[Fantasy Grounds] In Search Of The Trollslayer

[Murgh Bpurn]

Sorry missed the Skype question. I have it and will go with what the rest of the group wants.

Session wise, I wouldn't want to go past midnight, 0100 at a push. If the group want too finish earlier, then that's fine too.

[Blackfoot]

OK. I do have a player for the Sorceress. She'll be joining us and won't really have trouble with the time frame especially once it gets going. (she's a very gung ho player)

Is the server up yet? I can't seem to log in. (unless wbc broke it so bad it'll never come back up again!)

[Murgh Bpurn]

Server's up now, however I'll not be around much for at least an hour.

[Murgh Bpurn]

Just come back to the PC and saw FG had crashed again I believe Blackfoot was logged on, was there anything in particular you did just prior to the crash?

[Blackfoot]

Just come back to the PC and saw FG had crashed again I believe Blackfoot was logged on, was there anything in particular you did just prior to the crash?

Not that I know of. I was fiddling with Dural's weapons list, I think.

[Murgh Bpurn]

OK, log back in and we'll see if we can repeat and find out what happened.

[wbcreighton]

Thanks a lot Phil, it was fun. Neat to see how the program works and gave us a good chance to "slaughter us some turtles". Nice to get a chance to Skype with everyone else and put a voice to a avatar.

Sorry that BF and FP kept crashing your server, I'll see if I can straighten them out for next time.

[Blackfoot]

Yep. It was great fun. Thanks a lot for running. I'm not sure what the heck we were doing to nuke the game... but.. umm.. 'sorry' (it was really wbc's fault!!)

We look forward to next time... when will that be btw?

BF.

Edited September 12, 2010 by Blackfoot

[Murgh Bpurn]

If you guys let me know when you're available, we'll see when we can run the next session. I don't think I'm going to be available next Saturday.

Glad to hear you enjoyed it

[Blackfoot]

I'm fairly flexible. Flower is a bit less so but generally fairly available on weekends and some nights.. but nights us is really late for Murgh.

[tedopon]

I'm sorry I couldn't make it, like I mentioned, my sister was in town so it wasn't in the cards.

You guys having a problem with it crashing a lot as well? The last session I ran we had the program crash 5 or 6 times. The main reason I was so excited to play with you guys was to see if it was something we're doing that's causing the crashes. Guess not.

[Murgh Bpurn]

I could do a midweek early us evening / late uk night at a push. I could probably last until about 0200 UK time.

Saw your post on the FG boards as well tedopon, hopefully we'll be able to get something sorted soon.

Phil

[tedopon]

Your call, I just need a couple days advance notice.

[wbcreighton]

I'm sorry I couldn't make it, like I mentioned, my sister was in town so it wasn't in the cards.

You guys having a problem with it crashing a lot as well? The last session I ran we had the program crash 5 or 6 times. The main reason I was so excited to play with you guys was to see if it was something we're doing that's causing the crashes. Guess not.

I think the program only crashed once if I remember correctly (during the Sat session). We had technical issues not related to FG.

First of all BF made a time zone calculation error so 3 of us were extra early. I was too lazy to double check. And it worked out for the best.

Then we were waiting for someone to join us but they weren't able to.

Then we hooked up on Skype and I didn't realize my mic was set to minimum, so I kept fading in and out.

BF's computer turned his mic volume off, by itself a couple of times.

Our GM forgot he had muted his mic and was giving us a really good description of the surrounding that we couldn't hear.

The computer that FlowerPower was using is a bit old and it crashed a couple of times so I think we has to reset the server.

One of the players disappeared for a while and came back but then had to drop out.

But overall I thought the performance of FG was great and Skype really helped. It was bloody easy to figure out the program and the guys were able to correct me any time I did something wrong.

[wbcreighton]

For me I think unless we play in the evening my time ( which is unrealistic for everyone else ) the Saturday or Sunday, every couple of weeks would be doable. The time works well for me.

I know I would be pushing it to ask for 4 hours every weekend. With a wife and two small kids it just won't fly.

[Blackfoot]

For me I think unless we play in the evening my time ( which is unrealistic for everyone else ) the Saturday or Sunday, every couple of weeks would be doable. The time works well for me.

I know I would be pushing it to ask for 4 hours every weekend. With a wife and two small kids it just won't fly.

This works well for us probably. Our kids are with alternate parents every other weekend so we generally have the most time available when they are away. A 4 hour session seems the most realistic. More time gets a bit excessive (especially considering the time zone issues) and much less is somewhat of a waste after taking the time to coordinate the thing. I'm sure somewhere in the 3-5 range is fairly acceptable depending on energy levels and how things go.

[Murgh Bpurn]

So we'll go for next weekend, Saturday's probably best for me.

[wbcreighton]

That would work fine for me. You mean Saturday September 25 correct ?

I have a function to go to right after the session, so if we could start at 19:00 BST ( 2:00pm for BF and FP ) or earlier that would give me at least 3 hours before I would have to quit.

[Blackfoot]

That would work fine for me. You mean Saturday September 25 correct ?

I have a function to go to right after the session, so if we could start at 19:00 BST ( 2:00pm for BF and FP ) or earlier that would give me at least 3 hours before I would have to quit.

I think this works for us as well... would it be better for us to start a little earlier for you WBC? Would that be out for you Murph? I don't imagine we'd be doing too much that morning. I need to check in with FP. I think we'll be at her house so I need to DL the program again but she'll be on a more stable machine.

OK. So the time is 7pm BST. 2pm Eastern. 11am Pacific.

How about starting at 6pm BST instead? (1pm Eastern, 10am Pacific)

I checked with FP and we should be good to go for either time.

Edited September 16, 2010 by Blackfoot
To Fix the times listed.

[wbcreighton]

Try this link for time:

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?month=9&day=15&year=2010&hour=0&min=0&sec=0&p1=861&p2=136

According to this you are UTC-4 ( NJ probably because of DST)

Edited September 15, 2010 by wbcreighton

[Blackfoot]

Looking forward to the next game.

Edited September 19, 2010 by Blackfoot

[Murgh Bpurn]

Sorry for not getting back sooner, my laptop died I should be up and running for Saturday, not sure if I can make 1800, 1900 should be OK. I'll let you know in the next couple of days.

Phil

[Blackfoot]

Sorry to hear about your laptop! Oooof! Looking forward to the game. Let us know. Also it would be good to get on a bit before the game again to update our notes and stuff.

[Murgh Bpurn]

Shouldn't be a problem having the server up earlier.

[Blackfoot]

Loaded the program up onto Flower's home machine tonight so we are ready to go whenever the server is up again.

We'll run Skype off of my laptop so hopefully at least our end of things should be more reliable than last time... assuming my machine doesn't randomly turn the volume off again.

That was kinda weird.