OOC Discussion

Hola DM, glad to have you back, and woot woot to your daughter's championship!

Severus, better watch out, she might take over your barbarian spot with that look on her face ;-). I think she'd do a pretty good job Intimidating Klarg, et al.

Congrats man, that is awesome. Does that mean that she’ll go on to some kind of national championship as well?

Thanks, all.
Yes, I actually finished dumping about $200 in registration fees and another $350 in airfare and lodging this morning getting her registered for that today. It will be the end of next month. She'll wrestle for two days in what they call the USAW Collegiate Recruiting Showcase. That's basically just a tournament that a lot of college scouts watch. Technically, since she's a freshman, recruiters can't start talking to her until July 1st of her sophomore year, but this tournament just sort of puts her out there and gives college programs an idea of who she is and how she wrestles.

Then the day after that she wrestles in the USAW Folkstyle National Championships.

We're not going with her for those four days she's competing. We live in Montana, and the tournaments are about 1250mi away in Iowa, and it would be too expensive and a logistical pain in the butt for the whole family to take time off and arrange travel and airfare, etc. We're putting her on a plane with some of her teammates and they're going to go by themselves, and we'll watch her wrestle online. So there shouldn't be too much interruption to the game that week. Not like this last week, anyway.

I notice Bug's player hasn't made a post in a couple weeks. I'll give it another day for two and then we're going to have to figure something out. In the meantime, I'm going to send a PM.

oh, dear. Fingers crossed

Hey all, just a heads up...
I will be out of town from 3/19 - 3/22 for the AAU Folkstyle Wrestling State Championships. My daughter is wrestling and I'll be coaching her and the rest of the girls' team, so I'm not sure I'll have much time during the days to check in and post, and evenings are usually spent with coaches and parents drinking too much beer together and barking about bad calls that didn't go in our favor earier that day and celebrating good matches that did.
I'll try and log in and post if I can, but things might be a bit slow on my end for those 4 days.

Also, kwil sent me a message. Things have just busy on their end IRL, but they'll have a post up soon.

Hope your daughters rise to fame continues! Best wishes

Yup, good luck and have fun y'all!

As you might have noticed, Part 1: Goblin Arrows has been completed. It's usually around this time I ask players of the PbP campaigns I run if we would like to continue with the campaign or leave it on a milestone. Some campaigns the players wish to continue. A few, the players are getting burned out, the novelty of a new game has run ts course, and they decide they're happy ending it where a milestone or major chapter has ended.

What is everyone's thoughts so far. Would you like to leave the game here, or are you interested in continuing with Part 2 of the module? I'm honestly happy with the pacing so far and wouldn't mind continuing, but if you guys are getting burned out, there's no point running a game that feels like a chore, so I'll leave it up to you guys to discuss.

I'm good with continuing. It's a slower pace, but I don't mind that at all.

I'd like to continue as well, I've been enjoying the game

Thank you, I'm glad we're enjoying ourselves.
Yep! Severus, Osvaldo, and Alstaer should all be able to level up and should have 350XP (75 for the first goblin attack on the cart, and 275 for sacking the hideout). At 275XP, Bug isn't quite there yet , but the module specifically states that XP will be awarded differently from this point forward, based off each encounter, trap, or dealings with an NPC, so he's going to be Level 2 in almost no time at all. So quill might want to think about any changes he's going to need to make to Bug now, so they can take effect as quickly as possible.

If there's any questions about the leveling up process we can either discuss them here, ot you can go to your PC's Character Creation thread. In fact, lets do most of our "leveling up" (including rolling for new Hit Points) in the Character Creation threads. As far as gaining more Hit Points, I will let each player make a choice: you can either take a gamble by rolling your PC's Hit Die and adding your Constitution modifier, or you can use the fixed value shown in your class entry, which is the average result of the die roll (rounded up) and add your Constitution modifier. Rolling certainly gives the potential for big gains, but comes with the risk of a lousy roll. Fixed value is the safe, middle of the road route. It's each player's choice.

I'd like to carry on, though realize my post rate has slow recently. If that becomes too much of an issue, I'll bow out while we're in Phandalin so you guys can find another player. That being said, any one know if there's a notification option whenever there's an update on these posts (as that would help tremendously)? Otherwise, life happens, and this completely skips my mind.

That's alright. I think everyone has stated they're alright with the pacing of the game so far.
I know that if you click on "subscribe to forum" on the forum page it will send you an email whenever someone posts something in a thread. Or of you only want to get notifications to one individual thread, you can click on the "subscribe to thread" link in the very top right of the thread.

Personally, just set a daily reminder on my phone's calendar or a daily alarm, and then if I haven't already checked or posted for the day, I'll be reminded, but usually I just open GP first thing while I'm still laying in bed.

Ah, awesome, just subscribed to the forum and thread, that should work out pretty well. And mirroring therecusant's thoughts, excellent job GM'ing, and shout out to the players, fantastic job roleplaying!