[Meta Thread] Pokerole Mystery Dungeon: Primal Shadows

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Okay, am home, fed and showered, so about time to respond on these points

(...)Let me start with the initial goal of Chapter 3: Finding the Legendary Beasts and defeating Shadow Ho-oh.  Open secret at this point.  No matter what you guys do, you'll need to work towards this goal to complete the chapter.  Simple enough, right?  

Well, here's the little snag I've been a little hung up on:

Scope.

My initial plan was to allow you guys a little more freedom in choosing where to go and when to tackle the main objectives, as well as start introducing side objectives to make things a little less linear.  I've already laid a bit of groundwork for that with the choices you've made to go to the Water and Mist Continents, as well as Darkula's various appearances up until this point.  I have other things planned that you might find fun, and a fair few of those ideas would also lead to story relevant rewards (which I will likely not elaborate on because spoilers!).  

I do realize this has been dragging on for awhile though, so I'd like to ask you guys how we should tackle this.  Do you want a little more freedom in choosing which missions you'd like to go on, or would you like a more guided, linear focus on the story (similar to how I ran Chapters 0-2)?
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Hmm... I'd honestly enjoy more freedom on where to go and what quests to follow, aka  side objectives and going down a less linear route, for reasons of wanting to dive deeper into the world we're in without a looming dread of another strong Shadowmon at the horizon; as well as having sort of a breather in-game before it's to save the world again. I also generelly enjoy doing side quests and exploring Mystery Dungeons that are 'only' optimal, and me feels that'd be neat opportunities that will allows my PC to grow stat-wise and character-wise in order to be ready for the main quest aka the open secret of finding the Legendary Beasts and warding off Shadow Ho-Oh. I also remeber you stating that starting with Ch 3 we'll be allowed to split up and tackle various Dungeons simultaneously, I liked/like that idea a lot.

However I also do understand that this means awhooole lot more work for GMing things on your end, and I'd adapt and accept if you can't or don't want to put in that work. If you do however are willing and can find that extra-time + mindset to put in the extrawork, that'd be awesome; totally understandableand no hard feelings if not so however. Only thing I'd please ask for if going for the more linear route would be if you could throw in a chance for Kee to bond with Salazzle aka Skittles, in one way or the  other - it's a 'Mon from his human past after all, wohooo! Sounds doable, or does it?

(...)Similar to what Windos is doing in WL, I'd also like to ask if you guys want to run a more holiday-flavored adventure for this campaign!  I think I can cook up something for that relatively quickly.  In fact, I think I have a few ideas already.

This gets a definite 'yes please', sounds adorable and fun! Curious what you'll be cooking up!~

Man, seems like the holidays are going to be busyyy, but in a good way. \(^v^)/