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#Post#: 675--------------------------------------------------
Behind the DM's Screen Vol. VII
DIR By: Dungeon Master
Date: November 29, 2023, 1:42 pm
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Hello. I am using the Royal Court of Gilthas and Knight of the
Black Rose to connect back to Talidaar. with Talidaar being at
chapter 14 and I am just saving the Talidaar chapters to fill
out the story. These last interactions have been set up and get
things to where they need to be.
I started to write more Rilla and I realize they are at the
Ziggurat, so I need to finish planning that and see how it goes
down, so that is on the agenda.
Getting things into place in Ergoth, gets me closer to getting
Wydara back, so I am going to see what is going on there.
I don't know if I mentioned this a few weeks ago, maybe I did I
will have to look it up, but I collapsed between a kitchen and
living room, and I woke up face first. It scared me. I have not
told the doctors yet. I needed a few days to see if I was really
okay. I have not felt any cognitive loss or a loss of who I was,
but it was not long after that I started getting a bit
depressed. I think I just pushed myself too far. First time
anything like that has ever happened to me. I still don't know
what to think of it. I have needed a few weeks to make sure I'm
okay. I think I am okay. I don't drink, so this blacking out is
pretty much a new thing.
So, I have just been taking it easy, not writing much, but
planning and doing little things, then my computer freaked out.
I have that fixed, thank goodness.
Not pushing myself, I'm sorry I slowed down for a month, I just
needed to see if I was okay. I think I am okay. So, going
forward.
I hope people are enjoying the History Section. I enjoy the
living archeology of the castle building.
#Post#: 677--------------------------------------------------
Behind the DM's Screen Vol. VII
DIR By: Dungeon Master
Date: December 1, 2023, 2:03 am
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Will be on this weekend and moving things forward.
#Post#: 679--------------------------------------------------
Behind the DM's Screen Vol. VII
DIR By: Dungeon Master
Date: December 3, 2023, 6:09 pm
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Greetings all. I am on and working.
I talked to the player for Darius Desaad and we are making plans
to game Chapter 3, hopefully next weekend. Darius is one of the
most thought-out and sculpted characters I have been planning
for what seems like years, just waiting to come to prominence.
So, I am excited to get him into the next chapter.
Karnea's player got done with stressful schoolwork, so between
college, working nights, kids, and a wonderful wife, he has been
tied up, and now the schoolwork is done, he is taking some time
to recover. I figure sometime later this week or next week we
have the conclave completed.
I am working chapter by chapter to develop this Dragon War in
Northern Khur, little by little moving things around to where
things need to be.
whilst developing the situation in Northern Ergoth. Thinking how
radical I want things to get. With Northern Ergoth beings as
underdeveloped as it is, with Wizards of the Coast not wanting
to touch the Age of Mortals after the War of Souls anymore, I
wonder how far we can push things in Northern Ergoth before
things break.
Okay, Las in Ergoth Come Back Tomorrow follows up on what is
going on in Gwynned after Martial Law is lifted and Las still
has to wait for them to release Wydara. Two very short Chapters
tonight. The Other Chapter was a follow-up to Chapter One of
Emporer of Ergoth Defied, and Chapter One Freedom of Barbarian:
Bood Oath.
I have something to do at 11am, so I am already pushing it.
Calling a lid for the night. But I will come back tomorrow hope
we will have good news for Wydara.
I am staying on a little longer but nothing more is coming out
tonight.
#Post#: 684--------------------------------------------------
Behind the DM's Screen Vol. VII
DIR By: Dungeon Master
Date: December 4, 2023, 6:03 pm
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Hello All. I am going to take a nap as I stayed up for Wydara II
Chapter One until 6 am and had to get up at 11 am. I drank
coffee to stand up. The coffee is wearing off. Going to Nap. The
Nap was necessary. I will work on Las, but I don't think it is
going up tonight, sorry.
I will be up in a while. I am working on Karnea 1 Chapter 3 or
4.. I did a lot of work trying to perfect the story for the
upcoming Conclave. I look at what I have written, now so long
ago, I just now sculpting to become better.
As for Northern Ergoth, I so want to have a revolution there,
Maybe not the French Revolution, but it is literally all in my
hands. I'm kidding, but I have a problem with DM'ing here. I
personally do not like inequality and this keeping women in
their place is bull crap, it just destroys me inside writing
this stuff at times when it has to go there. It's so strange
that the only named child of the Emperor is a girl and that
these stupid laws are still in effect. The next Pretor is a
woman, I must admit I had no idea they even let women into the
Cavaliers with their backward ways. When I started this Ergoth
Project, I had no idea how even the Age of Mortals depicted
Northern Ergoth. And the Barbarians up North are no better, they
want to regress everything back, so that is a lose-lose
situation.
So I have considered many scenarios and still considering
scenarios of the Future trajectory of Ergoth and see if we land
in a more favorable place to a more equal place. It would have
solved some of the issues in the new Dragonlance Trilogy, just
saying.
Um, I seem to oscillate between areas. I threw a lot of balls in
the air, or plates spinning, sorry everyone, trying to land it
okay. I have a multitude of names to come up with in the next
couple of days. Trying to move away from these boring monarchs
to the ground-level joes and janes of the world. Just laying
markers for who the rulers are in the world. I want to bring
Knights of Solamnia to the fore and establish this Dragon
Knights order of Good with Elves and Human Dragon Riders. Sorry
for slow-walking the war, it's how I am staying sane at the
moment. Possibly bring some Knights from the Legion of Steel.
Also having to come up with Egothian Names for what is going on
there. Also Wizard names. I hate dealing with names. It is a
black hole that can take hours or days and stops me entirely
from what I want to be doing. -That it. I am done whining about
it.
Going offline to work now. See you soon.
#Post#: 692--------------------------------------------------
Behind the DM's Screen Vol. VII
DIR By: Dungeon Master
Date: December 6, 2023, 1:43 am
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Hello all. I found a file I built a while back called the Empire
of Solamnia and inside had a copious amount of good names, that
cut my time in half to get stuff done, so I am thankful for
finding that.
My friend Adam came through with some Soreel dating system. That
might not mean much to you, but the Conquest of Zeva is already
looking way more authentic and fitting to that world.
I think we are closer to getting his end done for the first part
completed around my framework of a story, though he is going in
a radical direction that I approve of for the Conclave story
that is coming. I am not giving him the whole picture yet, just
pieces, and then we doing the Gaming Session, and I will come
back with the story for the Conclave.
Now that I have Wydara out of jail, I can go forward with that
story. Deara and Sator are coming back soon. The Arena is coming
back soon.
But I am going to try to swing back towards Northern Khur to get
back that story. I was plotting out a road map as per usual.
I have been building two files one for Ergoth and one for
Solamnia, filled with as much information as I can compile into
one place for players, the audience, and for myself the DM.
I have something at 12pm tomorrow, so going to call it a night
soon. I will be back tomorrow.
#Post#: 694--------------------------------------------------
Behind the DM's Screen Vol. VII
DIR By: Dungeon Master
Date: December 8, 2023, 3:32 am
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The most recent Lashia chapter was amusing to write. It's not
that Lashia is a drama machine, She was giving voice to a lot of
the misgivings Talidaar already had been feeling but had already
weighed the good and bad of it and had come to a logical
conclusion.
This plot is insidious. Talidaar can't help himself. Lashia just
had to get some very strong feelings to get off her chest, and
Talidaar continually tried to de-escalate the conversation until
Lashia could conclude that it might be a worthy cause that might
save lives. That is why she is so deflated by the end, Talidaar
was able to get to the High Ground and got her in his arms. It
was not a real fight, none of them ever are between them and it
usually gets ironed out pretty quickly.
I heard from Talidaar's player and we talked about the next
chapter. working on it.
In the Next Talidaar Chapter, Dalamar will return with the White
Robe and they are going to head out to talk down or slay the
Dominant Red Dragon.
Expect Chromatic activity picking up and the Forging of the
Metallic order of Dragon Knights to begin to take shape and
begin their flight to Northern Khur.
I will be furthering everybody's stories including Wydara, but
also Daera and Sator have made great strides in characterisation
and I am going continue to develop.
I am taking down Rotas and Rilla until I get their stories
figured out.
I stayed up writing on Talidaar Chapter Fifteen.
12/14/23
I just need a few days to decompress. I have several projects in
the works, that are just not ready to post. working today on
stuff.
Sitting on the cusp of the 500th post on the site. I want to
make the posts special.
#Post#: 696--------------------------------------------------
Behind the DM's Screen Vol. VII
DIR By: Dungeon Master
Date: December 23, 2023, 7:53 pm
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Kanrea's Player and I got together the other night and gamed out
the Conclave. I am finding as I am writing it up and I am at
Page thirteen and I am not going to get it done inside the 20
Pages, So I am going to have to split the Conclave Chapter into
Two Parts, I hope two Parts.
I am deep into the asides now at the conclave.
It is one of the most dynamic Chapters ever.
It is filling out, between the barebone notes, and the info I
have written across a few different files, it's coming together.
Another couple of days. I want to run a couple of things past
Karnea's player before I publish.
Happy Holidays. Things will be back up soon.
Part two of this message.
Hello all,
I have had to break the Conclave into Two Parts. Part One is 18
pages at this point. I have been obsessing about getting Part
One done. I had to give it to Karnea's player to look over it
and see if he approves it before I post it.
I am now pouring myself into obsessing about getting Part 2
done. I figure I should have it done during the week sometime.
Lots of plots and twists and turns and everything I have been
setting up for months is coming to a head.
#Post#: 700--------------------------------------------------
Behind the DM's Screen Vol. VII
DIR By: Dungeon Master
Date: December 31, 2023, 9:12 pm
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Happy New Year all!!!
Well, I have been able to post the first two parts of the
Conclave along with the First Interlude. I have been working to
craft this story for months, listing Adam in parts of the story,
but not giving him the full picture until it was complete and we
were able to game it out. What a satisfying and overwhelming
event that turned out to be so stuffed I had to break it into
parts.
With Interlude One, I was able to introduce Aravis and with the
previous stories of Karnea and the Dark God stories, I was able
to hint at her existence enough that a proper reintroduction was
warranted. It was my first time using the Fetch creature. An
awesome gem of a creature that I have had the ultimate patience,
waiting nearly Twenty-Five years to unleash the creature clearly
out of the blue. I had just never found a proper occasion to use
the Fetch. I feel it was the proper creature for the moment and
that makes it all the more special in the end. I love that my
player did not see it coming. He is as experienced a gamer as
you can get, so this was a triumph in some ways to pull this off
without alerting him a mile away.
It pains me I had to cut up the Conclave story, but it would not
fit the page count, but the parts are coming out. I am finishing
the two last parts of the story along with the second Interlude.
My DM End of 2023 Year awards for the site so far
End of Year Awards for the Damn Forum
Best new NPC of 2023 is the Clockmaker, Christine Rennikar
Best Legacy Character of 2023 goes to Karnea with the runner-up
being Talidaar, and close after that, Wydara
Best New Character of 2023 goes to Daera
Best Couple of 2023 goes to Talidaar and Lashia
Best Opening Scene of 2023, goes to Marilee, The Crash of
Marilee, and her Griffon mount.
Most Violent Scene of 2023 goes to the Wildrunner Finale against
the Sligs
Best 1v1 goes to Karnea and the Red Dragon
Best WTF Moment of 2023 goes Aravis and the Fetch climbing out
of the Full-Size mirror.
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