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Reminder – Downtimes Close 25/11!

Hello Five Oaths LRP Players! A quick reminder that downtimes close this coming Saturday, at 23.59PM the 25th November. You can find a link to the downtime form in our original post here. If you have outstanding emails or queries that may affect your downtime, don’t worry: Extensions will be provided in these cases. We’d also like to draw special attention again to the section of the form where you have the opportunity to inform…

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Regarding Officer Appointments, and the Wizard at Arms

To provide clarity on officer appointments: In general, if an officer position is empty at the end of an event, a replacement will be appointed by the Thane before the start of the next event. The appointee will be chosen by the event team based on the Thane’s IC consultation with player characters, with some OOC oversight for general game-health purposes as mentioned in the original officers announcement. This is how the Watch Officer and…

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Update to Consumable Items

Hello folks! Thank you for your patience with us as we enter the long dark of winter, with no LARP to keep us going. We’ll be rolling out a few posts in the coming weeks with important updates, discussions, and news regarding Five Oaths LARP, and we’d like to open with some rules updates regarding consumable items. Going forwards, consumable items (items marked with a (c) in the crafting lists) will no longer expire over…

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Downtimes Are Now Open / Winter Interlude Update!

Downtimes are now open for the Autumn ’23 -> Spring 24 game period! They will remain open until 23.59pm, November 25th, 2023. We’re aware that a player-run social will be taking place November 11th, and as such have allowed for plenty of time post-social for scheming, planning and transferring crafting ingredients. If you wish to correct your downtime, simply submit the form again: We will use the most recent submission for your character as the ‘true’…

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A Season of Graves Feedback, Downtimes and More!

Event 5 Feedback We’re always looking to improve our events, so we’d love to hear about your experiences at the weekend if you attended A Season of Graves. As such, we’ve got a Feedback Form here that we’d appreciate you filling out. Don’t be afraid to fill as much or as little of the form out as you like: It all helps! You can find the feedback form right here! Additionally: By attending this event,…

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On The Design of Five Oaths, PvP, and Secrets

Before the next game we would like to take the chance to discuss some of the intentions and expectations behind Five Oaths’ game design.  On PvE and the Spirit of the Game The main source of challenge in Five Oaths is intended to be Player vs Environment (PvE) conflict, whether that’s players fighting off monsters attacking the camp, pitting their wits against puzzles and traps in an ancient tomb, or negotiating a compromise between hostile…

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Primer – The Arcane College of Draíod

History Draíod has always attracted those with a keen interest in the arcane and magical arts, and the Vartach have a long and proud tradition of magical mastery. For most of its history the study and teaching of magic was organised around various competing schools. Each one tended to be led by a single particularly brilliant or particularly charismatic scholar whose theories and practises the members of the school studied and emulated. Fierce rivalries often…

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A Season of Smiling: Downtimes, Feedback, and Our Next Event

Hey there folks: We’re all recovering from a great week spent out at our last event, A Season of Smiling. We tried out a lot of new things, and brought back more old ones, so we’re looking for your feedback on the event. If you have a few spare moments, we’d love to hear your thoughts- You can find the feedback form right here. Any feedback at all is appreciated, on any aspect of the…

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Effects Quick Reference Guides, First Aid, and Camp Volunteers

Hello all! We’re hard at work nailing down encounters for the weekend and prepping to roll out on Friday, so in advance of our Monstering form and event guide we have a few quick announcements: Effects Cheat Sheet The Event Team has assembled a quick-reference sheet that includes the most common effects you might get hit with over the event- It’s not a 100% authoritative document (that’s the rulebook), but it should serve as a…

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IC Tent Registration: A Season of Smiling

Hi all, We’re looking to get a plan for the IC camp together before the event to make setting up quicker and easier so we need some details on what type of IC tent you’re bringing and how big it is by midnight, 5th of May. Our space in Collon is quite limited, so we can’t guarantee that we’re going to be able to accommodate every tent, though we’ll do our best to make the…

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