Mr Sark

Haha yeah, forgotten NPC's, continuity errors, and rushed finales are definitely symptoms of a marked lack of time. I too am excited to see what Blaine cooks up for the party! Brian & I are sorting out when a post-mortem chat could happen. All the questions posed so far in this thread have at least partial answers in my notebook. Unfortunately my *baby-classes are on Tuesday evenings (the traditional Nerd Poker recording night) so it may be a little while. I'll be doing a final pass on the 'Ask Sark' thread here in the forums sometime in the next couple of days so if you have any questions leave 'em in there! Thanks for listening all these weeks! You guys are great ~S http://gyazo.com/8881e00fe6f3ba8ce677efa19767e1a0 *I don't want to miss a class because I KNOW the week I don't go will be the one where they teach how best to cook an infant.

Insane. You're all insane. You should be committed to a special asylum for artists where we give you artistic-pills and you are chained to easels and are forced to draw shit. I'm placing you all under arrest. *I just hit my limit of 'likes' for the day goddammit. Slow down with the awesome plz.

We're just playing for fun. The podcast was a good excuse for us to get back together after we hadn't played in a while. Wouldn't mind if it turned a dime someday but as it stands right now, priority-wise, it suffers from all the usual hangups that a normal D&D game suffers. Sick days. Day jobs and other gigs. Family stuff. Could be seen as adding to the realism

I always expect Blackie to 'light it up'. Fortunately these Dwarves hate pansies. Blackie has once again accidentally raised the party's stock. But sometimes a rough & tumble bunch, like these mountain dwarves, can be a pain to associate with.

Yeah, I've been working in videogame media for nearly 10yrs, and recently went independent with my own YouTube channel. That vid is one of my buddy's GTA videos. I realized when I read your post I didn't have a link to my YouTube channel in my profile so I've added that below. Pretty goofy stuff,

Yep. I love freaking myself out. Sort of a rush, actually.

Glad you're enjoying! I'm actually surprised we've kept this campaign going for as long as we have considering how crazy the last couple years have been for the party (irl). Should be a good fight when these guys catch up to this old fucker.

I appreciate the invite! We actually listened to a Hob The Troll song one of these weeks before recording. Between my YouTube channel, Nerd Poker, and my recently announced Baby Sark, I may have to take a rain check until my days are in something resembling order but again, I truly appreciate it!

Since it extended clear through the mass of corpses I could treat either end as a sort of mirror image. So, I had the top floors drawn up, I had the floor where they docked drawn up, I had about 8 floors sketched out for myself to cover any stops along the ascent/descent of the tower, and in case those were exhausted I had another 10 single line descriptions of ideas for other rooms/events. I wish I had time to draw the whole thing up. Probably could've made the tower scenario more engaging rather than seemingly never-ending. But that's the way it goes.

I think being able to read these forums is a cool source of bonus perspectives for the party I'm thinking of the tower like it's Cerebro, and the Necromancer is Professor X. He sent some final, large scale orders out before the tower crashed. For now his influence has been reduced to what he can narrowly focus on, and his energy spent is much higher. But Bahamut help the crew if this dude is able to construct another 'antenna'.

I love this rule clarification. The changes happened as soon as I read the first of your posts!

Wow.... Wow. This thread. Wow.

Holy shit. The awesome just keeps on coming.

Yeah no doubt this was a little loose but here's the airlock dets (keep in mind I learned everything I know about airlocks from Event Horizon, The Abyss, and 2001... with a dash of Wikipedia.) I though it would be interesting if, as an additional safety feature, entrance to an airlock was via a short teleport rather than a bulkhead, especially an executive airlock. The controls to the airlock were up in the bridge (the room with the viewport adjacent to the necromancer's quarters) and Blackee would've had the best chance to operate them, but he was off in the skiff (He caught a lot of crap from the party while he was away, but I honestly I think he saved the day). I thought about having the means by which the airlock was opened be the necromancer actually blasting an underling out into space everytime he wanted it open, but as entertaining as he might find that, it seemed pretty unreliable and tedious. The escape ship was not always docked outside, I had unvisited areas of the tower set aside as internal docking bays where ships could be reeled in and not be damaged by dangling outside on an external docking area when the Tower made an FTL jump (probably doesn't actually matter since the ship isn't technically accelerating but whatevs). Would've been interesting if the party had made off with the executive escape craft. Hahaha. On a vessel as big as the tower though, stumbling across some of these spots was pretty low. As far as the party's relatively easy crossing... I do wish I'd had Blackee roll a bit more for that precision ship alignment BUT I gave it to them with low-risk for two reasons. 1- They put the time in to the planning, which was good role-playing. 2- Like qrter said above, I just wanted them off that goddamned tower. Thanks for the comments! "It keeps me sharp, on the edge, where I gotta be!" - Vincent Hanna

I'm never too scared to gig a player BUT I gave it to them with low-risk because they spent the time planning. May not make for the best podcast episode, but I'm role-playing that we're not podcasting!

I hadn't thought of it, but if it had been brought up this is definitely the kind of thing that I'd assign bonuses for. It sort of makes sense but more importantly it's creative and makes a player feel like a badass.

Thanks pals. Glad you're enjoying us enjoying ourselves. That's win-win entertainment!

You guys rock! Never knew this OR used it but it makes perfect sense. Usually I'm all about rules that speed things up I'll roll this in to the game when we play next. Since we're trying to jam through eps to cover the holidays you won't actually hear me adopt this until around the first week of December. In fact, you'll hear the party bring it up (in a roundabout way involving memorization of spells) in the next couple eps, which is what led me to come back over here and comb the forums for the comments. Good heads up!

I'm purposely avoiding clicking this link because we are opening these up tonight (I believe). COURAGE WILLOW

As videogamers are introduced to D&D they are usually surprised at how many pen & paper mechanics have been assimilated by their digital cousins! Playing Final Fantasy you can practically hear the dice rolling, and even with first person RPG's like Skyrim, it feels like you're playing classic adventure modules. I still love these games, but their roots are firmly in tabletop gaming.

HAHAHAHA I hadn't even thought about this.

He wanted a Mage that prayed to a dark lord for powers. So he's a Cleric

Today's recording would've been best for this but we were short a couple people so we just hopped in. Once everyone is back in their seats I think this is a great idea!

Believe me, I'm excited for a change of scenery as well. The last several weeks are a tsunami of unexpected group decisions, real-life interference for just about the entire group, and my being painted into a corner by a large-scale campaign that, for a bi-monthly play group, probably should've been a bit more bite size. But just because this is a 'show' doesn't mean it takes the priority in our lives that you seem to think it should. There are ads, presumably so Earwolf can pay the sound guy and cover the studio fees, but we're not making any cash off this at the moment so if during the week I'm faced with a gig, or figuring out clever ways to give the party a peek into The Necromancer's grand plan, the gig rules. I'm not trying to bash you, I'm (hopefully) just shining a little light on the backstage. For both our sakes here's hoping we get to the next chapter soon! I have a handful of eventualities accounted for, and the most likely ones are very exciting (to me anyway).

When I set aside the time is the short answer. I do really want to do this though. I'm the problem-child in the group when it comes to scheduling and to be honest I'm surprised I've been able to continue with the podcast this long. I tried promising my landlord imaginary unimaginable wealth, but he didn't go for it. The miser.