Kacy's Savage Tide Campaign OOC Discussion


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Hey everyone! This thread will be for OOC Discussion for my Savage Tide game. Since I just picked the players, I figured I'd make this thread now so we can get everything ready to go.

I'm probably going to make a first post on Monday or Tuesday of next week depending on when we're all ready. If everyone I chose from the Gamer Connection thread could go ahead and post here to verify that they've got their profiles created and are ready to play, that would be awesome. I'm excited to get this started up! :)


posting to get my dot...


Human female Universalist wizard 1 | 14 AC | HP 16/16 | F+4, R+4, W+6 | Initiative +0| Perception +4 | 25’ speed |

Thanks for accepting me in the party, DM. Very excited to start your game.

If you see any errors in my character sheet, please let me know.

Happy New Year to every one.


Male Daytona 500 DM / 12

Dottiing. I'll get my profile up tomorrow night.


Male Elf (Aquatic) Fighter 1

*Bows* Posting for a dot and to watch and cheer people on from the side lines. =)


Male Human Oracle 1

Alright, character is up. Just let me know if there is anything you think needs changing.

Thanks!

The Exchange

Thanks DM Kacy. I'll complete Asfer tomorrow.

scranford, are you happy to come from the same ship as my ranger? We can work out the details of the friendship in game if you like. Especially as Asfer is a bit of a loner.

Cheers


Male Elf (Mordant Spire) Bard (Sea Singer)/1

Nimwi here. Thank you for choosing me. I will add in the race and class features as well as a description by Monday. Would it be okay (and is there any interest) for the casters to collaborate on their spells? For instance, I was planning on these:

0 Level
Dancing Lights - to be able to provide light on deck
Detect Magic - making it possible to identify items
Lullaby - as a precursor to Sleep
Message - to relay messages from the crow's nest

1st Level
Animate Rope - always helpful on a sailing ship
Sleep - great low level crowd control

I really wanted to go with spells like Alter Winds and Push Water, but they're not available to bards (even sea singers). Any suggestions or requests?


Male Human Oracle 1

I was leaning towards having my spell selection being more language or observation based because of the personality of the character. I get the cure spells by default as an oracle, and my curse will be adding some more utility type spells to my list over time.

What I have so far is:

0 Level
Detect Poison
Read Magic
Light
Ghost Sound
Detect Magic
Mage Hand

1st Level
Command
Cure Light Wounds
Liberating Command


Male Human Cool Dude 20

All looks good so far. My checking of this thread may be sporadic until Monday, but I'll get everything in order then. Spell collaboration is fine by me.

Also, Tarlane, your old grandma lady portrait is throwing me off :P
It's cool if you want to use it, but I thought I'd let you know that the full picture looks like THIS


Male Human Oracle 1

Yeah, I was really trying to find something better and seemed to be failing at it. I was hoping to squeak by with people just thinking it was an older person with glasses, but obviously that isn't going to work. Hm. I'll have to look some more.

Edit: Hm, that one seems much better.

Dark Archive

Lerith Ryn wrote:

I was leaning towards having my spell selection being more language or observation based because of the personality of the character. I get the cure spells by default as an oracle, and my curse will be adding some more utility type spells to my list over time.

What I have so far is:

0 Level
Detect Poison
Read Magic
Light
Ghost Sound
Detect Magic
Mage Hand

1st Level
Command
Cure Light Wounds
Liberating Command

Lerith, are these the spells you're still trying to choose from? If not, you have too many spells for 1st level. You start with 4 0 level and 2 1st level spells. Bonus spells for a high casting stat are for the number of spells per day, not spells known. =D


Posting for dottage, too.


Male Human Oracle 1
drayen wrote:
Lerith Ryn wrote:

I was leaning towards having my spell selection being more language or observation based because of the personality of the character. I get the cure spells by default as an oracle, and my curse will be adding some more utility type spells to my list over time.

What I have so far is:

0 Level
Detect Poison
Read Magic
Light
Ghost Sound
Detect Magic
Mage Hand

1st Level
Command
Cure Light Wounds
Liberating Command

Lerith, are these the spells you're still trying to choose from? If not, you have too many spells for 1st level. You start with 4 0 level and 2 1st level spells. Bonus spells for a high casting stat are for the number of spells per day, not spells known. =D

Should be right. As a haunted oracle I get ghost sound and mage hand added to my list for free at first level. All oracles get the cure spells for free when they are the right level to be able to cast them.

I built him in herolab so he -should- be correct, though its not unknown to have bugs every now and then so if you see something, let me know.

The Exchange

Spent the day looking at trains and now packing to leave relations and drive back home this evening. So Asfer has been sidelined until tomorrow but I should be ready to start nevertheless.

Now seems a good time for an introduction, since I haven't gamed with most of you guys. I'm a forty-something house husband with a baby girl and a 4 year old son. Got a couple of other jobs for my sanity but most of my spare time is spent on these forums or prepping DnD for tabletop games. Also I like sport being an avid soccer fan (Liverpool FC) and also American Football (Green Bay Packers).

Lastly I am running two pbps, a Viking one and an Arabian one, while playing in several others over the last five years, currently have three other characters on the go. Mostly I play healers and rogues so this makes a nice change.

Cheers

Dark Archive

Lerith Ryn wrote:

Should be right. As a haunted oracle I get ghost sound and mage hand added to my list for free at first level. All oracles get the cure spells for free when they are the right level to be able to cast them.

I built him in herolab so he -should- be correct, though its not unknown to have bugs every now and then so if you see something, let me know.

You, sir, are absolutely correct. My mistake. That is something cool to learn about oracles.


Portrait looks much better Tarlane. I was mostly just razzin' ya :P

As for introductions, I'm Kacy; I'm a 26 year old loan officer at a local credit union up here in Bellingham, WA and I live with my fiance and our two cats. I'm DMing a Rise of the Runelords game that meets quite sporadically and cancels often (today for example...) and am playing in a Kingmaker game weekly. I'm also playing in SdF's Crypt of the Everyflame game on here (as Helios), which is my first foray into PbP. My other hobbies include Warhammer, videogames, various movies and TV shows, and sleeping. I'll probably be doing most of my posting from work as I have quite a bit of downtime, but will try to get on occasionally on weekends and evenings to keep things moving.

My playstyle as DM is pretty adaptive to whatever group I'm playing with. I play with some people who are really tactical players in combat and don't like as much time spent in social situations and I play with some people who are entirely interested in having fun with roleplaying their character and probably have no clue what a bull rush is. As a player, I probably fall somewhere in the middle as I am quite strategically minded, but also like to develop my characters and have fun with their personality. As a DM, I like to tailor the games I'm running to my players' preferences and go from there.

I am planning to post combat grids for our battles as I think visuals are important, but if you're not as tactically minded of a player, you don't have to be super tactical in using them. When combat occurs, how I'll probably run it is to roll initiative and post the battle map and ask each player to post what they're doing and make any required rolls. I'll then compile everyone's actions into a single post for that round and add any flavor text required to make it sounds like a cohesive narrative.

We also may as well get out of the way how everyone would like to handle loot. The method I'm most used to is to just total up the value of all items, divide that by two, add in any gold pieces found and then divide that total by the number of party members. Then, if anyone wants to claim any items that person just subtracts half of the value of the item (or whatever it would have sold for) from their loot total. If this brings them to a negative number, they would either pay the party out of pocket or we would just set the item aside from this loot totaling (though they could still keep it) and include it in the next round of loot. If this sounds really complicated, it's actually quite easy and entirely done for you by this spreadsheet that I can maintain in the background. I have the spreadsheet loaded with an example for you to check out. Of course if you'd like to handle loot differently, that's totally fine too as long as everyone agrees on it as like I said, I'm pretty adaptable :)

Also Lerith's spells look good.

Liberty's Edge

I'm about to run off for my in person game, so let me put up a quick post of introduction. I'm Mike, I'm 27 and a network admin, which means I work way too much but when I am working I will normally be on checking the boards at the same time.

I've been a fairly frequent PbP player here on Paizo the last few years and been an avid paizo fan since before they built shackled city but thats definitely where I went fanboy. I currently am running a PbP built around dungeonaday.com and am playing in another one. Our sometime's DM is just finishing up a storyline for our in person group so I am going to be running a game for them as well.

Also, no worries about the jest on my picture. I didn't take it seriously or anything, though it did inspire me to look for a new pic, being outed and all. I do like the new one much better so I should thank you.


I'm Gerald, in my late thirties, and practice law. About half the time during the week, I am at my desk and can post really regularly during work hours, and the other half I will be out. I am very good about making a quick post about me being out during important scenes, battles, etc. so as to not leave everyone hanging, waiting on my action.

I don't have a real life group anymore, so I do quite a by of play by post gaming here on the site. I guess I have been here at Paizo for a couple years now. I have recently made a character over at Enworld as well. I usually play arcane casters, with an occasional druid or monk thrown in, to keep things fresh.

DM, that sounds like a fine way to run things. However you want to run your game, I am cool with. Do what you are comfortable with. That'll make for a happier DM and happier players! I'm a big fan of DM rolling initiative, as for play by post that can take a day or so by itself.


Male Daytona 500 DM / 12
French Wolf wrote:

Thanks DM Kacy. I'll complete Asfer tomorrow.

scranford, are you happy to come from the same ship as my ranger? We can work out the details of the friendship in game if you like. Especially as Asfer is a bit of a loner.

Cheers

Sure that sounds good. I had originally imagined her as a slave being transported to a final destination, if that is something you could work around. If not maybe she could be re-cast as a slave crew member as well...perhaps a cook.


Female Human (Dromaar) ; Perception +4 ; AC-16(20); HP 20/20 Champion (Paladin) /1 (Naderi ); ST+4, DX+0; CN+3, IN+0, WI+1, CH+1

Here is the profile.
Still need to shop, and tighten up background. I guess shopping would depend on how long I've been in off the shipwreck, and what I could loot off the bodies, but weapons and armor are done.


Male Human Cool Dude 20

Here we go!


Male Human Oracle 1

Shifting over here to try and keep from chattering OOCly in the IC thread.

These boards do have a tendency to eat posts on occasion, especially if you take a while writing them or open another thread while you are in the process of writing one, so I normally copy whatever I put up before I post it just in case it goes poof. From what I've seen it generally happens immediately though, that was the first time I've seen the post in the thread and then come back later to have it gone. I'll have to start watching posts closer and not relying so much on seeing new activity on the thread in case I am the one being waited on.

Also, on a less serious note, I hadn't even realized I was bluffing though I suppose the mechanics for it are pretty good for expressing dry humor to those dense enough to not notice it. Passing secret messages and all that.


Male Daytona 500 DM / 12
Lerith Ryn wrote:

Shifting over here to try and keep from chattering OOCly in the IC thread.

These boards do have a tendency to eat posts on occasion, especially if you take a while writing them or open another thread while you are in the process of writing one, so I normally copy whatever I put up before I post it just in case it goes poof. From what I've seen it generally happens immediately though, that was the first time I've seen the post in the thread and then come back later to have it gone. I'll have to start watching posts closer and not relying so much on seeing new activity on the thread in case I am the one being waited on.

Also, on a less serious note, I hadn't even realized I was bluffing though I suppose the mechanics for it are pretty good for expressing dry humor to those dense enough to not notice it. Passing secret messages and all that.

I can vouch for you. I saw and read your post last night, then it was gone later that night.


Male Human Cool Dude 20
Lerith Ryn wrote:
Also, on a less serious note, I hadn't even realized I was bluffing though I suppose the mechanics for it are pretty good for expressing dry humor to those dense enough to not notice it. Passing secret messages and all that.

Yeah I wanted to try to figure out a DC for their Sense Motive and figured that Bluff was the best fit. Of course I guess that wouldn't work so well if you were trying to make sure they got the jab, but I'd say it worked well in this case.

scranford wrote:
I can vouch for you. I saw and read your post last night, then it was gone later that night.

Weird. Yeah I've actually been typing my posts out entirely in notepad and then previewing them on here to make any changes as a double safety measure against long posts being eaten.


Guys, try http://lazarus.interclue.com/. After you download it, it lets you go back and search for the post, if it gets eaten. Since I downloaded it, I have never lost a post. If it gets eaten, click on lazarus and search for it. Easy peasy.


If you can't tell, Uraisa is a bit on the goofy side. That 8 wisdom rears its ugly head pretty often. It seems to manifest with an extremely short attention span, which is why she has learned to quickly sketch out details or things that she notices. If she doesn't, the next pretty thing that catches her eye will just push the other one out entirely.


Male Human Cool Dude 20
Gerald wrote:
If you can't tell, Uraisa is a bit on the goofy side. That 8 wisdom rears its ugly head pretty often. It seems to manifest with an extremely short attention span, which is why she has learned to quickly sketch out details or things that she notices. If she doesn't, the next pretty thing that catches her eye will just push the other one out entirely.

She's pretty fun. She reminds me of a friend of mine actually. (though I think my friend has lower intelligence :P)

The Exchange

I was more than a little bit shocked to see the DM deciding Asfer's second round combat and making the rolls for me. This has come up before in a Kingmaker that lasted about two weeks. There the DM cited a wish to move things along with speed but pbp's much slower and more collaborative than that.

I doubt Asfer would have done much else but that is not the point. It is about who makes the decisions on what my PC does. That is where the fun lies. As it stands, I woke up to read what my PC had done. I have books enough for that.

Kacy, if you plan to keep doing this then let me know now and I'll withdraw from the game. You are putting far too much good effort in here for me to spoil it because of the way I believe the game should be run.

Regards


Sorry if I stepped on your feet, I definitely didn't intend to.

Also to clarify, the only bit of combat I put in for you was the attack of opportunity, I just reposted your earlier attack on the thug with the result. I don't mind stopping combat to check for peoples' actions midstream if that's what you'd prefer, I simply figured that me making the roll would be the simplest solution. Like I said starting off, I'm completely willing to tailor how I do things to my players' preferences and next time will take your preference into account now that I'm aware of it. Thanks for bringing this up as I definitely appreciate feedback and want to make this game as enjoyable as possible for all of the players. Let me know if there's anything else I can do to improve things :)


Male Human Oracle 1

Just chiming in to voice my thoughts: I think I fall somewhere in the middle on this issue. Honestly, the AoO did surprise me a little bit though I didn't react to it nearly as strongly as French Wolf. Mostly, its because its not entirely a reactive roll like a spot check or even a knowledge roll, with the AoO he could have done something else be it a combat maneuver or even just letting it go if he wished to save the AoO chance for later in the round or didn't want to hit a foe who was no longer being a threat. As a general rule, if a character has a choice in something I would much rather them get the chance to make it even if it adds 12 hours to when the next round goes.

From the other perspective, I've run enough PbP that I do know how much you can worry that something is going to slow it down and your players are going to become disinterested which will slow it down more. I definitely understand trying to fill in fairly non-consequential actions to keep the pace(especially in combat) exciting. I don't have any problem with the idea of a rule along the lines of 'If we are waiting for your action for 24 hours in a fight, you'll be NPCd for the round' or the like to keep things from bogging down. At the moment everyone seems really active though, so I wouldn't worry too much about it.

I'm definitely enjoying the game, DM and I think you've got a good group of players here. I'm glad to see that you took the time to listen to the complaint and answer it peacefully with the agreement to try and find an acceptable resolution. I think that says a great deal about you as a DM while we try and settle in to each other's playstyles.


I agee. We have gotten off to a good start while we are still all feeling each other out. I have a good feeling about this crew. Hopefully we can keep it going long term, while we iron out any kinks...

The Exchange

Thank you Kacy. To be fair, had I realised it was an AoO I would have been a lot less worked up about this. Previous experience with other Pbp games and DMs has made me a bit negative about things like this. I'll try to make my feedback a little more conciliatory next time.

Cheers


No worries at all as I can understand the confusion and frustration.

Glad everyone is enjoying the game and I'd like to echo everyone's sentiments that we have a great group and I'm looking forward to having a long term campaign with you dudes all the way to 20th level :)

Also I'm pretty thick-skinned so any feedback anyone has about the way I'm doing things is completely encouraged and will overall benefit our game so don't feel bad about letting me hear it if you have any issues. Keep in mind this is my first PbP game as GM so I'm still experimenting and trying to find the best way to make things work and am definitely in favor of trying different ways of doing things if you think they'll work better. Thanks all :)

Dark Archive

My turn. Please do not retarget my spells. I'm sure that all the thugs have the same Will modifiers and that it wouldn't have made a difference whether it was the thug in the open doorway leveling a crossbow at Asfer or the thug in front of me, but I was trying to hit where there may have been as yet unseen multiple targets with an area of effect spell. Please do move me where I indicate. A 5' step is not a big deal, but I was trying to entice the thug to charge me by giving him a nice straight open line to me. It didn't work out and that's okay. You know, small corrections now prevent larger errors later. ;)


Male Daytona 500 DM / 12
drayen wrote:
My turn. Please do not retarget my spells. I'm sure that all the thugs have the same Will modifiers and that it wouldn't have made a difference whether it was the thug in the open doorway leveling a crossbow at Asfer or the thug in front of me, but I was trying to hit where there may have been as yet unseen multiple targets with an area of effect spell. Please do move me where I indicate. A 5' step is not a big deal, but I was trying to entice the thug to charge me by giving him a nice straight open line to me. It didn't work out and that's okay. You know, small corrections now prevent larger errors later. ;)

That brings up a question. I believe setting a weapon for a charge would take your attack action for the round. I don't believe you can both attack with a set weapon and cast a spell in a round. Could someone clarify this for me. I've got a character in another game that this is going to come up with.

Dark Archive

scranford wrote:
That brings up a question. I believe setting a weapon for a charge would take your attack action for the round. I don't believe you can both attack with a set weapon and cast a spell in a round. Could someone clarify this for me. I've got a character in another game that this is going to come up with.

I cast the spell in the last round. Sleep is a full round action to cast, so just before my action in this round, it goes off. My next action then begins. All I made in this round is a 5' step and a readied action.


Male Human Cool Dude 20
scranford wrote:
drayen wrote:
My turn. Please do not retarget my spells. I'm sure that all the thugs have the same Will modifiers and that it wouldn't have made a difference whether it was the thug in the open doorway leveling a crossbow at Asfer or the thug in front of me, but I was trying to hit where there may have been as yet unseen multiple targets with an area of effect spell. Please do move me where I indicate. A 5' step is not a big deal, but I was trying to entice the thug to charge me by giving him a nice straight open line to me. It didn't work out and that's okay. You know, small corrections now prevent larger errors later. ;)
That brings up a question. I believe setting a weapon for a charge would take your attack action for the round. I don't believe you can both attack with a set weapon and cast a spell in a round. Could someone clarify this for me. I've got a character in another game that this is going to come up with.

My bad. I misunderstood where you wanted the spell to go and which thug you were targetting and for some reason thought you were talking about targetting additional thugs that would pop out from belowdecks. For future reference, I would recommend using the numbers assigned to the thugs in your directions or for AoE spells specifically saying which tile you are targeting using their graph designations (E5, etc). Also I apparently missed the graph designation for where you wanted to move to. I'll update the graph on that next turn. Either way the thug wouldn't have charged you as it was getting it's ear bitten off by the Dimorphodon. Thanks for the correction :)


After this battle maybe we'll try something different for combats.

I started playing in another game that just posts in initiative order and that seems to work pretty well. What would you guys think about that?

Dark Archive

DM Kacy wrote:

After this battle maybe we'll try something different for combats.

I started playing in another game that just posts in initiative order and that seems to work pretty well. What would you guys think about that?

Whichever way is fine with me.


You're the boss, DM. Whichever way you prefer is fine with me.


Male Daytona 500 DM / 12

In a couple of other games I'm in when the DM does the round summary, he puts in the initiative order again, and if someone has acted it's shown in the count. That way we know for sure that our actions for the round are due/over. Shouldn't be much extra effort, just a cut and paste of original initiative post, but shouldn't slow down the game like waiting to post in initiative order can. Just my 2c worth.


Male Human Cool Dude 20
scranford wrote:
In a couple of other games I'm in when the DM does the round summary, he puts in the initiative order again, and if someone has acted it's shown in the count. That way we know for sure that our actions for the round are due/over. Shouldn't be much extra effort, just a cut and paste of original initiative post, but shouldn't slow down the game like waiting to post in initiative order can. Just my 2c worth.

That sounds like a good idea.


Male Human Oracle 1

Indeed, I think Scranford's suggest is quite a good one.

In my games I normally mention the next two or three people who are going to be 'on deck' so that they can post. I have felt that gives the best of both worlds, giving people getting a chance to post when they are able rather than in strict initiative order but also keeping it close enough that they aren't having to guess what everyone else in the next round is going to do.

Honestly, I am alright with either method though, I appreciate you pausing to let me change my action since the situation has changed and I have seen you letting everyone alter things a bit from their initial posts based on how the round is going, so this method seems to be going smooth enough. Whatever you feel most comfortable with.

Also, DM, I thought you might find this interesting. One of my players in a PbP I am running showed it to me and I thought it was really well put. Someone wrote up a note about posting guidelines and how players can make a PbP have more life and lasting power and I thought it was really well put.

Link


Male Human Cool Dude 20

A good read.

I like the part about posting contingencies as that should work out pretty well. Also I feel like I'm getting more in the groove of this method as things go along so maybe we don't need any changes, but I wanted to gauge how this all is working for everyone else.

The Exchange

For a first fight, where we don't know each other much, its the GM's first time on deck (so to speak) and above all its a multi-level, multi-monster fight its not so bad. The quality of your map has helped a great deal to alleviate those problems. Do an initiative count, if you want, I do for most fights of this scale.

These are teething issues.

I'd recommend also allowing yourself some time off, Kacy. You are trying to post every day (except maybe Monday) and that will lead to burnt out. For myself, the weekends tend to be very busy, and Monday is the busiest day of my week so my games tend to be quieter Friday evening to Sunday or Monday. Just a suggestion.

Cheers

Dark Archive

Um, the earring, ring and pouch of coins have no value?

How do we want to handle the loot. Is there anyone who wants those masterwork items or even some of the mundane items?


Would others prefer a lighter posting schedule? I'd be pretty comfortable doing weekends off as that's definitely my least available posting time. Glad the map is working out; making them in Excel has proved to work out quite nicely. I'm especially looking forward to using it for dungeon exploration as I'm basically able to make a copy of the main sheet and then just add rooms as you go through which should be pretty cool for some of the upcoming encounters.


Male Human Cool Dude 20

You won't know the value of those items off the bat without an Appraise check (DC 20) or a visit to the shop to sell them. As for the bag of coin, I figured I'd wait until you guys decide what to do with that in-game before adding its total to the loot fund. You seem to remember something about Lavinia requesting you to bring her back her payment to the harbormaster that Vark stole...


Male Human Oracle 1

As for the posting schedule, I am up for keeping whatever anyone else maintains. I tend to go nuts, particularly during the weekdays, when things are quiet, but I am in a few different games for that very reason. If one slows down a bit its alright and I don't sit there and refresh all the time. Its more important that you don't wear yourself out, but if you are enjoying the pace I am all good for it.

As for the loot, I could certainly use one of the light crossbows to give myself better ranged combat options and since there are four of them I doubt they are going to be fought over too much.

I'm pretty easy going about loot, I'd prefer it to go to whoever it is most suited for or is going to get the biggest benefit/most use from it. I don't mind putting loot in a party discretionary fund either for that matter, so if we need something we can check with the others to see if they mind and simply pick it up.

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