New Campaign Starting

[Zildrax]

*Mutter, mumble* Email program just ate the email I wrote to you...take two...

 

[Northman]

Eizeer, you cracked me up.

Good times. If you're gonna go, you should get eaten by a troll. I've had players lose characters by drowning and teleporting themselves into the ground. Definitely not as cool as being eaten by a troll.

 

[morcano]

So has anyone not died in your campaigns? Or is it just expected to die and die often?

 

[Jackahue]

Uh...

I'm mostly just looking for a game where I dun hafta be DM. -_- All my IRL campaigns and most of the online ones I play, I get stuck being the DM. It's fun and all, but I really like to play once in a while, too.

 

[firehorse]

Hey, good to hear Northman. I'll check my schedule here after school ends and see if I can pencil ya in. I played Grendl in your Play-by-post game in Lorindar. I too prefer heroic campaigns where characters participate in and by their actions help develop the storyline.

And yes, I've had characters die before. When my Paladin died, I to play the part of his Paladin's warhorse until the party could get him resurrected. Part of the game. The other character that died in that session got eaten by a demon......

I am also considering getting back into DMing. I too have been playing and DMing on and off since the early 80's.

 

[Northman]

I'll be posting here as I figure out more specifics.

Morcano, it's not expected that you'll die, but the posibility is always there. Eroria is a character who never bought the farm ( as far as I remember) that played in my campaigns and there are others. But there are also lots of characters that fell victim to the dice. Bad dice is like a blade that slips by your defenses. Dragon or kobold, anything can kill you if it gets lucky.

I just tend not to pull the punch, or fudge. If your PC was meant to be troll food, then troll food he is. But when you defeat a big bad guy in my game, you know you earned it. I didn't hand you anything. I find players relish those kinds of victories, and they more than make up for the string of dead characters they may or may not have had...

Stay tuned.

 

[morcano]

Just so you know, no offense was intended in my earlier post if any was taken. And I agree dice rolling can either make or break you. I play a game called warhammer 40k and you never know whats going to happen because of the dice rolling.

 

[Northman]

Oh, no offense was taken Morcano. It's hard to tell what people mean in simple text, but no, I wasn't offended in the least.. in fact I'm not sure how I could have been.

I know what Warhammer 40K is. Pretty much every time you play you lose most if not all your guys, right? You should be used to it.

 

[Eroria]

Eroria didn't bite it for two reasons.

1) She was opposed to going in after the Troll the first time, so hung near the back and ran away with the mud dwarf almost immediately after the fight started.

2) I got busy, so had to leave the game for a time, so she wasn't with the party when they met their bitter end (those that survived the first Troll fight, that is).

But in a later game, Ilka died mightily. I've found that while bad dice can cause a death in one of Northman's games, the most frequent cause seems to be poor tactical planning on the part of one or more PCs. The fights are often so close to the wire that one bad decision can have a large cost. But we've also handled lots of fights that have seemed like they'd have too high ECLs for our party level. It's fun that way!

 

[JanaxilSerpentil]

i would like to be a part of this..... can you tell me if there's still room for your campaign, i would like to play a druid.....