Year of the Shadow Lodge (tier 1-2) (Inactive)

Game Master SkipperD

I'll respond to your points of contention one by one.

You ruined a perfectly good game by taking over my part in it.

If you don't fancy the possibility of your character being botted, then you shouldn't have signed up for this table, since I stated up front that I would be botting characters when I deemed it necessary. Perhaps I should have specified what situations in which I would consider it necessary, but on the other hand, I didn't want to start the sign-ups with a long, winding, legalistic treaty, signed in blood under a new moon. I'm here to have some casual fun, and if you can't see that the GM also needs to have a good time, then role playing games might not be for you.

You think you're above making mistakes.

This one baffled me, because of what I wrote earlier.

As to me not knowing the rules, I'd love to hear what mistakes I've made, so I can correct them in the future. I'm not exactly new to Pathfinder (my Pathfinder Society page tells me, that I have GM'ed 173 scenarios), but sometimes things slip through the cracks, or I half remember D&D 3.5 rules and mix them wrongly in.

You think you're above apologising.

Let's chalk this one up to cultural differences. I see absolutely no reason to apologize in this situation, but that might just be my Danish view of the world.

You are the one who neglected to tell the party that we were running slow, and you could have asked us to speed up to fix that issue.

Well, you got me there. This is the first time I have run a multi table special as a PBP game, so of course there'll be some weening problems. The whole "minutes of gameplay to days of gameplay" conversion has been hard to wrap my head around, and the large variation on posting frequency makes it hard to predict whether or not the group is ahead or behind the "schedule". In the future, I'd probably drop hints when I'm sure the group is lagging behind, but then again, I don't want to make my players feel bad if they can't post as frequent as would be preferred, so it's a delicate balance.

Instead you decided to make us miss out on parts, take over characters, and then make it out like it was our fault. That's what we call a bad GM.

You missed parts due to the nature of the multi table specials. I've played them all and GM'ed a few, and things rarely go smoothly, and the table as a whole just has to deal with it. As to taking over characters, I'll refer back to the very first post in the discussion. I've never said it was your "fault" that I botted you, it was just that was necessary to move the game along. I would have done it towards any player, it just happened to be you.

And for a final comment, that's what you call a bad GM.

I'll respond to your points of contention one by one...

BLAH BLAH BLAH, lots of ranty nonsense.

"Sorry, guess I could have been more patient. Didn't mean to mess up your game."

Fixed that for you ^^

*Sigh*

Well, it seems clear now that I've been having an online argument with a petulant child...

Oh, and it's our game, not your game. We're in this together for better or worse (mostly worse towards the end).

Well, it has only been my game you've messed up...

Unless you want to bot Marsius now, since his last post was 24hrs, 10 minutes ago. And Lai's was 11pm on Friday.

Go on, prove it's not just my game you'll take over.

I've even posted suggested tactics for them. ^^

i cannot wait for this scenario to end because someone, not naming names, has made this un-enjoyable and i will seriously reconsider signing up for a PBP game with them in the future.

I couldn't agree more with you Valyssa.

And Lad... I've just gone through the entire game play thread, and all in all, I've botted PC's 4 times: Hasshin twice, and you twice. So it isn't just your game I have "ruined". As for botting Marsius and Laiashi now, I'll give them more than 4 hours to react to the second reforming of Charvion.

You bot me twice hmm? I thought it was just once ah, well I was agroing life at the time so it's cool...speaking of which will we be done be next week on the 15th I'll be gong to florance for a week so I not be able to post much

-Posted with Wayfinder

The game will end at the very latest on the 17th of July, quite possibly before. It all depends on the successes of the other tables. And I wish a nice trip to Firenze. I've heard it's quite lovely.

Luckily, you often know who the GM will be in advance. ^^

As for botting Hasshin, he said he'd be away, and asked to be botted in that time.
I did not ask to be botted, and posted well within the constraints you set.
Why are you not grasping this?

@Hasshin: I wish you a fantastic week away. I'm sure it'll be everything you hoped for. ^^

Lad, please leave.

-Posted with Wayfinder

Best reaction ever, Lai.
At least your name makes sense now.

Thank you to the people that have played with me in this scenario, Hasshin, Marsius and Yyrkoon. It's been a real pleasure to meet you. ^^

Session nr 8 has been reported: everyone at normal advancement.

Please let me know if I need to adjust anything. Thanks Skipper for running and players for playing!

I'm not entirely sure how the chronicle sheet process will be handled, and since I've seen other GM's hand out sheets them selves, then I thought I'd make some for you as well.

Chronicle Sheets

Thank you Skipper

Sorry GM, we could have communicated that better. It was indeed the intent that you hand out the sheets. Thanks!

^ Exactly what I mean.

Probably not Magabeus's fault. He apologized anyway.

The world works better this way. ^^