General thoughts on chapter 3..

[PlayaCharacter]

ShadowCharlatan, you perfectly summed up my feelings regarding the nobility system vs elections. Dead on. And yeah, fuck Kingsman's.

[Egon the Monkey]

Playing it over the last few days, I'm seeing parallels with a lot of things I missed from the Underdark. The clear feeling of danger when outside the town. The more PC-driven political system. The obvious looming threats on the island. There never felt like there was anything on Ymph that measured up to Traensyr, the Illithids and the Beholders, but now we have Lotheri and H'bala, two major villains with their own areas of control. The Mist Paths too add a lot of atmosphere, making travelling the island less routine. It's going to make Ymph feel a lot bigger.

[The Boom King]

I tried to do the fat rat quest but the fat rat must have escaped in the mist too. :/
 
Otherwise this is bloody fantastic. The start for a new character is.... freaking phenomenal.

[Listen in Silence]

The general atmosphere is all I was missing from Sanctuary, and more. The perfect choice, I feel.

That the DM team managed to create so much, all in secrecy and all parallel to maintaining the very much still awesome EFU:A, is just incredible. I can't wait to see more of this.

[bigx]

Looking forward to continuing the story.  I was not expecting Chapter 3 to pop up like this.

As usual, thanks for all the hard work DM team.

[The Tricksy Bird]

EFUM looks really cool to me, I look forward to returning as a player and joining in the fun.

[FanaticusIncendi]

I love the new setting, it's re-kindled my interest in EfU and desire to play. It feels much more mysterious and adventure-y.

I've mostly played nature-based characters in EfU:A primarily because every time I made a town-based PC I just couldn't get into it, basically for all the reasons ShadowCharletan outlined...Dealing with the town politics and factions in EfU:A actually made me feel tired and oddly it all just felt too much like real life to me...I play this game for the fantasy and adventure part!

Anyway the point is, in addition to feeling re-inspired within team nature and my current PC, I'm also already excitedly brainstorming new concepts all of which are town-based PC's which is new for me. Yay EfU for keeping it fresh and thank you for all the hard work that the builders and writers and DMs have obviously put into the place! It's a really fabulous project and I hope it keeps going so I can play it when I'm all old and stooped :D

[AGOTFANBOI]

Played thru the end to the new EFUM. Amazeing transition. Pretty seamless, and as for a guantlet, I see the Pass of Rabantha(sp?) more of darwininan evolutinary walk. The pass on the first few hours of the change over was littered with corpses! Almost all, folks recognized from the last stand in the Temple.  

Playing EFUM now from a new char perspective..it is even more amazing.
(IF you are bored, or char from efua is now feeling a bit stale, highly recommend this)

Perhaps should change my login to efumfanboi instead.