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Yes, all of that.

Yes, I think so. The tricky bit is getting someone to take the time to figure out which people are affected.

I'll go straight to YES, considering that I've always intended this to be possible, and I wrote the text of that rule with just this kind of scenario in mind. If people want it spelled out more explicitly, that's fine.

You should definitely have heard something back one way or another. If we didn't respond, we probably didn't get it for some reason. Can you resend it? Adventure proposals should be emailed to l4w.judges@gmail.com. I don't think we've ever rejected an adventure outright. If we think it's...

Not to rain on the recruitment parade, but it's worth keeping in mind that newer players on their first character might not be aware of this thread. It would suck for the adventure to fill up before they even saw it, if they were only reading the tavern thread. Pretty sure you guys all know...

Quagmire's jaw hangs in disbelief throughout the Captain's sad tale. When it finishes, he slumps forward, then slams his forehead against a nearby bulkhead half a dozen times before turning to address the Captain. "No. We won't help you. Oh, we'll deal with the ghosts of your family, but...

I suppose I can. Could somebody quickly summarize the plot so far for me? I don't really have time to read the thread up to here. Also, have there been any XP awards yet?

When I set up the approval process for L4W (cribbing heavily from LEW's rules), I was primarily concerned with preventing attempts to cheat. As far as I can tell, that just doesn't happen. People don't seem to want to cheat at PbP. They make mistakes, yes, and having someone else go over your...

"Again? What do you mean, again? How often does this happen, anyway!" Quagmire hurries after the first mate.

I'm a judge, but I haven't done any judge-y things here in quite a while and don't really have any plans to do so in the foreseeable future. But if you need me to rubber-stamp something for some reason, I'm still around.

A small mammal chitters a stream of angry-sounding nonsense from a nearby tree, then disappears into the foliage with a squeak as one of the ants glances its way. Judge here; still catching up on the plot. It looks like you guys have reached a consensus on the rules questions, yes?

I'll read it.

"I'm from.... What in the seven hells is that??!" Quagmire's response to Brummett is interrupted by the appearance of the spectral figure. Yes, sorry, I know that was my cue to interact with Brummett. This week kind of sucked. :-P

Yeah, no one ever agrees with me on that. I'm used to it. So, you're thinking something along the lines of what Ozymandias suggested, a percentage penalty (e.g. 1 or 2 months time xp) but it can't make you lose a level?

Time for some ancient history, I guess. I've pretty much been against DM points since well before L4W started. It's entirely possible that I'm the only person here who feels this way; certainly I'm in a small minority. That's why I always seem to lose these debates whenever they happen from...

Sorry, I don't mean to imply that DMs are trying to cheat or anything; I'm not aware of anything like that happening. I just don't think it's fair that DMs get to effectively avoid -- or minimize -- the retirement penalty under the current system by making sure their characters are just past a...

Loophole for DMs still exists; you spend the DM points on the character before retiring them to bump them up across a level threshold, then the penalty doesn't apply. If the goal is to avoid DM point abuse (and I recognize that not everyone may share this goal with me), I don't think this...

I don't mind if you apply the encounter XP and become level 4 before calculating the time XP. It has certainly been done that way in many other games. That makes it an extra 252 xp and 576gp for everyone. I'll update the xp post. Edit: done.

The east room at the top of the tower contains a small chest bound with heavy bands of iron and secured with a sturdy brass padlock. Finnean smirks, and within moments the lock falls open. The chest proves to contain the deceased warlord's treasury, a satisyingly heavy pile of gold and silver...

Yeah. I dunno. I've retired characters before, but when I did I used DM points to bump them up just over a level threshold before, so I didn't lose much XP. I suspect that a reasonably large fraction of retirements have used similar tricks... which I find to be kind of not fair. I'm not...