Family Friendly Festival

Family Friendly Festival

Next weekend is the third Family Friendly Festival!

It is like most in-game festivals, except we encourage you to bring your kids, or other family members, and we will be hosting some content for them in addition to the activities of a normal festival.

We will be allowing the kids to run around with weapons and engage in combat. Please only engage them if you are able and willing to play along and fight them lightly, with the intent to help entertain them. Some instances obviously might cause you to hold your suspension of disbelief temporarily, but making kids smile is a generous reward, worthy of the brief pause from realistic atmosphere.

Here is the link to information on all KR festivals: www.knightrealms.com/events/event-inform...-one-day-events.html

In addition to that information, here is some more information below:


• There will be no admission fee for a Family Guest who is someone just coming up for this event and whom will not need a permanent card place in the KR database. These types of guests may choose a character template from a very choice of simplified stat cards. You are welcome to modify them slightly if your guest wants to play a different flavor than available. For example if you guest wants to play a druid, but there are only mage cards, cross out mage, write druid, cross out the mage spells, add a few druid ones. This is a light hearted area of the festival and so anything within reason is fine.

• Time: Sign-in is between 10-Noon and will take place at a table near the Barn/Thrown Room Entrance. Noon is when official activities will start. We are welcoming people to come over Friday night if they so wish and camp out with their families. We will also be welcoming people to do the same Sat night into Sunday.

• There will be door prizes given out to players who come to this event. They will likely be an item with 2 or 3 empty sockets in them. Be sure to ask for it when you sign-in.

• Cards will not have been updated from the event that just passed. If you were at the last event, let me know when you are signing-in as I will be searching for cards in two separate piles, "At last event" and "Not at last event". When you sign-in please volunteer which category you are in when presenting your character number.

• Food: On Saturday during the day, we will be providing a BBQ style feast near the Inn. We encourage people to consider bringing some extra food of their own in case they have special needs or desires.

• Pets: Are welcome on a limited basis, as long as it is cleared first in a private e-mail with the director guaranteeing responsibility for the pet and vouching for their friendly demeanor.

• Language: We will encourage all of you to keep your language to a PG appropriate vocabulary. There will be small kids, and we would like to be courteous to them and the people who brought them. Its usually not an epidemic at the game or anything, but regardless If you find yourself accidentally cursing, stop yourself. Also if someone else is doing it give them a kind reminder that kids are present and this is a kid friendly event

• Kid Friendly Combat: There is no age restriction to the combat for this event, but everyone engaging the kids in combat should a) realize they are possibly going to be hit in an unsafe manor and b) be OK with this because hey they're kids, and also make sure you only hit them back with the absolute lightest touch.

• Borrowing Equipment: If any of the one-time attendees need to borrow weapons or costuming from the NPC area, they may do so.

• The Centralized Location. We will be using area outside the inn, as the centralized location for the festival. While there are things that will be further away such as the treasure hunt, we will mostly stay focused on this area. If you want to set up in your land, you may do so, but realize that you will be further away from the focal point of the festival.

Full Time NPC
Full time NPCs will be getting the base build for this event as well.

Volunteer NPC Shifts!
We will in fact need NPCs for this festival. You can receive up to TWO extra build. One for each two hour shift you sign up for. When you sign-in there will be an NPC shift volunteer sheet. Please ask to be signed up for slots to earn extra build and help the festival run smoother and be more entertaining for everyone!

- Non-normal player characters
So those people/mostly children, but in some cases adults who do not need to be entered into the permanent database can choose to use the below templates. They are altered versions of the KR rules meant for simplicity. They dont follow the normal rules, but it really dosnt matter much in this particular setting. These are the templates I will have printed out. Any race can be played, and if your child or relative is especially excited to play a character concept not on one of these, I am fine with you editing them slightly to fit a different concept. For that matter, if your child or relative wants to change cards mid-way through, thats fine too.

Healer/Warrior
- 10 Body Points
- Swings “2 Damage” with weapon
- Can “Cure” 2ce per battle (Heals all wounds, including people recently fallen)
- “Life Spell” Once ever the healer can bring someone back from being slain

Rogue/Warrior
- 10 Body points
- Swings “2 Damage” with weapon
- “Disarm Traps” Can disarm any trap after thirty seconds of RP
- “Set Traps” Can place a disarmed trap to do 10 Points of Damage.
- “Waylay” 1nce per battle (Knocks someone unconscious, must be from behind target)

Mage/Warrior
- 10 Body points
- Swings “2 Damage” with weapons
- Spell “Fireball” once per battle (“10 Fire”)
- Spell “Pin” once per battle (One of the targets feet is stuck to the ground, does not work on all creatures)
- Spell “Identify Magic” Continuous. If an item is magical, you can identify the properties of it.

Warrior (Focused)
- 20 Body Points
- Swings “4 Damage” with weapons
- “Crit 8 Damage” twice per battle
- “+2 Strength” This can be used to throw something or someone twenty feet in a non-combat setting, or to lift something that is supposed to be heavy with greater ease.

Friday and Sunday
You are welcome to come to the camp on Friday and or stay on the camp some on Sunday.

On either day you will have a choice
1) Hang out and do nothing and enjoy the outdoors.
2) Work on a project that you want to work on that has been pre-approved by me (James/Owner) in return for Bonus SP
3) Work on a project that I ask you to work on for Bonus Build

Couple questions....

1: Can we show up past noon?

2: In the past there has been something for the normal characters to do that related to the game as a whole, I remember a couple years ago when we had the summit. Will something like that be happening this month? Or is this a FOIG question?

3: While I know it doesn't apply for once a month things like trades, for the purpose of using skills, are the skills learned last event able to be used for the festival?

4: Along the same lines, can we learn skills at the festival, and going with the question above, can we use the skills we learned last event as a pre req?

1) You can show up past noon, yes. Just look for me as soon as you get there so that I can sign you in.

2) There will be activities for the normal characters. That activity may relate to plots, or may be separate, details are still being fleshed out and so unless something further is announced prior to the weekend, you'll find out at the event.

3 and 4) As far as learning skills and pre-reqs go, the answer will be in your favor for attending a festival or special event.

Bonus Answer: If you are coming to the camp on Friday for any reason,you may arrive at the camp as early as you would like.

Food: While KR is providing the base cookout food, we are welcoming donations to have more and encouraging people to bring thier own special requests. There is a post started to organize the extra donations of food. That post can be gotten to easily from this link:

www.knightrealms.com/forum/Announcements...-the-bbq.html#123989