OOC Chat Thread

Hey team, wanted to give you a heads up, GreyWord has decided to leave the game.

They apologized for having Onar abandon the group before the fight, but ultimately felt like they didn't want to go on playing him after that.

With 2 players down, I think I will try to bring someone new in now.

Maybe one of the corsairs will change sides and join us! LOL!

😅

Controversial opinion: maybe the game would run smoother with less players?
I find large groups in pbp problematic. Downtime, lengthy discussions, fragmented action... My 2 cents.

That's certainly a fair opinion Dr_B

Higher player counts just help ensure the game stays active and moving forward. And also serves as a buffer for what I have found to be the inevitability of someone leaving the game, it ensures we're not suddenly left in an untenable, low activity status.

You guys seem to be a really solid core tho, so if you all would like to see how it goes with 4, we can certainly do that!

I am happy to continue with the group as it is for the time being

I am fine with the party of four.

Another question: May we consider Onar as an NPC ally? It occurs to me we’ll need a place to hide out if we get the children out of the warehouse.

Yes, absolutely.

We didn't discuss where Éothain's horse was stabled, but I don't think he would leave his horse behind. Can he retrieve it as they try to leave the city?

Yea, that's fine.

Hey gang, apologies, I've been wrapped up in Yuletide activities recently and will be until mid to late next week.

Cheers, and happy holidays!

Happy holidays, all!

Happy Holidays!

Happy holidays

Wishing everyone the happiest of holidays! (There goes my 9th level spell.)

Hey gang, I'm going to have to be playing a bunch of catch up at work for the next few days.

Probably won't be able to post much until next week?

Take all the time you need. Meanwhile, it would do me good to better familiarize myself with Middle Earth history and geography.

Oof, it's quite the rabbit hole.

I'm a bit of a Tolkien fetishist, and so I really enjoy delving into these kind of background niches of the lore, and finding blanks and filling them in with head canon and roleplay... And frankly I don't mind at all if you guys read all you want about this lore and stuff as I think it will make your experience of the story richer. And because we are acting in a, pretty much, total blank spot of his writing, there's nothing you're going to learn that is going to spoil anything.

Honestly, when I have more time, I'd be happy to give you guys some more OOC context if you would like, if wonking out on Tolkien is something you personally enjoy or would benefit from.

I will appreciate every bit of lore context to this adventure. I too enjoy "studying" Middle Earth.

@Drakis2,@Stefron,@Dr_B,@rpgventurer

Alright, well, I think all the Fellowship Phase stuff has been resolved and everyone's leveled, and not sure about gear purchases (?) but folks can go ahead and retroactively do any of that for awhile still yet.

And so unless there's any other rp you guys want to do (I don't know that the question of going into Osgiliath to search for the account of the powers of Morgoth was answered)? I'll start putting together the opening thread for "Session 2"/the next stage of the adventure.

Anthony else for any of you before moving on?