A Land Far Away

I would agree with this. As a noob, when I started, I didn't even know that you could check the players online at the time, so would quickly log in and start playing. At times i would party with someone and after playing for a few hours say to myself "what class is this guy?" because that ...

You may also want to go the ALFA Server Status page and check. If you see the password, you are accepted. The reason I mention this is, I never got an acceptance letter (most likely filtered out, although nothing else from Alfa ever was), but one day I checked the server status page and the password...

I guess I was thinking more along the lines of what Ronan is saying. Measure out the distances on a map of Faerun, calculate the time to travel by walking rates in the player's handbook, then use the in game days to see how far people could get.

But, either way works I think.

I usually stay out of these discussions because I am limited in my technical understanding of things. I think it needs to be done. And if it doesn't fit with the current vision of ALFA, I think the vision needs to be changed to fit this in. I have seen too many people log off because they were too f...

If you want to keep it off camera then I think the idea about offering travel locations upon logging in would work. I haven't played for two days, which is what, approximately 16 days in game ( I did some rounding there), so when I log on a message pops up with a list of places I could travel on the...

Right, but you can cast it out of combat, then enter combat, holding the spell on your hand, correct?

I think this issue brings up the whole fun versus immersion debate. For immersion's sake it makes no sense that a PC should be able to jump that distance instantly. But, from a fun perspective, including the PC in some RP or a DM event, it makes total sense. I am definitely a fun over immersion type...

Not sure if it is in the core rules, a Sage Advice, or on Monte Cook's website, but attacking someone with an inflict spell does not provoke attacks of opportunity, they count as an armed attack. Of course, this may also be a house rule and I have simply forgotten that I made it up as a DM. I will g...

Give www.notebookforums.com a try before you buy a Voodoo. There are, apparently, very few companies that actually make laptops and all the other companies simply brand them with their name and sell them for different prices. I priced out a voodoo gaming laptop 2 years ago and it was going to run me...

What is the rule for DMs moving across servers? I don't think that building lots of servers is necessarily a problem as long as the DM team can look and say "Oh, Server X was at zero last month, this month we have noticed an average of 10 people on it a day, we need to move someone to server x ...

I don't think that player density is the issue I am concerned with. My biggest concern is DM density. I have played on Daggerford and Shadowdale so far and both have had similar player density numbers but Daggerford had waaaaay more DM density. I have enjoyed both servers but my preference is defini...

Welcome to ALFA, I will join in other Shadowdaleans (?) in saying come say hello, especially if you play between the hours of 6pm - 11pm gmt -7 as that seems to be a very busy time in Shadowdale. We are also trying to start up a weekly low level group to rp, do some statics, and maybe one day find a...