How are people planning on adapting to V3?

[gilshem ironstone]

Just wondering if I could get some idea if how people are planning to adapt their PC's IC to the time jump?

I have two PC's that have some things going on that should be drastically altered if I jumped them three years in to the future.  Do people feel comfortable with time-bubbling certain events until they become more stable in their PC's life?  That sort of thing..
Let me know!

[Skywatcher]

I don't know about everyone else but I was going to assume that the changes from V2 to V3 had been taking place gradually over the past time that I have been playing Clarissa so I will just assume that the way things are in V3 is the way they should be and go on from where I was.  Basically acting as if no drastic change has taken place.  Even though 3-5 years will have taken place between the last campaign and this new one I am just going to assume that has already passed since she's been playing.

[Stephen_Zuckerman]

Skywatcher: Huh? I don't think I understand...

Myself, a few events will be Time-bubbled, like my CDQ, but apart from that...

Pyyran'll start to learn elvish, and manage the Kitchen...

Xu will learn Common, and become a bloody good fisherwoman...

Tyeaan will drift away from language even further, his thirst for power driving him...

Grok will just keep eating.

[Skywatcher]

What I am trying to say is that as I understand the intent of the developers is to have V3 reflect the changes that have taken place in the 3-5 game years since the last campaign.  There have been 3-5 months RL since then so these correspond.  I don't think Clarissa would go to sleep in Fort Vehl yesterday and wake up today and go "wow things sure changed while I was asleep".  I also don't think the intent was to have 3-5 year jump in the situation in the gameworld to happen in between Feb 26th and Feb 27th in RL.  I could be wrong here but from what I have read I was under the impression that V3 should be taken as the way things have become over the period that has happened since the previous compaign along with changes like place names that are to be taken as the names the places always had even during the last campaign.  If that's wrong and there is an opportunity here to have an additional 3-5 years of activity added to the development of my character I would like to know since that would be a convenient time to say she learned a language or something like that.

[Dorganath]

Eh....let me say this up front here...
  Learning of languages still has to be accompanied by in-game RP time. We're not going to accept "During the last 3-5 years, Charac'Ter learned how to speak fluent dwarven" or anything like that. It's just not going to happen that way.
  Here's another way to look at things....
  The 3-5 year mark is between the end of one campaign and the beginnning of the next. Considering that the last campaign ended nearly 10 years ago in game time, we're fiddling with time a bit.
  Obviously, some things are changing (literally in some cases) overnight to you and me, but what you will see when V3 comes online is the product of several game years of events. Some things are rebuilt while others are destroyed...and still others have changed hardly at all.
  This doesn't have to be all that difficult or mind-bending. The best course for when you log onto V3 is to remember that life goes on, and what you are seeing is the result.

[Pen N Popper]

Let's see... At the height of Bumblebee's newsletter empire he was writing about five issues a year. I'm going to pretend that he was extra diligent during this five year period and wrote six a year, or a total of 30 issues. That should wipe most people's pre-paid subscriptions. In fact, many of you will now owe him quite a bit. Pay up!!! ;-)
  Rolan will be older and still nowhere near regaining the strength of his remembered youth.
  Pig... I think Pig will have been off studying under the grand brewmeister gnome, Henry Drinksalotofrumandlikestodistilloxentails III. He'll be returning to sell whiskey and beat the snot out of anything smaller than himself. Especially evil low level wannabes. (High level areabes may continue unmauled.)
  Wanark I think will stay mothballed until GM quests overlap my playtimes.
  Sounds fun!!

[gilshem ironstone]

Thank you Dorg.  I wasn't sure if this was a fast-forward to few years later (name that tune) or just an update to reflect events that have already occured... It makes my life a whole lot easier to consider it in the light of our visual environment reflecting what has already happened in the overall virtual environment.  I for one cannot wait to see the look!

[Nyralotep]

I intend on moving my oldest character to retirement and maybe even auctioning off her items to dontae the proceeds to the temple of Mist since she does have some neat stuff.  But she will be like 80 years old now and I just dont see her being all that spry now.

My other characters, well they are either Gnomes and a Dwarf so they will not really be affected by the time advance and will spend time doing what they were doing before, like Zup just running around and causing mischief.

[Stephen_Zuckerman]

I didn't expect any real boosts of nifty stuff from V3 like languages... Pyyran might learn a few words of elvish (he's lazy when it comes to personal ambitions of the mind), and Xu already knows Common... Just not fluently.

But... Let me see if I understand something.

the V3 campaign will start 3-5 in-game years after the end of the Soul of a Lost Ancient campaign? Or... 3-5 years from now?

[EdTheKet]

the V3 campaign will start 3-5 in-game years after the end of the Soul of a Lost Ancient campaign? Or... 3-5 years from now?

 Soul of a Lost Ancient ended when Blood was defeated, that was in June 2006, the layonara year was 1402.
  At the moment, the layonara year is already 1413, so 11 years have already passed since the previous campaign ended, so it's not 3 years after the end of SoaLA.
  One of the reasons for the 3-5 years which were mentioned by Leanthar would be for the setting up of the various kingdoms (as you've seen on the new maps) and getting everything written up, as they need some time to form (or re-form) and establish themselves after the demise of Bloodstone. At that time, we thought to have V3 ready earlier and a fast forward in time would be needed. So, from where this 3-5 years will be calculated, I'm not sure yet.
  Also... had you noticed something had already been run for the next campaign?

[EdTheKet]

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