Detail Discussion

[Someone]

Awesome!

Ok, now that my DSL is working I've sent the email with the adventure, so if it's approved you'll have a chance to suffer my poor DMing skills.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Ok, now that my DSL is working I've sent the email with the adventure, so if it's approved you'll have a chance to suffer my poor DMing skills.

Cool--I don't think I got it, but I got Erekose's approval of it. Since I want to send Siobhan on the adventure if possible, it's okay not to have sent it to me anyway, since I wouldn't want to read it

 

[Someone]

Cool--I don't think I got it, but I got Erekose's approval of it.

That's weird, the email direction must be corect or the reply shouldn't have arrived to you. I've got two OKs, how many were needed again?

 

[Rystil Arden]

That's weird, the email direction must be corect or the reply shouldn't have arrived to you. I've got two OKs, how many were needed again?

Two

 

[stonegod]

Two

I could say No, you know.

But I won't.

 

[Rystil Arden]

I could say No, you know.

But I won't.

I've actually never seen a No vote before to an adventure.

 

[Erekose13]

Usually its just questions as the judges help the dm iron issues out.

I corrected Rystil's email addy in the email. You had sent it to rystilarden@gmaildotcom. No worries though.

 

[Patlin]

Usually its just questions as the judges help the dm iron issues out.

I corrected Rystil's email addy in the email. You had sent it to rystilarden@gmaildotcom. No worries though.

The closest I've ever come to a "no" vote on an adventure for LEW had to do with strongly discouraging time travel as a plot device.

It never actually went as far as disaproving the adventure, though.

Usually, it's more along the lines of "so and so used location y in adventure x that sounds like it would fit into your adventure, maybe you could use that for consistency."

I think Knight Otu was a little skeptical about the Ogre Mage (or was it the Trolls?) at the end of my "A Clash of Earth and Sea" based on the likelihood it would result in a TPK, but I solemnly swore that folks would be going up levels before reaching that encounter, which reassured him slightly. Either that, or he gave in to a more bloodthirsty streak after some conversation, hard to tell with KO.

 

[Rystil Arden]

The closest I've ever come to a "no" vote on an adventure for LEW had to do with strongly discouraging time travel as a plot device.

It never actually went as far as disaproving the adventure, though.

Usually, it's more along the lines of "so and so used location y in adventure x that sounds like it would fit into your adventure, maybe you could use that for consistency."

I think Knight Otu was a little skeptical about the Ogre Mage (or was it the Trolls?) at the end of my "A Clash of Earth and Sea" based on the likelihood it would result in a TPK, but I solemnly swore that folks would be going up levels before reaching that encounter, which reassured him slightly. Either that, or he gave in to a more bloodthirsty streak after some conversation, hard to tell with KO.

You strongly discourage chronomancy/time travel as a plot device?--that's funny, I don't remember anything like that when I proposed The Crux of the Matter

 

[Patlin]

You strongly discourage chronomancy/time travel as a plot device?--that's funny, I don't remember anything like that when I proposed The Crux of the Matter

That one must have slipped by me. Depending on how busy I am, I'll have more or less input on an adventure proposal. Was I one of the aprovals for that one? I'll have to read The Crux of the Matter at some point and see what it was you did.

I think my suggestion on the one I'm recalling was that the opportunity for paradox and/or for things to get horribly complicated with the particular plot device were fairly extreme. It would have been somewhat disruptive to the campaign world, for example, if Orussus had been retroactively blown up. I probably could have been convinced to aprove the adventure if the DM was comfortable with the possible problems. For example, another adventure proposed seemed likely to me to derail and go in a quite different direction than the DM anticipated, with the party possibly double crossing their employer. I got a response that the DM thought that would be perfectly OK, and that he was prepared to DM the adventure if it went in that direction. That was good enough for me, and I promptly aproved it.

The aproval process is really more of an opportunity to talk out the proposed adventure than anything else.