Events and their innards.

[Kriita Thalocke]

This is suggestion to event creators mainly and it is about moderation in the events.

First is the time.
While it is nice to have full and full event, the 4-6 hour events are bit too long. Especially considering when they start. I do understand the reason for atleast in Shonn's case with family dinners and such.
But the duration of the events can be rather straining if they last for very long time.

So what my suggestion is, is that the events would be nice to be planned in manner that they last from 2-3 hours if possible.

Secondly.
The enemies. While I can understand that a person cannot hit a ghost with a sword and that a giant will be very strong, I atleast personally am getting tired of the butchering in these events.

So an enemy with 10 health points is not bad, an enemy with 6-16 melee and top that with huge amount of strenght, is rather annoying to meet. Why? Because all melee using classes have is melee. No agility no nothing to deal with avoiding hits and alike. Only melee. So an enemy with 6 and more in melee becomes a thing that cannot be stopped.
While I don't moan about not be able to hit and make it kneel. I do moan about the fact that I cannot avoid hits. Yes. Attack it in group at it will increase your chances of staying alive. But if there is two or three greencoats against enemy with 10 melee? They don't stand a chance.

So when you got events that last around 4-6 hours and you get drained of everything and are next to useless in the first two hours...it kinda takes the idea away from rest of the event. Atleast it does to me.

So what I try to emphasize with this thread is.
When you plan an event, do remember to keep in mind who you got with you. We do this to have fun times, so creating an event that is, yes, realistic, but also very very hard to get across the first enemy. That is not serving its purpose. So if you got a group laking plates, serving them with magic immune enemy that eats magic like cereals...it is not going to end well. Or if you got a group of mostly plates, serving them enemy that can kill anyone with one blow and is impossible to defeat in melee is just as pointless.

Also when planning the event, don't make it too broad. While it is nice to have 100 different possibilities, it will also drag out the event indefianately untill it needs to be arruptly broken to get to sleep.

This is to our future event makers to take note of.

[Shonn Bayerleyn]

It is always problematic to determine a time schedule for an event to go through.
To do that I need to streamline your path, making it entirely guided in a one-way corridor with the lone option to turn back and withdraw. Also I cannot determine how long the players need to sort out situations - the last temple visit the Dark Room issue was quite time demanding, where the team waited outside thinking - until Mormin tried with the stones at the main entrance.
Those aspects are a variable that I cannot know, how long the group needs to take a decision; how to bypass an obstable, how much time they devote to RP that among the group and their debate.

I tend to not have "first enemies", or not always. The Brazier thing was something lingering here since your first adventure, but unless someone triggers it, it would not happen.

An opponent with 10 Melee is hard to match, that's a given. Usually though such strong opponents are alone or in a few number, meaning they cannot do more than that much. But the more people are around, either I make monsters massive facerolls or I am to empower them in a way or another. I am quite sure you'd deem a monster that blinks out of melee range all the time as frustrating probably for instance. (And there was one in the Temple, you just have not met it.)

[Kriita Thalocke]

Eh, not entirely as annoying as one that I can't do much but to run away from.

And I am fine with consequenses like when Sunny and Morm went and touched the brazier and it drained them. Those are hazards and suprises.

But those enemies are no longer suprises. Last moderate enemy I remember was the orcs at Redridge, ones you could actually match and were not so helplessly...useless.

And as for the event and time...yea, it will be more stream lined but...have you watched how people lead IC? Willy will go straight line as does Sunny. Its pretty much that.
Endless possibilities are a nice thought but not neccesarily needed. Multiple choises as how to solve something, that is a different thing.
Also as the time passes and the night turns to morning...people stop thinking, sure they have possibilities but they hardly consider half of them as they are more tired.
That is one point to note as well.

[Danaron Duskworn Raveleyn]

That last issue is something you shouldn't complain/talk about on the forums but bring it with you ICly, I'm all in for creating rp more and talking oocly less, Willy is a young lad from Westfall, joined up in the army and stayed long enough to be promoted and been granded a chance of leadership, if I'm not mistaking, come up with arguments ICly, I'm all in for that.

[Kriita Thalocke]

Haha, I am not complaining about their leadership skills Morm, its all fun and games. And most of all RP

But I am just pointing out is that such huge variety in directions are not neccesarily needed. People will think rather narrow and in straight paths. That is usual, especially when there are other people around.

[Kriita Thalocke]

I don't want to sound rude or overly sarcastic. But I'd say yesterdays event more or less supports my points.

People were not handheld so they got lost. Due getting lost there was much time spend debating and trying to figure things out.