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I've been away from the boards for almost a year, but I’m back. I’m so happy to see that many of my old friends are still here talking Savage Tide, and there are SO many new faces! I’ve re-launched our blog into a full-fledged wiki that I honestly believe is a potentially great resource for anyone running the STAP. The story, as it is played, is journaled here in narrative detail, so I recommend it only for DMs – the whole site is one big spoiler. Many of you (Luna Eladrin, Turin the Mad and Carborundum in particular) have actually contributed suggestions here that I have incorporated into our game. As of today, the story goes from the very beginning up to the recovery of the Nixie (I went with the Nixie-wreck option at the end of Sea Wyvern’s Wake, as suggested here), and I hope to finish Tides of Dread by year’s end.
If you do stop by, visit our forum and leave a comment. Let me know if you have any suggestions of stuff that you’d like to see, especially stuff that might assist other DMs running the STAP.
By the way, Luan and Carb and anyone else who was following my old blog, I've actually gone back to the beginning and re-written some of the early entries to create a more narrative style. Now, I think, it's a much better read.
Very nice site Troy - I've been trying to get something off the ground like this for my Kingmaker game. Any tips?
Well, I guess the easiest tip would be to start a wiki on a free site like wikidot (I strongly recommend AGAINST “Wetpaint” – it’s a virus portal with a less than friendly or helpful support staff) and just do it. Feel free to copy anything you like about my site. I would also recommend you not re-invent the wheel – feel free to link to any page on my site you’d like. One of the up-sides of a wiki is that you can have anyone you want contribute and edit. In other words – get your players involved, even if it’s only in maintaining their character information.
Pictures! Plain text is boring, and sometimes just a cool screen-grab from Jurassic Park or King Kong goes a long way. Feel free to use any pictures on my site, but recommend against linking directly to my site for pictures. You’re free to do so, but if I decide to change my site and move the pic, it will effect your site as well. Instead, follow the picture information back to my Photobucket or Flicker page and grab the original pic (you should be able to get a permanent link there). Again, using my pics is better than re-inventing the wheel.
Although, with one exception, I don’t have current character sheets up on the site, I recommend doing so. This way, when one of your players comes over and says, “I forgot my stuff,” you can just to your site and print another copy. It also helps if you need to NPC a character in a player’s absence.
If you use Wikidot, you might do what I did and use another site for your forum. You have to create a forum from scratch with Wikidot, which I found complicated and, again, it’s re-inventing the wheel.
These are all the things I can think of off the top of my head. However, my contact info is on the site, so feel free to ask if you have any questions, if I can be of any assistance or whatever.
Glad to have you back, Troy. I have really missed your enthusiastic contributions. You had me wondering whether your campaign was still running.
I will check out your wiki presently.
Great advice, thanks!
Luna! You remember me?? I feel so special!!!
Yeah, the campaign got a bit derailed for a while there. Right after they reached Farshore, I had Rowyn return as a revenant and, to torture the main PC, she captured his brother (whom he doesn't believe is his brother) and his girlfriend (whom he didn't know was his girlfriend) and in a Dark Knight stolen plot line, he had to choose between the two of them which to save. One of the other players, a min/maxing griever whose cheating was wearing thin, ruined the scenario by claiming he had exactly every spell necessary to resolve the situation memorized, despite the fact that he wasn't high enough level to even KNOW some of the spells. We expelled him and took a long break. But now we're back up and running. There's more to the story, but that's the gist of it.
So, yeah, stop by the site. It's really cool.
Yes, I remember that plotline as well. I was curious how it turned out. So now I know.
My group is in Farshore now, and the moment of the Crimson Fleet attack is approaching. As you can read elsewhere on this forum, they solved the election problem in an unorthodox way (by killing Meravanchi and framing someone else for it).
So we are really having great fun with this campaign, though we are not playing as often as I would like. Friday we will start again after a very long holiday break.
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Hey Troy - nice to have you back! I'm looking forward to your updates :-)
I nearly had a player mutiny after using your Fire Troll dream sequence TPK :-)
My group finished the invasion a while back then went on a massive sidetrack adventure to check out the 'lost' Olman village. After meeting a Lich Zombiemaster built by Admiral Monkamuck, tweaked and surrounded by ideas from Turin the Mad, they decided to do something simple instead, like take on the Glutton.
They'll be meeting their first troglodytes this week :-)
Hey Troy - nice to have you back! I'm looking forward to your updates :-)
I nearly had a player mutiny after using your Fire Troll dream sequence TPK :-)
My group finished the invasion a while back then went on a massive sidetrack adventure to check out the 'lost' Olman village. After meeting a Lich Zombiemaster built by Admiral Monkamuck, tweaked and surrounded by ideas from Turin the Mad, they decided to do something simple instead, like take on the Glutton.
They'll be meeting their first troglodytes this week :-)
Can't wait to see what happens when they go down the gullet ...
Wow, it’s great to see all my old friends again! And it sounds like we are all in roughly the same place in the STAP. That’s pretty cool.
Carb, just to be fair, that TPK was Rob (Tracerbullet42), our DM at the time. I cannot take credit for it. On the other hand, I wouldn’t be surprised if you guys didn’t contribute in some subtle ways, even if you are unaware of it.
I do have a lot of references back to you guys and this message board, such as my use of the dead seagull art.. In Book 5, Chapter 2 I do give a little nod to Turin. 3 In Book 3, Chapter 1, I make a subtle acknowledgement of you guys here on the boards.
So I hope you guys stay with me, and watch for my winks and nods. Even the players have come to think of “those people on the Paizo boards” as an extension of our game; sort of the DMs chorus.
Oh, and if you do stop by, please drop us a note at our forum . It would be a big thrill for the players to have some feedback from “the fans.”
Also, if you guys are interested, I've posted a note on the site that tells the story of how the STAP got de-railed for several months by a cheating player in relation to that "Dark Knight" scenario I mentioned.
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