Raven Crowking's Nest

[AeroDm]

[snip lots of good stuff]
Anway, just my two shekels. (Yeah, sorry. Got kinda rambly there...)

I agree in principle but I think it is harder in execution. As my group got older, we had less and less time and so we had to focus on what added the most fun to the game. For a lot of groups, I bet that is feeling genuinely immersed in a vibrant world. For us, the vibrancy had diminishing returns relatively early on. We have a calendar and pay lip service to seasons and hint towards different naming conventions by region and all that, but it ends about there. Instead we focus on engaging combats and one-upping each other with clever dialogue set against the backdrop of a fiendishly clever plot. It is all about finding the highest value for your time and allocating resources to it accordingly.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

All that plus things like:

1) noticing trends that would earn your PC a nickname. For example, our party Wizard (4Ed) has an amazing knack for landing the final blow. While he has a name, he's also rapidly earning a new nickname: "Kill-Stealer." A 2Ed Ftr/Priestess of Tyr I played and a 3.5Ed Paladin played by a friend of mine tended to roll an inordinate number of Nat20s in combat- both got nicknames from their partymates, "Bane" for the Priestess and something like "Redsteel" or "Valkyrie" for the Pally. That kind of thing makes PCs stand out in your memory.

2) doing your PC's "shtick" in some way that had outDAMNstanding results. 6 weeks ago, it was the party's Fighter, surrounded by foes, using some kind of martial attack that targeted everyone around him: he rolled nothing lower than a 17, including a Nat20 on the biggest & baddest. The crit aside, he nearly maxes out his rolls on the other targets. CARNAGE! This week, it was my Starlock (MC: Psion) who Static Moted a whole bunch of Orcs and then went all mental on another target with his Eldrich Blast...twice with the AP he burned. Like the Fighter before him, the damage rolls wer rediculously high and resulted in mass bloodroots and a kill in one round, effectively cutting the opposing forces by a third once Kill-Stealer and the Ranger picked off the wounded.

 

[Raven Crowking]

Removed

 

[Raven Crowking]

Removed

 

[Mark CMG]

Keep em coming, RC!

 

[Raven Crowking]

Removed

 

[Mark CMG]

I don't what the normal pace is for blogging......am I going too fast? Too slow?

Boy, are you asking the wrong guy . . .

What should I aim for?

"Z"


It all seems good to me.

 

[OnlineDM]

I don't what the normal pace is for blogging......am I going too fast? Too slow? What should I aim for?

I've been blogging for a bit over a year, and I feel pretty happy when I put up about 3 posts a week. Every now and then I'll go nuts and post every day or nearly every day for a week or two, and I had one stretch where I didn't post anything for almost a month.

For what that's worth.

 

[AeroDm]

I started a blog a month ago and am going at a quick clip of nearly a post a day. To be fair, I started the blog because I had a lot already prepared and needed a place to put it, so I'm not necessarily generating new content each time I post. At a post a day, the few folks that have become followers have indicated that it is sort of a lot to digest. I've checked out your site and I enjoy the pace so far.

 

[Aberzanzorax]

I'm liking the pace.

I did miss "D" though. I rely on your updating this thread too much.