My Triumphant Return

Well, okay. Perhaps not "triumphant". But I made an area.



I've been involved with a world named Kingdom of Winterhaven which has been fun.
Now, it is an action PW, but it's pretty well laid out and has a good progression rate. One of the guys asked me to make an Astral Plane setting. For not having actually touched to toolset in eight months, I think it's not too bad...


Yeah... it sucks. *defensively* But it's better than some of the areas I have to walk through in that place!

On the progression rate, I'd possibly slow it down a bit (a tiny bit) and actually create persistent quests, but it's not a bad job for the PW scene as it stands.

Yeah, I suppose my biggest problem is persistency. Having to show up again and again at the starter area. Having to re-grab quests every time the server crashes. Not having persistent bind points, but a select few.

But other than that, I mean, it's not bad.

I've tried a few other action PWs, even just plain ol' action servers, and they're not that well-balanced, nor do you have a good direction right off the bat. And some of these are Hall Of Fame.

World One:

"Choose between three factions to start off with. No information on those factions in-game, but there you go."

Well, I exaggerate a little bit. They did say something about the faction I chose being snobbish.

Then "Go kill beasts in the forest. I'll mark your map for you."

Okay. Now. I personally cannot see a forest anywhere. Secondly, the mapnote is not visible on the overland map.

But this was the kicker:

Our faction headquarters had been occupied (apparently prior to my arrival) by an enemy faction. Wonderful. So, I've chosen a faction right of fthe bat that sucks, probably has one player online.

Wait, there's a "see online faction" tool. Great!

Three. Three of the nine players are my faction.

Should be pretty well-balanced, I think.

Where the heck are my faction people, so we can destroy the enemies?

And that was world one. I logged right at the point where one of the mobs just raped me with three crits in a row, right outside the city gate. Some builder did not check the BAB on this critter, caue he was hitting a light-armored newb pretty heavy.

Whatever happened to the "rats in the basement" start?

Okay, okay. I guess my ad campaign worked too well, because I haven't seen a rat starter quest in any of the PW's I've played in.

Le sigh.