OOC Discussion

Sounds like a good plan, DM.

For my part, I'd let Mathias die from his wounds. I know it's a balancing act, but 4 PCs will speed up play, especially combat.

Thoughts, comrades?

Sounds good to me. I don't mind playing as just 4

I don't mind as well.

Not an issue on my mind, sounds good.

There are a couple of people that must have noticed a vacancy in our game and applied to join, but I'm good with keeping it at a group of four as well.

I haven't seen a post from Mallow since 8/24, and they don't seem to be responding to a PM to see if they're still playing. Maybe we'll give it a couple more days and see if we hear from them, and if not, we'll have to decide how to proceed without them.

Do we still have people wanting to join the campaign? Maybe a new player has to adopt an existing (orphaned) PC? Also, perhaps we should have a "one-post-per-xxx" frequency rule?

Yeah, this unfortunately happens all the time, odds are they're just ghosting the game/website. Shouldn't be too hard to recruit a replacement, then cross our fingers it won't happen again.

@therecusant: We do have the 1 post per day policy, but it doesn't really have any teeth because 1) We have to understand that people have personal lives and aren't always able to post every day, and sometimes they need to handle more important mattersand may be away from their computers for days at a time, and 2) the only thing you can really do to enforce a post per day policy is kick them for not agreeing, which puts us right back here, except now you look like an inflexible jerk and nobody wants to play with an inflexible jerk of a DM.

I did send out an invite to someone that expressed interest before, who is playing in the B/X game I'm running. That will bring us up to four again at least. And we should consider if we want to stay with four players or go back up to five...

Noted. But I don’t think it’s too much to ask people to let the DM know if real life stuff is preventing a substantive post

Oh, I agree for sure. Hopefully we get some folks interested in joining.

We have two new players to the group, if anyone wants to welcome seymore and kwil. They're whipping up some characters right now. In the mean time, if we want to continue this encounter, we have Osvaldo up next, with one goblin remaining alive, though hidden in the foliage somewhere.

welcome @seymore and @kwil :-)

Hey hey, welcome fellow players!

Greetings all! I'm very excited for this adventure, I've heard a ton of good things about it. I just submitted my character, a gnome rogue who goes by Bug.

Welcome to you both!

I like that idea a lot, I've never been a fan of the hand-wavy "you've just been there quietly the whole time" thing. I just have a few questions up the point that I'd be found.
Was I just a traveler on the road when I got ambushed? And do I know Gundren or Sildar, either before getting capturing or during my stay there?

So not to give too much of my backstory away, but I definitely think he's done his fair share of banditry, as well as escorting. Whatever happens to be paying at the moment. I can see him taking a small job, thinking it's an easy gig and letting his guard down long enough to get ambushed. I don't see him being particularly attached to anyone that he would have been traveling with at the time, but still witnessing his companions being eaten is never a pleasant experience.