Sorry for the delay in posting. Will try to post this evening.
Oof... I'm really sorry for the delay in posting. Probably shouldn't have tried to do something as elaborate as individualized prologues...
Anyways, trying to post now!
I wouldn't mind after finishing some key resolutions here, cutscening to get us all together. Once we get together we can RP with each other when you're delayed due to work.
Could I try to use Bluff to throw my voice?
Certainly!
Everything ok, GM?
Yes—just feeling tired from work. Will try to get prologues completed tonight.
Will try to get post up tomorrow.
Posting in the morning!
Really busy day ahead of me today. Will try to post this evening.
You ok, GM? Think we're waiting on you, and you said you'd post 4 days ago.
Yeah, sorry. Had a busy work week. Let me get caught up.
No worries, busy-ness happens. Just wanted to be sure all was well.
Busy day coming up. Will post tomorrow evening.
Had a very tiring day today. Gonna have to push the post back to tomorrow evening. Sorry.
Hope you get some rest!
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Random question, did we actually introduce ourselves to each other? I just want to know if I should ask for some of the other characters' names or if I can just dive in and start addressing the rest of the group by name. I know Cassynder told everyone HIS name before Janiven invited us all up here...
...I don't think you did... O_O
Whisper didn't introduce herself, but Janiven addressed her as Whisper, which others would have heard.
Sorry I haven’t updated yet. Will try to post in the morning.
Once again, sorry for backsliding. Will try to update tomorrow evening.
Should have posted sooner: yesterday through Friday, nose is to the grindstone for annual reporting period. I'll check in periodically but please bot if necessary.
GM sorry things have been so busy for you. If there's anything we can do to ease your burden (set a certain day for posting, etc.) let us know.
Hey, at least it isn't a sewer level, right? ;)
I will only have intermittent Internet access for the next week through Monday Oct 30. Please bot me as needed. (If we get in a fight, Whisper will try to flank and sneak attack with sword and/or bite attack.)
I am back. Hope all is well.
Glad to hear it. I’ve been dealing with a case of something like burnout in between working shifts. Will try to post this evening.
GM Cat, your last post was a week ago.
I was super psyched to get in this game, and this player group is amazing, but it seems like either you're not feeling it like you thought you would, or RL demands just are not allowing you to commit the time needed to GM a PBP. Burn out is real and is a sign of needing to take good care of yourself.
While I am willing to stick this out, I personally ask you make a real assessment of your time and what you want to be doing with it and how that relates to the game. Perhaps you just need a break, and could ask us to check back in a few weeks? We could post ic and ooc keep the thread active.
Or perhaps you're not going to be able to get in the swing at all. If you find that to be the case, I request that you, out of kindness to the players who have committed to playing with you, rip off the bandaid and tell us you're done, so we can feel free to either seek another GM or app into other games.
Thank you for considering this.
Unfortunately, I think that would be for the best.
I'm really sorry I haven't posted at a good pace, and it doesn't look like I'll be able to do so for this game. I would recommend you ask for another GM.
Thank you all for sticking around as long as you have.
Life does happen, sir. Thanks for getting the game together and it was worth trying since I did enjoy gaming with you all.
That's a shame but I understand, real life commitments come first. Re finding a new GM, I wouldn't say no, but I suspect it's unlikely we'd find somebody. Interest in PbP at least on these forums has tailed off over the past few years.
GM Cat, sorry things have you so burned out and thanks for the decisive reply.
Everett, the last GM recruitment I saw up here actually had a few responsive takers so we might get lucky. Nita, Cassynder, Sanchia, are you still in? Am I missing anyone?
Once I am sure who the active player list is I'll post a request for a GM.
Okay,
I might have time to DM this (obviously, only if we can figure out if I'm a good fit).
Today is Thursday 9 November. Give me the weekend to figure out if I can handle it. Monday or Tuesday I ought to know for certain and we can go from there. (Of course, if you have a better option go for it, and well, I will still be lurking.)
I've been wanting to DM Council of Thieves in a PbP Forum since my first attempt failed.
I would happily continue playing, and look forward DM Ray's consideration as well.
Thanks so much for considering it DM Ray and for taking time to think about it!.
I'd be in! Thanks for taking a look DM Ray!
Running a game does take quite a bit of time so I'd obviously appreciate it! I run a couple of games here so I have a fair idea for what you'd be talking on.
Thanks for taking up the reins, DM Ray.
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Btw, in the meantime, if y'all are looking for something a bit different in addition to what you are playing now, I am now recruiting for short, high level adventure. Please check it out of you are interested.
Okay, let's see if I and my style of DMing works for the group (consider this as my application for Recruitment, since you all had to get through a Recruitment process).
I'm big on roleplay and Skill checks, especially in PbP, moreso than combat. It looks like that's a good fit with the current makeup of PC builds. Alas, I am not going to have time, at least for a good few weeks, to go through y'all's character builds looking intently at Crunch. I just want to see a good PC background or history and personality and that kind of stuff. I will be looking closely at Skills.
Speaking of which, I recommend the group look at your collective Skills and see if there are any weaknesses -- gaps or holes -- the group will want to address. I strongly recommend the group have at least one PC maxed-out and jacked-up of all the roleplaying kinds of Skills (Diplomacy, Bluff, Sense Motive, Perception, Linguistics, Knowledges, etc.) since this is definitely a heavy roleplay campaign anyway, and I'm a heavy roleplay and Skills kinda DM.
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My Westcrown is a touch different than the canonical, as is my Cheliax and CoT. I'll do my best to keep my head-canon out of the way but sometimes it'll reveal its unsettling facade.
More importantly, when I started a PbP for 'Council of Thieves' 12 months ago, it was for a specific player here on the Boards that really wanted to play in it (and his group). When we attempted that PbP I did some Paizo Messageboards research and read a massive number of posts from DMs and Players suggesting an alternate order of the six individual volumes. Nearly everyone on the Boards suggested that a specific Volume 1-5 should have been the climactic volume 6 and that the published volume 6 should be placed elsewhere. Reading the AP then, I wholeheartedly concurred. The AP is MUCH better designed in a different-than-published sequence.
As you may know, this is not one of Paizo's more beloved APs, but it has so much great potential. If you guys allow me to take over the campaign, I will be reordering quite a bit of the canon.
One of the other complaints regarding the AP, from the community, is one that in your own Gameplay you have already addressed. Everitt Radcliffe mentions that if the group's goal is to usurp Thrune, overthrow the HellKnights, and redefine Cheliax, this is NOT the campaign for you. I'm hoping we can have a brief discussion as a group, kinda metagame but with NO Spoilers, get an idea of what our expectations are for the overall plot of the campaign. In my failed attempt at this PbP a year ago the PCs were, ah, more Evil Aligned, and supported a specific pro-Cheliax noble House over another. So they were going to focus on making that Diabolical House even more Chelaxian, more powerful. Obviously that won't work here. So let's have a brief conversation before we all commit to each other.
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I am not at all an expert on technology and struggle sharing a techno-version of a battlemat on PbP. I'll do my best to learn, but combat will likely be 'Theatre of the Mind' where I describe the encounter terrain and we can manage the fights in imaginations. Or, someone can teach me how to do, um, 'technology.'
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Following, under Spoiler Tags, will be a post for each PC.
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Can everyone do the following, please send me a PM with Spoilers you have with the campaign, whether you know of this or that specific event or NPC or plot device. Or even if you DMed the whole thing, or perhaps played as a PC through the middle of Volume Two or whatever.
Also, please post, either under a Spoiler Tag in Discussion or a PM, if there are any Background points for your PC that are really important to you, especially points that you had discussed with DM-Dragon Cat. And of course, respond however you feel to the following Post regarding your PC.
Just give me a brief rundown of your interpretation of Lawful Good of Iomedae, for a Monk, especially for use in an urban campaign of Cheliax -- so I don't accidentally step on your toes and so that I can adjust what I may need to adjust accordingly. Pretty Please. Also, in Quirri's first post, she seems like a prostitute working under Nikrus. (And in turn under Palaveen.) Are Quirri and Nikrus NPCs that Cassynder is really interested in? Is there any information that you and DM-Dragon Cat shared via PM that you'd like me to know? .... Are you expecting Cassander's far-away monastery to be reintroduced in some fashion in the future? Or anything else?
If you could give me a brief rundown on your interpretation of Lawful Good of Shelyn, and what it means to be a Paladin of Shelyn -- just so I know where you stand and don't accidentally step on your toes. Pretty Please. Also, is there a specific NPC that sent you to the art shop of Jacopo di Carni that I ought to make sure reappears in the campaign?
I like how you posted that you're looking for metagame reasons to join the, er, group. That kind of stuff is important to me -- I'm a big proponent of PC groups working together as a team, sharing treasure, sharing information, all those kinds of things. Obviously, your PC and the others aren't really a "group" yet, but it's important to me that you get there.
The NPC or whatever who hires Whisper to deliver messages -- is that an NPC I ought to know about, or is your character assumed to be ready to quit that job without giving her 'two-week-notice'? Is there anything else from Whisper's background or history that perhaps you and DM-Dragon Cat shared through PM that you'd like to come up in Gameplay in the future?
Good Evening Ray, nope, never discussed the shop. My creation of the shop was pure fluff, nothing mechanical to it at all. So it can used however the story needs it to. It is her home as well as shop, and can be shut down as a shop since she might become busy (I'd imagine her traffic is low anyway). And can be abandoned if she becomes Known by the bad powers that be.
Bobbles, one of her passed friends and business partners was the pathfinder. Long ago. Nita contacted the pathfinders through correspondence (gathered from her friend's notes) for the need to make things better. She has not given the future much thought. Being a bleached gnome she is a little placid when it comes to the future.
The Mirror is COOL! But I know nothing about it. Dragoncat had the shadows pool in it. Nita knows no reason why, or if she is right and the shadows truly are her friend somehow.
So all in all, I'm not much help it seems :)
Oh, theater of the mind is awesome so I have no worries about that. And anything and every little thing about the AP is alright by me. The story is a delightful pathway, always different no matter what happens.