Sorry to hear you're having some writer's block.

I don't know what Fantasy Grounds or Mire are.

I could see integrating Roll20 somehow, but it doesn't allow for PbP, does it?  If it does, I'd be very curious to know how.

@Nathan!  Don' be sorry.  I'm just floating ideas out there.   I'd much rather deal with honesty than disappointment.

I am wrapping my head around using Discord, though.  As a personalized forum, it looks like it would support the same set-up as rpol... so time-constraints need not be a requirement.

I dunno.  I'm still feeling my way through it.


@Cara, you're right, neither Fantasy Grounds nor Roll20 support any kind of play-by-post.  It's all immediate.

Miro is nothing but a shared white-board.  I hate creating maps, so the simplicity of a quick hand-drawn representation appeals to me.

I'm sorry this format isn't working for you.  Unfortunately, my work hours make it difficult to game by chat most times.  I usually work second shift so I'm at work when  most people are gaming.

All right, maybe it's just better to bypass the ocean-voyage issue, and go right to the port-town of ( Stoltgard ).

If that helps you get past the writer's block?  Hell yeah.

Well, the post on the 25th didn't garner any responses... and I'm stuttering out, so I'll prose it out and move on....

Stoltgard is the Eastern-most port of Kumlar.  Further east, is the mountains and the lands beyond, though most in Aroen don't travel much beyond the Mondat range. The sailors must, but that's as-yet-undefined.

Ha!

Yeah that was totally my fault, I missed that you'd responded at all!

My apologies.

I'll have a post tonight, regardless of if we continue the thread or not.  It will be fun to dive back into this by defining Karkanen.

In reply to Control (msg # 484):

That works for me. Festive break has been a Godsend, though back at homeschooling and epic work hours from Monday, so will be slow-paced. If you would prefer to drop me, no hassle

I had a meeting with my doctor this morning and he's patiently reassured me that I'm probably not having a heart-attack (enormous sigh of relief), but I'm likely suffering from another bout of frozen shoulder, which really bloody sucks.  I'm so not looking forward to 8-18 months of limited range of motion and pain in my shoulder.  But, hey... that's better than what I was fearing.   So, being able to put that particular scare to rest has relieved a crapload of stress.

And last night, I had my Session-0 for a fate-accelerated discord game of dream-walkers, and I'm all sorts of excited.  I really love the world-building side of this and I'm playing with some a friends I've known for twenty-years but have never played with...  I think it's true, that excitement builds excitement.

And my new computer is built and configured.  So... Yay me! What a difference and extra 24 Gigs of memory makes...

All that to say, I'm back at the table.  Today or tomorrow. I'll get us kicked off on a "Road to Pennryn" thread.

Very glad to hear you're not dying, doubly glad you're inspired, and triply so that we will be starting up soon.

In reply to Cara (msg # 491):

As Cara says, that’s awesome all round!

I'm happy to hear that you don't have a heart problem.  Sorry about your shoulder.

Hello new people!  Welcome to the game, it's amazing.

Thank you! I'm so PUMPED TO BE HERE!!!

Looking forward to creating with all of you! :)

Oh, right... that's what it feels like to create freely again...

Hi. I hope I can match everyone else and make a character that's interesting. And then contribute to a setting that's already interesting.

Hello Anlaq!

I wasn't planning on jumping in on either of our two new character's creation until I saw that Idle was Khundari.

I am.... let's say enthusiastic about creating Mantles, which is the thing a lot of players seem to get stuck on and peter out during creation, and so I've been trying to tone it down a smidge.

What would be the most helpful/welcoming for you?

Hi Idle-No-More and Anlaq!  Welcome to the game!

5th largest economy in the world, can't keep the lights on.

I am powerless, phoneless, and internetless since yesterday, and for the foreseeable future until PG&E gets their fucking act together.

Please feel free to NPC me.

@Arui Hi and thank you :)

@Cara PG&E is the worst. They suck. Sorry about your situation though.

I can truly relate.

Ick.

That is all.

Sorry for the delay.  I found a new rabbit-hole to get lost in.

I'm online tonight.   will update everything I can tonight.

In reply to Control (msg # 503):

Ooo is it a good one?

I've bounced between these Sanderson works and Peaky Blinders

Something completely different...

I re-discovered a 150+ year old hand-written cookbook among my stuff in storage.

So, I've started a project wherein I photograph high-resolution images of each page and have a small cadre of facebook friends & associates volunteer to help translate the cursive of what appears to be four or five people into type-written English.

I've little experience in the culinary field and I'm not so good at deciphering cursives... but I've got friends with expertise in reading medieval manuscripts, and some professional cooks, etc...

Tonight or tomorrow, I'm probably going to register in Ancestry.Com to start putting a better picture together of who the author(s) of this cookbook were.  The free ancestry sites just aren't quite doing it.   I'll collate the results to produce a digital PDF pairing the original photograph with the translated recipes (and possibly pics of the finished dish and reviews of those who tried em).