Yeah, after a pivotal milestone like that, everyone would typically earn a level.

The interesting thing about older versions of D&D is leveling is really tied more to wealth accumulation than anything else. As most of you may have noticed during this campaign, there was not that much treasure in this game, so I had to use more of a milestone leveling system to ensure your characters advanced.

At any rate, this game has been running for 3 years (this month actually), and I think 7 levels over 3 years of PbP play is pretty reasonable. If I would have planned it a little better, I might have tried to make it so that every PC earned name-level by the time wrapped up. But as most of you know, since you were here from the start, this game started as a one-shot Basic D&D game and I never really had a plan of turning this into a full-fledged campaign.

After we got through that first adventure, and when the group seemed to have good chemistry, I decided to turn it into a longer campaign. At first I wasn't really sure what to do with it. When the game started, I used the setting from a 3rd edition D&D product, Red Hand of Doom. At that time, I had no intent of actually using the adventure...just the setting.

Once we decided to play on, I decided to adapt the adventure to Basic D&D...and that's what we did. It was interesting adapting a 3rd edition module to Basic D&D. I never ran the module in its native format, but wanted to give it a go because it seemed like a cool adventure. Hopefully you all enjoyed it.

Definitely. :^)

Taerix will detail his post-Battle-of-Brindol goings-on later this evening. Got quite a lot to do today.  :^)

Totally enjoyed it, and appreciate your willingness to extend what was originally intended by you to be a one-shot adventure.

If you ever get the itch to DM again, please let us know.


And I will also post in the epilogue.  Looking forward to it, but have to compose my thoughts first. :)
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Wow! Great posts in the epilogue thread!

You are all top-notch players and it has been a pleasure gaming with you over these past few years. Very creative group and the quality of your posts have definitely upped the overall quality of the game. Thanks for contributing to the success of this game!

Shane

Thanks for the ride.  I really enjoyed our time together.

Best of fortunes to everyone.

Indeed!  Very fun.  Enjoyed it!

Three years? Has it really been that long? I didn't believe it, so I checked and found that tomorrow will mark the 3-year- anniversary of my first post!

Shane, a special shout out to you for agreeing to extend this game from it's original scope into a multi-year adventure. I sincerely appreciate your willingness to see it through to a satisfying conclusion as opposed to letting it die by way of ignorance like most games eventually do.

Everyone else, it's been a great pleasure playing with you all. Who knows, maybe we'll meet again in another game.

And like Sarah said, Shane, if you ever get the itch to pbp again and are looking for players, count me in!

Hello folks!

Hopefully life is treating you all well. As for myself, the last few months have been really good.

On the gaming front, this past summer I ran a Kids-Only (ages 10-14) 5e D&D mini-campaign at the local game store. This game was loosely based on the excellent cooperative board game Forbidden Island and was a lot of fun. Table size for that game ran from 5-10 players and those kids really kept me on my toes! Running games for kids is a lot of fun because they don't approach the game the same way as adults. Lots of outside-the-box thinking and you need to be really good at improv to keep the game moving.

I also wrapped up my 18-month 5e D&D Tomb of Annilhilation campaign, in which the players were successful in foiling the machinations of the notorious lich Acererak and ending the Death Curse that had plagued the lands. I ran that campaign under the Adventurers League format, and over the course of the campaign over 40 players ran through that adventure! We did have a fairly steady crew of 4 players, but having new players drop-in/drop-out kept things pretty dynamic.

I was able to wrap up the last of my PbP games, Realms of High Adventure, earlier this month in what hope was a satisfying conclusion to a Basic D&D game that had been running for 3 years and which had started as a "one-shot". In the end, the players prevailed against the Red Hand of Doom and prevented their warlord from summoning Tiamat into the vale and visiting certain death upon the citizenry of that far-flung realm.

On the non-gaming front, my family completed the South Carolina Ultimate Outsider challenge, in which we visited all 47 state parks! It tooks us a little over two years to visit all the state parks and was a very memorable adventure consisting of camping, hiking, kayaking, mountain biking, fishing, swimming, horseback riding, body-boarding, and just sitting back and enjoying the great outdoors.

I also got orders a couple of weeks ago, wherein we will be moving to San Antonio, Texas in January! We're really excited about this move and the new opportunities it will present. I think this will be my last assignment in the Air Force and we will be putting down roots in Texas. I have 23 years in the Air Force and this assignment should bring me to 25-26 years of military service. Air Force basic training is in San Antonio and there is something fitting about ending my military career in the same place where it began. Texas is also a really good place to retire and has good job opportunities for both me and my wife. Excellent schools for my kids too, who are both now in middle school.

Obviously most of my focus is on moving right now and as a result, I won't be doing much gaming in the next few months...but have definitely been thinking about what I want to do next! Lots of ideas to be sure, but need to sort out our move first.

At any rate, like I said up front, I hope all of you are doing well and the dice roller has been cooperating lately!

:)

Shane

Hello folks!

Starting to get the PbP itch again and was wondering if any of you know of any good games looking for a player?

Not at present, but if something comes up you'll be the first I contact.

My AD&D pbp here is always on the lookout for good players.

link to another game

If AD&D isn't your thing, I understand.

Who's in?

You mean, after Sarah's tear-jerker of an exit, her poignant delivery of her medallion to Eoni, and her mysterious disappearance to parts undeclared . . . you want me to figure out what happened to Sarah over the last three years and have her come out of hiding and return to "active duty?"

Hell yes!

This sounds like a trap.  Let's go.

Best of luck to you all, but I don't think I could do the game justice this time. It's all I can do to DM my own games right now. Thanks so much for the invite. I hope you all have tons of fun!  :^)

Okay. I will take that as a yes. Thanks!

Who, me? Never.

That makes two. Thanks!

Understand and appreciate the candor.

Taerix will remain, retired, quite comfortable in his little hobbit hole, a warm hearth, a good wife, two cats in the yard, and little ones bouncing on the knee.

Take care,

Shane

So far we've got Eoni and Sarah coming back. Taerix is out. Haven't heard from Valthur or Vaxfar yet. Both have right of first refusal.

Some of you may have noticed the Wanted: Players ad I posted yesterday. I figured we probably would need to recruit new blood, coming out of a year-long hiatus.

I received two RTJs before the ad even went up and one more since I posted it.  I will leave it open a few days and review RTJs before making any selections.

Hope everyone has been staying safe and doing well and looking forward to gaming with you again (now that I have had a decent break).

Thanks,

Shane

I've been coping.  I guess that's the best one can hope for in these times.

Very glad to see you recharged.  Not to suck up, but you deserved it after all the games you were running, and I'm glad to see you back.

I can contact Vaxfur.  He may not have seen it.

I'm sure you've thought of various ways to start things back up, but I'd be fine with leaving Captain Daflin's whereabouts unknown for a while.  I am willing to play another character starting back in Brindol with the rest to go look for her troop.

• Option 1 : Valthur's wife rules with an iron fist and won't let her husband join such a foolhardy venture.
• Option 2 : Valthur's role in Brindol is crucial to it's recovery and can't leave to join such a foolhardy venture.
• Option 3 : Valthur got fat and can't fit into his armor anymore, thus unable to join such a foolhardy venture.

Yeah. Interesting times we are now. I was teleworking for several months, then work wanted us to come back in about a month ago, now they are pushing us out again as the infection rate has shot up in our area (now live in San Antonio, TX).

Still not sure what's going to happen once school starts back up. If schools go virtual again, that will put me back in telework mode--which is fine by me. I can do almost everything I need to at home.

But, yes. Definitely recharged and excited to pick this game back up. I always had hopes of completing the Fane of Tiamat portion of this adventure, but I just lost steam and couldn't really do it justice.

And thanks. The spot is his if he wants to play again.

Shane

Yeah. Several different ways to bring everyone back into the fold and still haven't resolved how we will pick back up. Thanks for your flexibility, but I don't know that it will be necessary. My inclination is to montage our way back, but will have a better idea once the cast is pinned down.

Shane

While extremely tempted to play, I feel like Taerix does: I wouldn't be able to give the game the attention it deserves and don't want to do a half-assed job. So I am reluctantly going to pass.

That said, I am still very excited to see that the game goes on! Best of luck to everyone. If lurkers are allowed, I may still take a peak from time to time to see if you've found Eoni yet!


You forgot Option 4: All of the above!!!

Okay. No worries. Totally understand where you are coming from. There is only so much white space we have in our lives. :)

I keep all my games open to the public, so you should be able to follow along at your leisure. Thanks again to you for being  great player and contributing to the success of this game!

Take care,

Shane