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I also agree about the opportunities for in game accomplishment and participating in story. As my character likes to say, "A good story is more valuable than gold, because gold can only be spent once, while a story can be told over and over." (And, of course, if you're an NPC on a mod you can't...

Another idea (that I just posted in a new thread) is to combine scouting with NPCing. That is, if me or my group wants to go out scouting, rather than going through the woods, they go to NPC camp and do an NPC stint (while IC, the characters are out scouting). Then at the end of the NPC stint...

As Jesse has mentioned, one thing Alliance always needs more of are NPCs. As a player, I am often interested in doing NPC stints but I am sometimes deterred by the current incentive structure. Thus, I have been thinking about ways in which the incentives can be improved to encourage players to...

That could lead to 3 teams all showing up for the same mod. One idea in that case could be to run the mod 3 times, one for each team. One advantage of this is that it uses NPC time more efficiently. Let's say it takes 15 minutes for the NPCs to get suited up, briefed, and walk to the mod site...

While at Genghis Con a couple weeks ago, I had an interesting discussion with Jesse about mod cards. As I see it, the benefits and disadvantages of mod cards are as follows (feel free to correct me if this isn't an accurate summary): BENEFITS: 1. It enables players who want to play "explorer"...

At the Mod Writers Workshop, it was mentioned that one should keep the mechanics of the world in mind when writing story. For example, resurrection is a thing that happens, so a story that includes lots of people getting killed in a battle probably should not include all of them permanently...

This is something that has come up as I find myself writing songs to perform in-game, which often rely on rhyming and wordplay. Many common expressions come from specific aspects of real life history, culture, or technology that would presumably not exist in Acarthia. For instance, consider a...

(Note: Although this question is not Denver-specific, I am asking this in the Denver chapter forums rather than the main rules forums because my experience has been that these types of questions often get lots of conflicting responses, so I am interested in how the players and marshals in the...

Also, as for "access to a price list": For production items (i.e. items which can be produced with production skills, which are the vast majority of potions, scrolls, alchemical items, weapons, and armor) there is a chart in the rulebook giving the production cost of these items. Thus you have...

- My first mission with the Town Guard. It didn't go as I expected, but I am really looking forward to what comes next out of the plot! - Chivalry School. It was interesting to discuss these moral issues - if you have to use necromancy to save the town, should you do it? (One thing I am...

1. If I hear a damage call, does my character know that information IG? The rulebook says that damage calls represent "the sound of battle" and that you know, IG, if the attack was magic or silver. Is this intended to apply to just magic/silver, or to anything else about the damage call...

Just as a point of clarification since I have seen this come up: A spell, gas, etc. packet will count if it hits the face. However an arrow packet that hits the face does NOT count. ARB p.94: Packet attacks include spells, gas globes, and certain monster abilities. Note that unlike the weapon...

Jonathan Tiberion to the Duchess before the race: "We're out of game now. You're not my mother." I was on the shadow key mod too. The time limit made it incredibly fast paced and exciting. (I almost thought that we were done for when one of the monsters looked like he had broke through our...

One suggestion I have, that might make it a bit easier on the NPCs, is the following. Right now we run the mod cards so that the PCs have to send a runner to NPC camp, and the NPCs have to go to that location, run the mod and come back. How about instead we do it where the whole PC group still...

I see two possible interpretations of the rules about the target area for the "Waylay" skill. Interpretation 1: The wording in the rulebook telling the Waylayer to "not hit the spine" is just a suggestion for safety purposes. If the target is hit on the spine with a Waylay, he should still take...

Sir Egil, you write: "Loot division shall be based on the size of the group attending...." In my mind, we either make it equal or we don't. Simply because someone shows up on their own to help shouldn't mean they do not get a full share. The luxury of a large group should not afford an...

I am once again looking for a ride to the January event. I can be picked up either from home in Fort Collins, from my workplace in Loveland, or from DIA (I can take a shuttle there.) Can anyone give me a ride? I can pay for gas.

As I had mentioned before, I also need a ride. Thus there is a backup plan that we can use if we can't get a ride. There is a shuttle from DIA to the Colorado Springs airport. It leaves at 5:30 PM and gets to Colorado Springs airport at 7:40 PM. If there are 3 of us, we can get a group...

I am still looking for a ride to the November 15 event. The person who took me from Fort Collins last time could not come. I would be picked up either: 1. in Loveland, near Centerra (where I work) - this is my first choice. 2. At Denver International Airport. (I could take an airport shuttle...

There are several abilities in the game (Refit Armor, First Aid, etc.) that require a count (usually 1 minute) to perform. In my experience (since I usually wear a watch to time these counts) most people count way faster than they are supposed to. Probably the average amount of time I see for a...