WotL OOC Thread

[djhyland]

A year already, huh? Cool!

Thanks for running this game, JadedDM, and thanks to the rest of you for playing in it. I'm having a great time with all of you!

[mgbevan]

Wow one whole year.
Likewise, I'm having a great time with this. It's like a constant drip feed of something interesting throughout my week

[BishGada]

Congratulations everyone. (I myself is less than a year in the game but having the fun of at least two years )

[Haahque]

It's kind of hard to believe it's been a whole year already. (And a rather eventful year for me) But I was thinking we've been doing this for a long time not but a couple weeks ago, perhaps it was when I saw the timestamps on a few of our earlier posts.

Anyways, it's nice to try out a new format of D&D (this is my first play by post), this allows me to put more thought into a post then I might into a similar situation in a regular game, not that I always do, but it's nice to have the option.

So to all of you (players)
Good work, sleep well, I'll most likely kill you in the morning.

Ps. Damnit, we're just finished our rest. Well guess it's morning.

[JadedDM]

I'm glad everyone is enjoying themselves. And I can tell you that year two will be very different from year one. Don't forget the old hobgoblin's prophecy! I have some big, big plans.

Good work, sleep well, I'll most likely kill you in the morning.

Inconceivable!

[Haahque]

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(OOC:

the only thing that is impossible is finding something that cannot be done

you are probably aware of the inherent paradox of the sentence. )

Of course I am

One of the trends I've been using with Haahqae is that he'll not fully know what he's talking about. While his int allows him to use "big" words, he's prone to saying something which has implications he did not expect, and speaking in paradox, and taking statements too literally, or any of a number of other verbal failings.

And for a non sequitur, some Terry Pratchett
"Hrun was one of the Circle Sea's more durable heroes: a fighter of dragons, a despoiler of temples, a hired sword, the kingpost of every street brawl. He could even - and unlike many heroes of Rincewind's acquaintance - speak words of more than two syllables, if given time and maybe a hint or two."

[BishGada]

I have to compliment on the way you are playing Haaque. I find him (you) very amusing. And as you can see Tulbas is sometimes fond of that behavior and sometime irritated, because Haaque is acting like that ALL the time, even when it might be out of place.

So, keep the good work. Keep Tulbas irritated. He thinks of himself too much already (Even that now he might have some family crisis...)

[mgbevan]

Reading Jaded's last post for Tulbas was definitely a "shut the front door" moment. Much anticipation for continuation.

[JadedDM]

What I like about Haahqae is that he's not just a standard stereotype of a tinker gnome. He has several traits associated with them--he tends to over-complicate things, he talks a lot, he's a touch mad--but he's also his own person with unique traits not found in stereotypical gnomes. I see a lot of gnomes in Dragonlance games that are essentially the same characters, with the exact same personalities. This is true of kender, as well. And Knights of Solamnia. And dwarves. Haha, I guess the game is pretty riddled with stereotypes, really.

Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with following classic archetypes, but it gets pretty old hat after awhile. Oh, so your kender fights with a hoopak, has a topknot, and constantly refers to everything as 'interesting' or 'boring'? Your dwarf is a grumpy, miserly alcoholic? Your knight is a stoic, judgmental stick-in-the-mud who never stops talking about honor? How compelling.

So I appreciate that while he has definite gnomish traits, he also breaks the mold, as well. Same with Darga, in regards to stereotypical gully dwarves.

Reading Jaded's last post for Tulbas was definitely a "shut the front door" moment.

Haha, the 'behind the scenes' reasoning for Raetmal's disappearance and return will likely make for an amusing story when the chapter's over.

[djhyland]

Well, half the fun of playing a gully dwarf is that you get to play with the stereotypes of being stupid, dirty, and obnoxious. On the other hand, I've seen so much hatred for gully dwarves (only slightly less than for kender!) on various forums and such that I wanted to play a gully dwarf as my way of saying "you're wrong" to the people who hate them (even if such a denial is only in my mind!). If you can't tell, I'm a fan of gully dwarves. I guess I really liked Bupu back when I read the Chronicles for the first time back in the day, and generalized my like of her to the rest of her people.

So, while Darga is smarter than your average gully dwarf, he's still cowardly, illiterate, unable to comprehend numbers (e.g. twos and twos of stuff, letting others take advantage of his money rather than try to figure out how much that meal really costs, etc.). He is, however, aware of how others see his kind and tries to prove them wrong with his actions, even if he's not above using those stereotypes to his advantage.

[JadedDM]

The funny thing about Darga is that nobody, at least as far as I've been able to tell, has realized he is a gully dwarf. Probably because he's fairly smart and clean compared to most. I've had most NPCs mistake him for a hill dwarf, in fact. Darga seems to have the good sense not to advertise his race; or maybe he just doesn't realize people are mistaking him for something else.

This is a bit of a contrast to Haahqae, who is deliberately hiding an aspect of himself (his sorcery) from everyone.

[mgbevan]

I love that kender dialogue! I know you've said in the past that you don't particularly enjoy role playing kender, or locky from tree lords, but I think you do a great job of characterising them.

[JadedDM]

I'm just glad I was able to work in both a Sword in the Stone and a Monty Python's Holy Grail reference.

[JadedDM]

Let's go after the Hill giant! No, wait... after the black robed mage!! No after the mummies!!! Wow! So much options )

True story, but when I created this game I set up over 12 different quests in the city. So far the party has only completed two (Bear's mines and saving Daxia). The quests all have varying levels of difficulty ranging from pretty simple to outright deadly for the party's current level.

Suffice to say, there's plenty to do to keep the party occupied for awhile.

[Haahque]

Oh nice, I just noticed the description Haahqae made up for Magnus on the fly wasn't actually too far off from what he actually looks like.

When I was creating the description I purposely did not go back and re-read Darga's meeting with him, but rather re-read the short discription Darga gave of him to Haahqae/Tulbas

a man lookin' fer yer uncle, Don't know what he wanted other than ta see 'im, but there was somethin' wrong 'bout him. Said his name was Magnus.

and the description of Raetmal's wounds.

From these descriptions I went and theorized how the books Haahqae would have read would have described such a character.