Thanks for your message, Mirela. But, in a stroke of madness/genius, I discovered the solution to my problem and now everything is perfect. :)
Just to keep things easy, whenever there's a tie in Initiative and with initiative modifiers, whoever posts first will go first. I hope everyone is okay with that.
Just so I know, do you want us to wait until our initiative to post or can we post whenever and the actions will only resolve on our initiative?
Just post whenever, and I'll resolve them in order. This is actually my first PbP combat, and it's a big one... So, please bear with me. :P
Your map was absolutely fantastic! Well done, especially for your first try. I need to know how to do what you did there.
Thanks! It took WAY too long, but now that I know how to do it, hopefully future maps will be much quicker. :P
I just took the map into Photoshop and added the letters and numbers along the sides. Then, I used everyone's avatars in TokenTool to create the tokens. Then I just resized them and dropped them back into Photoshop.
Speaking of tokens, if there is actual character art you'd like to use I could make tokens for us.
Here is one I made from the image I used for Mirela.
I use MapTools for my Planescape table top game I run with my gaming group, and know it quite well. By the way Sloth, if you ever need some help on that stuff or need some extra tasks completed for that, let me know.
I am experiencing acute sympathetic back pain looking at the original image. It's not quite as bad as most of the Escher Girls, but that's not saying much.
Lol, never seen that before. Yeah, anatomic reality and physics kinda goes out the window with some of these comic book and video game concepts artists.
This particular artist is Hyung-Tae Kim I believe... it's actually one of his more tame images if you can believe that :p
I'm away for Thanksgiving. Don't expect anything from me until Sunday or Monday. Feel free to DMPC me as needed.
No problem. We're at a good break point anyway. Tomorrow and Friday are busy for me too, so I wasn't expecting to post much, or at all.
Have a good Thanksgiving, everyone!
Yes, happy Thanksgiving all
Have a great Thanksgiving everyone. Up here in Canada, we celebrate our Thanksgiving in October... in other words my weekend won't be as turkey, stuffing, mash potato and gravy filled as yours, so color me jealous.
Back and ready to game when everyone else is! Hope you all got your fill of turkey and football. That's how it is in my house.
Likewise. Ready to roll!
Ready
Excellent! Should have a new post up within the next hour.
Ready to go when you are.
Sorry, I'm not gonna be around to post again until Sunday night or Monday. Today was busy, and I'm out of town again this weekend. :\
Hey, at least you're not still bedridden. Thanks for the update.
NP here. Having a great time BTW. Great first battle!
Sounds good, have a good weekend everyone.
Everyone getting ready for the holidays?
Yeah. I will be leaving on the 22nd, but should have wireless.
I'll be here through Christmas but will be gone a few days after. And I am skiing January 4-8. I should have wireless everywhere I go.
I'm here through Christmas and New Year's, but my schedule will be off and on. I should be able to post most days though.
What is our status? Are we on hold for something? People just busy?
Waiting on GM S, at this point. I'm guessing busy (or the AP is cursed; GM Idyll just resurfaced a few days ago after being neck-deep in work from Sandy).
Apologies for the shameless plug, but if anyone's looking for a game I have a couple of openings in a PbP campaign HERE. Two of the players had RL issues come up and had to back out. Fifth level, 20 point build, standard WBL, two traits. The characters being replaced are a TWF fighter and a Ranger (Guide)1/Inquisitor 4; remaining characters are a human Sorc5, a nagaji Monk (Master of Many Styles)5, and a half-orc Bar2/Battle Oracle 3. PM me if you're interested.
Sorry everyone. Work got extremely busy and stressful, plus I've been fighting off being sick while traveling out of town. It's been hectic and not a lot of fun.
I'm at a tough spot right now. I have a couple of weeks finally that work has mellowed, and I can post pretty regularly again. However, in January, it's going to all start over again and I may find myself unable to update at all for long periods of time. This certainly wasn't expected when I took over this AP, and it really bums me out. I'm pretty unhappy with my current job because of this, and I'm going to be spending a lot of the next couple of weeks to pursue new employment.
I don't like stalling the game for long stretches, which is what would happen as it is. It's probably for the best if I step away, but I hate to put some of you through yet ANOTHER false start of this AP. Bah. :(
I'm sorry again, everyone. I'm embarrassed that I bit off more than I could chew.
But in case you notice and you're wondering, I do have a current PFS PbP that I am finishing, since it will be wrapping up in the next couple of weeks. I am going to finish that one out, but only because I can actually complete it before life gets too crazy again.
These things happen. Personally, I've had enough campaigns (and enough RotRL campaigns!) stall out that I'm willing to wait for a few weeks to see how your spare time situation shapes up, but it's your call.
If you need to close it up, that's cool. RL happens.
If you want us to pause for another few weeks, I'm cool with that as well.
I would rather pause that drop as well. GM Sloth, you have a real talent for running combats and your map skills are some of the best I have seen. I am sure its a lot of work, but this hobby is a good break when you are stressed. So maybe slow it down, and try to enjoy?
:)
Thanks guys. And thanks, Cadas.
I'm willing to give it a shot. I'm glad you are all with me.
I'll echo everyone's thoughts. I'm fine waiting a bit to see how things turn out.
Considering the fact that I'm reading and keeping up on this (for your story-telling, and map-making), I'd say hiatus.
Oh wait...you were talking to the players. Lol. Woops. :)
Hey all,
I'll echo what has already been said, I'm happy pause and see how things turn out. This game has been great, and would be worth the wait.
I'm truly sorry everyone, but I'm going to have to step down. My anxiety has been hitting uncomfortably high levels lately, mostly because of the holidays, but also because of work issues. In addition to being the store coordinator for Pathfinder Society where I live, and attempting to organize a brand new convention from the ground up over the next couple of months... I feel like my life is about to hit critical mass.
I feel really terrible for getting everyone's hopes up. I wanted to do a good job, but I just ended up letting everyone down. I sincerely apologize.
Maybe if life decides to slow down, I'll take another shot at GM'ing a PbP campaign. I'm just really disappointed that I've become yet another person here on the boards that starts, then fails. Blah.
No problem, Sloth. These things happen, especially on PbP. Thanks for coming back to tell us.
Likewise--thanks for keeping us up to date. Good luck keeping everything together!
Yeah. RL comes first! Face to face games come second, and PBP is one of those things you squeeze in if you can :)
If you could, please switch the campaign to inactive when you can so it doesn't show up on our listing
I appreciate your efforts. They were quite impressive.
I hope to game with you all again and soon.
Take care Sloth, thanks for the update!