12-01-2015, 11:42 AM
This was my first High winter event. I have very mixed feelings about this event. Alot positive and negative.
There were some good innovative ideas used this event that i liked, the tree was the first one, although not everyone got to climb up, its an theme id like to see used again. at first i didnt see a point in climbing up myself, but as i saw more and more people falling and not a lot of enemies dropping i decided to go up, straping my halberd to my back, only to be told to go back down, so thats my bad for taking to long to decide i guess. Most of the combat was fun, as this was my first high winter i didnt know how much combat to expect so i guess its supposed to be just as combat heavy as the rest of the year. The choice with the marbles was fun. The descriptions of the areas were well done, we knew we werent in ralinwood and we knew we were tiny so we can guess what things are supposed to be if we were late to a descriptive hold. The Costumes for this event were very well done, the birds and the Ants were very good in my opinion.
Getting captured by the Spider queen and enslaved was interesting and fun.
ALTHOUGH, it seemed when i went back to her to warn her of Ralinwood's attack against her that it didnt change anything at all, the spiders seemed not really prepared for us at all. I understand that there might have been other factors i cant see, its just disapointing when you dont see result of the decsions you make as a PC.
Also as a side note, in regards to the Racials debate, I didnt care about the power word cower affecting me for 3 seconds as i was told, cause i can choose to Roleplay it however i want, so i choose to Roleplay it as my orc got a pounding headache for the duration. But i ask you all this: Is it fair to nerf my beneficial Racial of immunity to fear to fit your story when you also make me take the full effect of my Negative Racial of being susceptible to charm effects? i dont mind personally cause it could have gone a lot worse, 3 seconds of being feared could have potentially killed me, and getting enslaved is always dangerous.
While the rules are rules i am in the opinion that they can be changed if it benefits the progression of the story/ peoples experiences. I was okay with the decapitate Ruling with the zombie Cat at first, because a shaper ruled it, i had hoped that it would be for the better of the plot that my ability didnt work the way its supposed to. But by the next time we saw the zombie cat, this was not the case, to my perspective, and to many other PC's perspectives, the zombie cat only showed up again to attack us with a group of snakes and cats. This did not contribute to the story at all, the only thing changing the ruling on my decap did was delay the zombie cats death.
Thank you to all the Shapers and NPC's who busted their asses i the cold to make this happen, I did a lot of running and moving this event which was okay with me as it keeps me warm
There were some good innovative ideas used this event that i liked, the tree was the first one, although not everyone got to climb up, its an theme id like to see used again. at first i didnt see a point in climbing up myself, but as i saw more and more people falling and not a lot of enemies dropping i decided to go up, straping my halberd to my back, only to be told to go back down, so thats my bad for taking to long to decide i guess. Most of the combat was fun, as this was my first high winter i didnt know how much combat to expect so i guess its supposed to be just as combat heavy as the rest of the year. The choice with the marbles was fun. The descriptions of the areas were well done, we knew we werent in ralinwood and we knew we were tiny so we can guess what things are supposed to be if we were late to a descriptive hold. The Costumes for this event were very well done, the birds and the Ants were very good in my opinion.
Getting captured by the Spider queen and enslaved was interesting and fun.
ALTHOUGH, it seemed when i went back to her to warn her of Ralinwood's attack against her that it didnt change anything at all, the spiders seemed not really prepared for us at all. I understand that there might have been other factors i cant see, its just disapointing when you dont see result of the decsions you make as a PC.
Also as a side note, in regards to the Racials debate, I didnt care about the power word cower affecting me for 3 seconds as i was told, cause i can choose to Roleplay it however i want, so i choose to Roleplay it as my orc got a pounding headache for the duration. But i ask you all this: Is it fair to nerf my beneficial Racial of immunity to fear to fit your story when you also make me take the full effect of my Negative Racial of being susceptible to charm effects? i dont mind personally cause it could have gone a lot worse, 3 seconds of being feared could have potentially killed me, and getting enslaved is always dangerous.
While the rules are rules i am in the opinion that they can be changed if it benefits the progression of the story/ peoples experiences. I was okay with the decapitate Ruling with the zombie Cat at first, because a shaper ruled it, i had hoped that it would be for the better of the plot that my ability didnt work the way its supposed to. But by the next time we saw the zombie cat, this was not the case, to my perspective, and to many other PC's perspectives, the zombie cat only showed up again to attack us with a group of snakes and cats. This did not contribute to the story at all, the only thing changing the ruling on my decap did was delay the zombie cats death.
Thank you to all the Shapers and NPC's who busted their asses i the cold to make this happen, I did a lot of running and moving this event which was okay with me as it keeps me warm
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An old orc, clad in heavy plate and a loin cloth, wielding a huge Halberd.
( OOG: Thomas Reid. thomasreid@hotmail.ca )
An old orc, clad in heavy plate and a loin cloth, wielding a huge Halberd.
( OOG: Thomas Reid. thomasreid@hotmail.ca )