try to post, but this week work is kicking my butt.

Well...hm

Well...hm

I mean if you have an idea, feel free. :D

Just did - but in very truncated form, as Old Man Dalesman is up past his bedtime, lol.

It'll have to do for now ;)

I mean if you have an idea, feel free. :D

Stale PM for you, sir.

FireclawDrake wrote:

I mean if you have an idea, feel free. :D

Stale PM for you, sir.

[Salutes]

Let's see if we can't make some french toast then. :)

Mmmmmmm........french toast. And now the cravings begin, lol :D

Honestly, I have no idea what's been going on in the broader game, but it seems neat and I'll probably keep quietly shuffling about in the background doing little gags for the time being. I have no wish to distract from anything, to be clear! Just having some fun being tangentially involved.

The real challenge is not contradicting anything. The fake sun didn't explode, right? :P

Honestly, I have no idea what's been going on in the broader game, but it seems neat and I'll probably keep quietly shuffling about in the background doing little gags for the time being. I have no wish to distract from anything, to be clear! Just having some fun being tangentially involved.

The real challenge is not contradicting anything. The fake sun didn't explode, right? :P

You are most welcome to do that! :D

I think the fake sun did explode but I am not back up to that point in my readings and I don't remember clearly enough

Work is a bit chaotic today sorry for the trucated post.

Same for me after a fashion. My beloved wife just got home, and the cooking must commence over here :)

Same for me after a fashion. My beloved wife just got home, and the cooking must commence over here :)

And THAT is why I don't do rush posts.....ARGH!!!!! Addendum added.

Time for more green tea brain shots.....good grief. (o_O)

You know I didn't actually see the Zeppler post this morning haha, only saw it just now. Cross-posting begins already.

Who all is active and participating in this competition? Is it the one we discussed prior, that I dropped the ball(ha!) on?

Who all is active and participating in this competition? Is it the one we discussed prior, that I dropped the ball(ha!) on?

• Yes sir - this is the one we discussed prior, that you were going to helm.
  
• Hopefully, more than just FCD and myself (as I was thinking about just being a spectator/cheerleader for Vai if possible) :).

And as a general announcement:
If nobody has any interest in participating in this Avalon Side Story (TM), go ahead and say so now (please and thank you), so we can try to move onto some kind of 'Plan C' that would be more acceptable to more folks.

#IHaveSpoken (^-^)

I am sure nobody's actually waiting for my say on it, but, uh, not I! It seems neat, but I'm very swamped lately. :P

No worries, KC - you already stated your intentions earlier sir. :)

In other news: I feel....unsettled with my last in-game post. Having Fei actually consider engagement in what most other students would consider "fun" seems so off-brand for him.

Others need to step up and get involved here, and right this disturbance in the universe. Most unnatural indeed ;P

*stumbles into thread*

I was summoned? ;P
FCD, got your text, sorry for the lack of reply. I was recovering from my second vaccine shot and whoo, boy, are the side effects a doozy. But still way better than getting Covid! Anyhow, decided to just respond here since that will save on international texting charges.

Sooooo……yeah…….it’s been a …….wait, how long has it been? My sense of time was never reliable to start and it is shot. I know I filled MG in on the drama that is my life via twitter dm, but I can’t remember what had and hadn’t happened yet the last time I was posting here. So, apologies if I’m repeating myself. It’s been lots of high stress around here. My husband has had ummm…..three? Four? No, three heart attacks and four heart catheters. I think. Too many anyhow. It’s apparently a chronic thing, possibly genetic, and they’re just trying to put off the inevitable open heart double or triple bypass they’re eventually going to need to do. So much fun. Especially during Covid. So. Much. Fun. And of course the kiddo fell apart from the stress and I had to basically spend eight hours a day being academic support so that they could, ya know, actually pass their senior year of high school. As if the switch to virtual learning hadn’t already been difficult enough for a kid who struggles to adapt to change. But hey, we got through it and kiddo graduated and now has to figure out wth they want to do next now that they’re finally done with the last round of AP tests. Not that there’s any pressure there or anything. (Yikes!) Hard to even believe that my baby is going to be eighteen in less than a week. So not okay. I mean, I can barely adult, how am I supposed to be the parent of an adult?!?!?!?????!

So I would love to be all like yeah, things are calming down and let’s get back to the fun, but I honestly don’t know when or if I will be ready to do that if I’m actually being honest. Like, this game was such a hyperfixation of mine for so long, but my brain kinda moved on to other stuff now and it’s really hard getting back to that. Especially when I know that things can blow up again at any moment. I’m not sure if the right answer is to try to participate a little bit for a while and see how it goes or if the best thing would be for me to just bow out gracefully and let you guys take it from here. (With answers to any questions about plot of course, but honestly there’s only like one actual planned event in this campaign and it’s been the intended final boss battle from the get-go, ie the battle against the Empire/battle against the Others, because of course they were gonna happen at the same time because there is no freaking way I’m setting up all the pieces for an epic battle twice. Everything else was always me winging it and bullshitting my way through.) Thoughts?

Firstly, glad you're able to reply. I didn't update people on what was going on because it seemed super personal, and I wasn't sure if you wanted me to spill what was going on in a semi public place.

Secondly, if you think you wanna possibly participate a little, maybe do so with characters who don't have a ton of plot tangled about them? And in a loose, laid back scene? Either this 'Avalon Games' one, or some other small, 'out of the way' scene where you can just write and RP without having to worry overly much about how it might impact the rest of the setting at large?

Perhaps even just start with literally one minor character, and go from there?

Hey Lyn, no worries as always about the text stuff. I hope things keep getting better for you and yours as we leave this past year behind us.

My thoughts are mostly that if you are feeling like it could be a burden and you want to bow out, then we should consider that if it'a just a scant few of us who remain, we should consider the format. If Avalon'a scope is too large, maybe we should consider a different format in the same Universe, or a character-trimming timeskip, or something of the like. Start fresh-ish as you guys did when you first migrated to Paizo in the first place.

As much as we all loved Avalon for years, if it's going to cause unnecessary stress, maybe it's time to try something else? I don't even know if we could rally most of those who played major characters. Kryzbyn, Lurch, and others might be gone from beyond our grasp forever...

These are my thoughts. I'd love to play again like the good ol' days, but in a way we can be happy to participate in. If we need to make drastic changes for that to happen, that's fine too.

[Belatedly waves like a nut]

Last few days, I've had like zero creative energy or motivation. Been too hot.

I think I have an idea for the first obstacle, which will be some sort of rope/net climbing.

Just need to get creative about challenging Avalon's finest, lol

And me. :p

Does Avalon have a mascot??

If not, any suggestions for one??

Hmm. I mean, closest thing to one would probably be either a tressym or a slurk.

Either an "Under Construction" sign, or a "Pardon our Dust" sign.

(^-^)

Hope everyone is doing okay lately.