dm: bonafidenubbin

[bonafidenubbin]

Event Preferences: Psychological, spooky, traumatic, lore-heavy; lower-combat (at least until I get my head around the system) but I'm perfectly fine maiming you in other ways.

Other Notes: Very new to Eternia, but 15+ years' experience DMing in other RP settings. 

Are you currently running events, and if so, are you considering player requested events?: I hope to run my first event soon - after I've got a few chosen ones under my belt, I may be open to specific requests.

Discord # or best means of contact: bonafidenubbin (makin' it easy)

[LittleFirebird]

Character: Margot Mikos

Which Event: A Knife Poised At The Heart Of Darkness

Responsiveness: 10/10 As fast as could be expected or asked for, with such a large group in mind!

Balance: 10/10 The balance was overall fantastic, and I want to say that it was super cool how much you allowed us the opportunity both in preparation and during the event itself to affect the balance of the challenges we encountered. No complaints at all!

Storytelling: 12/10 There wasn't a single narrate that I felt wasn't worth reading every word multiple times, and I was completely compelled throughout to see what would come next.

Fairness: 11/10 I don't feel anything was unworth the risk or reward, and basically everything was left up to us to make ourselves succeed and I appreciated every moment of it.

Overall: 11/10 Amazing event, it was a long one but I don't feel as though any time was wasted. I hope more than anything else that we made it as enjoyable of an experience as you made it for me/us.

Misc: Margot is the manaball champ!!!

[GSM]

Key/Character: Na'Ria
Which Event: A Knife Poised At The Heart Of Darkness

Responsiveness: 9/10. Docking a point for some pretty long waits between narrates, but what we were given in responses were completely fucking phenomenal. Incredibly well done, and insanely attentive.
Balance: Three fights, some being more difficult than others. There was a slight hiccup with the second boss (a certifiable Howl of the Banshee moment), and I was noticing that the ECs were hitting crits that momentarily made my soul leave my body when 12k appeared over my head a handful of times. I'll give it a pass, if only because the power scaling of the second EC onwards was dynamic, and we dramatically weakened it. 10/10
Storytelling: Quite enjoyable for a long string of IC events and follow-up. I admittedly was a rather late add to the party, but I still felt as if it was incredibly important to be there to begin with, and the writing/hints given were all very well done. 10/10
Fairness: Beyond some dog ass rolls at the start, we did pretty good, and got good rewards as a result. When I hit three back-to-back non-injury rolls of 6, it felt like I was genuinely doing all the lifting in the world. From what I can tell, everything was pretty well tailored to our IC as a collective. 10/10

Overall: 10/10. Please let me cause more issues. I love causing issues. You have no idea.

Any other comments: 

[akemimera]

Character: Tergiversation

Which Event: A Knife Poised At The Heart Of Darkness

Responsiveness: 10/10 Solo dming 10 people that fast is crackhead activity. Absolutely stellar

Balance: 10/10 The fights felt solid. Especially when the special rules for each fight were explained. Definite felt like an full encounter.

Storytelling: 9/10 I didnt make the prior events but I felt like I learned the entire arc. WHat a finale.

Fairness: 11/10 you let me ball for extra perm damage. For that your are a real one.

Overall: 11/10 An eight hour adventure filled with enough story to honestly count it as a pathfinder scenario. Really well done.

Misc: Alacritas doesn't allow her followers to die on events.

[Zilly]

Key/Character: Nallonia Mors
Which Event: A Knife Poised At The Heart Of Darkness

Responsiveness: It goes to figure when having such a large group given there was around ten of us that sometimes the narrates would take a bit. But personally I didn't mind given that they gave special attention to each of our actions and made them feel impactful.

Balance: I could tell the DM was trying to balance each fight to make it challenging but not impossibly hard for us. I never felt like anything was unfair except maybe one time i got wiped the heck out by a single Howl of the Banshee.

Storytelling: It was pretty relevant to my character, I got to explore a lot of themes revolving around Nalls nature as a Nephilim of Mortyl and even quite a few story beats where her use of the occult was extremely relevant and helped save her and the party.

Fairness: I never felt like i was being treated unfairly or ignored quite the opposite in fact.

Overall: 10/10 i had lots of fun, thanks for having me along! Here's hoping I can join the next event.

Any other comments: 

[Skellytoon]

Character: Set

Which Event: A Knife Poised At The Heart Of Darkness

Responsiveness: 10/10, I really enjoyed the pacing and all the moments we got to interact with the narrative.

Balance: 9/10, Very good Balancing, the only moment I didn't find fun was that one round where we got almost all one-shot by that Banshee

Storytelling: 10/10, Amazing story telling, even if I haven't known Lora long, but I am very invested, and want to see where this all ends for many reasons

Fairness: 10/10, every made sense and nothing seemed out of place or unfair!

Overall: 12/10, This is my third event I've ever been and and I'm glad to have been part of it, especially after all the IC built-up and the scene I had prior

Misc: Thank you for letting me partake, even if originally the idea was just for me to only be in the first half

[Doru7]

Character: Nata'phish

Which Event: A Knife Poised At The Heart Of Darkness

Responsiveness: 10/10 As others have said, the responses between both in character speech and narrates were as quick and concise as possible, and any delays were responded to with a notification in LOOC to let us know what was going on. Very polite and respectful of everyone's time.

Balance: 10/10 The balance was fantastic, and even the one or two times that a situation needed to be adlib'd to fit the fact that we had Eleven People in our group, when the original plan was only 5-6, it was balanced in a fun and engaging way that allowed everyone a chance to participate without being overwhelmed by trash mobs. Huge respect!

Storytelling: 15/10 The build up to this was immense. The climax? SO, SO satisfying! There was even a hook at the end to let us know that the story wasn't over just yet, even though our part in it had finished. Somehow, eleven unique stories were brought together in a way that enriched all of them.

Fairness: 10/10 There was not a moment that felt as though we were cheated out of a victory, yet there was still enough challenge to make it worth being careful. We don't talk about Banshee.

Overall: /10 Incredible event! Loved it so much! Hope to see more good things from Bona in the future, and hopefully be a part of them.

Misc: I WARNED YOU ABOUT HOWL OF THE BANSHEE, BRO! I TOLD YOU, DOG!

[Valterak]

Character: Talguth

Which Event: A Knife Poised At The Heart Of Darkness

Responsiveness: It could be slow at times, but they more than made up for it by including every character's actions. That is not an easy feat to do for 10 or so PCs at once, so it's more than understandable that it sometimes took a bit.

Balance: I quite enjoyed how players were able to influence the power of the EC during and before the event. That was a nice touch and I thought it was very well thought out.

Storytelling: I thought it was neat! I liked being able to spot some signs of what was happening due to my own experience with what the Nethradin was using.

Fairness: Everyone felt fairly equal in the event, attention placed on each individual as they RP'd. I haven't been on events in a very long while, but I think they did a grand job with it all, both in terms of balance of the encounters, attention placed on bonuses given to more-related skillsets each character had, and ensuring everyone felt like they were participating.

Overall: Good job. You're doing great.

Misc: I just think it's funny that an event got hosted within the wacky dimension I made.

[Ohverride]

Character: Kakku Sol-Ghrian

Which Event: A Knife Poised At The Heart Of Darkness

Responsiveness: 10/10 Decent speed for the amount of people. I was a tired FUCK at the end so much of it was a blur, but. It was good!

Balance: 8/10 The fights were good. There were bumps here and there, especially with the whole Banshee's Howl debacle. I feel like that could've used a bit more foresight, but it worked out. Please, please. Avoid using autohits on events as ECs, especially long range ones.

Storytelling: 9.5/10 I had NO CLUE WHAT WAS HAPPENING IC but I had an impact and boy howdy I put in work. I was a rather mundane character in a sea of significance. It still felt nice.

Fairness: 9/10. Besides Le Howl, you let us bypass some stupid game shenanigans that made you unkillable in the final round despite being on your last legs. Worked out!

Overall: 9.5/10 Took a long time, but I felt like it was good! Events are always good when I'm never thinking "I wonder what else I could've been doing". This was a good experience for myself and the character.

Misc: THE POWER OF BIBLOS COMPELS THEE.

[Dandeli]

Character: Melionette Meandersong
Which Event: nera star twinkle twinkle
Responsiveness: 10/10 in the sense that important facets were considered in the responses. Good speed for such thoughtful narrations.
Balance: 10/10, scaled up nicely. Felt like a proper EC fight.
Storytelling: 10/10, wonderful and made everyone face a little bit of themselves.
Fairness: 10/10, everyone who did a little something came out with a little treat. Good injury table.
Overall: 10/10 i love public event
Misc: cute moment with svengalf-kun 10/10