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<blockquote data-quote="skerritthegreen" data-source="post: 6811137" data-attributes="member: 70203"><p>I'm not going to address each of these, as I feel Pauper and others have done so, but a few deserve clearing up of misconceptions:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> That's sort of true, though not entirely. Expeditions are in the Moonseas. Hardcovers (previous Encounters) are in the Sword Coast. DDAO and Epics are anywhere we feel like. The separation was done intentionally. In previous campaigns, OP, novels, rules, etc... would walk all over each other's stories without realizing it. No the AL is canon in the Moonsea, so if we kill a guy, he doesn't show up in a novel two years later. If we set our entire story in a city, we don't need to worry about the video game burning it down tomorrow. The separation of stories lets everything stay on story. Also note that for season 4, 90% of the Expeditions involve the transposition of a part of the Realms into Barovia, so VERY different setting. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> Both parts of this are not really correct. The Epics are no longer constrained to large cons (though they continue to premier there). We just granted the S3 and S4 interactives to literally dozens of conventions (something we started doing around the end of S2). Truthfully almost 90% of those cons that filled the request form and met the minimum requirements were granted permission to run an Epic. If they weren't it was most likely because someone else was already running it within a week or two in the same general location of the con that asked. </p><p></p><p> As for the story of Elisande, not highjacked into DDAO3. If you look carefully you will note that the blurb begins with her truth already revealed! That's because her story plays out in DDEX3-16. You should totally go play that mod. I hear 3-16 is the best mod in the history of all mods and the author is also quite handsome! DDAO3 deals with a fun little romp alongside Elisande and does not affect the over meta-plot of the campaign. Rather its a sidetrek with an NPC who is memorable for some. I understand how you might think otherwise. Once you are unhappy with something, its easy to make the assumption that the people responsible are making additional bad choices and are out to screw it up, but I assure its not true. (Also please note since you liked LFR, THANKS! half the admin team is the same people who brought you LFR, with a dash of Ashes of Athas and Greyhawk sprinkled in).</p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> As for editing, that was an issue. When we found a mistakes, the admins couldn't fix them because all layout and holding of the raw files was done WOTC and we didn't have them. Now that we've migrated our file hosting to OneBookShelf and it has a function to allow updating (and notify everyone who bought the file), we expect updates. As for output, please note we've been providing ~300 hours of content a year (actually more). That's with less staff for less pay. If you want to see more content, and sure who wouldn't love that, you vote with your wallet. Buy more mods off OBS and we can possibly put more out. As for a MyRealms possibly, as announced previously that's what we are testing with the DDAO mods. If they go well, we might expand the concept. Since you have already gone on record as disliking the DDAO mods, I'm not sure which was to go. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> Do you fill out the critical events summaries at the end of every mod so we can alter the plotline based on your actions? (I ask this because the response rate is roughly in the single digits) If you want to impact the story line, please fill out critical events! If you already do, congratulations, you are someone who has had a significant and disproportionate impact on the story! I note that your actions have changed things. For example in season one, the actions of the players caused the pact between Phlan and the fey of the Quivering Forest to be broken. Its only because of this that Vorgansharax was able to invade. You did that. Then in season two, actions of the players in critical events caused the city of Mulmaster (whom the people have Phlan had gone to for aid) to eject the Phlanites, forcing them to seek shelter in Hillsfar/Elventree. Here there have been more successes. So many in fact, that there is a chance to retake Phlan (because of the critical events summaries the few of you that filled out the online forms filled in). Indeed, some surprises in Epic4 may or may not happen based on the last of the critical events we are gathering now. Again, you did that.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skerritthegreen, post: 6811137, member: 70203"] I'm not going to address each of these, as I feel Pauper and others have done so, but a few deserve clearing up of misconceptions: That's sort of true, though not entirely. Expeditions are in the Moonseas. Hardcovers (previous Encounters) are in the Sword Coast. DDAO and Epics are anywhere we feel like. The separation was done intentionally. In previous campaigns, OP, novels, rules, etc... would walk all over each other's stories without realizing it. No the AL is canon in the Moonsea, so if we kill a guy, he doesn't show up in a novel two years later. If we set our entire story in a city, we don't need to worry about the video game burning it down tomorrow. The separation of stories lets everything stay on story. Also note that for season 4, 90% of the Expeditions involve the transposition of a part of the Realms into Barovia, so VERY different setting. Both parts of this are not really correct. The Epics are no longer constrained to large cons (though they continue to premier there). We just granted the S3 and S4 interactives to literally dozens of conventions (something we started doing around the end of S2). Truthfully almost 90% of those cons that filled the request form and met the minimum requirements were granted permission to run an Epic. If they weren't it was most likely because someone else was already running it within a week or two in the same general location of the con that asked. As for the story of Elisande, not highjacked into DDAO3. If you look carefully you will note that the blurb begins with her truth already revealed! That's because her story plays out in DDEX3-16. You should totally go play that mod. I hear 3-16 is the best mod in the history of all mods and the author is also quite handsome! DDAO3 deals with a fun little romp alongside Elisande and does not affect the over meta-plot of the campaign. Rather its a sidetrek with an NPC who is memorable for some. I understand how you might think otherwise. Once you are unhappy with something, its easy to make the assumption that the people responsible are making additional bad choices and are out to screw it up, but I assure its not true. (Also please note since you liked LFR, THANKS! half the admin team is the same people who brought you LFR, with a dash of Ashes of Athas and Greyhawk sprinkled in). [FONT=Verdana] As for editing, that was an issue. When we found a mistakes, the admins couldn't fix them because all layout and holding of the raw files was done WOTC and we didn't have them. Now that we've migrated our file hosting to OneBookShelf and it has a function to allow updating (and notify everyone who bought the file), we expect updates. As for output, please note we've been providing ~300 hours of content a year (actually more). That's with less staff for less pay. If you want to see more content, and sure who wouldn't love that, you vote with your wallet. Buy more mods off OBS and we can possibly put more out. As for a MyRealms possibly, as announced previously that's what we are testing with the DDAO mods. If they go well, we might expand the concept. Since you have already gone on record as disliking the DDAO mods, I'm not sure which was to go. Do you fill out the critical events summaries at the end of every mod so we can alter the plotline based on your actions? (I ask this because the response rate is roughly in the single digits) If you want to impact the story line, please fill out critical events! If you already do, congratulations, you are someone who has had a significant and disproportionate impact on the story! I note that your actions have changed things. For example in season one, the actions of the players caused the pact between Phlan and the fey of the Quivering Forest to be broken. Its only because of this that Vorgansharax was able to invade. You did that. Then in season two, actions of the players in critical events caused the city of Mulmaster (whom the people have Phlan had gone to for aid) to eject the Phlanites, forcing them to seek shelter in Hillsfar/Elventree. Here there have been more successes. So many in fact, that there is a chance to retake Phlan (because of the critical events summaries the few of you that filled out the online forms filled in). Indeed, some surprises in Epic4 may or may not happen based on the last of the critical events we are gathering now. Again, you did that.[/font] [/QUOTE]
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