This is the out-of-character thread.

Hello everyone, old man here!

Trésor Né d'elfe, go ahead and re-roll that 5

Greetings, intrepid adventurers! Jongleur extraordinare,  at your service! (Old man in real life, however)

Hello all!

I will be your local Contrebandier or Rogue Smuggler.

Smoke is a tabaxi from the southern areas and I will 100% take those rolls!

EDIT: Chronicler - just to double check, we're starting at 1st level right?
This message was last edited by the player at 22:51, Fri 09 Feb.

Going for Life Cleric (probably) not sure of a race :) What we got so far? And hello!

Well, I'm a Human Fighter, probably a Battle Master eventually. But I'm not sure what direction to take the character in since it's such a big party.

I originally was looking for max 6 party members, but we're going to try for 8 and see how things go. Splitting the party into different at groups of ~4 may be an option from time to time, as well.

My plan for Smoke is to go Rogue (Scout) to match up with his Smuggler background/history when we get to 3rd level

Hello, Bugbear Ranger here! Looking forward to playing with everyone!

Half-Elf bard, so far. No decisions what to choose at third, yet.

Sheet done, save for any modifications needed after GM review. I'm very likely going Beast Master at third level.

Greetings everyone, Erlathan is a Elf Monk. Likewise looking forward to playing with everyone!

I guess what I need to decide is whether or not I'm going for a tank playstyle or someone who's more of a damage dealer. I didn't roll too well so I'm not entirely sure what would be best, but I think a tank might be better based on the classes y'all are going for :)

Cheers! Alaric is a human fighter as well. Leaning toward Dex based, primarily ranged, but we'll see where the planning and rolls lead us.

We’re wrapping up a few details for a couple of characters. We should be ready to start by tomorrow.

My character is done for your approval. Can you switch the character sheet to word wrap? It makes it easier to edit and read. The character sheet link is in the character sheet section of the character details. I am playing the teenage wizard.

Draft character sheet has been posted. It will be much easier to read if you would be so kind as to enable word wrap.

Okay, we have some individual housekeeping items to take care of, but we’re far enough along with everyone’s characters that I feel comfortable posting up the intro to the campaign and kicking things off.

I've been asked, so I'll answer in the OOC thread for everyone else, I prefer third-person narrative in responses, please.

Think I got it all done.

I have a few tidbits to edit still on my sheet (mainly equipment) but its probably close enough for review.

let me know if there are issues/changes needed

Someone asked me to upload a character pic for their character. I don't remember who it was or the requested image. Will you please resend it to me, thank you.

In reply to The Chronicler (msg # 23):

It was me, I think the link should be in our PMs still, but I'll resend it!

EDIT: also I think my sheet is completely done now
This message was last edited by the player at 18:34, Mon 12 Feb.

Character sheet should be finished.

Erlathan, we can role play your searching for the Lucinic Brotherhood. They have an active presence in the festivities.

Sounds good! Updated my post to reflect he is inquiring about them.

I don't think we are crossing each other's paths too much yet, but if someone other than the GM adresses Togrirr and I don't acknowledge it, feel free to point it out to me on PMs. Too many messages going on, I might miss it.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:57, Tue 13 Feb.

Don't have to but I sugggest doing seperate threads for each person so no one gets lost :)

Or just use [For Smoke]

or something at the top of the post (even if you're not the DM)?

or do what the Chronicler is already doing and Reply to a post
This message was last edited by the player at 00:38, Wed 14 Feb.

In reply to Sirena Mistseeker (msg # 29):



I thought about that, but it'll become a tangled web of solitary threads, private messages, "couples" threads that then go back to single threads. It'll help if everyone uses the "reply" button when responding to a previous comment. I'll try marking my comments better to indicate who it applies to. And if you're talking with another character, just send them a nudge if you think they missed your comment.

No fear, though. Everything is moving toward the group coming together.

Also, this suggestion might work as well:

This message was last edited by the GM at 10:28, Wed 14 Feb.

Reynald has the flu and will join us when he is feeling better.

For everyone’s situational awareness, starting tomorrow I’m hopping on I-10, starting in southwest Florida (technically I-75 to I-10), and heading to Phoenix for the start of my new job. I’ll be taking frequent breaks, at which time I can monitor the posts, and I’ll be able to do so in the evening’s in hotels along the way. I’ll be traveling alone, as my family is remaining Florida for the duration of school, which means my evenings for the next several months will need to be filled with the sweet balm of PBP dungeons and dragons. All of this is to say, for the next several days, my rate of posting will notably decrease. But I’m not ghosting you all.
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:39, Thu 15 Feb.

Safe travels.

We’ve had a player drop out. If you know anyone who would like to play a life domain cleric, send them this way.

Until then, I’ll just have ChatGPT play the character.
This message was last edited by the GM at 02:13, Fri 16 Feb.

Ai systems are damn amazing. I've spun up a VM to run off OpenAIs API and it's a damn useful. I haven't used it in rpgs though.

I save my hard core creative writing for my (hopefully soon) professional writing. Also, I write all day long for work (planning), so I’m sick of it by the time I get home. So I’m using AI to expedite the writing process in this campaign. The time savings is awesome alone. It still writes like a soulless person imitating a writer, but it’s enough to get the job done or at least 80-90% of the way done.

If someone in the party throws me a curve ball, like asking me about some organization I hadn’t thought of or put much thought into yet, AI will take care of it pretty darn fast, or at least get me close enough that with 10 minutes of work I have something I can use.

Tresor and Togrirr, I’ll have replies to you posted by tomorrow morning.

I can't believe the die roller has decided to be kind to me for once. Knock on wood.

I truly dislike the I-10 snoreidor

In reply to The Chronicler (msg # 40):

San Antonio to El Paso? Terrible drive but I80 from Salt Lake to Reno is worse.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:37, Sun 18 Feb.

It’s been a crazy week onboarding for the new job, especially given how different the business is done here versus where I’ve done it for the last 14 years. So, sorry my posting rate slowed down. I’m going to get responses to everyone by tonight.

Hmmmm. In the same way arsenic tastes bad so it’s worse than a bullet to the head? But yeah, that’s some pretty dry country (literally and metaphorically). My grandparents lived in south-east Utah, where it’s just bland desert, not as bland as the Nevada desert though.

My apologies for the upcoming rapid machine gun fire posts for Smoke. The player has been unable to join in a week and I need to get his character up to where everyone else is so we can move to the next part of the campaign. So, I will be posting for Smoke and responding as The Chronicler so that it's not a massive wall of text.
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:06, Sun 25 Feb.

My first week in and we’re dealing with a cybersecurity incident. My attention has been a little pre-occupied. I’ll be posting up responses this evening.

In reply to The Chronicler (msg # 45):

Ohh! Those are always fun! That's how you find out how good your MFA and backup policies are. :D

Can't tell you how I was worried I'd bottom out with the last set on the Challenge. :D I was expecting a 1 on the RNG.

There may yet be an opportunity. The last performance requires some type of physical component to it, so Athletics or Acrobatics or Sleight of Hand etc. Choose one, describe it, roll it, please.

Well, I edited accordingly. Marginal Acrobatics roll.

In reply to Tresor Ne d'elfe (msg # 49):

I gave you advantage for throwing in some fairie fire there, but even so, it only bumped you to an 11.

Long week. Just got back from house hunting. I'll be posting up first thing tomorrow morning.

I did not catch this one, I was still waiting for my turn. I'll catch up and post soon

Sorry for the slower posting rate. House hunting in Phoenix is an absolute dire bear. After a six-hour stint this afternoon, I think we may be in the business of buying a house. Which means I won't be coming in late with zero energy.

Alas! I'll be posting up tonight. Stay tuned.

Greetings! I am the new old guy.

I also live in AZ good luck on the search!

It doesn't matter where you are in N.A. these days - house prices are absurd. And beware HOAs and their like.

Unless the Phoenix metro has changed a lot since I left there in 2010, it's nearly impossible to avoid a HOA.

Hello everyone! I will be taking over Smoke. Looks like I have a lot to catch up on!

In reply to Smoke (msg # 57):

Welcome!

In reply to Smoke (msg # 57):

Welcome, new Smoke!

Welcome to the party. I don't think Smoke crossed paths with anyone else, so if you want to jump right into things you can probably get away with only reading Smoke's posts and the DM responses to him for now.

Welcome to the game everyone!

DM best of luck on the house hunting!

I’ll be posting up soon. Just wanted to drop this line so people don’t think I’ve ghosted.

Likewise! Been out of town for spring break. Post Thursday for sure

See! Thursday'!

In reply to Reynald de Valrenard de Clairmont-Petitefleur (msg # 64):

Sweet

Just biding my time until everyone's all in sync. :D

I should be able to post a response in the next 24hrs.

What Tresor said. ;-)

Ditto

What does sync look like? should we make effort to form a party?

Thank you everyone for your patience. We're almost there.

Apologies for the lack of response this week, work was incredibly hectic. Yes I'm good with moving on to the next scene.

I hope everyone is doing okay.

Still around

I'm still here, too. Singing merrily.

Still here.

Hey everyone, sorry for the abrupt absence. Life got in the way. I’m going to post up this evening.

No worries amigo we know you've been moving

All good. Just chilling here.

Thanks. Came down with an illness a couple of days ago that I'm having trouble shaking and the internet at the AirBnB I'm staying in right now isn't stable. Please forgive my slacking and absence for another day.

Take your time.

Is there anyway I could interact with some of the other players?

Everything okay? @Reynald, if you PM a player, the GM also sees it. Is that the kind of interaction you were asking about?

Didn't mean PM, meant in character.

Just send the message in the thread. If you wanted it to be private, you can embed that.

Well I'm not quite sure where I am in relation to any other characters and what not, was just hoping to skip some of the solo stuff and get to interacting with others. Maybe I'll think of something soon, but if Dm is done so are all of us.