Emails.

[TheRipz]

Hello and Welcome. Now many of you may be looking at this e-mail and saying "wow i haven't played that in months" yes, yes, thats all fine and dandy like sour candy.

Their are two D&D Groups They are as Follows:

Group 1: Current Quest: Thunder spire
Philip
Rueon
Matt
Joey
Natalie
Kanji

Group 2: Current Quest: Rat Attack
Philip
Richard
Ryan
Kyle
Nick
Matt
Witold

Group 1 plays once every other week, or something of that nature, however hasn't been able to get together for some time now. And Group 2 plays Every Friday night 7:00-11:00. Because of certain situations inside the group-sets attendance will likely be falling by about 1-2 people. So Together Rueon and myself have begun talks on trying to put the two groups together. Now their are extremely different rules between the two groups, and we are unsure to what rules we will be adapting. But Lets get to THE POINT of this e-mail.

group 2 meets once a week on Friday nights from 7-11 and group 1 usually meets on every other Saturday night. Now i would like to keep the games once a week, Friday night has become a good time for everyone down in group 2, however i have yet to talk with a large portion of the group 1 community in some time, and are unaware of their schedules.

THIS E-MAIL ASKS THREE MAIN QUESTIONS THAT SHOULD BE REPLIED TOO TO BE INCLUDED IN THE DECISION PROCESS. [if you don't reply thats fine but don't complain later on ]

Question 1: Do you Agree with this combination? or do you think it to be a bad idea, if so why.
Question 2: Do you have a preference to ether Friday 7:00-11:00 or Saturday 7:00-11:00? Understanding that if you don't come to a few games it wont be the end of the world. (Half exp on missed games) (full exp if work or similar situation)
Question 3: Which Residency do you believe the game should take place at? Rueon's house, or Silvo's house.

Answer in the best way you can, and don't worry if you wont be able to make every game, its just some fun time with friends and missing a game isn't the end of the world, This experience is meant to be fun. Before we even get started on things like plot interactions, and character meet-ups, game rules, and whatnot we're going to need to get this basic things done. Time, Place, Dates, etc.

Please Reply with anything you wish to add. like "Silvo your emails are long and boring"

P.S. I know some people are out of town, or don't show up very often, however you're included in the e-mail as you are still considered a gamer by my standards, and as such are still involved in a number of ways if you so wish to be.

P.P.S. This is just the first of what will probably be a very annoying e-mail cycle. I've set up a board to talk on but don't think anyone will visit it. All The same have a good time and i await hearing from the groups. theripz.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=dnd

[silvo]

So We've gotten a number of mails back saying that Friday Night @ Silvo's House is the best shedule for most people.

And since thats been desided their are a few more things that we'll be looking at as a group. If you don't want to take part in this, no worries

Question 1: Character Carry-over. How should Character carry-over take place? do you want to be able to re-roll your character with the same exp? or do you want to keep the same character?

I made my guys roll their stats with die because i wanted to punish them for screwing with me. I'm also making weaponary harder to come by, in Group 2. So how do you want your character to move over? new class? race? skills? feats? Religion? Name? how many of these things should be allowed to change before its just becoming a new character all together...



Question 2: Location. Because both games are kinda taking place in differant worlds ether one has to be sent to the other, or both need to be sent to a third location. Do you have any suggestions on locations or how this should happen? What kinda landscape do you want to play on? Right now in Group 2 they wanted to play a more Pirate landscape, do you want to play on a more Hellfire landscape? Lord of the Rings, Kid in King Arthour's Cort style? Barbarians and ancient man kinda thing? Respond with what you wanna play in, or what you REALLY don't wanna play in.

Question 3: Story, Plot, Purpose. What do you want it to be? Save the princess? Defeat the evil bowser? destroy the corrupt government? overthrow the mafia? become the king of the pirates? Find and collect the seven dragonballs to wish for immortality? What do YOU want to do in the storyline, and with your character?

Question 4: Any Ideas you have for the game? Anything you want to see? do you want to come by magical items easily? or do you want it to be difficult to provide more of a challange? This is a more wide ended question because i feel as though i'm missing something...





Info: As a DM i do my own thing however its making everyone have as much fun as posible, thats the point of the game. Playing monsters as i see fit to play them, and creating storylines practically the week before, i don't force you guys to do anything, if someone says "hello, my family is being murdered, would you help me out?" i'll have a plan for ether saying yes or no. Right in the middle of the quest you can dip thats all fine. Its WHATEVER you want, breaking off a door and using it as a heavy shield, taking out your hammer and tying a chain to it. honnestly use your imagination, its a hella lot more fun.



I'm hopping that on the 19th or the 26th we can have a group game set-up. Everything and everyone is treated equally, So a single character wont get more items than anyone else. Regardless of how much i hate you... KYLE. Magical users usually have less attack bonuses so they're more likely to find magical implement items, Holy Symbols, Wands, etc. Ranged attackers are likely to be given Armors since they already pwn the attack and damage fields. Melee users are likely to be given Random items such as boots, or gloves since their already good in AC and Attack.

In the beginning its going to be weird because the group layout needs to be descovered. So first i'll try some mobs, then some bossess, then a combination of the two, and figure out what kinda organization the group seems to do best with and enjoy most.



If you want to make a new Character Completely because you're tired of your old one or you just want to try a new class out, I don't see a problem with that... Once Again heres all the D&D stuff if you want to check it out: www.4shared.com/dir/8954035/14388a47/DD_4E.html

[silvo]

Alright! so far six questions have been asked and I've taken anything anyone said to me and Made an area and storyline that isn't
A) super gay
B) out of left field
C) Structured and fun?

Their hasn't been a single person who replied saying "putting groups together is a bad idea" so we're going to go ahead with it in every aspect, Asking for Time Date and location came out on a majority to "7:00-11:00 Philip Tuzi's House" and the rest were "i don't care"
So Friday 7:00-11:00 @ 75 Canarvan Crt, will be the location of the games from this point forward.

As for Character Carry-over its going to be a straight carry, if you want to change anything about your character such as skills, feats and junk like that you can do that over the next week.

I Wanted to have the first game for this Friday (19th) however Theirs probably going to be a bit of work to get done and i haven't talked to Rue about getting the sheets to look over yet... But thats going to take place.

Basically the two groups will separately stumble over top a hidden teleportation circle and be ported to an Island that has yet to have contact outside of itself for a long duration of time due to hurricanes and tornadoes that occur off the edges of it making ship travel too and from it almost impossible. (based off japan who was unable to be attacked by most Chinese armies due to the massive amount of typhoons off the coast that destroyed the enemy ships) This world is more 'technologically' advanced than the rest of the world, using runes of different elemental foundations to create things like showers, coolers, and a train system. Though actual 'magic' such as casting a fireball is extremely rare. So magical items are pretty rare, but not impossible to find, usually being used by the stronger warriors of the land.

So Yes, Over the next week to two weeks i'll be trying to get the papers off Rueon to try and determine characters and what needs to be changed on characters, and a few other things, Than we'll start up that fun stuff... Because How starting quests is usually the longest, most drawn out, and least fun part of the game, we'll try and get that done quickly, I'd ask that on the first game day try to come early to sort out any character changes, or problems you may have. I'm going to also print out a new sheet that is capable of being edited with a pencil and eraser so that printing new sheets every few weeks (leveling is that fast) doesn't take place. Editing Sheets are the players responcibility, but aid will be given.

I Think this summed up whats going on so far, As soon as the Character sheets from Game one can be looked and made sure to be accurate than we can start... Both Groups are about at level 5 right now so thats a good thing. I Hope This goes well...

So, Unless informed otherwise, The First Joint Game will be June 26, 2009 @ 75 Canarvan crt. I look forward to playing with all of you, and hope that We can have fun together.