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Post by nydhog on Aug 7, 2010 21:06:44 GMT -5
Okay guys here is the scoop:
Andre is wanting me to start up my campaign soon. I am totally fine with this. However I'm going to leave it up to everyone else to what it is. Here are the options:
CAMPAIGN SETTING
1) Greyhawk
2) Forgotten Realms
3) Completely custom world I've ran in before and let everyone decide what goes down
4) Dragonlance
PARTY ALIGNMENT: I have no issues running an evil campaign. However I'm going to require you be within one shift of the chosen allignment (Not the lawful chaotic or neutral but the good evil neutral). If it's good campaign, neutral is welcome. If it's neutral, all are welcome. If evil, Neutral is allowed. OR a "on the fly alignment". What this means is: If you act against your alignment you begin to shift.
What KIND of campaign?
1) High fantasy (LotR with more magic)
2) Low fantasy (Conan)
3) Horror (RAVENLOFT-esque)
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Post by nydhog on Aug 7, 2010 21:07:06 GMT -5
Also I cannot get FG to consistently allow me to host games... Anyone know how to fix this
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Post by mikker0 on Aug 7, 2010 22:47:35 GMT -5
Im not particular at all, but if u could give us level and other information so i can just mess around with character concepts i would <3 u
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Post by darkalloy on Aug 7, 2010 23:23:18 GMT -5
Ok so this will be my last post till tuesday truly. I just had to take abit of a break form cleaning and packing. Anyway I would prefer either Forgotten realms or a custom world for your campaign their Nydhog. As for the setting horror or hmmm I want to say high fantasy would be preferred. Also on the alignment thing I think evil or neutral would be a good offset to Andre's campaign, more along the lines of evil. Not enough evil campaigns to get into for when you want to be malicious.
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Post by Andre on Aug 8, 2010 2:30:49 GMT -5
Hey thanks nydhog I appreciate you bringing this up so quickly  .. basically I sent nydhog and malkav565 an e-mail stating that while I'm able to DM once a week (mainly to keep the group together so people don't get bored and leave  ) as opposed to a bi-weekly game, I would really love to DM every other week and have someone else DM in the in-between weeks (that way we still meet each Tuesday for some sort of game) ... I'd asked nydhog and malkav565 how they felt about each of them DM'ing once a month basically .. malkav565 mentioned he was busy with work so I was wondering if he DM'ed just once a month and nydhog just once a month if they could pull it off... and before anyone shoots down the idea right away based on the "I don't want to be in 3 campaigns" argument please bear in mind this would help me out a LOT ! ... far as FG not hosting .. I know port 1802 has to be unblocked and I find turning the firewall off too, try that see if it helps? Mikker0 and darkalloy are the FG experts, mikker0 in particular has DM'ed FG before many a time .... worst case scenario if he doesn't have time to respond to this thread ask him this coming Tuesday (he warned me he'd be way busy prior to the campaign starting - despite that he's been active on the forums and responds to my e-mails and for this I thank you mikker0, sounds strange I know but I've been in other situations as a DM where my players flat out ignore me ) .... Nydhog quite honestly whatever's easiest for you will be good for me, to me the game setting doesn't matter so much as having good players and I think we have a good group here ... I think you said earlier you lost the notes to the custom world but you could rebuild it? And when you mention the other campaign settings do you mean you'd be using pre-published modules (and there is NOTHING wrong with that, I am using dragonlance pre-published modules albeit ones I modify as much as possible to suit the individual PC's  ) ? Cannot emphasize that enough, FG is a lot of work in terms of data entry (although the good old copy and paste helps enormously , control c for copy and control v for paste , works to get text into and out of FG from other sources too ) ... if it was me personally I would go for whatever campaign has the most pre-published stuff for you to draw on , or alternately if you find those old notes and/or your pre-written world is easier use that... but I'm dead serious dude, not trying to insult your DM abilities but being an FG DM is a LOT of work ! And I know you're busy with your job, the band and the baby on the way since you've mentioned Liz is expecting a few times, congrats ! Neutral, Evil, Good, it's all ok with me, whatever the group decides... I don't plan on running a paladin anyways .... my PC's all tend to lean heavily towards good alignment but I can play a tortured soul neutral aligned PC who regrets his evil acts every day but goes along with the bad guys anyways (and is probably killed off by 'em in the process for which I will hold no personal rancor - happened once in a Vampire game malkav565 DM'ed, my PC got offed by other PC's at the end of the campaign and I had a total blast ! ) Alternately you mentioned deadlands several times during our skype conversation - do you have a lot of their pre-published stuff? If so I have no prob whatsoever with a different than d20 entirely game system... again the game doesn't matter so much as a group of good players and my opinion is once you've learned one RPG the others become much easier to learn, certain common elements occur in all of them ... I'm sure we could learn as we go ... (then again the big prob is I don't know if FG has a ruleset for deadlands, which would make it an ENORMOUS headache for you as a DM ... everything's kind of pre-programmed for d20 gaming in FG ... I know there are FG plug-ins you can purchase for different gaming systems, but I don't think deadlands is one of them...)... |
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Post by malkav565 on Aug 8, 2010 7:49:38 GMT -5
I'd like whatever is a good offset to the current campaign. It allow us to expand our roleplaying and helps keep the campaigns straight. So, since we are all cheesy good in Andre's campaign, maybe an evil campaign, or WAIT A MINUTE
What about a 'Red Wizards of Thay' campaign?! That would kick ass! We could do circle magic and have a common organization (in case someone gets offed, they could send a replacement). it would also allow for a big baddy boss to keep us from killing each other.
Alternatively a change of setting or tone, like horror or modern would be great too. But the sad reality is that I'm a game whore, up for anything.
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Post by malkav565 on Aug 8, 2010 7:54:05 GMT -5
I've found two issues with hosting FG (both normal networking stuff) One is what's called DHCP (dynamic IP address). If you are DHCP, it'll be hard for us to find your computer. I'm not sure the way around this, but I think the FG 'alias' system fixes that to a certain extent. Second is a firewall/router/ other middleman. The FG port has to be open all the way through your network. That includes your computer's software firewall (e.g. Zonealarm, Windows Defender, etc) as well as any hardware firewalls or router settings that might interfere. Besides that I'm not much of a network guy. Besides, I wouldn't want to post all your network stuff in a blog, if you know what I mean. Also I cannot get FG to consistently allow me to host games... Anyone know how to fix this |
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Post by Andre on Aug 8, 2010 9:05:07 GMT -5
... and malkav565 sez DM'ing once a month wouldn't work for him right now.. crap ! mikker0 I hate to ask you this .. I deliberately tried to avoid asking you this because you told me right from the get go you would get way busy rather soon and you're already DM'ing at least one FG campaign.. but would you have any interest in DM'ing once a month? The campaign you're running right now would be fine too if you wanted to just "go back in time" and do it from the point of view of 1st level PC's or whatever you'd want people to start out as |
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Post by nydhog on Aug 8, 2010 18:49:15 GMT -5
GOT IT WORKING! SHIT YEAH! And I'll dm every other week. No problems. And lizzy isn't pregant. We are getting married soon but as far as I know she's still not pregnant lol. I can run modules as well as custom games. I'll start writing one asap. Should have a few hours worth of material here shortly. Biggest issue NOW is getting Dundjini to work lol
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Post by mikker0 on Aug 8, 2010 21:06:59 GMT -5
Im going through to many real life crap to concentrate on DMing, but it sees it wont be necessary with nydhog DMing.
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Post by nydhog on Aug 8, 2010 23:53:36 GMT -5
Once Mikker0 is able to start dming as well, me and him can trade off. Also.... I've decided I'm not going to pick an alignment for the group necessarily. It wouldn't make sense with how I have the first session going anyway to have everyone be a certain genre. If someone breaks there alignment, i'll let the party deal with it and make notes of it behind screen. Think of NWN2 witht the shifting alignment.
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Post by nydhog on Aug 9, 2010 1:18:35 GMT -5
The campaign will be set in the forgotten realms. However, unless noted, all adventures are custom :-D
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Post by nydhog on Aug 9, 2010 2:16:46 GMT -5
Also andre would you make me a folder called "nydhog's campaign" where i can post images or links and such?
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Post by darkalloy on Aug 9, 2010 5:02:17 GMT -5
Ok so I have a little time on wifi as I am commendeering my fathers computer before he wakes up. Anyway two things, first waht the hell was the problem wiht it Nydhog we sat there for how long trying to figure it oiut? And second I would have to partially abstain from nydhogs campaign until i got back unless i can find the computer cable for my mp4player/mscd as it has a good portion of my books on it. Anyway getting off my father is waking up and I ahven't asked to use his laptop.
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Post by Andre on Aug 9, 2010 7:21:31 GMT -5
darkalloy thank you SO much for confabbing with nydhog on the FG thing, I'm pretty useless in the FG tech troubleshooting dept  .. nydhog thank you so much for being willing to DM once every other week, when you feel like you're ready to run a game let me know ...and nydhog sorry ! (looks totally embarassed), you mentioned something about lizzy being a pregnant dog a few times and i took you seriously (about being pregnant that is not about her being a dog, lol ) ... and mikker0 (poor person!) is busy running around madly dealing with RL stuff and won't be able to DM ok got it ... |
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.. basically I sent nydhog and malkav565 an e-mail stating that while I'm able to DM once a week (mainly to keep the group together so people don't get bored and leave 
) as opposed to a bi-weekly game, I would really love to DM every other week and have someone else DM in the in-between weeks (that way we still meet each Tuesday for some sort of game) ... I'd asked nydhog and malkav565 how they felt about each of them DM'ing once a month basically .. malkav565 mentioned he was busy with work so I was wondering if he DM'ed just once a month and nydhog just once a month if they could pull it off... and before anyone shoots down the idea right away based on the "I don't want to be in 3 campaigns" argument please bear in mind this would help me out a LOT ! 
) ? Cannot emphasize that enough, FG is a lot of work in terms of data entry (although the good old copy and paste helps enormously , control c for copy and control v for paste , works to get text into and out of FG from other sources too ) ... if it was me personally I would go for whatever campaign has the most pre-published stuff for you to draw on , or alternately if you find those old notes and/or your pre-written world is easier use that... but I'm dead serious dude, not trying to insult your DM abilities but being an FG DM is a LOT of work ! 
.. nydhog thank you so much for being willing to DM once every other week, when you feel like you're ready to run a game let me know