BG3 is such a fantastic game, and really the best facsimile for a real game that you could find.  I'm glad that it's gotten you into it... I've been working to getting an Honour Mode resist Dark Urge game done, saving all of the gnomes and everything, but keep coming up short.

One-shots are great, but there's such a limit on developing your character.  You come in with a concept and bounce off of the plot and other characters, but they don't get to change and grow, you know?  In my current game, we're about to hit the climactic moment they've been building towards for more than a year (we're thirty-two sessions in, from level 1 to level 7) and it's been so fun to watch them evolve.

If I did another Zoom one-shot, would that interest you?  I haven't done much Zoom DMing since the pandemic, but I am sure I still have the chops and dndbeyond has a decent map tool.

Yeah I am much more into D&D now than I was when it was last mentioned around these boards I think. I had a pretty tepid first approach with it (for sure being too awkward to act out/rp much was a factor), but getting Baldur's Gate 3 was a terrific gateway drug. Albeit of course not all of the rules translate 1:1 - for instance, we were all recently surprised when we found out you can't actually cast a spell as an action and another BA spell like Misty Step as a BA.

My best friend DMs for us; it started off with our core group (me, his now-wife, my sister and another friend) and we did a few campaigns (all max level 7) a couple years ago, but we're too scattered around to meet regularly and nowadays we mostly do one-shots whenever @Erschéveþ da Schir is back from Germany. My friend and his wife still regularly do campaigns with another group though, and much like AD he's also gone on an absolute 3D printing binge recently, so I'm looking forwards to taking advantage of all the new pieces.

One-shots still work for me tbh, because there's more room for experimentation - in our last one, I played as a barbarian for the first time, after usually playing wizard or cleric, and it was loads of fun. It would be nice to have regular occasions to schedule a campaign though.

I have a prior commitment at that time.

-Txec R

The Cure - Endsong

Posting a clean version of this post for Balloting Day -- and regretting I didn't choose a better cover photo for the video than this doofy one.

On this final day before Balloting Day, I thought it might be a good idea to highlight some of our priorities for the upcoming term.  We're going to try to push for these things to get done, even if we don't win a majority -- just like we saw this past term, where we highlighted the unwieldy immigration form and demanded common-sense changes.  We've been a very effective Opposition, but the more seats we have, the more effective we can be.

One of our policies is to reject negative and angry politics.  You've seen the Seneschal's speech about how they are the "Good" and we are the "Bad," and you've seen the URL emails with lengthy personal attacks.  And while that might work for them, we're not going to take the bait.  The URL is a party of decent people who want to help Talossa, and we just have different visions about how to achieve that.  No matter how you vote this term: if you're a Talossan patriot, you're one of the Good ones.  That's our pledge to you.

We urge transparency in government.  The government should not have the power to secretly control who's even allowed to apply to immigrate... we need the bipartisan Public Process Act!  And let's make sure this power was never abused by anyone of any party or government.  If it was, the people deserve to know.  And on a different note, laws like this should be accessible to everyone -- let's get some regular citizens to read over our laws and figure out what's hard to understand!

We also want to make it easier for everyone to "do Talossa."  That means fixing up our website so that the links all work and the merchandise is available.  It means being vocal and supporting everyone's efforts -- the Seneschal should be an active booster of fun stuff, promoting it!  It means making space to be silly, and never yucking someone's yum.  And let's make sure we have plenty of people to have fun with us: let's turn our lucky breaks into sustained growth, and end these periods of zero immigration for months at a time.

There's a video version of this on our Tiktok, because we also want to put a human face on Talossa.  Let's get away from just message boards, since that's more interesting and makes it possible for us to reach a broader audience.  The people agree -- that's why the current leader in our poll asks for "regular Zoom meetings with His Majesty and the Seneschal."  We can make that happen!

It's time to move Talossa forward -- let's vote for the Progressive Alliance!

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on November 14, 2025, 02:23:59 PMFairly said -- let me say that I can personally commit to a chat with any and all, either way -- and it would be great to have you there, Your Majesty.  Here's a Zoom link for tomorrow morning at 11 TST.

I'm having some scheduling problems today -- my wife is helping produce a big weekend event and she's asked for my help at 11 TST.  @King Txec and @Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be , I hope you understand!  Would some time around 3pm TST (4pm EST, 1pm ST, 9pm GMT) be okay?

Please use this thread to post issues with voting, feedback, questions, etc.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on November 06, 2025, 02:23:37 PMThe Green Party has expanded on all four points of its political program:
-Accountable Government, and
-Expanded Apolitical Culture, and
-An Activist, Cooperative Foreign Policy, and
-Effective Government.

As the time for voting nears I wanted to share the Green Party's now completed political program. We welcome your support and even if we don't have your support we urge you to vote.

I lied - one more thing, so I don't have to make a new thread: the fora for COFFEE and PdR will be archived, as both have effectively deregistered.