A Push of the Fates.... Zakhara... You Jewel!

Game Master Insnare

What happened? :/

Hopefully it pans out. I will probably be moving countries this year. too.

What happened? :/

Parts damaged/lost. Should be getting replacements on Monday. Then I see if the PC boots. Currently using mobile device, which is really... tedious and difficult.

Hey everyone, just to let you know I will be traveling from the 29th June to the 9th of July. Should have internet access, but doubt I will have much time for posting. Feel free to bot me ;)

I'm going to ask for a pass for a couple of days. I found out today that my best friend since high school committed suicide on Thursday. When we didn't see him at our Friday night game and couldn't get him on the phone, my wife and I went over to check on him today and found out. Please grant me a few days to process this.

I am very sorry to hear about it Nura... My (delayed) condolences.

Anyone want to join in on a Gamma World game, also DMed by GMEDWIN?

We need at least one more to be able to play, if anyone has the bandwidth:

https://paizo.com/campaigns/v5748p75ivmns/recruiting&page=last

Seems like a fun setting.

I would love to, but unfortunately there are only so many new systems I can learn at once - I have realized it slows down my posting rate tremendously, having to look up rules and whatnot.

So thanks for dropping the info, but I cannot...

I am going to Disney World from tomorrow through the 12th of November. Please bot me as necessary if I am holding things up and I will check in as often as I am able.

Lucky you - enjoy! :D

FYI, I am on Christmas break December 16-January 2. I might get on somewhere in there, but the likelihood is not high. I will have zillions of relatives here taking up all my availability. Apologies. Please bot me or have me lapse into a coma or whatever for the duration, and I'll check back in in a couple of weeks.

Enjoy Zairiah!

I will be traveling also from the 19th December through the 3rd January for much the same reasons. I expect to have some room for posting but... It is completely unpredictable :D

Happy New Year! I hope we can get the game back on track.

Happy New Year!

What is happening to me: I am asking for a pass for the next few days. On Tuesday, my father-in-law collapsed and went into heart failure. They revived him and took him to the ICU where he has been since. Yesterday evening, he was talking and sitting up and asking for water when we left visiting hours. We no sooner got home when they called to tell us that he had coded again (this is the fourth time in as many days). He is currently in cascading organ failure. We have him on dialysis to try to clear his kidneys and jump-start his metabolism, but right now, the only thing keeping him alive is the ventilator and the pacemaker they put in. I don't know how long this will go on, but I ask if I fall behind, you be understanding.

No problem. I hope everything pans out. I wish you and your family luck!

Very sorry to hear about it Nura - wish you and your family all the best!

My father-in-law passed away at 2:04 am this morning. I will be taking a few days to be with my wife during her time of grief and will return shortly. Thank you for understanding.

Sorry to hear that. Take whatever time you need. Life before game.

Please take your time! My condolences!

I am very sorry for your loss Nura.

GMEDWIN, wanted to ask you - have you ever looked over the 'sort of retroclone' of AD&D2e called 'For Gold & Glory'? It is available free, and seems to do an half-decent job of 'cleaning up' some of the rules.

Could we maybe put all the maps into one Google Slides doc? I like to put the links into my tag line, which makes them way more convenient to find, and it might be easier if they were all in one place.

Just a thought though. If that is more difficult on your end, I will keep switching them out.

Sure, I have been using Google draw for so long, I have never really thought to make a slide thingy. I tried five years back on a Train combat scene which was a fiasco but it looks like it is better now.

Al-Anwahr

I left the desert map on its own.

Hi, everyone. I want to reopen recruitment for this campaign because Agrammar seems to have disappeared from the boards, I hope he is Ok, and we should have at least 4 players although 5 or 6 are also good too. And he is also welcome to return whenever he feels well enough to.

If you could help that would be great!

Ok... not too many players of AD&D 2e around these days!

Ok... not too many players of AD&D 2e around these days!

True. I thought we might use OSE rules myself, but this is actual authentic 2e.

@DM: What does the Djinn Camp look like, and where are we in the map?

The Janni camp is on slide 2 of the map section A. I will put the description in the gameplay thread.

Gotcha. I am 99% done with my sheet. I need to just add attacks and give all my starting money to charity.
Also, I added my saves, station, and charisma bonus to reactions in my character stats field. I think there would be a little talking in this campaign, and that might help pacify or improve attitudes. Ibn Taaib is nothing if not courteous and chivalrous, as a bedouin paladin knight should.

By the Loregiver!

By the Loregiver!

Sorry for taking so long to be done. I am literally learning as I go. This is the first time I played AD&D.

I was holding out for Paritosh to post, but he seems to be late in joining us. RPing along Frackit until the rest of the party joins seems good.

Also DM, I'm done with my character. Please notify me if I have any errors, anyone!

Also I have elected to not start off with any magic items. I'm going to earn them.

I'm here! Remember I was out of the country for a week!

I'm back and ready to game!

Introduce your character and feel free to explain how you met up with Frackit and the Sheikh.

Really liking how the party is coming together. Everyone seems so interesting, and GMEDWIN (GM Edwin?) seems to have done a great job so far.

Ugh! Tough to dive into the middle of that conversation! I'll sneak in!

I will post more once someone responds, and I can catch up.

Your camel is named camel? xD

Also, though my class ability gives me a warhorse, I chose a white she-camel.

Welcome!

DOH! Ok, a white she-camel.

And yes, my camel's name is Jamal/Camel!

Thank you for the compliment. I really enjoy the material of AL Qadim. I was also a big fan of Maztica as well. Right now, the party has a few threads to tie up. There is Yodfah and the Brotherhood. The mission they are on now and the trial of the werefox. There is a bunch of stuff.

Maztica was this close to being amazing.

I think they abandoned it a bit too soon. Or they should have written a few more adventures for it.

I always wanted to do kore in Kara Tur, but we stuck mostly to the realms and usually the Dales

RPGs need both story and game systems to thrive. Maztica had pretty solid story (though of course it was from an age before people typically had cultural consultants and authentic writers for projects). The systems? Not good. D&D's very level-focused, you have abilities to contribute to the group that provide effective solutions to problems, and characters from Maztica were just flatly worse than other characters at pretty much everything, so why would you ever want to play them? If your hishna and plumaweavers had magic that could do really amazing and distinct things, maybe, but as-is, your weapons were worse, your armor was worse, your magic was worse, and there was just nothing to entice you other than the story—and while that's enough for some people, it's not enough to drive a whole campaign.

The first D&D book, I bought was AD&D 1e Oriental Adventures. Kara-Tur was fun.

I guess Maztica for some had the ability to take an Amnian and have them learn the skills or multiclass into a Jaguar Knight or Plumaweaver or something.

This discussion over Maztica is fascinating. So suboptimal and sub-par character options (weapons, classes, spells, etc.) discouraged gamers from playing the setting?

Also, I seemed to have left a language slot open. Is there any language of the dead, ghuls, or genies (or anything mystic) that I can fill the last slot with? I imagine Ibn Taaib serving for exposition and a gateway to Al-Qadim for Frackit.

Maztica was cool for the story, but yeah its more lets head over and play around. Though we added once the spelljammer races the Gromman and Dracon and a few others over there. I had an Idea to mix Maztica with Red Steel might be cool

The first D&D book, I bought was AD&D 1e Oriental Adventures. Kara-Tur was fun.

One of my favorite characters ever was Tarushio the Samurai Paladin, although he may have been a 3.0 creation. It's been so long!