The Glade 4.0

well it is the only way to be sure...

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

Ach! Eh blame teh rum!

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You did end up killing DFK's insane druid. (Admittedly, after he threatened to burn your ship.)

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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DFK!'s insane druid was hilarious.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Perhaps Evil campaigns do a better job of ensuring that people have a common reason to stay together. I think its too easy for 'good aligned' groups to just assume that they have common cause without enough effort to maintain.

It isn't that the medium itself is bad. As has been pointed out, it allows people to play games they otherwise might not be able to get off the ground. I know play by post gaming is Taly's only means of participating in the hobby, and I don't imagine she's alone in that respect. There are a lot of people who either can't find a local group, or who's schedules don't permit them to join one. It's just a different medium, and has different hurdles that have to be overcome.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

My friend has been using Rondak's Portal to play many play-by-post games. I used it myself for a little bit around 2002 or so. I've heard they've upgraded their stuff quite a bit.

Might be something else to look into?

*Shrug*

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

This is very true for me too.

I really liked playing the OpenRPG campaign, but it was difficult starting at 11-12 at night. It pissed off my wife at home and on drill weekends it meant maybe 3 hours sleep before I had to get up to go back in on Sunday. It sure can't have been easy DMing at that hour almost every weekend for 3 years.

The PbP games do seem to have participation issues, and I think most of them can be traced to RL. One person, especially the DM, taking an unannounced break can really hurt the participation. Unfortunately when **** comes up in RL, we don't always remember to notify the PbP campaign.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I actually have some of the early chatlogs of Taly building her character to use to judge when the game started (November 2005 is the date I have). It was actually close to 5 years. We used to start closer to 10 CST, but Rane's participation pushed that back an hour.

Google Wave was rather promising, and I liked how things flowed. Unfortunately, Wave never really caught on. People didn't log in regularly, and that kind of hurt. Google is apparently offering up a version of Wave that can be run on a personal server, which could be interesting.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

Sorry about that... starting at 8pm was just enough for me to get the kids in bed and settled.

I liked the openRPG game. Blake was awesome =(

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

Hey, since that game shares continuity with my pirate game, you'll see blake again!

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Yay!

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

Then how not Hamish?

And Ramelles?

Some of these characters and the pirates from the evil game may make brief cameos in my game, but I don't plan on having the same degree of linkage as the Nara --> Pirates does.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Indeed. Blake has already shown up in an earlier thread.

Hamish has been referenced once in a way that left his current state of health ...inconclusive.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Diamondeye, one issue i've had putting Ramelles in my game is that he'd singlehandedly slaughter almost your entire crew of murderous, theiving pirates and bring the unlucky survivors to the gallows the next morning.

However, Good news, everyone! I've thought of a safe way of giving him a cameo in my campaign. Expect to see him soon!

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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I'm not sure whether to be terrified or thrilled about this.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Thrilled, of course! Because even though he was a stick in the mud, I still liked him better than the biter.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

the biter?

Gnara Gnahid Aesera - gnasty piece of work, that girl. Teeth like a sawblade.

Bah!

No, Blake called the dwarf a biter. It's a slang term he picked up from Sigil(since that is where Blake was born and raised). Derogatory term for short people(ankle biter, I would assume)

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

Oh, come on, we partied together!

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

There were perks to traveling with a prostitute-priestess. She had friends who threw great parties, and she was always getting invited to whatever big fancy to-do was going on.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.