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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 3420834" data-attributes="member: 11760">There was a Rogues Gallery thread that got eaten by the Great Board Crash of 2006. I can recreate it if you like.But at this point in the campaign, here's the character classes and levels, as I remember them:Tosh Bergin - Gnome Rogue 2Tock Chandler - Human Bard Bard 2Ragglus Chaplin - Human Fighter 2Vonmora Farrin - Grailwarden Cleric 1Tucker Gallaway - Human Fighter 2Emmerson Grant - Human Paladin 1/Cleric 1Emus Graymullet - Graildwarden Dwarf Barbarian 1/Druid 1Renraw Kem - Human Wizard 2Katadid Leach - Human Wizard 1Ebuferpaly Potentloins - Gnome Cleric 1/Rogue 1Hazel Sawyer - Human Ranger 2Stotch - Human Rogue 1Emus' druid thing was something he'd wanted to have be more part of his character from the beginning, but as he was thrust into a dungeoncrawl immediately, we didn't have any time to deal with his druid buddies before he leveled.At this point, everyone but Bufer, I think, are third level. The only surprise class anyone's picked up is Tock Chandler taking a level of human paragon.Emmerson's resurrection was sort of a tricky situation. He was brand new to playing D&D and as you may have noticed, these guys roleplay even when their metagame knowledge is screaming at them not to be idiots. And, as you saw in this discussion thread, he ended up in a fight that I had designed for, frankly, the more experienced folks to be involved in. So yeah, I was inclined to fudge a tiny bit in this situation.But I didn't really need to: I had designed the Maidensbridge campaign to be a sandbox where folks would follow the threads they found interesting and others would just go by the wayside. (The mysterious mirrors aren't addressed again until a year later in the campaign, for instance.) I'd known since Day 1 what the bishop's ambitions were regarding Maidensbridge and that, at some point, there would be a new priest he'd be introducing to the town. When Emmerson went down, getting himself a new priest who would be beholden to him who was also a player character seemed like the best way to resolve the death while also advancing his agenda.After that point, there haven't been any deaths, but most of the player characters end up unconscious repeatedly. I think we recently had the first fight where Emmerson didn't end up in negative hit points. Katadid also came one round from death the other day as well.Everyone knows that, from here on out, death is a pretty serious matter and they come very, very close repeatedly. There's only two clerics in the setting capable of raising the dead, and both the bishop and Barennackle have their own agendas and won't just raise anyone. (Emus, for instance, is probably out of luck with both of them if he dies.)And yes, it was a nightmare at the time juggling so many player characters. After the current adventure, it's not an issue, though, as you'll see.The vast majority of the players have been participating in collaborative fiction together for more than a decade, so the writing style, the willingness to set up conflicting agendas, and the like, all springs from there. I'm doing a pass-through to clean up the grammar and spelling and do minor retcons (Kramer, who owns the general store, was only named recently, so Kramer's General Store replaces the references to the Maidensbridge General Store, for instance). I'm a professional newspaper writer, so my preference is less flowery language, and I wanted Midwood to feel more like Appalachia by way of the Swiss Alps than Ye Olde Generic Fantasy Lande, so the language is more naturalistic, with the addition of folks spitting tobacco, dwarves wearing overalls and a banjo-playing bard.I'm glad you're enjoying it; from here on out, the action picks up quite a bit, as the campaign plot lines become clear to everyone (including me) and it becomes a runaway mining cart racing down the hill.</blockquote>

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