Dear All, The End has finally come for this Campaign (but hopefully not for Maladon)!! Recent events have convinced me that the wind has been fatally knocked out of Maladon's sails. I always knew that Oct and Nov of this year were likely to be bad months for me gaming wise (I have to move house for a start and there are a number of huge work deadlines as well) but the sheer amount of disruption is causing me headaches that mean that I will shortly have to end my participation in Maladon until next year. I did try and recruit CoGms, but they have lives too and every one of them bar one will be unavailable shortly. Another concern is that a lot of players have become inactive and those who are very active, don't really seem to understand Maladon and are busy playing it in a way that I and many senior players find unsatisfying. This is driving away the people who helped me build this campaign and I find that sad. Now I could do what I have done twice before; recruit new players and rebuild, but I don't have time to do that at the moment and so I am going to 'park' Maladon such that any CoGms who want to run can continue to do so. I intend to start a 'Maladon 2' game next year set a year or two in the current campaign's future once my life gets a bit less crazy. But............the last thing I want is for Maladon to be yet another internet game that reaches no satisfying conclusion; after all there are no guarantees in this life, and Maladon 2 may never happen.That's why I am going to resolve some of the main threads in the next few weeks for those players/characters who are interested in participating. I have identified that the following characters are involved in the Main Plot of Maladon and are central to it's resolution. These characters will now be the ONLY ones allowed to sign up for my online games. These are: 1) Cain 2) Sharleen 3) Ffiona 4) Marokin 5) Ezekiel Boone 6) Vedinia 7) Beldak 8) Malagven 9) Archer 10) Mindartis 11) Tarville 12) Dux 13) Reskin (who is not as dead as everyone thinks) 14) Kaar 15) Tanin I will also allow the following to play because they play face to face and will be continuing playing in Maladon throughout some of the hiatus: 12) Desna 13) Veranis 14) Zahnder Ravenswood 15) Trarborn For the rest of the players; I can only apologize and hope that we'll see some of you back for Maladon 2. For you and your characters, it should be just a hiatus that will see you return in the new campaign; and if you keep annoying the CoGms who do stay around, then some of the side games might continue. Anyway: we made it to 102 sessions and will probably see 110 before the game is finally declared parked and done. We ALL deserve to revel in that fact as we packed around 2 years of standard gaming into 7 short months. Maladon was a unique experience for me; and running it has taught me a thousand things that even 35 years of table top gaming had hardly prepared me for. I would like to thank each and every player for their participation!! It has been a great ride. Stephen PS: Can I remind all players and GMs that Maladon, Myst-bound Realms and all the setting lore belongs to me and should not be copied, distributed nor used without asking me; though I can't see that I'd refuse unless you are going to sell it or something based upon it. You retain ownership of your characters of course.
