Hello Everyone!!

ACGalaga
ACGalaga
edited March 2012 in Player Lounge
Nice to meet you all,

I've been on this site for a little while but have yet to introduce myself. Just waiting to build my campaign site a little so I could get some feedback.

My friends and I have just started playing D&D 4e in Nabari, Japan. This is the first time playing for a few and my first time "really" DMing. It's been a really enjoyable ride so far and I'm really diggin' the DM seat ;)

To get the feel for things I've been using an adventure from the DM kit with a few of my own touches. It's been taking a while to get though and am always looking for ways to improve the gaming experience.

This site has been really useful for collecting my thoughts and putting the information out there for the players to look at. It's still a work in progress and there's still I'd like to do to make it look nicer.

Please check it out and let me know what you think :) Things you like, things you don't like, etc.
Check it out here: http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/nabarians

Thanks so much!! Hope to have a long relationship with this community :D

Yoroshiku ne!!

Alan

Comments

  • Black_Vulmea
    Black_Vulmea
    Posts: 277
    Welcome to the Portal. "Your wiki":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/nabarians looks good so far.

    Mike aka Black Vulmea
    "_Le Ballet de l'Acier_":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/le-ballet-de-l-acier - swashbuckling adventures in the age of the Three Musketeers and Captain Alatriste
    Featured Campaign of the Month - August 2011
  • JaymesBolton
    JaymesBolton
    Posts: 278
    Welcome! And oh man do I want to pick your brain! This is a great community and anyone is always willing to help with either your site or your campaign in general. Although I have a deep loathing of 4ed (am a 3.5 fan myself) it is a great system to start gaming on as it is very simplistic and easy to learn. There is nothing wrong with using a premade adventure and some of my best gaming memories are of modules. There is a plot club somewhere here on the forums that might be a good place for you to get some ideas about your own story as well.

    Your site is looking great for a beginning site. I recommend checking out some of the campaign of the month stuff to see how amazing you can really get a site to look and even some interesting ideas from their adventure logs to to start your own story. Ascetically I would recommend getting a background image for your site as it will make it look a whole lot better and is quite simple to do (check out Chainsaw's FAQ here on the forums for more details). Also trolling the Review my Campaign thread can give you some great ideas as well.

    Now about that brain picking. My campaign is an L5R (legend of the five rings) setting. L5R is a setting based on a westernized combination of eastern asian cultures and history but more then anything on japanese culture (it is a samurai game) but all of my players (and I) are about as white american as you can get. Although I am history buff and a martial artist its still not quite the same thing. If you know any cool trivia about saumrai culture or some great pictures send me a PM. And as I mentioned everyone here is awesome so do not feel bad about asking for just about anything...someone on here will have an idea and be able to help you.

    Good Luck!

    -Jaymes

    "Changing History":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/l5r-changing-history

    -Jaymes

    Campaign of the Month Febuary 2013

     

  • GamingMegaverse
    GamingMegaverse
    Posts: 3,001
    Welcome! As you already see, a lot of friendly folks here! Ask questions if you have them, we are happy to help!
    killervp
    "A God...Rebuilt":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/a-god-rebuilt
    "Duskreign's First Ever COTM":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/wyrmshadow/wiki_pages/112011

    Just trying to help out.

  • twiggyleaf
    twiggyleaf
    Posts: 2,011
    Welcome ACGalaga

    I hope you have a great time in these forums and know that you will benefit immensely from everything OP has to offer your gaming experience.


    twiggyleaf
    "Shimring - The Faces of Divinity":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/shimring
    (a multiplanar 3.5 D&D campaign)

    "I met a traveller from an antique land....."

    CotM May 2016: Mysteria: set in Wolfgang Baur’s MIDGARD.

    Previous CotM Aug 2012: Shimring: High Level Multiplanar Campaign

    Inner Council Member

  • ACGalaga
    ACGalaga
    Posts: 8
    Thanks so much for your great comments! I'll be sure to check out that FAQ as well.
    I've looked over your sites as well and got a lot of great inspiration!

    As for different D&D rulesets; I played AD&D once a long long time ago, 3e quite a few times, I missed 3.5 but I see it's highly praised, and now 4e. Actually, although it has gotten a lot of flack, I'm really enjoying 4e. I'm a little sad that 5e is on its way just as I'm getting into 4e (and have invested quite a bit of cash into buying books, etc). I'm pretty flexible to rulesets in general though, grew up also playing ShadowRun and Vampire. Even considering to give Pathfinder a try someday. Although, it's a little hard finding regular RP groups living abroad, so that's why I'm the DM. If I want to play, I need to sucker the nearby foreign community into playing with me.

    As for any information the L5R campaign; Really nice site by the way. I'm not really familiar with that system but I've browsed the "Book of Five Rings" by Miamoto Musashi. I guess you could try watching a lot of Akira Kurosawa films, read the book Hagakure (way of the samurai), and "Ghost Dog" is a pretty great Samurai film as well (although it takes place in modern New Jersey). Also, if there's ninja involved in L5R, it's always fun to doing an Iga and Kouga Romeo & Juliet type story.

    Also, is there a way to edit sigs on forum posts? Or do you all just copy and past your page links every time?

    Thanks for everything!! I'll try to be an asset to help build upon this great community (^_^)v

    Alan
    "Nabarians in Nerath":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/nabarians
  • GamingMegaverse
    GamingMegaverse
    Posts: 3,001
    The signatures are just copied and pasted.

    Just trying to help out.

  • ACGalaga
    ACGalaga
    Posts: 8
    Totally went in there with some of your suggestions and fixed up the site a little. Hope you dig, little by little I'll keep at building it. Just hope my players will hang in there ;)

    Alan
    "Nabarians in Nerath":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/nabarians
  • arsheesh
    arsheesh
    Posts: 850
    Hey there ACGalaga, welcome to the Portal. Your site is looking nice so far. BTW, it will be interesting to see what happens with 5e. Justin Alexander, a game designer whose blog I follow, thinks that the introduction of 5e is a bad business move for WoTC, since 4e customers are for the most part happy with their current product, and so won't want to pay the start-up costs to switch over to a new system, and 3e/Pathfinder customers either hate 4e (and will have bad faith toward 5e) and/or are also satisfied with 3e and the Pathfinder lineup. Hence, introducing 5e will not only fail to bridge the gap between 3e and 4e customers, but will in addition alienate their loyal 4e customers. You can read about his thoughts "here":http://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/10693/roleplaying-games/thought-of-the-day-5th-edition if you are interested. Anyway, best of luck to you in your new campaign.

    Cheers,
    -Arsheesh
  • twiggyleaf
    twiggyleaf
    Posts: 2,011
    Toad Cave Fever rocks!


    twiggyleaf
    "Shimring - The Faces of Divinity":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/shimring
    (a multiplanar 3.5 D&D campaign)

    "I met a traveller from an antique land....."

    CotM May 2016: Mysteria: set in Wolfgang Baur’s MIDGARD.

    Previous CotM Aug 2012: Shimring: High Level Multiplanar Campaign

    Inner Council Member

  • ACGalaga
    ACGalaga
    Posts: 8
    Thanks so much!!
    I'm really glad you enjoyed it.
    Since I'm new, I'm always worried about how things will unfold and how much/what I should prepare. I'm hoping the more I DM the more I'll be familiar with how to make up things on the fly.
    Just played again last weekend so I'll have the new episode up soon (^_^)v

    ACGalaga
    "Nabarians in Nerath":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/nabarians
  • AnthonyDluzak
    AnthonyDluzak
    Posts: 69 edited March 2012
    Welcome aboard, ACGalaga!!! Really like your page and campaign! Keep up the great work!!!!

    "Legends of the Middle Ages":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/legends-of-the-middle-ages
    Post edited by AnthonyDluzak on
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