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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kelleris" data-source="post: 2028853" data-attributes="member: 19130">Hey all.  I necromancered this thread because I wanted to talk to you guys about how the game's going, what you'd like to see, and other such matters.  We've been playing since late last October, with almost a month off for Christmas, and I hardly even know whether you lot are enjoying the game or harboring secret thoughts of nasty-wishing toward me.I'll start with a few comments.  First off, something I noticed in another thread here at ENWorld: I don't like killing people.  It's something I've felt vaguely bad about for a while, but on thinking it over I've decided that I'm okay with merely beating you to within an inch of your life.When I'm imagining a scene involving potential character death, I try to set it up so that your combat prowess determines how well you can navigate through the scene.  To take an example from here, I would have been surprised if anyone had died in the original warehouse fight, but the lucky crits from the guards did keep you from either permanently getting them off your back or capturing the guard captain.Although I suppose burying him under a building is a close second!   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Another thing is my fondness for conspiratorial situations.  I know this annoys some people, but I like dropping hints, as the flurry of spoiler text recently indicates.  All of you have bits of a fairly large puzzle, and I keep doing this in the hope that someone will one day have an epiphany and unravel the goings-ons that plague you.I think of Dromus as having elements of a less-sinister Delta Green sort of game.  Any given situation will have layers and conspiratorial elements, but it's not my intention to make the whole game dark and furtive with these aspects.  I don't know how well I pull off my goals in this area.So those are a few of my concerns.  What do you think about these, or other issues?  Are we moving along quickly enough for your tastes?  Would you prefer less combat?  More?  Is there something I'm doing to step on your toes?  Does the setting feel real enough for you, or do I need to add more description and background action to my posts?  Maybe you'd like more in the formal campaign setting documents?I'd love to hear your comments, whatever comes to mind!  I see this first foray into PbP gaming as a learning experience as much as a leisure-time activity, so I really appreciate any constructive criticism you've got for me.</blockquote>

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