Meeting Notes for 3-16-25 Staff Meeting Staff attending: Darkpowder Lence Wolfe Agenda Items & notes: Kudos Newplayer postmortem DM XP wrapup Confirm PG duties for Wolfe & timeline for implementation Server Direction deadlines on the top server direction proposals: Improve Mechanisms for Party Play Simplify/ease the ability to rest Diversify/Facilitate group and player objectives Adventurers Guild / Improve Quest System Training / IC Education and emphasis on Lore & RP for Players Automate / Improve Enchantment Kudos to Lence & Kronan for working on all the stuff they are working on to move the serverforward The staff discussed the new players joining and departing after a while. It was concluded that they were looking for a different RP experience. We hope they find what they need wherever they go, and are always welcome. After running through the exercise of seeing how XP devalues as PCs level up, it was clear that DMs need to be mindful of upper level PCs, and how to reward them appropriately for their endeavors IG. Included is a spreadsheet that shows how much 1e XP needs to be awarded across levels so rewards can be equitable for PCs of all levels. How much XP is awarded will always be up to the DMs discretion, and the hope is that the spreadsheet helps with that. Wolfe is transitioning out from DM to Player Guide (title to be confirmed). That is effective almost immediately, so he can focus on initiatives to drive awareness and recruiting for the server, and in helping players become part of the community. He'll still retain DM access to help folks who need help with getting unstuck and other procedural issues. We have brought up the primary issues we want to work on to address in terms of Server Direction: Here are the top items: Improve Mechanisms for Party Play Simplify/ease the ability to rest Diversify/Facilitate group and player objectives Adventurers Guild / Improve Quest System Training / IC Education and emphasis on Lore & RP for Players Automate / Improve Enchantment We picked two to talk about in the staff meeting: Mechanics for Party Play & Diversify/Facilitate group and player objectives Part of the conversation involved extending the XP window for partied PCs - can we extend it so XP is given out to PCs with 5 levels of difference instead of 4? Should we have ALL spawns give at least 1XP when you level out of getting XP for them? Exploration XP should be laid out strategically also, based on how we want that XP fed to PCs. Wolfe stated it best: "We have an idea as a team what we want to achieve - We are a roleplay heavy server, we are making leveling more lenient with a high focus on rewarding party play with a long term drive for DM story and interaction. Whatever server direction mechanics aren't part of the code, it's a mental state that needs to be addressed/changed. Our vision is already defined, some people wont like it, but it is what it is. We're now getting into the mechanics or rules we enforce. I think we need a list of our ideals, how we believe we want the players to experience the server, and also taking into account our "being relevant" in the server lists so, start letting us makea list of selling points and direction ACTION ITEM: Staff should contribute selling points and ideas we want to promote