I want to play too, and sadly my campaign is not concluding because you guys are not killing the bad guys fast enough. Seriously, you guys have at least another four sessions to go. Deleted some ranting here that gave away too much of the plot.

How long do you think you want to go per session Atras? My only problem with 9pm EST is that I absolutely have to stop by 12 EST so I can wake up the next morning (GETTING TOO OLD FOR THIS SH--T as my hero would say). I could log on at 7 or 8. Also I am free Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Possibly Saturday night.

Hey! Tsurras is doing the best he can. Considering he's usually the ONLY tank and sometimes the ONLY healer, it can be tough on the big guy.

Nosferatu, id love be a part of your campaign as well but my first loyalty is to kingmob's campaign which makes Wednesday nights a non-starter for me. At least, until we've defeated all of Kingmob's various foes and Tsurras has crushed the dark crystal under his mighty clawed foot.

Also, I think you might be underestimating the time it takes to get things done in FG2. Three hours might be difficult to start, get through a noncombat and combat encounter and wrap things for the week, especially if not everybody is there on time. Definitely takes some herding.

Lastly, I think I might make a suggestion to both you and kingmob: If you have in-game info (notes and the like) that you wish to share with the party that will be important later on, you might want to consider emailing them or posting them on a wiki, after they've been revealed in game (I prefer email myself). Since (at least as far as I know) FG2 doesnt allow players to keep GM generated notes, it can be hard to remember and then refer back to past info if it isn't readily at hand. Just a thought.

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Bent's referring to the things you reveal to us in-game, like the letters and what-not. FG2 doesn't cache those for us so that we can read them later. I don't thing anyone expects you to summarize the session by any means, but the posting of the chat log at least is very handy.

As to character level, we're more or less just hitting level 2 right now, so unless there's significant inflation, it seems unlikely that we'd be above 3. On the other hand, I wouldn't mind starting from 1 again with a new character. It would be more accessible to newcomers that way. (Plus KingMob, being the DM, doesn't have a character yet.)

If we end in two sessions I don't think you guys will hit level 3. But I'll probably give each of you something nice.

I was planning on starting a level 2 character with one level 3 magical item, if I played with you guys. Up to Atras of course, but it didn't seem too unbalancing to me. Probably a Dwarven two-handed fighter, since the group doesn't have any fighters and I like fighters. If Benticore isn't playing Tsurras and we're starting at lvl 1 however, I'll play anything.

Atras, do you know the Fallcrest setting in the back of the DMG? Just to warn you, if they play their old characters they'll start with a good reputation in Fallcrest, but they won't really be welcome in Witchlight Swamp.

Ack...I meant Atras, not Nosferatu...Sorry.

Also, if we have one large encounter or two small ones, I will definitely be 3rd level since I'm knocking on the door now.

If we get to keep our characters great! If not, I've got a wicked voodoo juju cleric named Thalamus ready to roll out and rattle the bones...

And I always forget to update my wiki. I've got to get better about that.

Benticore
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Hey Atras,

I would definitely be interested in playing. So far, any night would be good for me.

I'm thinking along the lines of a Two-Blade Ranger as a char but I would be starting out at 1st level.

I'll be watching this campaign closely. I took a look at the 1st installment of this latest adventure path and it doesn't seem anything close to the quality of AP put out by those fine folks at Paizo publishing. This saddens me. I am too lazy to write my own 4th edition adventures from scratch but all the published 4E adventures from WOTC are just a string loosely connected combat encounters. I look forward to seeing your opinions on the quality of this new AP.

My feeling would be to go up to 6 players (at least) each with their own character. Again, if KingMob's game is a reasonable guide, not everyone will be able to show up for every session. And when we do all show up, it's generally pretty easy to scale combat encounters appropriately by adding and extra critter or two in 4E. The downside to this is that we have to strain a bit to explain why characters are showing up and leaving willy-nilly. But it may be a price we're willing to pay to let everyone play with a character of their own.

The first part of Scales of War seems to be more combat-oriented, but I think there is enough room for role playing.

On the Fantasy Ground front, I am looking at what is the best way to do combat. I got a huge number of really nice tokens to use for all sorts of monsters, but they are all much, much bigger than the ones that come default with FG2. Should I go ahead and start resizing them so that they are the same size as the letters (for small sizes), a little larger for Medium, double for Large and quadruple for bigger? Also, does anyone have tips for Monster creation in the tool? I started off making a Personality for each monster type, then copying the XML for those until I had the right number of NPCs. This took a while, and I recently noticed that I don't have to make 1-x copies of a type. Basically, I'd like to have a list of Monster NPCs that I can drag into various encounters.

Not sure if you've seen the tutorials from Xorn on Fantasy Grounds but it has a great tutorial on how to make the D&D Miniatures into tokens.

Here's the link for the tutorials:

http://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8769

And I'm still interested in playing.

Just a quick question. I'm assuming that if you are joining a game just as a player (even if you have the full version of FGs), that it does not matter if you have any rule-set loaded. However, if it does matter, there is a new version of the rule-set for 4E FGs (V1.0.2). Will you be using this version or V 1.0.1?

http://www.fouruglymonsters.com/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=42&func=view&id=2166&catid=41