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    • daermadm

      Populating the campaign world
      campaign lore world building • • daermadm

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      Since questions have come up recently on the details of some things, I wanted to make things clear on how I run this campaign.

      Any successful D&D campaign has to have background and a world with rules that do not change at random.

      For many, many people this means that they buy modules and settings and run their campaign within those confines.

      For others, the DM, with or without the players, will design a unique and detailed world that includes the history, mythos, factions, everything.

      These are all 100% valid ways to run a campaign.

      I enjoy both playing and running games in those styles.

      But even more, I enjoy a collaborative world. I run my D&D game as a shared experience. I am simply here to facilitate all of us having a blast playing a game we like to play.

      By collaborative, I mean I create a base framework and concept. Then I work with the players to create the details.

      When I first turned up the idea for this shift of V`Ral from the Forgotten Mess to the Manaverse, I started by talked to @dwarf about random ideas I had and things I wanted to try. That coalesced, eventually, into the Manaverse and this initial planet that we are playing in.

      From there I had a post a long time ago, probably a post on the Main WordPress site, that I offered rewards for everyone that posted lore and background for their characters or anything else they wanted.

      This is what I mean. If you want some kind of lore or non-mechanic aspect of something added to the game, just post it. Most likely I will add it.

      If it is a game mechanic, then that will be something that I reply to, and want the rest of you to apply to also, thus letting us work out the details of the mechanic and then implement it.

      Specifically regarding the Laputan city information that @halfgiant was asking about, I have long known that there is a single huge floating capitol city and three large cities. But until he posted I had not thought about more details than that, beyond a rough note of “floating keeps”.

      The other continent is not detailed at all, but I have a number of supplements and books set aside to be used to define things if nothing else is created.

      To me, this is the most fun way to play. Not only do you, the players, get to have more say in the world that you are playing in, but the DM (me) also gets to be surprised and enjoy some of the unknown that the players do.

    • halfgiant

      CabinCon
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      @daermadm this is true … fuck I couldn’t afford it till I got my half off discount lol

    • daermadm

      Obelisk upgraded
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      Upgraded to v1.16.x branch (currently v1.16.0)

      Going to make a new backup and then looking to move the entire thing to a new server based on Fedora 33 and PostgreSQL instead of CentOS 7 and Redis.

    • halfgiant

      CabinCon III
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      @halfgiant said in CabinCon III:

      /nudge CabinCon III Exp - For Manaverse Game

      The XP total for Cabin Con III was 7,250xp per character

    • daermadm

      Intermittent Outages
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      nc.daerma.com back online.

      rc.daerma.com back online.

      All services back to normal. If you see any issues let me know.

    • daermadm

      Daerma Adventures is conveting back to 3.5e
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      I need a little more time to settle on a character sheet.

      I did not see any community sheets for 3.5 so I was looking at either the core 3.5 sheet or the pathfinder sheet.

      Pathfinder sheet: https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/4735667/pf-pathfinder-sheet-thread-6

    • daermadm

      October 4, 2016 - Game Night
      game night • • daermadm

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      Game on y’all.

    • daermadm

      June 28, 2016 - Game Night
      game night • • daermadm

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      Game on all!

    • daermadm

      June 14, 2016 - Game Night
      game night • • daermadm

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      Game on folks!

    • daermadm

      May 31, 2016 - Game Night
      game night • • daermadm

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      Game on!

    • daermadm

      May 17, 2016 - Game Night Cancelled
      cancelled game night • • daermadm

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      Sorry folks I got stuck driving down to St. Louis late last night and I am heading home now.

    • daermadm

      may 3, 2016 - Game night
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      Game is happening. running behind, but game is happening.

    • daermadm

      April 19, 2016 - No Game
      cancelled game night • • daermadm

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      I was flooded out due to a burst pipe. Will be moving stuff back into our house tomorrow finally.

    • daermadm

      April 5, 2016 - Game night
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      Tonight is the continuation of the battle in the as yet unnamed dwarven mountain.

    • daermadm

      March 22, 2016 - No Game
      cancelled game night travelling • • daermadm

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      I will be driving the family home Tuesday night and will not be able to run the game.

    • daermadm

      March 8, 2016 - Game night
      game night • • daermadm

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      See you folks tonight.

    • daermadm

      February 23, 2016 - Game night
      game night • • daermadm

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      Looking forward to killing everyone tonight!

      Well, not really. But eager to get my game on after having to cancel two week ago.

    • daermadm

      February 9, 2016 - Game night cancelled
      cancelled game night work • • daermadm

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      Sorry for the late notice everyone, but there is not any chance I will be free before 9pm tonight.

    • daermadm

      January 26, 2016 - Game night
      game night • • daermadm

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      Hangout Link: https://hangouts.google.com/call/jaytx6yj2thsqaahjs4dxu6euea

    • daermadm

      January 12, 2016 - Game night
      game night • • daermadm

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      Game is on, but the start time will be 8pm tonight due to it being my daughter’s 6th birthday.