I am unexpectedly busy today, likely won't be able to update. I apologize for the delay.
It's alright, busy days and all that. Beautiful day outside, gonna be doing some yard work myself.
@Caitlyn, welcome to the game.
Hey all, I spent most of the day trying to catch up to the workload that hit me yesterday, and now we have a long weekend coming up. However I suspect I will have time this weekend to post, in the middle of the day either Saturday or Sunday, but will not be available the rest of today or on Monday. Just a heads up!
Hey all, if it hasn't been made obvious from my last few posts, my work has been ramping up significantly. For reference, my new job tends to have sharp spikes in things for me to do as projects hit certain parts, and right now we're at a peak. Unfortunately for my games I don't want my work to suffer, so my posting will be much slower until work slows down a bit. I only make this decision because I would rather dedicate the proper amount of time to this game and I don't want to hastily throw out a low-energy gameplay post just for the sake of keeping things moving, and I hope my communication here can prevent the game from stalling. Let me know your thoughts if you have any on the issue, and I apologize for the slowed pace.
I'm in two very fast paced games right now and sometimes the quality of posts feels rushed to keep things moving but most other times it's great.
We understand that real life comes first. So take care of that.
I'm okay with a slower but consistently high quality game. Everything you've given us so far is gold, you obviously care about it so don't let it suffer by feeling obligated to push forward.
Take your time GM! We'll be here when things slow down.
Checking in.
I am still around, I just have found myself unable to find the time necessary to write for the game. A large part of that is due to 3 of the original players dropping, which has forced me to throw out over half of my character-specific writing and stsrt rewriting it.
It may be better if we put this game on hiatus for now until I can find more time to dedicate to it. I would rather not push things forward without a plan just for the sake of movement.
Understood!
FYI, I'll be travelling from 10th of this month until 19th, so bot me if necessary!
Take your time DM, as long as I don't forget this site exists I'll be around.
Take all the time you need, I know I'll still be here.
Hello all, I hope the summer has been treating you well.
It has been a month and I wanted to check in and let everybody know that I am still here despite my reduced amount of available time. As an update, I am currently involved in a play which will be ending in about two weeks. Once that is over I should have a lot more time in the evenings available, although my posting will still likely be during the morning and afternoon hours since I will be using the evening hours to write. Once the play ends I will get back to the drawing board on inserting our multiple new characters and we will take it from there. I appreciate your massive patience in dealing with how hectic this has been.
I'm still here. Glad things are getting sorted out for you.
Glad to see you back.
I'm also still here!
Hey all,
It is with a heavy heart that I inform you I have decided to put this game down. My previous life circumstances when I was writing this campaign included a job where I did very little throughout the day, and also I was living alone. Now I am at a very fast-paced job where I am in charge of an entire department, and my girlfriend is living with me and I spend a lot of my time on our relationship. It took me a few weeks of dedicated writing to craft a story around the players that were accepted, and unfortunately half of it is now unusable as it applies to characters who are no longer with us. And while those of you who are here and fantastic players and I have really enjoyed what little of Ikeroth we got to experience together, it wouldn't be fair to you all to either delay the game for an undetermined amount of time until I have enough spare time to rewrite an entire adventure, or to force us through a campaign with no plan just for the sake of progress.
It was wonderful, and I am truly humbled by the dedication and character writing that you each had during your short time in this game. I will still be present on the boards and I am sure we will continue to play together for many years, but unfortunately I just don't have the time to be rewriting a campaign right now. I'm sorry that you got a taste only to have it taken away.
P.S. If anybody is curious, I do have a short document of "GM Notes" that has a lot of campaign secrets, albeit ones that are not very personal to your characters, more about the nature of Ikeroth. If you are interested I would be happy to send you private links, or if you would prefer to leave it a mystery that would be fine as well.
No problems, GM. Life happens to everyone, myself included!
Good luck with everything!
It was a pleasure being part of such an interesting and well thought out game, even if only for a short time.
Thank you for your work, DM Omen. If I see you around on the boards, I know that will be a good game to try and throw my hat into the ring of.
Those campaign secrets do sound particularly interesting. I would love to read such things as I am constantly looking for inspiration for my own games. I may borrow some of them outright and adapt them for my players, if that's okay with you.
I didn't even get to shoot anything!
:)
No worries at all, it's always hard to make these decisions BUT they are the right decisions to make.
So far I've had one person jump into the discord server I set up (not sure who since I don't know your discord names), and one person decline out of a wish to leave the mysteries mysterious. Let me know what the other two are thinking, and once we have that settled I will mark the campaign as inactive.
I believe Draegar is the only one who I haven't heard from. Draegar, are you interested in a look behind the curtain?
Sure. Just logged into discord