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That's fine Neil. We'll be on page 12 by December

Zeim and I ran Hoard of the Dragon Queen and The Rise of Tiamat in a tag team format. When I ran, he played Lingo. When he ran, I played Kalista (with a different name). But that's not quite a "shared" campaign. AL (Adventurer League) mods are very short, meant to be played in a single 2-4 hour FTF session. The best way to handle them is in a city setting. There's a mystery or a problem that needs to be solved. Think of the various quests in the middle of LMP, like the visiting Agatha the banshee or taking out the orcs at Wyvern Tor. The Ruins of Thundertree might be a double session.

....and of course a 4 hour ftf session is about 6 months of real time.

I may be the sticking point in real time play. My weekends are often busy. FTF on Saturdays (but not all of them), Sundays I have a number of social activities. Athough we are retired, many of our friends are not! But arranged with enough notice, we might manage a session on two.

Personally I like the pace of message games but of course do play FTF regularly too!

If I may make a suggest Nep? You may want to consider setting up another forum for the next adventure. We can copy over what is needed. This means that we can move this one to the Hall of Fame and you can use another title more fitting to the next one.

Gypsy,
The FTF thing would be planned way in advance and might be once every 3 months. BTW, my social planner (my wife) has many of my weekends booked 2-3 months in advance. Finding dates for FTF with my buddies is tough enough!.

As for the forum for a new game, I plan on doing that in about a month. I'll likely open it up for recruiting too. But I have some real life constraints for the rest of this month. I'm implementing a huge 5-year project at work at the end of the month so it'll happen after that. We'll finish this game up, and reunite Nundro with Gundren first.

Saturdays are usually very busy for me, but I’d certainly be willing to keep going with Kriv.

I don't want the online portion of the game to be a deterrent to anyone playing.

The next game won't start until June because, as I said, I've got an insane month ahead of me at work.

Zeim will be tag-teaming with me and filling out the party with a shared PC. When I DM, he'll play and visa versa.

FYI, the module that we'll be running is the Storm King's Thunder. It's really set up to continue from LMP. The following quote from the module explains:


We actually raised you to 6th level. I wasn't going to withhold a level after finishing the module. That extra raise mistake was made earlier in LMP. Zeim and I will figure it out. Still, there are built in hooks that will get you where you'll need to go.

Also, there will be reentry points for someone like Chandan, if Neil decides he would like to jump back in in 2020. .

Sounds good! And a short break would not go amiss either!

I believe that I've heard from everyone. Aside from Neil, who's taking a break for a few months, all of you are returning to play.

Zeim and I will "share" a singular PC so that we can both play and run. It'll be a spell caster (wizard or sorcerer). That's something the party was missing. I'm aware that both Kriv, Jaliera and Luminmorn have arcane spell casting abilities but that's a secondary ability for those characters. A full fledged Wizard/Sorcerer will balance the party out nicely.

I'm targeting middle of June for the game start. We'll continue to wrap up here in the mean time.

Sounds good.. and thank you both!

Cool

Yes indeedy, I'll be taking a break. If I do come back in, would it be OK to look at party composition as pick a class on that basis? Might mean rolling a new character.

Yes it would, although we all really love Chandan.

The transition from this game into the next won't be easy. I want to enable you all to tackle "downtime" activities, like visiting with your mentors and seeing your families, etc. We can probably do that, just as long as we can get you all back to Phandelin.

I'm thinking that we'll do that by inviting the party back to town for the grand opening of the mine, which would take a couple of month.

Some of you can stay in town, if you like. There's work to be done, like helping the dwarves clear out the mines further. Maybe some of the items that you missed will be found We can role play the planning out of these next steps but we can fast forward after that to the gala reopening.

Bern will want to take some time to go back to his home forest. He had been away too long and wants to reconnect to his home. But if he =might= wander into town to visit friends at =some= point <weg>

That works.

BTW, you all should come up with a way to communicate your whereabouts to those that are separating temporarily.

I think monks are rarely the worst addition to a party, but rarely the best either, from a purely mechanical point of view.

Chandan's been a joy to play though.

Good luck with finding a way to yak with Bern ... when ever. But we could have set up a place for him to 'visit' in town from time to time ... probably a tavern <g>

Chandan has been a real character! I've loved him and Jaliera has a soft spot for him. She has not forgotten that he ran into danger to try to save Whisper.

Kriv would never turn down a Rockseeker invitation, nor would any business at Norixius Keep prevent him. That honour debt won't clear itself.

Nep - I'll start working with you on creating our shared Spellcaster so we can find a spot to introduce him/her to the group in the next few weeks.

I am sure Lumi could talk to the Great Dragon and be able to get a hold of Bern.

No doubt Pande <chuckle>

Z,
Sounds good.

Well, Ryssa would want to check in with the old cleric who had mentored and trained her, but she would not stay there long and, if she knows something is likely to come up around Phandelver which would involve her friends, she would return as soon as possible.

I will start some transitional threads here so that you all can all jump right in and work through it.

Remember that you're going up a level. Now that you're more familiar with Roll20, I'll make use of the tools there. The primary tool will be making use of the character sheet. First, it'll be easier to find things both for me and you. The sheets would be consistent. Second, the information on your sheets will be comprehensive. The one-time effort will pay off almost immediately. For simplicity sake, we'll use the same roll20 game. If you go there now, you'll see it's already changed, even with a new name! One thing that you'll find there is your new, blank character sheet. Hold off on filling it out. I'll try and put something together to help you do that.