I really hope this game isn't dead or dying. :(

Same. I know I've been super slow all year, but I'm not ready to give it up.

Looks like it's dead as the GM seems to have ghosted us. This really sucks.

Yeah... it's been what? Six weeks? That makes me sad.

Hi there hope you are all well perhaps the GM has real life issues at the moment and can't get time to post .

We are in strange times so let's hope things are ok with them.

I really hope after everything settles down the game will start up again

Keep safe all

Jason

Yeah, it's pretty rough out there for a lot of people. Here's hoping everyone is alright.

It would appear we have been ghosted. This is very disappointing as I loved this game.

Same. So much the same.

Don't be too hard on them I've checked all the games they are running and they stopped posting in all of them at the end of Feb.

Not that fussed about the game at the moment more concerned our GM is ok

Hi, all.
So, explanation. I got into a professional 3-month Boot Camp program kind of at the last minute at the beginning of March that basically took 80 hours a week--lol. After that, I spent a month and a half publishing a couple of short stories and a novella and an RPG book.
Long and short? I've been so busy I haven't even had time to log in until my email reminded me about the site this week.
So... Hope all you guys are doing well and winning at life!

I'm still very busy right now, so I don't have a lot of time for RPOL. I also don't know how many of you guys remain invested in this game after six-odd months. I guess I'm polling for player interest.
What do you guys think? I can turn over ownership of the game, if anyone else has more time. I may be able to keep running it on a slow schedule, (once a week or so?) depending on how my other games go. I won't know until I get replies.

So. Missed you guys? Hope COVID didn't get you? Blessings and good health and all that jazz?

Thanks,
Jonathan

Hi fella

Still here and still safe. Been lockdown at conscience beginning of March working from home no sign of going back to the office yet either.

Holiday soon I'll be nice to get away from the house my world has shrunk to the house and three streets to the left and three to the right when I take the dog for his walk.

Last holiday was Christmas 8 months without a break is killing me.

Looking forward to long coastal dog walks and no work.

Keep safe

Jason

In reply to Oberon (msg # 246):

ROFL yeah, I hear you. I have a 2nd grader at home so there's been a constant drone of YouTube videos going on in the background of my life for what feels like ever. I actually drove down to Austin the other week and was pleased to discover that I hadn't forgotten how to drive. lol

Still here and still interested. I'm on lock down really hard and have more or less all my time sitting in front of a computer these days. I'm down for playing slow if that's what people want, or I could theoretically step in and take over if people were willing to put up with me learning how to run an RPoL game.

In reply to Seneschal (msg # 247):

My daughter should be getting her exam results next week but the exams were cancelled so.they will be giving the a calculated trade instead hopefully she will get what she was forecast to get.

One good thing is the college she applied to have accepted her whatever her grade so she'll be doing a three years course to study animal husbandry so she can qualify a a vet nurse

Ello there. Still working, still seeing patients. Trauma waits for no woman or virus. Given I have a Masters in Microbiology and did a fellowship in Field Epidemiology I'm our hospital's point when it comes to reporting to the NHS board for the Lothian Area. I also write our policies, organise contact tracing, blather, blather, etc.

I had COVID in March and it was not fun. At all. Not even a little.

Still here and still interested!

In reply to [[everybody]]

Glad you guys are still doing okay! and congrats to your daughter, Oberon. (Now I'm picturing her as a bear veterinarian. I reaaaally need more sleep today. lol)
Did anybody make the UK Games Expo virtual expo this past weekend? I got to run a couple games for groups of brilliant players (Tales from the Loop and Numenera. So much fun!!!) and then got to play in a few games, as well. It was a blast! I'm digging all the virtual gaming expos that are going down this year, despite the grim circumstances.

As long as you all don't mind a slow game, I can shoot for once-a-week posting. I tend to be very lassez-faire on story progression, too, so if you need to get in a few rounds between my inputs, you're certainly welcome to come up with NPC responses as needed to fit your narratives. By now, you guys are at least as good as I am at resolving rolls in this system. And I think we're familiar enough with each other to trust everybody with the NPCs. lol
Otherwise, I can swap the reins over to Velynn if you want something a little faster. Either way is fine by me.
But Velynn, if you have the time you should definitely try out running a game or two on here. Finding players is seldom an issue unless you're running a REALLY off-brand system, and it's very rewarding if you can keep up with it. Even the advanced settings like language groups are pretty easy to learn. If you have any questions, feel free to hit me up. :)

So. What do you guys think?


PS @Shandril - Overachiever. lol :-b Your schedule sounds INsane. Happy you're feeling better!

...so you're saying I probably shouldn't try to run Legacy: War of Ages?

All well here.

My daughter registered at her new college today so two weeks time she will be learning to treat animals.

On holiday at moment then back to being chained to my desk at home.... We've been told we won't be back in the office until November at the earliest but possible not until the new year

In reply to Velynn (msg # 252):

lol :) I mean, if the game is sufficiently epic, I suppose you build it and they will come... :-J

PS
Yeah, okay, I'm intrigued. How is Legacy? I've never tried that one. I recognize the publisher, but I don't think I've ever heard about that one.
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:59, Sat 29 Aug 2020.

In reply to Oberon (msg # 253):

Yeah, that sounds like the world we're in right now...
It's a mess.

Legacy is a deeply terrible game. The setting is pretty much just Highlander but also with vampires. The system is a Storytelling System knockoff with a lot of holes in it. Two people of the same Str cannot hurt each other in unarmed combat. If one of them has Str one point higher (on a scale that goes to 5), the weaker one cannot hurt the stronger one with a baseball bat. The art almost entirely consists of photographs of the devs and their friends with a cheap Photoshop filter over them.

All that said, we had an absolute blast playing a one-shot with it once. Mostly making fun of the brokeness.

**facepalms** A very old friend of mine had (they are no longer friends. Big mess, long story) a group of friends who were the creators of that game. He was present for some of the creation process and still jokes about it to this day. The vampires were put it at the last moment to capitalise on the WoD craze and were very much a square peg/round hole thing. He's no longer friends with the Blackmoors but he says they still love the game and think it's the greatest thing ever. I was asked to be the artist for the game but for free because I'D GET MY NAME IN A BIG RPG RELEASE! Well my name was already out there and when I saw the game and got an idea of what I would be doing I turned them down flat so it's mainly pics of the "creative team" run though crude photoshopping with some wretched art done by Susan Blackmoor, if I recall correctly.

They wanted to make an actual Highlander RPG but the rights were too much for them to acquire the IP. I've always wondered how many copies that thing sold.

If you'd like to read a detailed breakdown: https://projects.inklesspen.co.../legacy-war-of-ages/

Wooooooow, that's... I mean, somebody needs to make a documentary out of that. It's wild. I would definitely put that in my Netflix queue. lol!

Cool. I think I'm gonna start up a fresh thread on your return to Draur's Farm and maybe skip to the next morning in the first post. Hopefully Sunday, if I have time.
If you have any final touches on the previous day's work, go ahead and get your posts in. The NPCs just mumble exhaustedly and go along with whatever at this point, so you're free to do whatever you need to do with them.