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Just a heads up people, I will be away from this evening until sometime on Sunday.
In a static caravan. With a two year old; And a 13 week old. In September.
So I'll most likely be out of contact all that time, since data rates are what they are........
Please run Colvare as you see fit, though with a sulky menacing air.
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Things are, indeed, moving pretty slowly.
[As I see things:]
Partly, we really don't know what to do. Benedetto, for example, didn't roll very well on those knowledge checks, so he doesn't know much about the city at all. His logical connection --the Tharshk outpost-- didn't seem to have many leads. So, we're stymied. As a player, I'm not sure what to do next. (If this were a James Bond movie, the villains would send thugs after Bond at this point, and the thugs would get beaten up and they'd have some sort of clue on them.)
Benedetto knows of one other possible lead, but he has no way to initiate contact with the gnome's agent here.
The other problem is that the weeks off have slowed down how often players are checking in to this campaign. And the current tempo is also self-reinforcing.
I don't think appointing a party leader would be helpful here. The problem isn't that people are shy about promoting our ideas, or that people are disagreeing about what to do next. The problem is that there are few people checking in every day, and that those of us who are, don't have an idea about how to proceed.
[/As I see things]
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OK - there is something in a spoiler to Mirra's a way back group which should help. I put stuff in spoilers not because I think other players should not know it, but because it mimic people not being present at stuff. Then they can get together and talk about it, as they would if the PCs had been put in a different room and thenput back together again. I do this partly because I find it interesting as to what they pass on compared to what I wrote (Chinese whispers and summary) and partly because it promotes roleplaying. It has happened a bit, but I think the important piece of info hasn't necessarily been handed out. So I'll make it a bit more obvious. Sorry for confusing you guys.
EDIT: It isn't a spoiler, but it isn't very obvious - I wrote it, and had problems finding it.
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Yep. Chris's post goes double for me. I failed or wasn't entitled to roll on all the knowledge checks. I was entitled to read Mirra's post which is what I meant by the restaurant and its clientele. If it seems like the kind of place that Hobgoblin and half-mind flayer's are welcome to, we can all go there. Otherwise, some of us may need to back off that lead to see what the beautiful folks can find out.
The Varen and black-market thing was just something I thought of. There's no hidden knowledge on my part behind it.
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Well, there were several perfectly good ideas in the exchange. It just seemed to me what was lacking was someone saying "Right, let's do x, y and z" after the ideas were given. I've kind of made it so you have more than one option, partially riffing off the ideas you guys have come up with as well as my own.
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Well, there were several perfectly good ideas in the exchange. It just seemed to me what was lacking was someone saying "Right, let's do x, y and z" after the ideas were given. I've kind of made it so you have more than one option, partially riffing off the ideas you guys have come up with as well as my own.
The sign of a true master. :P
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Aubrey--
My apologies for sounding frustrated, but, well, I'm feeling frustrated. Planning and executing capers is one of the things I love in RPGs, and I was enjoying the invasion of the Wands tower, trying to go slowly enough to give other people a chance to chip in.
Dammit.
Benedetto's Initiative: 17.
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I'm sure. But....
Only two or three players were contributing much. Oliver hardly said anything, except "I'm still here". Similarly, though to a lesser extent, with Luke. To me, the whole thing felt really bogged down - I was getting bored too. So, while you might enjoy this stuff, I have to think of the other players. In this medium, an extended session with only a few players active really can drag for the others, and I know as I have been a player in such games - I think this planning has been going on for several weeks. That's an awfully long time for a player or PC who doesn't like that sort of thing or doesn't feel they have much to contribute. In a PbP, you don't have the luxury, ironically, of chewing things over ad nauseum because players minds will wander after weeks of inactivity, they will stop logging in and checking the game, and so one. Slow death, in other words. This is a game predicated on action, after all.
I'm sorry to do this, as I am sure that some of you were enjoying this. But I, for one, wasn't after a while. We had a series of little "planettes" - sections of plan - but no coherent approach, and no one willing to make a decision. And I still couldn't see us getting to one any time soon. It was paralysis by analysis. In my other PbPs someone comes up with a whole plan at a high level, and then in RP implements it after a very cursory discussion. I don't mind planning - I encourage it - but this just went on for so long.
I don't say this to place blame on anyone - this is just the way it has panned out with the sort of players we have in this game. But I seriously felt I had to do something before the game tailed off and we only had a couple of players remaining. I felt I was failing as a DM to keep everyone engaged in the game, not least myself.
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Guys, I'm really sorry but I'm suffering from overstretch. When I started this third PbP I assumed that I would have time but work has intruded massively over the last few months. I can't maintain three PbPs and, on the basis that this one has been running for the shortest time, I'm going to have to call it a day. I'm really sorry, I enjoyed playing with you guys, but I can't really cope with it right now.
