We will use this thread for OOC communication.  As people and concepts are approved, please feel free to say hi and introduce yourselves.  As for myself, I am Blackstone and I have been part of E! for well over three years now.  I am an experience game master, and while no longer an expert on the Forgotten Realms, I do try to keep up to date as I can without spending books and source material.   I have also ran tabletop Pathfinder and 3.5 games before, but again I will not consider myself a rules lawyer.  If you have any other questions of me please let me know.   I do ask that if you have an issue with the game, myself, how things are run, or another player that if you could send me a PM and we can discuss.  It will be appreciated as I am sure all of us here rather drama be limited to in the game, and not here out of character.   Thanks, and looking forward to working with all of you to bring this concept to life!<br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Rules!</span></strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list" style="list-style-type: decimal;"><li>Be respectful to one another.  No one intends any drama and my experience here on E! is rarely there is any malicious intent, as I do a precursory screening of players and look for such things in post history.  I do ask you send a PM to the person and to me of what the issue is so we can find a way to mediated it for all parties to a solution, and get back to why we are here, to see super heroes given themselves the equivalent of dogs sniffing each other's butts, ie hit each other hard.</li><li>It should not be said, but no Power Gaming or making actions for other players or GM controlled characters without clearing it with them first.  It is possible too add in such phrases as "attempts" or "tries" or other synonyms of said words to your writing as well as your action.  It will be up to said players to decide if the actions happen as you intended them.  In combat only the GM, can determine of combat actions succeed or not. </li><li>There is no posting order, but outside of combat situations do be respectful and if you are on your 8th post and other players have posted once, hold off and give them a chance to respond</li><li>Players are limited to one post in combat situations.  Said post needs the actions your character is allowed to execute during a combat round.  If you have questions, PM me and we can discuss.  I normally am very decent of same day response of PM's.  My goal here is for folks to have fun.  Mind you I will make it challenging too so its not a boring cake walk, but I promise there will be plenty of "Big Damn Hero" moments in this game.</li><li>For combat, players have 7 days to respond.  After day eight I do plan on writing my GM response.  Now granted things might get in my way and delay such, but I am going to make every effort to update with the 8-10 day window of the previous GM post.  If a character has not posted, the GM reserves the right to puppet the character.  Near always said puppetting will take the form of the character taking full defensive action, unless previously coordinated with the player and they have a list of actions for me to use.  Nothing major will happen to said characters unless...</li><li>After three weeks of no contact I will send a PM.  If after six weeks, I cheek your activity and I see you have not logged onto E!, your character will be moved off screen in some fashion, but in such a way they could return to the game.  I understand real life can rear its ugly head and will do my best to keep you in the game.  Also, players making arrangements with me asking to take a leave of absence will have their characters moved off screen in a way so if you do wish to return, we can make it so with as little fuss as possible</li><li>However, players who do not respond back, and if after the 6 week window, I find your E! activity going on post lets say post 87 since you last posted to the game, and no communication has been made, then the player's character will be removed from the game, likely to be used as plot bunny or device in some fashion to include character death.  Players will have their character's removed from the bio page.  I normally do not do this, but at this point it is kind of clear the player has given up on the game and moved on.  I have no issue with it, it happens, yet at the same time I like to think I am fairly easy to approach, and a person taking a minute of their time to send me a PM, even if it is "your game sucks eggs, I quit" is not asking much.</li><li>Once the game drops down to less than 5 active players, I will do my best to recruit more.  However if after a month we still find ourselves in the same boat, we will have frank discussion if player would like to press on and continue to try to recruit, or to say everyone gave it the good ole college try and move on.  I am adult enough to admit when I have messed up and mishandled a game, and I realize everyone's time is precious to them, and would not ask them to invest it in a game which has lacking player interest.</li><li>Placeholder for future rule changes, though I really hope it will not be needed</li></ul><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Notable Threads</span></strong></span><br/>Recruitment Thread (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=286759.0)<br/>OOC Thread (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=287126.0)<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Information Threads</span></strong></span><br/>The Fate War: Hand of the Seldarine NPC's (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=287127.0)<br/>The Fate War: Dorn's Deep NPC's (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=287128.0)<br/>The Fate War: The Horde NPC's (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=287129.0)<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Character Threads</span></strong></span><br/>The Fate War: Faction of Light Character Bio's and Sheets (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=287130.0)<br/>The Fate War: The Horde Character Bio's and Sheets (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=287132.0)<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Game Threads</span></strong></span><br/>Horde Act 1: Only the Best (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=288068.0)<br/>Light Act 1: Late Arrivals (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=288070.0)