This is where I hope to see all of you in the near future!

Two down!

Hi!

I am here. Good to see everyone once again.

Hello!

The "world info" act is now pulled over. To refresh our memories, I'll be putting up chapter summaries over the next few days.

I've c/p'd the descriptions from StoryCrafter, but feel free to amend/expand them.

Also: I'm going to try, at some point, to standardize and update the character sheets. They are, to be perfectly frank, a mess.

Odds are good that I'll be running most combats "fast-and-loose"--Taija will know what I'm talking about, since it's how I ran her prelude. Effectively, the numbers will matter only when you want them to. If and when we make it to a "boss fight" where there's a legitimate chance of DOOM, I'll tighten things up. But there's no reason to make everybody roll dice all the time for fights that, at this point, they're pretty much destined to win. We can work together to make them interesting, and I'll be stealing your hit points and such as the situation calls for it, but "epic" stories don't go off the rails because somebody rolls poorly against minions or interruptions.

I have let Cade know that I'm trying to rev things up again; dunno whether he has time to come over. I'm also not sure how we'll end up doing with getting the whole cast over. I know some good players here on RpOL--how would people feel about new players taking over some of the old characters?

I'm perfectly ok with the addition of some new blood if it'll keep the party together.  This is a good story and deserves to be plotted to the end.  And then cleaned and published.  Yeah.

New blood is fine with me as well. I know a few long time players who might be willing to take over characters if I asked, but I'm holding off mentioning the idea until I know where we stand as a unit.

If needed, we can even backtrack a bit if you're taking over and Cade's too busy. I have no problem jumping back or even restarting if we needed to. This has always been a fun game and a great group.

I have no problem with new blood. I know that Elrohir won't be joining us, because he's busy with a new job, & just doesn't have the energy for something else right now. He's at a point of feeling he doesn't get enough time with the baby, Sari, & me, so anything else on his plate is a no go.

I definitely won't be going backward. There's too much accumulated history, and I want to push things ahead to get up some momentum.

That said, I'm not going to start feeling out potential replacement players for at least a week. I know I don't check SC that often, and I want to give stragglers a chance to show up.

Any new characters will probably come from the mercenaries and dwarves at the Delve. Maybe somebody could take over Amras, for example, or one of the dwarven paladins. At any rate, I won't be culling any of the original characters, even if I have to NPC them for a while.

Feel free to post in the relevant IC thread if you'd like. I won't move the plot ahead until personnel issues are settled, but there's plenty of room for you guys to <s>panic</i> express your feelings about the sudden atmospheric change.

This message was deleted by the player at 13:02, Mon 14 Feb 2011.

Whee!  We're all here!

I will submit my portrait tonight.  Maybe make a new one, though I like the old one...

I'm cool with new blood, though I'm also down with the idea of us getting used to this again.  :)

As for the old game, can we leave it up?  If not, can we gradually move entire threads over here?  I can do that for mine in my spare time - I don't want to lose what has been already written!  :D

I've got no plans to pull down the SC story. There's so much there. I hope that, eventually, I can get it all pulled offline and cleaned up.

I'm going to create a new "highlight reel" topic...feel free to c/p any of your favorite sequences there, with the following caveats:

1. Make sure you pull the SC information out of them (you can't c/p large blocks of text without catching the player info, for example...leave that and any individual post titles out).

2. Try to get complete/scenes images. Short scenes are fine, but they should be complete enough that somebody unacquainted with the story can have a sense of what's going on in them.

Hooray!

And might I add that I'm really happy to be here.  :)  And that I beat Bronwyn into the game.  *blows raspberry*

Hah!

On another note - will we be opening up character sheets?  Transferring that stuff over might be a good plan.  :)

Sheets should be user editable now. I've put up a template in the "Logistics" thread. For most of you, it's going to be a good chunk of work getting that information together--feel free to shoot me PMs if you have questions.

Everybody should be level 11 right now, with the exception of 'Drin (if he ever gets over...)

Level 11?

That might kick me up one.  :)

Some people were at 10, some people at 11, I think.

But now, magic wand waving...level 11 for everybody!

It ought to at least give you some incentive to update your character sheets.

Incentive, indeedy.  :)

Okay, I'm up a level.

Found one error already.  Instead of going UP, my total attack bonus went DOWN.  :(  Poot.   This makes me sad.

Not that I've actually done any rolling, thus far!  :D
This message was last edited by the player at 16:28, Mon 14 Feb 2011.

I'll get my sheet moved over as quickly as I can. Marc gets his next set of shots today, so it's going to be an interesting week if it's anything like the 2 month shots... This said, it might take me awhile, especially if I have any leveling to do...

I'm just glad to see you here!  :D

It's going to be a bit difficult for the levelling I'm afraid. My large external HD died taking with it all of my D&D books. Just reformatted this computer due to a hard drive/video issue as well. So just reinstalled my stuff here and need to refind my D&D books.

Owie.  :(  That's rough.

For basics there's always the D&D Hypertext website, but I imagine you're using large amounts of other books.

Just looked back at everyone's descriptions.  Unless Elec is REALLY tall for an elf, Taija is easily the tallest person in the group.

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I'm not sure if I like this.  :(