Hello, from the other side.
I feel like Log went as smoothly as it could from our end. The table rarely had a line up. This was helped greatly by people prelogging. We had an incredibly low amount of unexpected things come up at the table which was delightful. ++Ralinwood PCs (and travelers!)
For the time that I did get out of the door, I had fun harassing the lot of you as the NPCs I was out as.
From inside NPC camp, it was a constant flurry of movement and getting mods going. I do believe that there was a lot going out for the numbers we had. If engagement continues to be a problem, opening the door to more volunteers may be a strong consideration to make. Otherwise I fear we're going to see more people forced to being captive audience to other's spotlight.
Careful with the hand shots, particularly in the cold. I didn't get many myself but this was a frequent complaint from my fellow NPCs. Injured NPCs lead to more downtime. When it's already freezing, do your part to not slow down the game. Swing responsibly™.
The Wardens
I think this organization on a whole, from a purely OOG perspective, is something to keep an eye on. There is some great roleplay and dealing with responsibility coming out of it. However, their only ability right now, as Wardens, to respond to threats seems to be to go bang on the door to NPC camp. Or that's the end that I saw this event. It can't be fun for the main response to problems to be to have to go ask for orders. When quick mods go out and the initial reaction is to go bang on the door and ask for orders, there's some problems there. I would personally keep a very close eye on how any plot or PC-PC interactions go with them. My initial reaction so far is that the way the organization is structured causes a roadblock to fun on an OOG level, for both the Wardens themselves, the PCs they interact with, and the NPCs sent out to entertain the players.
One solution may be more attention paid to it from NPC camp but given reasonable limitations of how much attention can be paid to an organization it may be a problem. What I have seen in the guilds/player organizations that have prospered is that they engage a segment of the population with a certain character type and make it easier to provide plot to larger groups of people. As someone that has been involved in most of them, this does lead to some bias on my part, so all of this should be taken with a grain of salt. New to this organization though, the Wardens have instead splintered off numbers from the bounty hunter's guild shortly after it grew. This makes complete in-game sense as a conflict of interest, but as can be pulled from some of the other reviews here, we have to stay cognizant that this is a fantasy realm and we're here to have fun.
I feel like Log went as smoothly as it could from our end. The table rarely had a line up. This was helped greatly by people prelogging. We had an incredibly low amount of unexpected things come up at the table which was delightful. ++Ralinwood PCs (and travelers!)
For the time that I did get out of the door, I had fun harassing the lot of you as the NPCs I was out as.
From inside NPC camp, it was a constant flurry of movement and getting mods going. I do believe that there was a lot going out for the numbers we had. If engagement continues to be a problem, opening the door to more volunteers may be a strong consideration to make. Otherwise I fear we're going to see more people forced to being captive audience to other's spotlight.
Careful with the hand shots, particularly in the cold. I didn't get many myself but this was a frequent complaint from my fellow NPCs. Injured NPCs lead to more downtime. When it's already freezing, do your part to not slow down the game. Swing responsibly™.
The Wardens
I think this organization on a whole, from a purely OOG perspective, is something to keep an eye on. There is some great roleplay and dealing with responsibility coming out of it. However, their only ability right now, as Wardens, to respond to threats seems to be to go bang on the door to NPC camp. Or that's the end that I saw this event. It can't be fun for the main response to problems to be to have to go ask for orders. When quick mods go out and the initial reaction is to go bang on the door and ask for orders, there's some problems there. I would personally keep a very close eye on how any plot or PC-PC interactions go with them. My initial reaction so far is that the way the organization is structured causes a roadblock to fun on an OOG level, for both the Wardens themselves, the PCs they interact with, and the NPCs sent out to entertain the players.
One solution may be more attention paid to it from NPC camp but given reasonable limitations of how much attention can be paid to an organization it may be a problem. What I have seen in the guilds/player organizations that have prospered is that they engage a segment of the population with a certain character type and make it easier to provide plot to larger groups of people. As someone that has been involved in most of them, this does lead to some bias on my part, so all of this should be taken with a grain of salt. New to this organization though, the Wardens have instead splintered off numbers from the bounty hunter's guild shortly after it grew. This makes complete in-game sense as a conflict of interest, but as can be pulled from some of the other reviews here, we have to stay cognizant that this is a fantasy realm and we're here to have fun.
Piece of garbage fire looking Einher.