Yaztromo's Blackmoor Living World

[aldarron]

Here's a crazy question. Are you running the games in Italian or English?

[Yaztromo]

I'm running this particular campaign in English.
Why is the question crazy?

[Yaztromo]

The adventure Innuendo for a character that just went out of The ComeBack Inn adventure is now over. This adventure is played as a solo adventure as it is mainly an investigation and it can be played by a single character (if it is played with a pinch of salt).
Running it was a real pleasure both for me and the solo adventurer. Just as an example, at the end of the adventure the character volunteered to swipe the town together with Ol'Greenie, the Half-Orc street sweeper that works in the night. The relations between NPC characters were role-played really well.
This is actually the third time I run this adventure in this campaign (every time as a solo) and the players were very complimentary about it in the OOC thread, probably attracting more players to it. In particular, I can see that the atmosphere of the adventure, its descriptions (foggy docks etc.) and the slow crescendo of the investigation are very appreciated.

In game dates: from 08 to 17 Chrislina 1031


The adventure The Floating Dungeon of Varrak Aslur is now over, after being played by a mixed group with some character more experienced, some other character less experienced. Eventually, only one character managed to reach the end of the adventure standing!
This adventure doesn't come from the MMRPG, but it is reskinned from another setting.
The blurb introduction to this adventure, set nearby Archlis, is:

Varrak Aslur was one of the infamous participants to the Mage Wars, centuries ago, and was one of the first Sorcerers of Archlis to be dispatched. Since then, the ruins of his keep have been explored many times with no problem. Until now.

In game dates: from 08 to 17 Chrislina 1031

[aldarron]

I'm running this particular campaign in English.
Why is the question crazy?

crazy in the sense you prolly weren't expecting it. I wondered in part if you were having to translate on the fly into Italian.

[Yaztromo]

Well... translating (poorly) on the fly is not a big issue.
Blackmoor Living World publications (see viewtopic.php?f=22&t=8873 ) are both in English and in Italian and (poor) written translations can be much more boring...

[Yaztromo]

We just reached the 4,000th post milestone.


By the way, The Tower of Salt adventure just ended and the majority of the characters came from Blood Wind, progressing the majestic saga of Hadeen.
This adventure was very difficult to complete, due to TPK issues viewtopic.php?f=91&t=9195
My impression is that there was too much info dump about Peshwah culture and the players just wanted to push through that phase to more action, but then, this way, they lost quite a lot of the relevant information required to make the trials at the Tower of Salt more accessible... and that caused the TPK issues... eventually, we managed to go through this!

from 18 Chrislina 1031 to 27 Chrislina 1031

[Havard]

We just reached the 4,000th post milestone.

Congratulations!

-Havard

[Yaztromo]

Of course the players should be congratulated! 8)

[Yaztromo]

Losing Focus is now over, after being played as a solo game by the same character that just came out of The Comeback Inn and Innuendo. I can see that the investigational aspects of this adventure (and previous) fit very well with this player as well as dealing with NPCs in a non-confrontational way. At least not necessarily confrontational.

The investigational part of this adventure actually went brilliantly, as well as the interaction with all NPCs, so the investigator found the focus after following the various passages, but eventually didn't recover it.

In game dates: from 28 Chrislina 1031 to 09 Yovenouom (i.e. we are approaching six-months in game terms).

[Yaztromo]

Blackmoor Living World just reached its 5,000th post!
Right now I can count 16 adventures completed and 5 ongoing.
On the 1st of October it will be two years of campaign!