DIR Return Create A Forum - Home
---------------------------------------------------------
The Damn Forum mkIII
HTML https://thedamnforum.createaforum.com
---------------------------------------------------------
*****************************************************
DIR Return to: DM Archives
*****************************************************
#Post#: 1027--------------------------------------------------
Behind the DM's Screen Vol. VIII
DIR By: Dungeon Master
Date: October 18, 2024, 3:18 am
---------------------------------------------------------
Post Eleven
I am going quiet for a couple of days. I want to craft the next
few stories and take my time and not worry about my output. I
have gotten along many stories of late and I will add, nearly
singlehandedly (along with great help) brought to life some
dormant and torpid characters and brought Soreel back to life by
almost sheer force of will. Zeva is living and breathing again
and I am finding Lucius finally. Still deciding the direction I
am going with him.
Going to spend some time with Talidaar, Rage, and Dalamar in 429
AC. Also With Rian down, the Speaker, Lashia, and Longshot are
in danger.
I have more Coryn ready to come out. It's going to be a month
before we see anything from Karnea. Zeva has a chapter coming. I
am closer to deciding how Ergoth is going to play out. Speaking
of Ergoth, we got forward movement of Darius Desaad. It went in
a very unexpected direction I think. I decided this might be a
fun avenue to play for a time and make Darius nearly the only
one that knows. It is like an old Twilight Zone episode. And
Karnea will be coming to town eventually, we will see how that
plays out.
I feel good about where everyone is. I will go back and focus on
Rilla eventually. But I feel good about things when I think
about what has been accomplished. Sorry things are so slow. I am
sorry things are not written better. But I hope people are
enjoying the stories and the characters. I think most of the
characters and NPCs are likable, for the most part, even if they
are evil or neutral. Sorry, not sorry about my diversion into
Soreel history and creating frenzy, but this opens a whole other
avenue of creative expression. I try to give this stiff the
dignity of treating the world, the characters, and the
circumstances with a level of seriousness and maturity it
deserves.
Forgive me for taking a break for a couple of months. I think
writing the Dwarf story took years off my life and I tried to
recover but I never did and I have been recovering since.
#Post#: 1028--------------------------------------------------
Behind the DM's Screen Vol. VIII
DIR By: Dungeon Master
Date: October 18, 2024, 3:19 am
---------------------------------------------------------
Post Twelve
Greetings,
That Coryn Chapter Eleven was like a lightning bolt striking the
game. I'm sure some have read the Fistandantius novel and we
felt how ever we felt about it, but I was left feeling a little
unsatisfied, so in my game, I am doing something a little
different. This will not turn into a sprawling story of who
killed Laura Palmer, but it is meant to hang out there. I have
been dropping clues from the beginning of Karnea's game that
something was going on out there in the Ansalon, specifically..
well, I can't come right and say it yet. You might even know
who did it if you have been paying attention. But I don't blame
you if you haven't been. It's okay. I have had to be subtle when
I have not been banging a drum. This is going to be an ongoing
story and it comes out now for a lot of reasons, One the Tower
of Nightlund had to be opened up. Karnea is heading into the
endgame of Story II by facing off against her former first
student, the Wild Mage Analis.
Karnea is now set to try to track down those who attacked her
daughter, not sure how far she is going to get with that, but it
will be an ongoing situation, so it's time to dump this other
problem onto the fire and wait for it to blow up for her in the
future.
I have had to reason out the Grand Laboratory situation for
years because Karnea's player has wanted to walk in there and
take those books from Day One. This is going to set him off, but
it's not like I am just going to hand over those books on a
platter. Those books are one set of the keys to the kingdom.
There has to be a little bit of pain to exchange for these
books. And pit one of the greatest Wizards of his age against
the greatest wizard of this age. and also what would happen if
he attached to her, not that I'm going to that, but that would
be very bad.
I have enjoyed getting Darius Desaad's story moving forward. How
do you scare the hell out of a Black Robe, tell him the vampires
of the city are watching him.
The Death of Lydia Ravenheart. Rian
This was long planned. The reason she took the name Rian, was
that was her birthname among the elves, and she was going back
home to try to shed Lydia and be who she might have been, she
got lost in it but remembered in the end what she needed to do.
I Have been waiting for all this time for Terrex to go after the
Speaker of Sun and Stars and for Rian/Lydia to die out and she
yells this and saves the Speaker from Terrex. I know it was out
of nowhere, I wanted people to forget about Terrex. It might
only mean something to a small number of you, but it was how I
wanted to close out that story. I am sad. She has been there
since nearly the beginning. All of her ups and downs, the stuff
from sideways, and all the hell she suffered. It's cathartic for
me for her to go out this way, I can't think of a more poetic
way for her to have given her last breath to mean something. I
would have liked her to have a future, but I think she went out
doing what was important for her in the end.
Going to try to get Talidaar, Rage, and Dalamar to the Red
Dragon here soon. Getting closer to dealing with Northern
Ergoth.
I am working on more to come.
Chapter drops will happen after Midnight going forward.
Taking a couple of days between drops to take some pressure off.
#Post#: 1029--------------------------------------------------
Behind the DM's Screen Vol. VIII
DIR By: Dungeon Master
Date: October 18, 2024, 3:20 am
---------------------------------------------------------
Post Thirteen
Tonight was filler episodes, but I would argue they fill in some
gaps and lead to bigger and better things.
Maybe some of you noticed, but I repurposed a Talidaar Chapter
and put it over in Lord Rage's chapter. The Chapter was generic
enough to serve Rage as well as it did for Talidaar, only it
will work better with Lord Rage to get him roped into the story
headed south.
Wydara moves forward a bit. I am set up to start writing it
again. I have been scared to move forward in 429 AC Ergoth
because the Emperor of Ergoth in a strange spot and I want to
take advantage of it, but I have not figured out just now until
now. Now things can move forward on Ergoth when that Emperor of
Ergoth story comes out.
Coryn's next chapter will be calling all the white robes to
Nightlund. Now we have the start of a school set up at the
Tower, setting things up for the future of the order. Things are
going to move forward for the former academy students, I now
have homes for all of them and know where they are.
I am also dealing with Zeva's next Chapter, in which it will be
Week Three and the Navy arrives to Arun and Operation Sidewinder
will begin.
I will see you in a few days. Going to try to get a Las in
Ergoth chapter going and bring back the kids Daera and Sator.
That is a goal for the coming days. Expect more Wydara,
Talidaar, Lashia, and the Speaker and more Coryn.
Things are good with Karnea's next two Chapters. Adam and I game
sometime soon, at this point we are headed into the End Game
with Karnea Book II. We Have these two Chapters at the Tower and
then we are going for Analis. With the next Karnea Chapters, we
are going to game with Lucius, so his story is tied Karnea and
Aravis for now.
#Post#: 1030--------------------------------------------------
Behind the DM's Screen Vol. VIII Karnea Chapter Three Chapters
of Karnea Story II and Chapter Three of Lucius
DIR By: Dungeon Master
Date: October 18, 2024, 3:21 am
---------------------------------------------------------
Post Fourteen
My player Adam (No relation to the Adam that makes wonderful
Dragonlance Sage Videos) told me when we were doing the
Conclave, that he would need some time to settle the new people
in and prepare for the coming fight. I did not get a lot of time
to depict Karnea preparing, but things were settling into place.
I mourn the cut scenes with the Red Robe Madon, but he was less
interesting than everything else I had to cover in these
Three-packed Chapters. As it was I had to forgo all my usual
touches. No battles or fights, just lots of interesting stuff
happening.
I have decided to open an Aravis File for her own. I forgot how
wonderful she is, how domineering her plot is, and the family
dynamics. Nobody else can talk to Karnea like Aravis can and I
just love it. I read it and laugh and laugh. I love how much of
a mean person Karnea can be at any moment of the day or night,
especially to her daughter. She is Savage, most times I don't
notice it, but when it calls for it, I find even writing for her
it just comes out like claws. I had something earlier in these
last three stories where I wrote it and edited it down because
her being mean was the right choice. Wait until you see what she
pulls out on Coryn. Adam does not know yet, But Karnea is about
to get savage on Coryn in Story III. It is beautiful.
I had to put a lot of things in place in these three chapters
and in Lucius, chapter three Reunited we have an important
conversation between Aravis and Lucius, settling things once and
for all and figuring a way forward together when matters on
Krynn are settled.
Everything is lined up now. Dalamar's appearance I have been
holding back for so long and now that he has arrived, it is
nearly done, he arrives to provide the final puzzle piece. It is
nice to finally see them aligned again.
everything just fell into place. I gave Adam sides that informed
him of some plots, but I needed Aaravis and Karnea's
conversations as only Adam can provide all the right little
touches without knowing the other bombshell things that would be
happening.
I love the Trio's Shopping trip of Karnea, Aravis, and Eris to
Palanthas to make good on the promise to Aravis to get her Robes
to her specifications.
I have made good on most of the points I wanted outlined at the
beginning of the Karnea Story. She has gathered all her
potential enemies to her side within the order. Each is deadly
and capable in their own ways. Aravis is in place, Azura. It's a
beautiful thing. We gamed all Four Chapters including the Lucuis
Chapter. We went forward a little bit as well with Lucius and
Aravis after Karnea left to "talk" to Analis. Some surprising
things happened there that will bleed into Childen of the Dragon
Queen and Lucius and will be an adjacent story with Aravis's own
Main Story.
That does not mean we won't see Aravis in future Karnea stories,
she will just be expanded upon in her own story.
Okay, I am going to be focusing on the Last Two Chapters, the
Penultimate and Finale of Karnea Story II then we will take a
little break and come back for Story III while also getting some
Story One done one of these days.
#Post#: 1031--------------------------------------------------
Re: Behind the DM's Screen Vol. VIII
DIR By: Dungeon Master
Date: October 18, 2024, 3:22 am
---------------------------------------------------------
Post Fifteen
I'm still in the post-writing experience of having put out this
section of the story in the run-up to the end of Karnea Story
Two. All of a sudden on I am on the cusp of finishing the
penultimate and finale of this story. I am kind of in shock, I
never thought it would reach here. This will take me a few weeks
to make sure it is all ready. My Friend Adam and the player of
Karnea had no idea of anything going down except for the asides
I sent him for Karnea and Aravis. They are perfect. Perfect I
tell you. They really pull it out of each other. I gave a list
of talking points about each subject Karnea and Aravis's player
expressed their view on the subjects, Aravis's arguments are
perfect and she probably is the right one to go and negotiate,
but they are getting Karnea instead.
Even though I am taking a break from Karnea for a short time, I
have been writing the first seven Chapters of Story III and it
has been very interesting with this cast of NPCs and Karnea and
Aravis in the Tower and this little town I have built at the
Port. Very surreal I can now turn to some of the worse of the
worse Black Robes and they are all here together at the Tower. I
am figuring out the dynamics how the coming Nuitari High
Sanction Gathering along with all the other plots that are going
on. My Hand is healing so I am going to let that continue and
continue to plot stuff out. I hope everyone enjoyed the few
stories that dropped. I finally get to bring in Dalamar the
Dark. I have been saving him for this.
I dropped a message to Adam a couple of weeks ago telling him
Karnea is going to get Three visitors coming to the Island. One
was an agent of Nutari that would assist her, another would be
from another God, that was the Stone Golem of Gilean, and the
Third cannot be described as anything other than WTF!? (We will
find out when this third visitor is seen at the end of Chapter
Twenty.)
So then Adam reads the Jenna Chapter where Dalamar is talking to
Jenna and Karnea's name is not mentioned but they are talking
about her and Adam came to me asking if Dalamar was coming to
the Island, and I had to break it to him gently because he has
spent all weekend thinking about it before getting back to me. I
had to break it gently and let him think about it because it
could have all gone badly if done any other way. I still was not
sure how things were going to go. But Dalamar supplied the right
information and played his cards right and made the right Khas
moves. Whew. That could have gone badly.
And now we move into the End Game. This has been a very
interesting Epic game to plan for. Karnea may be 25th Level but
not everything can be solved with Magic and this story was to
establish her building up her Power Base at the Tower. The tower
is stacked now. Now Karnea is a geopolitical figure now on the
big stage. I still have some place setting to do but I have
already buried the secrets of the coming stories and I am
deciding when we are getting to them considering I have a very
short time to deal with Aravis, I will miss her, but I want to
bring her back in the future. But I am going to do the most with
while she is here to hopefully give her the desire to come back
and forth from Soreel.
#Post#: 1032--------------------------------------------------
Behind the DM's Screen Vol. VIII
DIR By: Dungeon Master
Date: October 18, 2024, 3:23 am
---------------------------------------------------------
Post Sixteen Update
Hello all, My break was good for me, to my mind and body, but I
am going back to work on writing the next chapters. The last set
of stories took a lot out of me. Focusing on the Final two
Chapters for Karnea for Story Two. Starting up an Aravis Topic
for her future stories, that will overlap with Karnea.
Going to be posting the next parts to Lucius and Wydara Story
II.
Post Seventeen
Greetings, Hope people are well. Recently, I have brought the
recent Coryn's stories to Adam's (Karnea's player) attention. I
thought If I posted it, he would notice and I would get an angry
message, but as the months went on, I realized he must not have
seen the Coryn Stories that would have implications for Karnea.
We have been in contact and we are factoring her response in the
next story chapter. This weekend Adam should be running his RPG
game with his family and I am giving him a wide berth as we know
new beginnings require a wide berth. I have cut down some
storylines and am going to incorporate them into the other
stories I have going, most notably in Northern Ergoth.
I am just going to put it out there, Some of these stories are
going to be wrapping up here in a couple of weeks, I am going to
be opening up the game to new players and characters in this
setting. If interested, please contact the DM for possible
inclusion in future games.
Post Eighteen
Greetings.
We will be Gaming on Monday and doing the Penultimate Chapter
with Karnea and Dalamar. Plus, the mystery at the Nightlund
Tower of High Sorcery will be revealed to Karnea and we will see
her reaction. We will also be revisiting Aravis on the Bloodsea
Isle.
Post Nineteen
Chapter 19 of Karnea the Master of the Black Robe is coming
soon. We just finished. I am going to spend a little while with
the outcome, it brought us right up to the doorstep to see
Analis.
We did not touch on Aravis and Lucius back at Blood Sea, a
misstep of mine, I should pushed for it, but it seemed like we
got through what I had planned through a grueling gaming session
involving Dice roles and surviving the Northern Wastes of
Solamnia, in the search for the City of Lost Names.
I will have the Chapter Out in a day or two.
Post Twenty
Greetings,
I am 80% of the way finished with Chapter 19. It is a beefy
chapter at Ten pages so far. Pretty sure I am going to have to
split it into two parts. Aravis will be getting some chapters
here soon. I would say it is coming out tonight or tomorrow.
Post Twenty One
Greetings, offering an update, I am refining things as I go
along on Chapter 19. I had to give descriptions of the monsters
they faced and still have to write their arrival to the City of
Lost Names. Another day or so and I will post it. it is a story
where things I have been plotting all along are now coming to
fruition. I am so happy because Adam has not figured out who it
is yet from a couple of Clues I gave him. 1. That the person
that did it has been to the Tower of Blood Sea and 2. they have
been in the same room as Karnea. That's what gets him. For
anyone that has been keeping up with Coryn will be blown away by
Karnea's reaction to the Mystery of Nightlund. Anyway, getting
back to work on it. I am sorry to keep you waiting. I think it
is a two-parter
#Post#: 1033--------------------------------------------------
Behind the DM's Screen Vol. VIII
DIR By: Dungeon Master
Date: October 18, 2024, 3:23 am
---------------------------------------------------------
Post Twenty Two
Karnea the Master of the Black Robe Penultimate Chapter 19: The
Mystery of Nightlund, and the Dangers of the North Parts One and
Two is completed and posted. Dalamar the Dark joins Master
Karnea as they enter the Northern Wastes in search of the City
of Lost Names where they might find Analis, Karnea's first
apprentice, now possibly turned Renegade and at the very least
leads the Primal Socererer Movement.
I did not know Karnea was going to to react like that still to
this day, nearly 30 Years later to those Earth Elementals like
that. When they came up on the die roll for the Random
Encounters, I thought well, this might be interesting to see
play out and it was more than I could have ever expected. I
mean, I knew it affected her way back when, but as I say in the
story, I thought she conquered that fear. I think that humanizes
this epic Character. I also had Adam write out how Karnea
interacts with her Statis Clone, I thought it was a beautiful
scene. I feel quite accomplished Karnea had to grow a Statis
Clone to be ready to face her first apprentice.
Putting Dalamar and Karnea together finally here at the end has
been something I have been waiting for. They were a good team
way back when, so it was amazing to see them working together
again after so long.
Adam and I worked on how Karnea would react to Coryn and the
mystery of Nightlund. I sent what I thought Karnea would say and
Adam added spice to it and made it a really great scene and an
evaluation of that relationship that started off so strong.
I hated having to split this into two Parts, it worked so well
being one piece, but oh well. I'm just glad it is done so I can
get ready for the Finale of Book Two.
Well, now Karnea knows about the Mystery of Nightlund. it is
something I have been planning in the background back since
Chapter Four. I'm very proud of this mystery and we will see how
this plays out. I hope I get to play a little bit longer before
the person is revealed.
I say this, I would not have entered this plot thread into the
game if it was just Fistandantilus Reborn in existence. it was
the short story from Relics and Omens, "The Restoration" and
its unresolved ending that gave me the impetus to pursue this
plotline. This seemed like the perfect foe to use against
Karnea, somebody as smart and challenging as her since she
stands head and shoulders above the other wizards of Krynn
today.
Post Twenty Three
Greetings all.
I am posting here to keep you in the loop. I have needed some
recovery time from a Year straight of intensive storytelling and
have needed time to get back to it.
I hope to get some stories going and complete some stories. I
set everything up for a Dragon War and at the cusp, I think it
will be more of skirmishes and a Battle, and finally dealing
with Rage, Talidaar, and the Mages and the Giant Dragon in the
Mountain.
Karnea heads into her finale of Book II in the City of Lost
Names finally facing off with her first Apprentice Analis. I
hope everyone has enjoyed this attempt to take on the rebuilding
of the Order and the establishment of the Blood Sea Tower in
this new Era, post The Dark Disciple Trilogy by Margert Weiss
(Dark Disciple Trilogy appears in Karnea Book I that is still
ongoing) I think I have nearly accomplished everything I wanted
to introduce, whilst setting things in motion for the stories to
come. We will be moving right into Book III as Karnea has a lot
on her plate after she deals with Analis, the player tells me
Karnea is staying home for a while at the Tower, but I do have a
meeting with Lord Toade and another trip to Sigil planned to
come soon. We have had a great time coming together, I am truly
honored to DM for the player of Karnea. He has been a great
partner in telling these stories in this forum. I never give him
the whole story, just little pieces and he is always surprised
at how the story plays out and the left turns I introduce.
One of my favorite things has been bringing Aravis back into
Karnea's life and getting to see Karnea as a mother again for
the sheer pleasure of it. It both humanizes her and makes her
even more nasty at times. Nobody at all can talk to Karnea like
Aravis can and gets away from it but he gets right back. I
leave the interchange of conversation between Aravis and Karnea
to Adam. If I know an interchange is coming up, give him a heads
up and set the scene and the subject being discussed and just
let him go and some awesome stuff has come from that. the Talk
about Analis- and he more than delivered. I say to Adam, Karnea
is going to take Aravis to Palanthas to get her new Robes and
there he goes writing about Aravis getting pricked and prodded
by the Dressmaker.
He is going to be away from a computer for a week here soon.
He and I are working out some Aravis stories that preceded
Lucius's abduction. They have six days together without Karnea
being at Blod Sea Isle before Lucius is taken below the sea. I
have already written what directly happens with Aravis after he
was taken and have passed it off to Adam to look over give
Aravis's reactions and and what she is doing. The story shows
Lady Selene in action as Karnea's chosen Right hand to handle
matters at the Tower while she is away. Selene and Aravis have a
friendship that stretches back to before the Chaos War at
Scallsea. So Lady Selene jumps into action to help. I have all
that written, just waiting to see what comes back from Adam for
Aravis.
I hope to tackle Darius Desaad Chapter, and a Wydara Chapter, I
am going to try to get the Kids back in somehow soon. I miss
them.
I want to get Lashia and Talidaar back together, they are one of
my favorite couples in my RPG.
Anyways, take care all.
Post Twenty For 7/7/2024
Greetings,
I have decided to do one of these tonight. I have been
attempting to get some stories that have been stalled and up and
running again, going to try to maintain that effort.
I have a big multi-part Wydara chapter coming detailing the
Games that determine who is in the Emperor's final games of the
season. Going to cover six matches of this semi-final series of
Matches, I have callbacks galore going back to the first set of
games the game had. Rivalries will build to the Finals coming up
later in Wydara's story, but they are coming up soon, Winter is
coming and we are deep into Fall already. Las is coming with
Daera and Sator, and even Mikal is coming.
In Northern Khur
Going to get to the Dragon Fight with Lord Rage and Talidaar.
Longshot is missing from Inath Wakenti
I have plans to get Damara going and get this Dragon Battle
going.
In Soreel
Things are getting hot in Soreel Space. Things are going just as
I want them on Soreel. Things are going so well, the Creator of
Soreel is starting to let me know what Zeva is doing and calling
out her actions. This is perfect for me. By plotting what I have
plotted, it is making it interesting enough for my friend to
start playing again and that is magic to me.
Also, I hope people are liking He Who Knows. A new Bad Guy in
Soreel, or as Zeva calls him Mr. Nobody.
Information Pages
I have been focusing on some Information Pages and it has helped
me put the information down to be able to find it easily,
allowing me not to have to look through my notes all the time.
It is there for the DM and my players. It has been very
enjoyable collecting this information from my notes and putting
it all in one place. Also allows me to see where I have used
names before. I found it has been invaluable in working on
Karnea and the player uses it all the time. I think Talidaar's
is pretty good now. I can't believe I have all those dates for
Weddings and Kids birthdays. Being anal all those years ago has
paid off in dividends.
#Post#: 1034--------------------------------------------------
Behind the DM's Screen Vol. VIII New Aravis Topic is coming
DIR By: Dungeon Master
Date: October 18, 2024, 3:25 am
---------------------------------------------------------
Post Twenty-Five
Greetings,
I have gotten my hands on some vignettes from Adam for Aravis.
It is important to me to Establish Aravis's time on the Island,
in the Tower before things go south with Lucius. I am working on
a couple of Aravis Chapters that I will post in a little while.
I am working on Lashia, and Talidaar, and Lord Rage, and dusting
Winding Book II off from its slumber. also, the Multi-part
Chapters for the Semifinal Games with Wydara and the Kids sit
down in an arena to watch the Gladiatorial Games but I have
something going on Wydara before the Games begin, I do not know
if she will be in a condition to watch the games.
Also, I have been writing last night the Finale of Karnea Book
II. I wrote the opening paragraphs for Karnea and her first
Apprentice. I had to pull myself away to get sleep because I was
getting manic.
Not doing that tonight. But I am going to write for a while. It
has been good to get with these characters again. Sorry, it is
slow going, even worse because Adam will be away all week, so
it's all on me this week. I also have some Zeva coming out soon.
I am in full writing mode again and it feels great.
New Aravis Topic has opened with two vignettes about Aravis and
her connections to the people of the Blood Sea Tower in Chapters
entitled A Friend and Perfection. I appreciate these insights
into Aravis.
New Wydara- The unstoppable Ackalite Barbarian Gladiator I built
up over Book One and that escaped beyond the grasp of the
Emperor and has delayed his Justice is now messing with the
well-being of Wydara's school. Wydara has weighed her options
and has decided the only thing she can do to save her school is
to kill the Ackalite. Look for Wydara and Las hunting down the
Ackalite in the lands of Northern Ergoth.
Post Twenty Six Much to do.
Okay, I am taking a couple of days to put together the most
recent games. A lot going on. Some games were stalled, but we
are moving forward.
The Stories that are going to be hot coming up for various
reasons:
422 AC Karnea Story Two Finale -Facing her first Apprentice, a
Mistress of Chaos
429 AC Lord Rage Story One -Facing the Dragon
429 AC The Hierophant Story Three -Facing the Dragon
429 AC Lashia Story One -At Blood Sea Tower Isle with Longshot
the Kender
429 AC Damara Ambrodel Windrider Story Two: Dragonriders -Dragon
Battle
Wydara Story Two -Wydara and Las hunt down the unbeatable,
unkillable, Ackalite Barbarian from the north.
Las in Ergoth -Wydara and Las hunt down the unbeatable,
unkillable, Ackalite Barbarian from the north.
Post Twenty Seven Deciding what to write on at the moment, and
mini rant about Dungeons and Dragons
For all of the 429 AC characters it has been building, All I
have to write is three stories to set off the Battle, in the
air.
The Dwarves took a lot out of me. I poured myself into the
Chosen of Reorx. I have needed months and months to recover. I
am at that cusp, the pebble that will cause a rockslide.
When I created the Ackalite Barbarian, I kind of only had a
vague idea about where was headed, His Stories was going to be a
bloodfest, but there is nothing great about his people or about
his way of thinking, and while I did consider having him become
a problem for the Emperor on Northern Ergoth, I think this
ultimately makes the most sense for the political situation
Wydara finds herself in.
Switching gears, How is my kender? I hope he is not driving
everyone crazy, but at the same time, kender is supposed to be a
little annoying. I just hope he finds some fans that are on his
side.
Deciding what to do at this very moment. I think Damara is one I
will work on, it's almost done. I have to see where I am for
Zeva, I have had a moment of crisis with Karnea Story Three and
have started over. There is getting to be so much going on in
Karnea's world, I am trying to guess what Karnea/Player Adam is
going to decide the biggest threat and what is the biggest
thread to pull on. I eliminate many threads in the Finale of
Book Two. So I am having to reevaluate.
I so wish I could have a back-and-forth with the people that
come here. Judging where Margett Wiess and Tracy Hickman are
going in their Third Book could and very well is likely to
render the Age of Mortals to never have existed in the first
place. Look, I am not defending what Wizards did to them in
Summer Flame. They did miracles with the War of Souls. I am
trying to show the Age of Mortals Post the War of Souls is a
viable place to go. Stories can be told. I have no idea the
configuration of craziness that might come from their book, I
have to say, I have not been much of a fan of it, and I have
loved nearly everything from them. I don't know what's going on.
I may be on a temporal Island until I can figure out how to deal
with any fallout of their books. I am not happy right now I have
to say, with the state of the Dungeons of Dragons landscape, I
suppose it could be worse. That rant is over.
I am going to go write.
Post Twenty Eight
Taking a week to see what I can get done. I had been sitting on
Aravis Chapter for a little while. Trying to see if I have
anything I have been holding off on. I will drop things when
they are completed. Thank you for your patience. I think Adam is
back soon, more things will be coming soon.
#Post#: 1035--------------------------------------------------
Behind the DM's Screen Vol. VIII
DIR By: Dungeon Master
Date: October 18, 2024, 3:26 am
---------------------------------------------------------
Post Twenty-Nine Taking Stock of Where we are and where we have
been so far...
I calculated the Games, and sessions so far. Thirty-Seven
Stories/Games broken down like this:
Also, everything is mostly in Order from the bottom going up. As
far as Time period and order of happening, even with Crossovers.
Just so we can all keep it in order.
Taking a step back and looking at the Mosaic of the Game so far.
Twenty-Three Open Ongoing Stories/Games
429 AC Wydara Blood and the Arena Story Two
429 AC Knight of the Black Rose Story One The Return of Lord
Rage
Sargonnas Ascendant (Happens outside of Time and Space)
429 AC Hierophant of Chislev Story Three: Open War (Will End
Soon)
429 AC The Windrider Story Two: Dragonriders
429 AC Lashia the Wizardess Windrider
429 AC Thick as Thieves (stalled, will rescue soon)
429 AC Las in Ergoth Story One
429 AC The Lords of Neraka (stalled, will rescue soon)
429 AC The Royal Court of the Speaker of the Sun and Stars
Gilthas Kanan Story One: Pathfinder
429 AC War to Retake Qualinesti (stalled, will rescue soon)
429 AC The Chosen of Reorx Story Two: The Quest for The Stone
Dragon
423 AC Coryn the White -Rise of Solamnia-
423 AC Highmage of High Sorcery Master Jenna of the Red Robe
423 AC Karnea Master of Black Robe Story Three: Power Moves
423 AC Aravis Daughter of the Black Moon (On Krynn)
Observations of the Gray Voyager (Happens outside of Time and
Space)
423 AC Heir of the Empire: Prince Lucius d'Janikar (On Krynn)
53 ST Grand Empress Zeva: Reign of the Saint (On Soreel)
423 AC Darius Desaad: Dark Wizard of Gwynned
The Children of the Dragon Queen (Happens outside of Time and
Space)
421 AC Karnea Master of the Black Arts Story One: Rise to Power
280 AC A Druid's Tale: The Story of Talidaar Story Two: A Larger
World Years 18-
Fourteen Finished Stories/Games
429 AC Rian Half-Elven Rogue Knight of the Skull Story Three
429 AC The Rogue Knight of the Skull Story Two: The Death of
Lydia Ravenheart
429 AC Wydara Blood and the Arena Story One
429 AC Return to the Dragon Isles -Sequel to Voyage to the
Dragon Isles
429 AC Hierophant of Chislev Story Two: Escalation
429 AC Knight of the Black Lilly
429 AC Wildrunner Story One Special Mission
429 AC Windrider Story One: Call to Action
429 AC The Knight of the Skull Story One: The Mission to Khur
429 AC The Black Brood
429 AC Hierophant of Chislev Story One: The Inciting Incident
429 AC The Chosen of Reorx Story One: The Chosen
423 AC Karnea Master of Black Robe Story Two: Consolidation of
Power
262 AC A Druid's Tale: The Story of Talidaar Story One: The
Beginning Years 4-18
The Coming Future. The end of many games set in the 429 AC era
will come to an end and we will see some of these characters in
other stories, doing other things and retiring some.
Something I have something coming up is a couple of Knights of
Solmnia Games playing out, one of them during the Half-Giant War
and the formation of the Solamiac Empire including an ongoing
Dragon Knight Series. A Couple of Dwarf Stories including seeing
Torin again. The Knights of Neraka are going to come back after
getting decimated and run out of Neraka. We will see a Return to
War in Qualinesti. The Hierophant will move into a new phase of
life. We are going to see where the kids are going to go.
Waydara is continuing, but I am not sure where. Anyways. Just
some thoughts. Take care.
Karnea continues through the age, along with Aravis and Lucius.
More Zeva on Soreel.
Post Thirty
I don't know that anything is coming out tonight. I have been
working on a few different stories and getting nowhere and in
fact started over two and got nowhere. So I decided to check
through the forum and fix any mistakes that I see while I am on.
I fixed the recent link I put in Lord Rage's Story. I found out
it was linked to itself. and while I find that normal for the
Death Knight, I have fixed the flow to the Hierophant Druid the
Last Leg.
More coming soon.
Post Thirty-One Name Pronunciation Guide for the Characters
In case there is confusion out there.
I will add to this, I just notice people I know wrestle with
some of the names.
Karnea Kar-ne-a
Talidaar Tal-a-dar
Aravis Ara-vis
Wydara Wy-dara
I am working from game notes for Jenna, Lashia, Lucius, Coryn,
Darius, and Wydara tonight, it was very slow going last night
and only had some flashes of brilliance towards the end of the
night, and had to finish writing my thoughts on my pad in bed.
Again, I thank you all for your patience.
#Post#: 1036--------------------------------------------------
Behind the DM's Screen Vol. VIII Explainer
DIR By: Dungeon Master
Date: October 18, 2024, 3:28 am
---------------------------------------------------------
I saw this was on my Top Ten and I was not having it. Any Behind
the DM's Screen that makes it on the DM screen will be reset.
There is no call for my game observations to be more viewed in
the stories themselves, at least that is my knee-jerk reaction.
I will Do this to the Rest of the DM Screen entries. Take care.
*****************************************************
Page 2 of 2
DIR Previous Page