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Player Groups

Below are a list of Player Groups in ALFA. What you'll find is a brief description of what the group is about, what sort of characters they're suited for, as well as a Player Contact. If you are interested in joining any of these groups, shoot a PM on the forums to the listed contact and they will try and arrange something with you.

Dwarves of the North
Small group of dwarves, of varying alignment and class, playing mainly US evenings, but also the occasional Euro player. If you're interested at all drop Danielmn a PM.

Team Bane
Team Bane is for Lawful Evil applicants who want to do be more then the normal RAAGH EVIL, but would prefer a more honorable and cultured feel to their evilness. Right now mainly American evenings with some nice DM coverage. Feel free to contact Vendrin about this one.

Silverymoon University
The Silverymoon university isn't a "team" per se, but has enough scripted content to keep budding wizards (and the occasional sorcerer, cleric, or bard) entertained for quite some time (gold for tuition allowing). A DM'd campaign of some sort is also rumored to be in the near future for the University, so it's a good time to get involved. The primary DM for the University (EADM Wynna) tends to be around in Euro times as well as some US evenings. Plenty of material for RP around orientation, veiled indirect advice for the scripted classes, tradescroll exchanges, and the neverending search for the necessary income to continue the curriculum. Contact Wynna or AcadiusLost.

Triple B
The Triple B player group on TSM is open to new players of a roguish inclination. We play US East Coast nights and have regular DM support. Please contact oldgreyrogue for details

House Invincible
A Helm worshipping group, based mainly out of Silverymarches. Team Helm plays mostly Euro evenings and early evenings US time. Contact dergon darkhelm for more details.

If you want any general information about Player Groups in ALFA, or have one that is not listed here, please contact Rotku.

Player's Guide to ALFA

At long last, the Player's Guide to ALFA is at a stage where it can be published. The Guide offers a replacement to the old, outdated ALFA Player Manual - with hopefully an easier to follow, more informative layout.

You can find the Guide in the link at the top of the screen. If anyone cannot see it, please let me know asap, and I'll try and work out what's wrong.

As it is the first major revision (that I'm aware of) that has been done since it was written by Wynna back over 6ish years ago, there may be a few pieces of information missing. If you think that anything needs to be added, please let me know! So far I have promised to add a section on Death and Dying, as well as add a bit more information about the Races and Classes.

Otherwise, I hope that this new document is helpful.

A big thanks to both hollyfant and Amergin for the masses of help they've given at various stages over the past few months, since I decided to revise the old APM.

Belated Birthday Wishes

Submitted by Rotku on Sat, 04/25/2009 - 11:06

Having come and gone a week back (as mentioned on our forums), a happy birthday seems to have escaped the front page. So here it is.

A Land Far Away is proud to announce the first anniversary of our NWN2 servers!

ALFA began in 1999, several weeks after the Neverwinter Nights game was announced, as a dream to recreate the Forgotten Realms in Pen and Paper style, using Bioware’s NWN computer game. It has been almost ten years since that first vision was conceived and the ALFA community is still going strong.

One year ago our first NWN2 server went live and we have since added a second NWN2 server with several more near completion and still others in various stages of development. Now we are celebrating the beginning of our second year on the NWN2 platform.

Our NWN2 Live Servers:
The Silver Marches
Baldur's Gate

Servers in development:
Moonshae Islands
Western Heartlands
Cormanthor
Skullport

All in all, a big happy birthday to ALFA. Thank you to all who made the past year such an amazing one, and may the year to come be one of more great surprises!

Numbers Increasing

Submitted by zicada on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 08:52

I'm happy to report that over the past few months our numbers have increased quite a bit.

As of this writing, we are over 400 active members strong, and the traffic both on the website and the servers themselves keep increasing day by day.

A week ago, an email was sent out to all former members to inform them that we're still around and doing quite well. Welcome back to everybody who decided to re-apply / re-join our community!

Traffic on the servers is increasing as well. Lately it is not uncommon to see 10+ people on either server at any one time. Additional servers are being built, and will hopefully be ready to take the load off once we're starting to see 20+ players per server.

ALFA is stronger than it has been in quite a while,- kudos to everybody chipping in to make it that way!

Long Live ALFA

Submitted by Rotku on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 10:39

Indeed, long live ALFA. As a result for a survey that was recently sent to the latest 300 people who submitted an application, ALFA Admin have unanimously decided to drop Perma-death, in favour of a penalty respawn system.

The system will go into place a week from today. Details of it can be found through the following link, located at the end of this post. However, to briefly sum it up, the following XP penalties will apply:

Respawning removes 1/3 total experience.
Raise dead removes 1/6 total experience.
Resurrection removes 1/9 total experience.

The important HDMs have been carefully consulted on this matter (you know who you are) and should hopefully be standing ready with the updated scripts to click into place this following weekend. To celebrate the new addition to ALFA's rules, we're encouraging the DM Teams to run special events on the said weekend. Details on them will follow shortly.

The reasons behind such a move, while I won't waste your time fully explaining, tick down in the end to competition. A recent survey, mentioned above, revealed that one of the biggest dislikes that players found about ALFA was the permadeath system - it was said in many of the replies that people found they were not able to emotionally invest in a character who they knew was going to "cock it" at any moment.

If you have any comments on this, feel free to open up a new thread in the General Discussion to talk about the issue. Otherwise, enjoy the new revolving door

Do Your Part - Earth Hour

Submitted by Rotku on Fri, 03/27/2009 - 01:21

Earth Hour 2009 is here! Do your part!

This coming Saturday, at 8:30pm local time, switch off your lights (and computers) for 1 hour!

1 hour is all it takes - and you won't be alone. This year the goal is to have one billion people, throughout the world, switching off all but their most essential power. It's a chance to take a stand - to show the planet you care.

So this Saturday, swtich off that computer, turn off those lights, step away from your TV. Go and play Spot Light with your kids, have that candle-lit dinner with that girl down the road or go outside and simply look at the stars.

For more information, head along to the Earth Hour webpage.