Adventure Reports

To make things easier reports should be made after the session. That way everyone will be up-to-date on what is going on. If a few people could get together and decide who should write reports on sessions that have already happened, that would be great. Thank you! :D From now on we should decide who is going to write the report before the session.

I'm for this, have fun with it. For those creative types, write it as your character saw it. If your character has low int, have lots of spelling mistakes, etc.  It can have the important info we all need and yet also have us laughing our asses off like Kobold lanterns xD

I love writing in general, so I usually volunteer for this sort of thing!

I would like to propose the following calendar date convention: the year is measured in years post-fall (PF), with the year the shadow army attacked being 0 PF.  That would make the current year 8 PF: seven years elapsed turtled up behind the wall, and one year has passed since reopening the gates.  It would make sense to me if the shadow army struck at the beginning of winter - with the longer nights and colder weather favoring the shadow army - so for convenience's sake we could make the attack have begun in December.  Then, since each session represents a month, the first session would have been January 8 PF, the second session February 8 PF, and so on.  This would make it easy to refer to sessions in a more lore-friendly way without complicating things overmuch.  We could also change the system up, especially to add an arbitrary number to the year, but I'll leave that to others... Does this/a variant on this sound good to everyone?

Michael Y. said: I would like to propose the following calendar date convention: the year is measured in years post-fall (PF), with the year the shadow army attacked being 0 PF.  That would make the current year 8 PF: seven years elapsed turtled up behind the wall, and one year has passed since reopening the gates.  It would make sense to me if the shadow army struck at the beginning of winter - with the longer nights and colder weather favoring the shadow army - so for convenience's sake we could make the attack have begun in December.  Then, since each session represents a month, the first session would have been January 8 PF, the second session February 8 PF, and so on.  This would make it easy to refer to sessions in a more lore-friendly way without complicating things overmuch.  We could also change the system up, especially to add an arbitrary number to the year, but I'll leave that to others... Does this/a variant on this sound good to everyone? The intro makes reference to the start of the campaign being the 2nd year of the 3rd Era

Oh, woops... that might be old info from the many rewrites I did

I've actually already been writing a journal of sorts for my character Natham. When I get home I'll put it in a google docs for those who would like an idea of what the first 2 sessions where like.

I really like the calendar system proposed by Michael, it makes things really easy to keep track of pacing-wise and gives the world some nice added depth to it, if we start feeling the progression of years Plus, if/when any kind of mass combat starts, it would be really easy to scale down time to weeks or days without ruining everything

With the Calendar, comes season. DM can make use of that plot wise. Crops low in the winter need hunters to catch game or face famine, etc. 

Plus, winter conditions in mountain terrain can become a real pain for people trying to get out and about.... and the things they are out and about after @Daniel, if you want, I have a set of mechanics I found that I like to use for cold weather conditions, if you want to go for a more "realistic" approach to weather changes.

Sure, willing to take a look at just about anything.

One extra piece of info I think is important to remember for documentation is that 1 week of real time is equal to 1 month in game, not 1 session. This means that both the session on Sunday and the upcoming session on Wednesday would take place in the same month. So if we go with Michael's calendar system then they would both take place in March year 8 PF.

And if no session occurs during a given week, no time passes

Breakfast said: I'm for this, have fun with it. For those creative types, write it as your character saw it. If your character has low int, have lots of spelling mistakes, etc.  It can have the important info we all need and yet also have us laughing our asses off like Kobold lanterns xD (IC) Speak for yourself... (OOC) Does anyone have a particular place in mind to post these?

I had intended them to all go in this post, but it seems to have turned into a discussion instead. lol Perhaps the person who said he had the first two sessions documented could just create a new post and every session after that will go in as a reply. As for doing the date I would put the irl date of the session and then maybe the ingame date. Sound good?

You got it, I'll go make that post now!