Character Name: Svengalf Sandsker
Event: Returning what was once lost
Responsiveness: It was sailing smoothly. The response and narrations came in with a good flow. Everyone got their time to post between narrations. I sadly had to leave midway through (EU Agony)
Storytelling: So I jumped in blind. I was clearly missing some info from last event in the Kynim Universe. Still managed to catch some time to understand what was happening. The event felt dire and serious, and I am happy to have been part of it. I would even say that I would have loved to be more part of the event in the beginning and assist the end of this one ! I will have to order the Blu-ray DvD to catch up alas with my playtime schedules.
I feel like I have too involved from the hype ! I had a pleasant surprise at some point, but sadly it was 5h30 AM and I had to wake up at 7:00 AM, I had to leave in the middle otherwise I wouldn't be able to go through the day. (I am still recovering while typing it)
Balance : The fights were fun and kept my toes. There has been one perticular mechanic I liked less, it was the spam of blackholes (with 0 damage at least !) followed with the spam of Checkerboard Flash spell. Sometimes it was balanced, you could be pulled into the center, then dash escape. Sometimes there were too many blackholes that you had to use a defensive spell to mitigate damage. This mechanic can be used sparingly to force people out of their safety in the border of the battle for sure, to keep them on the toes ! But if used too often, I felt like I was trying to drive a plane in the middle of turbulances with how much control I was losing from my character. I even pressed my movevement keys harder in hope to go faster against the draw !
But overall enjoyable ! There were openings for people to strike, phases where safety was better to avoid waves of spells, and healing spells were not outright immediately denied.
Fairness: Narration wise, I feel like the stakes were high, but the difficulty, the challenges, and the damage were adjusted to be manageable by every attendee of every level, specially those of Arcadia and the Aerodynes. Which is great, it gave them the chance to interract with the spotlight of the event and allowed them to impact the plot.
Please let me use mend and Yggdrassil to heal my whole team instead of my party only ! I couldn't save all the birdies from being hurt...
Overall : I had fun ! I was invested, despite the recovering sickness and the late night. And I wish I could be part of it more ! Kynim is a good DM for when you want to do a serious but heartfull event.
Event: Returning what was once lost
Responsiveness: It was sailing smoothly. The response and narrations came in with a good flow. Everyone got their time to post between narrations. I sadly had to leave midway through (EU Agony)
Storytelling: So I jumped in blind. I was clearly missing some info from last event in the Kynim Universe. Still managed to catch some time to understand what was happening. The event felt dire and serious, and I am happy to have been part of it. I would even say that I would have loved to be more part of the event in the beginning and assist the end of this one ! I will have to order the Blu-ray DvD to catch up alas with my playtime schedules.
I feel like I have too involved from the hype ! I had a pleasant surprise at some point, but sadly it was 5h30 AM and I had to wake up at 7:00 AM, I had to leave in the middle otherwise I wouldn't be able to go through the day. (I am still recovering while typing it)
Balance : The fights were fun and kept my toes. There has been one perticular mechanic I liked less, it was the spam of blackholes (with 0 damage at least !) followed with the spam of Checkerboard Flash spell. Sometimes it was balanced, you could be pulled into the center, then dash escape. Sometimes there were too many blackholes that you had to use a defensive spell to mitigate damage. This mechanic can be used sparingly to force people out of their safety in the border of the battle for sure, to keep them on the toes ! But if used too often, I felt like I was trying to drive a plane in the middle of turbulances with how much control I was losing from my character. I even pressed my movevement keys harder in hope to go faster against the draw !
But overall enjoyable ! There were openings for people to strike, phases where safety was better to avoid waves of spells, and healing spells were not outright immediately denied.
Fairness: Narration wise, I feel like the stakes were high, but the difficulty, the challenges, and the damage were adjusted to be manageable by every attendee of every level, specially those of Arcadia and the Aerodynes. Which is great, it gave them the chance to interract with the spotlight of the event and allowed them to impact the plot.
Please let me use mend and Yggdrassil to heal my whole team instead of my party only ! I couldn't save all the birdies from being hurt...
Overall : I had fun ! I was invested, despite the recovering sickness and the late night. And I wish I could be part of it more ! Kynim is a good DM for when you want to do a serious but heartfull event.