So while I can't speak for anyone else, I really enjoyed this first excursion participating in the combat team. I definitely think these'll work best for smaller groups of people, but for such a large group it still seemed like there were decent opportunities for a majority to get in on at least one battle and lots of chances for new CR between characters even if they weren't fighting.
One thing I would like to comment on is that it should probably be made explicitly clear for each excursion, particularly for combat excursions, if there will be mod NPC-ing or if the characters are to NPC things like monster(s) among themselves. Just so that all players are on the same page about the mechanics whether this is their first time participating in an excursion or not. Maybe including an OOC reminder on the excursion log itself just in case somebody missed it on the plotting post or just forgot or something.
Also, for things like monsters, providing images (even if they're just reference photos as opposed to drawn images of each monster) is super helpful for visualization. And stats like how big a given monster is, or how tough parts of its defenses are, texture, color, smell, all that good stuff are even better for working out creative ways to take a monster down and painting a picture. It'd be awesome if stuff like this could be included for each excursion, perhaps in list form on the starters/top-levels of any battle for easy reference? Whatever would work best for the mods.
That's the only thing I can think of that would be great for future excursions. :)
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One thing I would like to comment on is that it should probably be made explicitly clear for each excursion, particularly for combat excursions, if there will be mod NPC-ing or if the characters are to NPC things like monster(s) among themselves. Just so that all players are on the same page about the mechanics whether this is their first time participating in an excursion or not. Maybe including an OOC reminder on the excursion log itself just in case somebody missed it on the plotting post or just forgot or something.
Also, for things like monsters, providing images (even if they're just reference photos as opposed to drawn images of each monster) is super helpful for visualization. And stats like how big a given monster is, or how tough parts of its defenses are, texture, color, smell, all that good stuff are even better for working out creative ways to take a monster down and painting a picture. It'd be awesome if stuff like this could be included for each excursion, perhaps in list form on the starters/top-levels of any battle for easy reference? Whatever would work best for the mods.
That's the only thing I can think of that would be great for future excursions. :)