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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trouvere" data-source="post: 4930481" data-attributes="member: 37250">And extremely wordy.  It was late at night.  I could have more succinctly said: by historical accident, the main map is a large area, sparsely scattered with old, stable cities; to accommodate higher level players, we'll need to either alter portions of it, or begin to use a larger area, and travel to and fro will become tiresome if we always begin from Orussus.  There, that was faster.Yes, there are just so many nice existing places, and places that are tantalisingly undeveloped.Darque's portal does spring to mind, if Phoenix8008 isn't planning to collapse it at successful adventure resolution.  Maybe he'll explain where that one came from!We could uncover a permanent teleportation circle to some place interesting.  A powerful nation, like Carduth, might even have access to a set of ring gates, inherited from a golden age, which could be relocated to make staging posts.  Either type of item requires the past existence of a 17th level caster, though.I'd very much like to think so.  I know I have a lot of 3.5 characters I'd like to try out and I have absolutely no interest in running them anywhere except in LEW, least of all in some one-off PbP game.Well, yes.  There's that.  I do think that's a good idea, sometimes.  Right now, though, I'm not so sure.  We have a little bit of a catch-22, in that we've few enough players for new games.Suppose I wanted to earn some DM credits.  The 8th/9ths have expressed interest in a game centred around reclaiming Rasereit's ancestral homeland.  I don't think I'd be great at running that, someone else would do a much better job.  I can't run anything for the 4th/5ths, because my wizard character is one of them.  There may or may not be other PCs around, but they're not in the Tavern or not talking, so I have no idea.  I have two adventures approved (one for several possible level ranges and one for 1sts), but the existing 1sts are a pretty terrible fit for them (either they'd not work well, or they'd not get to use their main abilities; yes, I'd probably have done better to design a game around the players we do have, but I had two simple ideas that I'd written up, so wanted to get approval out of the way should I ever feel enthused enough to jump in).So I would be waiting for the people who already have DM credits to make their 4th PCs, if they wanted to, or for ongoing games to finish.  There are enough DMs with credits to form one more party, I guess, enabling one person wanting DM credits to run a game.  Which allows for exactly one more 4th character, which... Well, it could be quite a while before everyone who wanted a 4th character got the chance to earn some credits!So why not hope to bootstrap back into life with 'free' 4th PCs, and once we're humming again, if 5th PCs become necessary, then they can be bought with DM credits... which I really do think is a good encouragement to run some games.  Mind you, if what has been said about an expected dearth of new players turns out to be true, then we'll be begging for new low level characters, not passing them out as rewards for participation on the evil side of the DM screen.I don't know just how successful Halford's recruitment drive was.  I think the precise phrasing of any 'advertisement' will make a difference.  There are a lot of people who wait around in TtT/PtG waiting to try to claim a spot as soon as they see a game mentioned (such as, perhaps, the fellow who played the replacement druid in 'Urn Your Pay', who disappeared with the end of the academic year), whereas for LEW we're - ideally - looking for players who are in it for the long haul.  We might get a better ROI by couching the drive in terms of 'LEW's still in business, you know, folks', rather than 'Anyone want to play in my game, which happens to be in LEW?'Of course.  I didn't mean to snub Weel.  But he is tucked away in a game at the moment, not waiting at the Tavern.That's the way to go, I definitely believe.</blockquote>

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