Edit: Looking it over, the people there already have a much better idea of where they want to take a character then I do. I'm anxious to follow but I'll sit this one out.
Ruby. I made a monk, it was a ranger adaptation to flavor it as monk, worked quite fine. But if that book comes out soonish, it would be great for my Path of E. game
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I'm glad you're having fun thus far guys. And we've had some really good stuff thus far and it's making my decisions on what to do kinda difficult.
We have so many great characters there are a lot of options in play. One largish party, even though I know some people don't like games that include more than like five players (although in my experience usually at least two selected kind ot disappear within the first month anyway, thus bringing the group back down to five or six). Only problem with this option is that a number of people wouldn't be selected.
Two seperate parties are an option, but then it's a matter of deciding whether to run the same module with two different groups doing the same material, two seperate groups each doing half the module each, or one group doing the module as written, and me finding another module that could work as a companion piece and just change the fluff to have it be another aspect of the siege and have the second group run that. My only fear with this is that I'll get burned out trying to run two seperate modules at the same time.
Third option is to run the module with the group I select, and then start a seperate "Overlook & Bordrin's Watch" thread for everybody else not selected (plus anyone else who wanted to join in) to have an "open rping" thread to work their characters and plot as they see fit. I just don't know if a "non-directed" roleplay game would maintain interest and I'm afraid people would just stop posting.
Final option is for me to run the module as written, and someone else involved thus far run a second module in conjunction as a second part of the siege. Preferably someone who was playing in my game, so that they wouldn't feel as though they had to give up a spot to run a second game. But this involves someone stepping up to the plate and saying that they want to run a game in this same world, using some of the characters we've seen thus far, and is willing to find or write up a module that can be used as a second half of the siege. I'd partner up with said person and we would work everything out together, splitting up characters and such... but it'd need a committed person who likes what's been established thus far enough to want to run their own game.
A couple different options/problems here... and we'll just have to see what the next couple weeks brings before I make a decision on my aspect of the module.
Mri'Thas: "Useless primates... " Sheng Zim: "Your existence brings the world out of balance. The chaos I bring shall revert it; unfortunately, your soul will be destroyed in the process."
-------------------------------------- Tuk Heavy Hands Apeldan: "Trolls are afraid to cats. Good to know" (Yttermayn's "Saga of the Dragon Cult") Cnosos: "I bet there's plenty of wonderful devices in that ship. Let's scavenge them at once!" (Blackrat's "After Earth") Metliz: Sounds like fun! (Arkandus's "The First") Thok: "Thok eats a lot, Thok big. Thok not good at first impressions." (MnL's "Valley of the Dead")
I'll have more time this summer, so I've offer to DEFCON 1 to run the second game. That would mean one of my two character won't get part of the adventure, as I won't play in a game I run.
As I have access to DnD Insider too, I don't have any problem with the actual characters.
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I'm actually gonna pull out of this. There's a lot of interest allready, and I don't have much experience with 4th ed as it is, or the time required to put into this game.
My apologies, folks... shortly after posting my last post here on Monday, I tried to get onto ENWorld to begin posting in the IC and I got 'server busy' messages throughout Monday and yesterday. I seem to be loading pages okay now, so assuming I don't have problems, I should be updating the game throughout today.
Thanks for all the roleplays you folks have offered up thus far, it's been great to get a sense of every character you have created. I decided that it's about time to move onto the next phase of the game (including party selection), and within the rp I've asked for every character still interested to come forward and introduce themself. If any of you players have decided (like Jemal did) that you don't think you can participate, don't have your character introduce themselves. Everyone else though who wants me to consider them and their character(s), write up small rps please.
I have received notification from Velmont that he would be willing/interested in running a secondary game based off of my set-up, to include those people who don't play in mine. But at this point in time I do not know how many players/characters are still keeping their hat in the ring, so for all I know, there might not be any characters left over. Hopefully that isn't the case (since we've had at least a dozen characters appear thus far), but I can't make any promises/guarantees. I think what I'm going to do is that once every character has introduced themself and I know the official pool to choose from... I will go ahead and via roleplay select the group that I will use for my game. Those that aren't selected... if Velmont still wants to run a concurrent game and wants to use the folks who weren't selected (and those folks want to play in a second game run by Velmont), I'll leave that up to the rest of you to decide if you want to go forward with that.
When I make the selection of the party in-game, I'll also post it officially OOC here as well. And at that time, I'll also write up the character generation details so that the party can crunch their numbers and post their characters in a RG thread I'll create as well.
Once again everybody, thanks so much for the work you all have done, and I hope this new type of character submission process has been a cool change-of-pace for each of you. I look foward to working with many of you!
Yeap, I'm still willing to run a game for the people that are not chosen. I have a good idea, might rethink one of two thing depending on the final cast of my game.
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Hopefully that isn't the case (since we've had at least a dozen characters appear thus far), but I can't make any promises/guarantees. I think what I'm going to do is that once every character has introduced themself and I know the official pool to choose from... I will go ahead and via roleplay select the group that I will use for my game. Those that aren't selected... if Velmont still wants to run a concurrent game and wants to use the folks who weren't selected (and those folks want to play in a second game run by Velmont), I'll leave that up to the rest of you to decide if you want to go forward with that.
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