The Library (Inactive)

Game Master nate lange

I'm about to do try to finish my semester... I'll try to check for your submission after that if my brain still functions at all. Otherwise I'll try to give you some feedback in the morning so you have at least a little time.

Updated my appearance slightly and my personality more dramatically (last version seemed too backgroundy). I'm sticking with what I have now.

Good luck to everyone!

Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it. I am wondering, do we not have memory of even having existed prior to the present moment? That sounds creepy, and also cool. Anyhow, I'll run over it again and check for anything not in the present tense, and maybe make a few minor adjustments.

Best of luck to all.

@Nergüi- correct. your mind is full of information: what your equipment is, and how to use it; what spells you know and how they work; knowledge in accordance with your skills, along with whether or not you have any idea how to climb a wall, or pick a lock, or build a crossbow... and you have a fully formed personality: likes and dislikes, quirks, a sense of moral rightness/flexibility... all these things make you assume that you had an existence before this moment, but you literally have no memories at all so it's possible that you could have been created seconds ago with all those things 'programmed' into you.

edit: I guess I should point out, too, you will also know your name (and, if applicable, the name of your familiar/companion/cohort)

@GM Nate, As the last one, could I have some feed back on my PC.
I hope you like her.

Ty for the feedback on Rin. Scritched out what was unneeded or too background revealing. It's a writing challenge for sure to eliminate anything too telling about someone's past!

@Mia- as previously mentioned, I'm not reading anyone's setting spoilers (The hypothetical origin setting is to help you build a character that has some internal consistency and cultural identity. If/when you discover your origin in game I will make it up and there's no guarantee it will be the same as your hypothetical one. The more accurately/specifically you describe your appearance/thoughts/actions the more likely it is that your actual origin will end up being similar to your imagined one.) Other than that, everything looks good.

Got it. It should be interesting either way. :)

@Panic- I'm so sorry, I was convinced I had done you (but looking back I see that's not true). Your personality-description looks good.

@Destroya- yes, it is.

I'm off to bed. If anyone else got missed or gets something up by morning I'll try to post some feedback as quickly as possible (though I know my morning may be busy at work).

good luck and good gaming to all who applied! sleep well, Nate

**Just under 12 hours remaining in recruitment**

Just wanted to ensure you had seen my appearance bit, it has been around for a while, but I had forgotten to post it in the alias profile - not necessarily worried about feedback.

Thanks GMnate,

if you want tibe added to the list best get poßting them PCs
I'll add you.

I don't think I'll be able to pull together a submission that gets the full attention this game requires in the time left.

So, I'll unfortunately have to back out of this one.
Good luck everyone, and have fun!

There's a bit more than 6 hours left.

Anyone who has posted here that they're going to apply (bigrig) or PMed me about (goodwicki), but is worried about making the deadline: as long as your fluff and the basics of your crunch are posted by the deadline I will consider your application. Like everyone else you'll have a chance to tweak your fluff on Saturday but it should be mostly done by tonight; for crunch I need your race, alignment, rough idea of class levels ("ranger/some kind of caster" is not ok, but "inquisitor with a few monk levels" is specific enough), and enough skills/feats that I can see what type of character you're going for. If you have any questions PM me.

And, if your new to the recruitment and disappointed that you don't have enough time PM right away and I'll extend this same offer to you.

Bigrig here.

Well, this is what I have for crunch, and I believe it's mostly complete, minus spells and my formula book.

It's the fluff that I need to work on.
If you're willing to consider it, I'll keep trying!

Here comes the final stretch folks, good luck to all. xD

The internet cut out just before I submitted my edits yesterday, only just now finished. Anyhow, I'm not entirely sure if what I've written is in accordance with the lack of memory, but I think at any rate that there are no clear memories hidden away.

Anyhow, much luck to everyone.

Indeed, good luck everybody.

Just thought I'd say that I've rewritten Pennyfeather's appearance slightly to make it a bit more interesting to read. It's all the same stuff, but now it's extra fluffy :)

Good luck to everyone. I enjoyed reading through everyone's descriptions. A lot of cool people are in the running.

Yep, good luck and I'll be waiting with bated breath.

Yeah, I'm not going to be able to pull together an application that I feel confident in.

I will be watching this game, however, and I wish all applicants luck!

basic crunch & fluff, hopefully right on the line...

**Submissions are closed**
Goodwicki talked to me about some technical issues and he will continue to update his profile as he's able. Everyone may make tweaks until tomorrow evening and I'll start final evaluations tomorrow night.

As GMnate will e closing the recruitment soon, if you are adding one in the nick of time and want to be on the PC list I made feel free to post a link or MP me and ill add your PC happy.

best of luck every one.

Panic- Lorenzo is goodwicki's submission. Please add him to the list and he'll have more details in the profile soon.

Soon as I get back home, will do Nate my meta list is there

Good Luck everyone!

Well that's the full list everyone, I hope I did not miss any one.
Panic

Bigrig and Lorenzo were the only ones I heard from, so this list is complete. Please double check that your submission is in there (and post something here ASAP if it's not) because I will be using this list for the final evaluations.

Seems good to me.

Drat working 16 hour days for a week has kinda netted me out of the running for this

My link on Panics list (a very nice list, by the way, good job on that) takes one to my post, but I have made some edits since then, which can be seen if one goes to my profile page.

Work completely submerged me last week, and I missed the deadline... Crap...

Good luck for those who managed to apply in time - I think this has everything to be an amazing game.

Whenever I run recruitments there are people who don't get selected who ask for feedback on how their application could have been better; I always do my best to provide that but this recruitment is so subjective it may be hard to offer much that's meaningful. There are a lot of good applicants who didn't get picked for a variety of reasons. I can't commit to a second table right now but if everything goes smoothly I may contact some of you about a second group or post another recruitment. Or, if anyone wants to put together their own game out of some of the unselected characters feel free. Thank you all for your work on these characters, and especially to Panic for keeping the list.

Now, without further ado, will the following players/characters please report to the discussion thread to prepare for gameplay:

Brilliant, was not expecting that with all the excellent competition. Commiserations to all who did not get in having read the majority of submissions they were generally of very high quality. Very much looking forward to the game.

Congrats to those that got chosen, better luck next to those that did not. x)

I just heard from one of the selected players that the discussion tab was not showing up... I don't know why that might be, but try this link and see if that helps?

Congratulations everyone and thanks to Nate for taking the time to run this game and do all the work that goes into a recruitment of this magnitude!

I have to say, I thought I had a good chance to make it until Rin applied. Great application and I knew two Occultists wouldn't get chosen, so I kinda heard the death knell of my own application early. :-)

It's disappointing, but those who made it deserved it. Good luck and have fun!

Congrats to all who got in. Hope you guys have fun. :)

Disappointed, but I will save the concept for another game in the future maybe.

Good luck all!

Well done everyone who got picked, seem like a good group nate.

Congratulations to those chosen, good luck and good job.

good luck to all, wish I could join you

...Nate as GM to GM I offer this advice work with your players on there pcs back ground reveal. Trust me it will pay off.

GM Panic

I certainly take your point, but its exciting having a background that you cannot control and if the backgrounds are to be incorporated in the story I would prefer not to know. One of the problems that can come up when incorporating backgrounds into games is that it almost necessarily becomes about one player who knows what is going on, and is more tied to events, in turn distancing the rest of the party; if none of the players know there backgrounds I feel there is less chance of this.

Plus as a GM its a great way to be able to drop spoilers in early that only make sense later once the group begin to unearth context, and those kind of ahah so that means... moments are very cool in my experience. Hold the Door, Hold the Door *sob* (Game of Thrones reference, that I am still not over in any way.)

All good points WK2, but my point is more a practical game play one I gained from experience from a simpler setting game. I only offer my experience from that game and others like it.

I have edited my post to add in more info about that, and spoiler'ed it. Its something to bear in mind.

All good points WK2, I see your point, but my point is more a practical game play one, that game I ran with a group along the same lines as nates. I have edited my post to add in more info about that, and spoiler'ed it. Its something to bear in mind.

I played in a game where none of us could remember our past in a similar way. We knew what our knowledges told us, but generally needed something to provoke the knowledge. We had been told to pick Gods that matched our characters personal ethos, and with knowledge checks about holy symbols were able to get a bit of information and find it to our liking - because we had picked gods that suited our characters.

Gradually we pieced together that we were a party of famous adventurers who had vanished upon the Astral Plane. Then one of us died and turned into snow... My character later found out he was Married to a Bronze Dragon, we were hunted by a pack of Death Slaads lead by an Axiomatic Black Dragon Blackguard, we later found a very angry hedgehog that turned out to be our dead PCs real self and participated in an election process for a godly pantheon - good times.

In short I feel that most of potential problems can be minimized, and that PBP is an easier place to do that since its easier to identify and consider problems given the elongated real time frame.

In a way I suppose it is like having read the book of a film, not a deal breaker, but I find things much more visceral when going into the unknown.

Gradually we pieced together that we were a party of famous adventurers who had vanished upon the Astral Plane...

That sounds like a good outcome, I would say, like my game how ever, I think the PCs in this one are not from the same setting, I could be wrong but I don't think they have a shared history. Could be wrong there, A shared history IS a great way to go. "party of famous adventurers" as your all finding things out relive to the group.

I think I better put my money where my mouth is. There where some great PCs made for this game, much better than mine. So seeing as Nate has said he can't run two tables at the moment, I have offered to run a second if Nate is willing. Nate will be Picking the PCs for that table as well, as he/she knows the setting etc. Ill just doing with his/her big plan. That is IF he/she wants me to help with that second table I will run it, but it's Nates Game and his/her call.

All best
GM Panic.