That is OK, Lady Maria. I, above everyone else, must understand delay. :)

About the number of people you can take to the fight. Remember, those who are with you fighting at your side will not be in your lands fighting to protect your lands, and definitely will not be there to support their loved ones in the everyday life of a commoneer.

Remember that not seeing loved ones causes stress and that stress makes people pissed off.

Remember that there are people out there that wants that other people be pissed off with you.

Remember that you will set en example, and noone wants to put too many workforce under your command.

Also keep in mind that if you have few people with you, things will be more difficult for you.

Yea, Offhand I'm thinking about 10-20% of my forces. Elliana's advantage is small keeps are never expected to give many men so even fielding 5 men is exceptional for her. As it literally is 1/8th of her entire keep and population, heh.

Sorry for delay :P. But were quite busy with my understudy and also preparing for final exam for graduation as audiovisual designer.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

Ok, my idea is to prepare the next phase of the game, the tactical one.
Each faction can now see a thread dedicated to them. It is for the discussion of the details of the NPCs of each faction. Also, I am glad to announce that maybe we will have a new player joining soon. Once the discussion is over, I will start with the next part of this level.

Another thing...
Before you get excited with the NPC army idea, bare in mind that I don't want to increase the number of NPCs for each faction. At least much. I would really prefer to keep it at 8 or 10 at most.

You will have to choose one between them to put them directly in combat at your sides. That currently means 2 NPCs in the field for the Zarusian soldiers and 1 for the Bridgeburners.

Also, I want to inform you that so far, the tests I made in RL with the proposed system (A gestalt character with NPC classes of any race and template three levels lower than the PCs) have been... less than satisfactory. Sometimes they appear to be more a nuissance than a fun addition to the game. Basically, they need a character that specializes in providing bonus (like Marshall) to be effective.

I am thinking in directly making them a false Leadership feat, raising the level to two levels lower than the PCs, still making them use NPC classes. Thoughts?

I say they are useful to handle enemy NPC's or regular mooks or send to do missions for sake of the chars. 2 levels behind make them more useful yes but so long they stick at NPC classes their never power houses. Adept or magister (eberron NPC class which is arcane focused adept) are most useful NPC classes besides aristocrat.

I don't see the thread dedicated to the Bridgeburners.

I want to also say that one of the problems is the level of optimization of the enemies. At least when we tested it the other day.

You should see it now.

OK, going to make the NPCs level 7 and stay 2 levels beyond the PCs. So, in practice everybody has a mini-cohort.

Also, I want to set the number of NPCs for each faction at ten. What do you think?

In reply to Lesser Worldmaster (msg # 830):

10 sounds reasonable.

My father died now hour and half ago in the house just now. It was sudden and unexpected (we knew he had issues in lungs shrinking over time but it appears a sudden heart failure).

Now mom calmed down bit but it will be very long mourning period for her and also grandmother....considering all other shit I will be neck deep trouble as well as any debts what my father had will come crashing down on me asap (plus inheritance, police investigations, funerals etc all other hassle).

If ask my emotional state I am shocked but calm otherwise. I knew father was going to die by lung based complications in near future (a slow agonizing death). So was mentally prepared that he dies.

But this....it came like ligthing from clear sky as he suffered either something in heart or in head as he told before he died his chest stung and he took his medicine and 5 secs later....just collapsed and was unconcius. The ambulance staff told his heart had that point stopped and it took like 8 mins for them arrive to scene and both I and mother tried keep father alive.

Then 20 minutes constant PRC the ambulance staff declared father dead then as his heart did not start up at all. This was shock for everyone, even mother who was also prepared and now she is wreck and so is grandmother. So even if I am not wreck I have to focus next days with my family around this sudden unexpected loss.

I myself I am fine but I feel hurt for seeing mother hurt and suffering :(. So only what I can do is comfort her until worst of mourning passes over. She already said 'this cannot be real' so she is in denial phase of sorrow stage.

In reply to Lady Maria Brightmane (msg # 832):

I'm so sorry for your loss Maria, I hope things go well for you and your family in this hard time.

I am terribly sorry for your loss too. Please receive my condolences. I know how seeing people you love suffering can break your heart. Take care, of you and your family.

That sucks. My deepest condolences.

Dunno if you are going to read this:
But Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and new year!

Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas!

To those still around:

Merry Christmas!

happy holidays!

Merry Christmas and new year.

Happy Holidays!

Is anyone alive here? If not, I will delete this game.

Yes but assumed the game was dead anyway

I just came back to RPOL.net last week and Lesser Worldmaster gave me back the game. It looked like no one had posted in a few months, but following the rules of the site, I'm doing my due diligence before deleted the game.

Also alive in here.