This post is a bump of the ones above. This is a brief version of the things in the above posts. They are just as true today as there were when they were written.

A friendly reminder on this. Play your stats. If you want to lie effectively, or at any real scale, you need to have invested points in bluff. If you are trying to be a leader, you need to have invested in charisma. If you are trying to be big and scary, you should have invested points in intimidate.

If you do not have the investment, DMs are at liberty to ask for rolls or give people you are trying to lie to/lead/intimidate a hint that your character is not living up to the words that the player is typing.

Name: Zool Active for IG Plots [No] Active for admin stuff [No] Timezone: UK GMT

I like competitive plotlines between player groups, ideally ones which don't -require- those groups ever even meeting in game (though that can be pretty cool) as this stops time zones being a problem.

I extremely rarely run events, but they come in two forms:

I spend a week (or more) building and scripting custom stuff, and it's either some kind of dungeon crawl, or some "DMless" plot anyone can interact with (that is normally competitive) -These ones normally affect the setting itself, or factions (player or DM) as opposed to individual characters. I spot some players in game doing cool stuff, and run something "on the fly" - normally after telling at least one of the players in the group to slow whatever they are doing down a bit so I can do some pre-set up (these are normally the ones that directly affect individual character story lines)

In the coming days there will be a new CoA plan in place. As a primer though to help in the intervening time

The White Witch has been defeated and the horde driven off Obyn Misrim is now the Lord Misim and Baron/ruler of Tilverton Islyn Misrim has married Eskil Mossmere First Peer Jastyne Vaylan has resigned and left the area, following the path of a warrior of Tempus Eveningstar is now a Lathanderite Bishopric and ruled by High Dawnlord Charisbonde The Redwood will be undergoing some changes Arabel and surrounding areas (TBA) is ruled by King Matrim and Queen Kestrel There are going to be new factions building upon the successful test run of two player driven factions (More of that to come) We've some ideas but now is a great time to hit the ground running with concepts and help influence/build the setting.

Cheers and Happy Gaming!

Quarter staff and Shuriken now count as Monk Weapons, in the same way that Kamas so.