JollyDoc's Shackled City: FINAL POST [Updated 11/2!!]

[Joachim]

My apologies.

I understand the sacrifices one must make for the sake of the plot. Which is why I thought it would be interesting to point it out after the fact.

Hey, man, no apologies necessary. And plot was not the main reason the fight was left out...the main reason was brevity, and getting the update finished so that Joe could post his.

Thanks for waiting a bit on the next update, Joe. After tomorrow I won't have web access for about a week while I wait for Charter to get off their a$$es and hook me up.

Congratulations Gautam. Have a good trip, and enjoy the honeymoon. Look forward to seeing you in a few weeks.

 

[A'vandira Silvermane]

Congratulations to Gfunk

Hope you have a long, happy and fruitful marriage.
And once again I would like to express that you will be sorely missed.
Your SH was actually the second I started reading. When I caught up with Sepulchrave's SH (the first SH pointed out to me) I started looking around for others and found yours and been a lurking reader ever since, both yours and this one and I still enjoy it tremendously. Kudos to you and the rest of the gang.

 

[gfunk]

Thank you very much everyone! I'll be online, but I'll be back in-person in JollyDoc's during the last weekend in June.

 

[Neverwinter Knight]

Congrats gfunk! Happy Honeymooning, too!

As for the storytelling, I agree with Joachim that detailing the fight would not have added much to the story. However, I always love it when you guys go into details! The great thing is that your writing stile is very high level, but I can always tell what's going on DnD-wise. That combination rocks and is not present in most other SHs out there.

Regards,

I

 

[Lela]

The great thing is that your writing stile is very high level, but I can always tell what's going on DnD-wise. That combination rocks and is not present in most other SHs out there.

I agree. I think the biggest challange for SH authors is overcoming the game their story is based on. Combats filled with Lela sneak attacks, NWK casts some cold spell, and Wulf hits 'em with 'is axe work great in game. It just tends to get really boring in story form.

You three don't have that problem; showing a tremendious difference between you and lesser authors.

 

[JollyDoc]

I agree. I think the biggest challange for SH authors is overcoming the game their story is based on. Combats filled with Lela sneak attacks, NWK casts some cold spell, and Wulf hits 'em with 'is axe work great in game. It just tends to get really boring in story form.

You three don't have that problem; showing a tremendious difference between you and lesser authors.

Thanks to both of you, and as a writer, I have to agree with you. That's one of the biggest challenges...trying not to have the story sound like a game session, but yet still allowing just enough of the game mechanics show through.

 

[Joachim]

I agree. I think the biggest challange for SH authors is overcoming the game their story is based on. Combats filled with Lela sneak attacks, NWK casts some cold spell, and Wulf hits 'em with 'is axe work great in game. It just tends to get really boring in story form.

You three don't have that problem; showing a tremendious difference between you and lesser authors.

Wow. That's pretty high praise from you guys. Thanks, it makes it easy to keep on writing. To mix things up a little, I think that I am going to try to write my next update from one of the PC's perspectives. I will take requests, so readers, who should I use?

Sorry, no Caine. He won't be an option at that point. Oops...did I give something away?

 

[Longbow]

GFunk, all the best for your marriage (I suppose you don´t marry a gamer-girl? ).

What I like about the SH is when an enemy gives his thoughts about the characters (in combat or normal encounter) and their actions, like you did in a fight between a dragon (I guess it was the black in Test of the Smoking Eye) and the group.

 

[JollyDoc]

Wow. That's pretty high praise from you guys. Thanks, it makes it easy to keep on writing. To mix things up a little, I think that I am going to try to write my next update from one of the PC's perspectives. I will take requests, so readers, who should I use?

Sorry, no Caine. He won't be an option at that point. Oops...did I give something away?

Not Grimm. That would be too easy. I vote Wathros...oh...wait. Umm...I'm out of ideas.

 

[JollyDoc]

GFunk, all the best for your marriage (I suppose you don´t marry a gamer-girl? ).

What I like about the SH is when an enemy gives his thoughts about the characters (in combat or normal encounter) and their actions, like you did in a fight between a dragon (I guess it was the black in Test of the Smoking Eye) and the group.

No such luck Longbow! In fact, G has been trying to explain to her exactly what the hell it is that he does every Sunday without making her think he's a total freak!

I'm glad to hear you say that. You should definitely like this next update. Lots of input from Ike Iverson and his devilish friend