Last session was fantastic. Fast paced turns, quick moving characters and several set pieces add up to a fun night.
The players continued their journey through the forward camp, making their way through a coal mine and coming out to witness the crashing of one dwarven ship as several others make their escape to places unknown.
Next week, the players are confronted with the choice of how to delve down into the dwarven vessel in search of answers to the mystery of the strange disappearance.
The channel writings have been whittled down; content has been reduced and revised now displaying the important things and removing the old garbage.
I have been disappointing my regulars of late by restricting, changing or otherwise refereeing their interactions against the world. To those who are confused, I say only this: Level One.
When Johnny joined, the characters were nearing or surpassed 15th level. The world was established and the characters were robust enough to handle nearly anything I could throw at them, hence did I enlist the viewers and throw the flood gates open (and making revisions to the rules along the way).
Since we've restarted, I have made some necessary adjustments to ensure that at level one, the players are having fun and have had to kibosh the actions of a few viewers who were operating on the status quo up until then. This has of course confused said viewers and I wanted to address here in short.
I am making the adjustments to make for a fun game where I can, while affording viewers the ability to interact with the world. Sometimes this means requests go unfulfilled until I can think of a way to fit them in.
Folks providing me with suggestions, materials, wants, etc; I try to consider and incorporate as much as I can. I do read everything and I try to respond to everything as time permits but if you've sent me a novella, trust me when I say I don't want to send back a half cocked response and it takes me time to read through and conduct responses intelligently.
The players cleared level 2 last session and the new player is working out just fine. So long as I keep my alcohol consumption to a reasonable level, I'm able to stay on top of the game and provide the players with the referee presence needed to keep a crew of seven running smoothly and prevent folks from going alpha on one another.
The new fairy is working out fine and although she doesn't have a lot of the same features, she does still have several others that make her more then worth the switch. In time, I will code the features I need but for now I ask that folks maintain patience and check out what this new bot can do at http://phantombot.tv.
The_shadowbat pointed out that my site doesn't actually have my email address on it, so I do apologize for that; it's on the front page now :)
FYI: It's always been emblazoned on the stream page.
As always, I appreciate the input, criticisms and comments from my viewers; just as I ask of my players I'm always curious what you like, don't like, what your favourite part is and what you like the least.
TheArrican donated $50 the other day so I'm thinking I'm gonna run a draw this coming Friday during the stream as something of a thank you. I'm figuring a nice licensed print dice bag! If you have any suggestions for prizes, let me know :)
Thanks for watching folks; hope to see you all there on the 3rd!