DreamLyrics™ Play-by-Post Forums Hall of Fame - Latest Top 10 completed games LMP: Lost Mines of Phandelver OOC thread

FYI, I'm going to be offline until Monday night at the earliest.

Have a good time!

What ERP are you playing with, Neptune? Planning a reinstall of ours at the mo, so we can add new functionality.

We're shutting down Lawson and moving to Epicor. What ERP are you working with?

At this point of this game I would like you to gear up to take a few months off in "game time". I'll give you options to consider but you can come up with something of your own for this "down time". We'll continue with one more IC post from me followed by a single IC post by you in the 5-Epilogue thread concluding your participation in LMP. I'll need to write mine up. Hopefully I can get to it in the next day or two.

If you want your PC to interact with another PC, discuss it in a PM thread or here in OOC. Most of you opted in for SKT. Neal needs a break and Panda has not popped in to play for a while. Zeim said he would take a PC and, on occasion, give me a couple month break from DMing by running a segment. He'll be creating a new PC for the game.

The "In" characters are Ryssa, Jaliera, Davroar, Kriv, Bern and the PC Zeim creates. I'll provide some game-relevant options but you all agree to be in or return to Phandelin in three months time. You will all have "faction" options. All of your PC's are being recruited by one or have joined one.

And then there's Chandan and Luminmorn. Neal said that he needs a break and I understand that. He said that he might want to play again later, after his "break". His options are to 1) play Chandan again, rejoining the party later or 2) Make a different PC or 3) Not rejoin. As for Pandemonium, I'm a little concerned about starting out with something he can't keep up with. He opted in, but he's been very scarce. I stared the Epilogue thread several weeks ago and he hasn't posted once. We all go through phases and nobody needs to explain themselves and I like playing with him. So I've got a plan for how to put both Chandan and Luminmorn on ice (so to say), ready for thawing if and when either Neal and or Pande are ready to rejoin in the future they can and will be welcome.

You might be curious as to the transition to SKT. As I mentioned a while back, a 5-year project was implemented this week. I've clocked about 80 hours work since Friday morning. We're just approaching the down-slope of effort but we have a number of major waves of work coming up and we've already encountered bumpy roads due to the scope of this implementation. That's going to continue to cause headaches and sap my time and energy. I'm also starting a new FTF campaign and have much work to do for that. That means I won't ready to kick off SKT for a couple of weeks and we will have more slowdowns. Slow doesn't mean dormant.

I'm working with Opera 3, which is borderline abandonware, but it was bought and paid for a long time ago so continues to be an adequate if clunky solution. We've been assessing Sage 200, SAP and Monitor over the past few years but haven't picked a direction yet.

But this current update I'm working on requires a reconfiguration of the server app and dbase, so we effectively have to install a new iteration of the software on the same hardware, configure it as needed, then port the data across from the old iteration. The business will probably be offline for most of a working day, so some planning involved.

LMP-wise, I definitely want to post a last scene for Chandan, whether he returns or not in SKT.

I've thoroughly enjoyed playing him, and taking him from broken, drunken vagabond, to a man with a new sense of inner peace and belonging, all via the therapeutic process of punching bad guys in the face.

I've enjoyed being a player too, which I've not done enough of on DreamLyrics. Thank you, Neptune, for having me on board! Thanks to the rest of crew also, for not throwing me overboard.

There's just something that inherently works for me with a traditional D&D game. At one time I would've put it down to nostalgia, but actually I think it's the distinct combination and delineation of 'role-playing' and 'gaming'. Playing D&D I feel it's OK---preferable even---to geek out on the combat mechanics, and then when combat's over, you can shift gears for some character role-play. It gives the game a steady change of pace.

There's obviously something about D&D that works for a great many players. It wouldn't still be going so strong if it was just relying on its brand.

I think I'd really enjoy yours, Neptune, and Zeim's regular ftf sessions!

Jaliera still wants to hear from Halia. Might influence her decisions

Well ... Bern is looking forward to some 'quality time' in the Cormanthor Forrest. Beyond that ... well ... he will wait and see what sort of 'offers' he gets.

Ryssa feels she needs to report in with her old cleric - Athelor - who had trained and mentored her in the service of Lathander.

Also, however, she is interested in the Harpers and would like to learn more about them - all of this before she rejoins her compatriots of Phandelver.

She would really miss Chandan, though.

Alrighty, moving to Hall of Fame.