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Please note that I will be out of town at a convention beginning today through Monday the 11th. While I don't expect to have a lot of free time during those days, I'll have my phone and Kindle with me and will do my best to check in as I can and answer any questions anyone might have :)
Hey guys, just a quick check-in to say that DieCon was a blast and that normal operations should resume tomorrow afternoon/evening once I've gotten home and had a chance to get settled in :)
Checking in to say that I see we have most of you 'subscribed' to the campaign, so to speak - wonderful! I hope everyone's character profiles are coming along and that no one's had too much trouble getting things set up :)
For anyone that's interested in reading about my convention experience:
So, DieCon 18 - my second DieCon to date - went great. My brother and I hit the road around 8:30 or so Thursday morning and, even with making a couple of stops to hit up a game shop, use the bathroom, and eat, we arrived in Collinsville, IL just after 4:00 pm. We met up with friends Chris (who lives a couple hours north) and Becca (who flew in from Las Vegas and was crashing at Chris' place), got checked in to the Super 8, and then loaded up and headed into downtown St. Louis, MO to have dinner at Blueberry Hill. While there we also met up with another guy that Becca & Chris know from their time in World of Warcraft. This was the second year I've met him and he's a rather odd duck, but nice enough. After dinner we went down the street to the Snow Factory for some Thai-style ice cream. While good and also a rather novel experience, I'm not sure it was worth $8. I'd have been just as happy to go across the street to Fitz's for shakes. After all this the hour was getting late so we headed back to the Super 8 to get some sleep.
Friday morning, we got up and headed to the nearby Denny's for breakfast before going over to the Gateway Convention Center to get ready to sign up for games! Normally registration and sign-ups open at noon but for some reason they started about a half-hour early. Since I'd already preregistered I was able to get my t-shirt and convention booklet and hop right into the registration line.
Event signups for DieCon are interesting in that, with the exception of Organized Play programs like PFS or DnD AL, you sign up in-person and the events tend to be something of a first-come, first-serve basis. You have a card and you write down three sessions that you really want to get in to (first choice) and then write down two alternates (second choice) and then go through the line. The people at the desk then look at your paper and go to see how many slots are still open for the events you want. They then give you stickers to place in your booklet for the events you're able to get into. One limitation they *do* impose for Saturday and Sunday events is that they only give out maybe half of the tickets for those on Friday and hold the rest in reserve for folks who can't get there to sign up until Saturday or Sunday. Luckily for me I was able to get into all of my first choices right away and for the PFS/SFS I'd signed up for, my tickets were held in reserve and waiting for me since I'd done my signing up via Warhorn.
After a quick walk over to the nearby Mexican place for a drink (no lunch since several of us had just eaten) we then filtered back over to the convention center for Session #1, which started at 2pm. My event for this was a board game called 'Mansions of Madness' - gameplay seemed somewhat similar to 'Betrayal at House on the Hill' except with a heckuva lot more Cthulhu creep factor. The rules were a little complex and took some getting used to but the game itself was quite enjoyable and it came right down to the wire on whether we, the players, would win or the GM! I enjoyed it enough that I would've shelled out money for my own copy but none of the vendors seemed to have one. Sadness :(
Each session has an hour-long break before the next session starts so those are good times to hit the restroom, grab a bite to eat, go smoke, wander around the convention hall, etc. I brought some of my own snacks and flavor packs for my bottled water (which I just kept refilling using the canteens placed around the hall) because the snack bar is crazy expensive.
Session #2 was my first foray into playing Savage Worlds. What I didn't know, because the blurb for it didn't mention this part, is that we were going to be using the 'Pirates of the Spanish Main' setting for the game. So when I sat down and ended up being the only one at the table who hadn't played before, the GM grinned at me and said, 'Okay then, you're the captain' and tossed said character sheet my direction. Pretty sure I had an 'Oh god' look on my face but hey, it's good to try new things right? And actually, it turned out pretty good! I mean yeah, we narrowly escaped being executed only to have a rival run off with our ship (after having 'repaid' me by helping to bust us free) and had no navigator and like 5 NPC crew and no money or supplies but we did manage to take a merchant ship (using our persuasive smooth-talk and the one sword we had between 6 characters) and made it to what amounted to Tortuga. The session ended right as we'd finished negotiating a deal for our cargo and making some preparations to buy supplies and start tracking down leads on where to find some cannons...but the rest will be detailed further down for I'd also signed up to play the second part of this little adventure during the middle Saturday session! I also received a copy of the Deluxe Explorer's Edition of Savage Worlds - hooray for free swag!
After a decent night's sleep, we all got up early Saturday morning and trooped back over to the convention center for moar gaming! Session #3 was a game of 'Call of Scooby Doo' using a game system called 'FAST' that was developed by brothers Larry and Woody Babb. Larry himself ran our game and the best way to describe the experience is like a standard Scooby Doo mystery (including special guest stars as playable characters) mixed with puzzle solving and some Cthulhu-style horror. I played this last year, where the scenario was called 'Wednesday Mourning' and featured Wednesday Addams as the special guest star. This year's scenario was called 'Cereal Killer' and featured Count Chocula (or his daughter, the Countess Chocula) as the special guest star. I played Velma, same as last year, while my brother and another con-friend reprised their usual roles as Scooby and Shaggy. The player of Shaggy even brings Scooby Snacks to the game each year! Much fun was had by all and we solved the mystery and defeated the crazed Sonny the Cuckoo Bird, who was the villain for this year's scenario.
Session #4 saw the continuation of Friday's Savage Worlds game and most of the same players returned, including myself. For those of us who played both sessions, we actually got to 'level up' our characters before getting started, which was nice. More pirate hijinks were had wherein our fence wound up murdered and our money stolen...along with someone's daughter? I suspect that said daughter was originally supposed to be my character's daughter but see, I hadn't paid close attention to my character sheet during the earlier session and had given my captain a female name and gender...which in the real world setting and time period the game was set in, would've been really unusual. Oops. But it did lead to some amusing comments from the rest of my crew. At any rate, we raced off to Haiti to try and rescue our money (and the girl, I guess) from the clutches of Baron Samedi and encountered storms, hostile locals, and a bloodthirsty shark along the way. Unfortunately we kinda ran out of time after the shark encounter and the GM had to narrate the rest of the adventure and conclusion but I had a surprisingly good time with the whole thing and would definitely play with this GM again at future DieCons.
Session #5 is where I finally sat down and played my first ever game of Starfinder! Starting with the very first published scenario, Claim to Salvation, which is run using 4th level pregen iconics. Most of the other players had about as much experience as I did, which was none, so it was nice to be more or less on a level playing field with everyone else. I also saw a familiar face at this table, a kid (probably 14-15ish) who was at all of my PFS tables at last year's DieCon. He seemed to have grown up a little in that this time he didn't try to go all murderhobo right off the bat and also didn't keep interrupting the GM as they were trying to talk. All of the other players, as well as the GM, were super friendly and helpful and we all had a great time playing through the scenario. While I think Pathfinder will remain my main squeeze, I definitely enjoyed Starfinder enough that I plan to make my own character for SFS play.
Sunday morning rolls around after another night of adequate sleep and this is the day where my brother and I are in all of the same events together. Session #6, our first of the day, was a PFS game playing the scenario 'Scourge of the Farheavens'. We only had four people for this and had a really weird level split with one 5th level character and everyone else being 1st level because most of said players either only had those characters to play (the 5th level shaman and the 1st level fighter) or just really wanted to play a particular character (my brother and his 1st level druid). I can't say a lot about the particulars of the scenario itself as I want to avoid spoilers but it was highly amusing and surprisingly challenging in certain parts. It was also pretty straightforward and we finished with an hour to spare so it'd probably be an easy one to run for anyone contemplating GMing PFS scenarios.
Since we got done with plenty of time to spare, my brother and I actually hit up the nearby steakhouse for lunch and had the first proper meal we'd had since Friday morning. Afterwards, we went to Session #7 which was a homebrew game of Deadlands titled 'Large Trouble, Small China' wherein we had to solve some issues with gang violence occurring in San Francisco's Chinatown. Oh, did I mention we had to fight an evil wizard and his nigh-invincible henchmen? That was a thing. I've played Deadlands before and would actually like to play it more in the future, if our home group can ever finish some of our Pathfinder campaigns.
Last but not least, our last game of the convention was Session #8, where we played another PFS scenario titled 'Beyond the Halflight Path'. This one is a 3-7 evergreen with multiple story arcs that can be played and it was my first time playing it. The beginning has plenty of social stuff happening and then the latter part was more dungeon-crawl than anything, but that's okay. Once again, we just had 4 PCs but at least this time there wasn't quite as much of a level gap. We won and survived, but man we had one or two tough fights! Our ectoplasmist spiritualist was the MVP of the scenario and I'm positive that without his assistance we would've wiped on at least one of the encounters. On the other hand...what's up with characters not having any ranks in any knowledge skills? Some classes that are skill-starved I can understand but otherwise, I mean...really? Especially when you're 5th or 6th level? I've seen this several times now with live play but I don't know that I've ever seen it in a PbP game. I try not to tell people how to play but sometimes some decisions leave me shaking my head a bit. Ah well.
Anyhoo, that's pretty much the tale of my experiences at DieCon 18! Had lots of fun, picked up a little swag, and managed to survive through all of my games. I'm totally looking forward to next year :)
Also, ChesterCopperpot - I approve of this name. That is all :3
How-dee! As we get closer to our start date, I wanted to ask if any of the PCs at the table have played the following:
#3-05 Tide of Twilight
#0-03 Murder on the Silken Caravan
#8-08 Tyranny of the Winds Pt. 1 - The Sandstorm Prophecy
#8-10 Tyranny of the Winds Pt. 2 - Secrets of the Endless Sky
#8-12 Tyranny of the Winds Pt. 3 - Caught in the Eclipse
*gasp* A people! Hello! :D
And you're very welcome!
Howdy! Thanks for chiming in; it's very helpful for Reasons. Also, I have a 6th player that will be joining us with a 4th level character once he decides which one he'd like to play :)
Just as a FYI, information is now up for PbP Gameday VII - the next PbP convention for Pathfinder Society and Starfinder Society! Check it out if you're curious :)
Okay! Now that start time is nigh (tomorrow afternoon/evening since I'll need some sleep after work) it's time for a little more of a formal introduction!
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Who is GM Ladile?
My name is Kristin and I've been playing tabletop RPGs for the last 20 years or so. The bulk of my playing experience has been with AD&D 2nd Edition with a smattering of other systems such as AD&D 3rd/3.5, Dark Conspiracy and of course, Pathfinder. My home group switched to Pathfinder a little over 4 years ago and we've been hooked ever since. I started participating in PbP here on the Paizo forums maybe 6 months after that and then PFS PbP maybe a year and a half after that.
Yeah, that's a great story. What about your GM experience?
I've only been GMing for a little over a year now but I just recently achieved my first GM star! If you're interested in reading to see how I roll, you can find several of them linked under a spoiler tag on my main (Lady Ladile) profile.
What does GM Ladile need or want from me?
For starters, I'll (eventually) need some information for chronicles, which will be detailed below. But there's also some additional things!
Okay, like what?
Something I'm trying to get into the habit of doing when I'm gearing up to run a new game is to get an idea of what sorts of characters I'll have at my table. To this end, I ask you to tell me this: What does your character do that's cool? Do you specialize in combat maneuvers? Are you a beast that crushes Diplomacy checks with the greatest of ease? If your character has a 'thing' that they do or otherwise utilizes unusual things or specific circumstances then please let me know! This will make it easier for me to account for such things during combat and other sections where they might apply.
Got it! Anything else?
Yes, actually. Sometimes a player might find themselves temporarily unavailable to post in the game but, alas, the show must go on, especially if the GM and other players are still present and participating. To this end, I ask that you give me some basic instructions to follow should I need to 'bot' your character for you during combat or other moments. They don't have to be elaborate. For example, you could say something like this:
'Okay, immediately prior to combat I'm going to cast SuperBuff on our melee guy if I can. Then, if things are going well, I'll stand behind the melee guy and use my Longspear of Butt-Whoopin' to help him kill the bad guys. But if someone gets really hurt or goes down I'll use my Gloves of Awesome to heal them up again.'
Generally when I bot PCs I don't use consumable resources such as spells, abilities with <X> uses per day/round/whatever, potions, alchemical items, etc. unless explicitly given permission to do so via botting instructions *or* the situation is dire and I suspect the PC would use them to save himself or an ally.
GM Ladile, are you one of those super nitpicky GMs or are you more laid-back?
I suppose it depends on what you consider to be 'nitpicky' or 'laid-back'. I will run the scenario and the encounters within as written, to the best of my ability, as all Society GMs are expected to do. But I also try to utilize my own common sense when I run my games. I'm not going to have my monsters deliberately eat your familiar when (and if) there are more dangerous threats to target. I'm going to assume that the collective group is smart enough to utilize light sources when they need them, without me making you state so every single time you enter a dark place - though I might need to know what kind of light source for mapping purposes! If you have the time and aren't threatened by anything, I'm going to assume that you'll probably Take 10 to ID items via Spellcraft, that sort of thing. You're Pathfinder agents who are assumed to have had at least a little basic training before being sent out on missions and so I don't personally see the point in dithering around on minor things - it's boring and in this type of medium, it only slows things down even further.
So can I just mow your bad guys down with my tricked-out Archer of Doom or Slumber Hex my way to victory?
Well, technically yes. But my real answer is a bit more nuanced. If your character has a 'Thing' that they do, whether that be something cool for combat or something cool for social situations, then that's wonderful! My own sense of fun isn't contingent on me 'beating' the PCs - I want you guys to succeed! And so if you mow down my monsters with the greatest of ease or crush those diplomacy checks no problem then I'm not going to get butthurt about it. That being said, it is important to also consider your fellow teammates. While I'm happy to try and make sure that you'll get a chance to do your 'Thing' during the course of the scenario, please consider whether or not it'll be fun for your fellow players to sit by while you destroy everything. Everyone deserves a chance to participate and an opportunity to shine, so maybe consider toning your 'Thing' down a little so others have a chance to do their own 'Things'.
What about the posting rate?
Glad you asked! Some of you may have played with me before and know that my own posting habits and times shift depending on when I'm working and such. On the days that I work I'll likely only manage 1 post myself but on my off days I can usually manage more. In general, I try to post as much as I need to to keep the game moving along and people from getting bored. From you, the players, I would really like to see at least 1 post/day though more is certainly encouraged.
Is that all?
Almost! The most important thing of all that I'd like you to do is to bring a good attitude and plenty of enthusiasm. I consider it my job to make your playing experience an enjoyable one but it helps when my players seem like they're excited to be at the table and are willing to participate - it makes me happy, which means I usually write better posts, which makes you guys happy, etc. A positive feedback loop, if you will.
However, not all playing styles mesh and most of you haven't played with me before. If you're not having a good time or otherwise have an issue with the way I'm running the game, please let me know and we'll try to work out a solution together. I can't help to fix problems if I don't know that a problem exists, so communicate. Talk to me. I promise I don't bite.
Last of all, I am by no means a rules expert or guru and the majority of my playing background is rooted in rules interpretations being flexible - to a point. So if I forget something or seem like I'm overstepping my bounds in what's allowed, please point it out but I also ask that you please don't be a jerk about it either :)
This is where I solicit some information from each of you that I'll use to prepare your chronicles at the end of the adventure as well as when I'm reporting the game on the website! I'll need the following information:
***Basic Information Form***
Player:
Character:
Pathfinder Society Number:
Faction:
Slow Track or Normal:
This Chronicle #:
Starting XP:
Initial Prestige:
Initial Fame:
Prestige Spent on this Chronicle:
Starting Gold:
Day Job Roll:
Gold Spent on this Chronicle:
Anything else you want me to note on your Chronicle:
I know some of these values may change as you make purchases and the like so it's not a problem if you want to wait on providing some of that information until closer to the end of the scenario.
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Hi everyone! Kristen, thanks for GM'ing. This is my second PbP experience and I'm stoke for it. One thing to note for logistics is that I'm in Europe (5 hours ahead of the east coast) so I will probably post before everyone else in the morning, but i won't see anyone's late night posts until the next day.
I'm playing a Samsaran shaman from a Shoanti tribe. For botting purposes, I have Evil Eye but not Cackle. I can cast quite a few wizard spells, I prefer diplomacy to violence and will always cast spells/use my wand on downed allies.
Here's my info:
Player: Tim Stapleton
Character: Enapaishni "Pai" Henayotieh
Pathfinder Society Number: 65860-22
Faction: Grand Lodge
Slow Track or Normal: Normal
This Chronicle #: 5
Starting XP: 6
Initial Prestige: 8
Initial Fame: 12
Prestige Spent on this Chronicle:
Starting Gold: *will get back to you. Have purchases to make
Day Job Roll:
Gold Spent on this Chronicle:
Anything else you want me to note on your Chronicle:
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*More info on Pai's abilities (sorry I haven't played him yet; he's a GM baby). He can also cast cleric spells and his spirit magic spells are Identify and Tongues.
Pai is tall and thin with the typical light blue skin of samsarans and dark blue Shaonti tattoos covering his arms, neck, and torso. His hair is white, pulled back in a bun and he's accompanied wherever he goes by an arctic hare called Daisy.
Pai is soft-spoken and unassuming and believes firmly in his quah's commitment to diplomacy among the tribes and with outsiders. His past lives seem to stretch all the way back to Thassilon. All of his past lives touched on the Storval Plateau and many had significant events occur there.
Pai is knowledgeable about the natural world, religions, and other planes of existence, but enjoys discussing all areas of knowledge and learning.
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Player: Brian/Bristor
Character: Auberon
Pathfinder Society Number: 57774-8
Faction: Dark Archive
Slow Track or Normal: Slow
This Chronicle #: 15
Starting XP: 14
Initial Prestige: 21
Initial Fame: 24
Prestige Spent on this Chronicle: 4 Prestige for new treasure map
Starting Gold: 2342
Day Job Roll: Treasure Map Boon, this will be 3rd scenario, will get 750 gp in day job (150 x lvl)
Gold Spent on this Chronicle: TBD
Anything else you want me to note on your Chronicle: nothing
About Auberon:
A rather unappealing looking tiefling, Auberon has focused his life on Irori’s model of self-perfection, in both mind and body. He has committed so deeply to Irori’s path that he even took it as a surname. While always interested in sharing his knowledge and regimen, he is confused when others are not interested. A definite rule follower, he tends to take his orders from Venture Captains to heart, and does not like deviations in mission plans or goals.
In play, he is mostly a front-line combatant. He does bring some knowledges thanks to performing his daily obedience to Irori. He’ll generally do what he can to protect allies in danger, and in dire circumstances will use his daily healing spirit boon. Otherwise, will flurry when he can, using flying kick if necessary, and enters Dragon Style at the start of combat.
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Thanks for GMing for us, Kristin!
Player: Matt
Character: Eutrophia Winters
Pathfinder Society Number: 48019-16
Faction: Silver Crusade
Slow Track or Normal: Normal
This Chronicle #: 12
Starting XP: 12
Initial Prestige: 22
Initial Fame: 23
Prestige Spent on this Chronicle: 0
Starting Gold: 682
Day Job Roll: 0
Gold Spent on this Chronicle: 0
Anything else you want me to note on your Chronicle:
Nope!
Trophie Winters is a full-time student doing an internship at the Pathfinder Society, but her studies keep getting interrupted by cursed relics, incursions from the Abyss, and vampire attacks. She welcomes chances to show off a bit, and the opportunity to to learn about her foes. (Though she doesn't know much yet. Trained in Knowledge (dungeoneering, local, religion).
For botting, she's not above pushing people around (Intimidate) to get what she wants, but she'd rather give other people the chance to ask nicely first. If you have to make any decisions for her, she firmly believes in "the greater good" and will make sacrifices (for herself and others) if she thinks more people would benefit in the end.
In Combat
First Round: Enter Startoss Style.
--If looks like a challenging encounter or multiple foes, Martial Flexibility for Startoss Comet
--If there is a soft target for a grapple (like a lone spellcaster or small creature), Martial Flexibility for Improved Grapple
Subsequent Rounds: Attempt to stay at a 20’ range.
--Startoss Comet if multiple foes.
--Brawler’s Flurry with wushu darts if single foe.
--Use [i]+1 wushu dart [i] if enemies close and she can't step back to throw or unarmed strikes if piercing damage doesn't seem effective.
Thank you for the information, everyone! It'll definitely prove helpful as we roll along, though I also hope I won't need to bot very much if at all - it's way more fun for you to play yourselves than for me to do it :)
@Pai - No worries on the time zone thing; I believe Zinou is from across the pond as well so you're not the only one in the group! In addition, I work an odd schedule that sometimes sees me working day shifts and other times, night shift (I'm on CST so I think that'd be -6 GMT). So I try to post when opportunity presents itself; this can be at all hours of the day or night!
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Ahoy! Thanks again for the opportunity to play! I'm excited to play one of these new scenarios that I haven't really had the pleasure to play.
I am indeed from "across the pond", right in the misty mountains named Alps. :)
Player: Zinou
Character: Xavilon Starnon
Pathfinder Society Number: 93583-13
Faction: Silver Crusade
Slow Track or Normal: Normal
This Chronicle #: 10
Starting XP: 9
Initial Prestige: 16
Initial Fame: 18
Prestige Spent on this Chronicle: 0
Starting Gold: 350
Day Job Roll: nope
Gold Spent on this Chronicle: nope
Anything else you want me to note on your Chronicle: a cute pinguin (if possible)
Playing style aka Xavilon's "thing":
This character is the son of a character in a "Council of Thieves" campain I played with friends. He grew up in the shadows of Westcrown and is marked by this. He's a melee warrior whom tries to disable his targets as soon as possible with one or more attacks. Outside of combat, he's very versatile, despite his lack of reflection.
Botting instructions:
Win initiative, draw and strike. Easy. :P
If needed, vanish and sneak attack the lot with a full attack.
Okay folks, we're off! This is a brief chance for your characters to introduce themselves (or reintroduce themselves if some of them know each other) as well as remark on your mission, the weather, what you had for breakfast that day, the trip, whatever suits your fancy. Think of it as a chance to begin slipping into character before we dive into the scenario proper :)
As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask!
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Hi, I was hoping to have time to look at all this today, but most of my day has been packing, traveling, unpacking, parenting. Tomorrow will likely be the same. Sorry :-(
Sunday I will come back and read all this for sure. In the meantime, I'm happy to diplomacize if it gets us what we want, but I'm gorum's man and consider combat to be a perfectly legit way to decide who deserves what. That's all I have time for at the moment, but I'm super looking forward to digging into this when I get home.
Thanks for running this, Kristen.
Cheers - Alex
Hey, no worries Flynn! We can take things kinda slow this weekend, especially since I'll be out of pocket for a good portion of tomorrow myself.
By the way, are any of you planning to play these characters at upcoming tables or conventions within the next month or two? If so, let me know and I'll do my best to keep us moving so as to free up your characters in time :)
Hey guys, I've been out all day doing family stuff and I'm wiped so I'm calling it a night. Normal service will resume tomorrow :)
@Kuma - Quite possibly! Scroll up a bit and you'll see where I inquired if anyone here had played a couple of specific scenarios with the same character they're playing now.
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Just a heads up to the new folks, what Xavilon and I did in those knowledge check posts was write a bit and roll the dice, then hit the "preview" button to see what we got, and then edited the post further with the info based on the roll. The dice apparently never forget, so even if you delete and try to reroll, it'll give you the same result.
It's a technique that can be useful in these instances, and people seem to also use it to describe actions when feasible to discern. For example, if you roll a natural 1 on an attack, you can describe how you screwed up :)
^Indeed, thank you for a great explanatory post on this! The downside to having PbPed for awhile is that it's easy to take a lot of in-grained habits for granted, such as previewing your posts and adjusting your writing accordingly. I might not have thought to mention that, at least not right away, so thanks again Auberon :)
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Player: Alex
Character: Flynn
Pathfinder Society Number: 70775-4
Faction: The Exchange
Slow Track or Normal: Normal
This Chronicle #: 10
Starting XP: 13
Initial Prestige:12
Initial Fame: 18
Prestige Spent on this Chronicle:
Starting Gold: 1,018
Day Job Roll:
Gold Spent on this Chronicle:
Anything else you want me to note on your Chronicle:
Sorry, I'm being called away again. I'll try to get back to this, but I also think my character basics are already kind of being shared. If you have to bot me, standard hitting things with my sword is always fine :-)
No worries Flynn, thanks for the information! While I'll try and get us done before PbP Gameday VII starts in August, the game might run a little slower than average since it's also a bit of a teaching game :)
Barring making use of the Paizo Campaign Tools browser add-on (available for Chrome and Firefox), I don't believe so. You'll just have to make sure to manually select the alias you wish to post under at the bottom of the page - especially if you choose to preview a post as I think that'll reset it to your default alias.
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Three PbP insights/conventions/suggestions to share:
1) If making comments outside of you character and describing actions, good form to use the [ooc] formatting. I've seen it both to clarify the mechanical aspect of what you've described, but also for questions and clarifications, like Tim asking if there are Knowledge checks he could make, for instance.
2) Sometimes b/c of the difference in time posting, there will be something you'll want to respond to, but it seems the conversation has moved on or it's just been awhile and it's confusing if you don't clarify; so in those instances "reply" to the post you are responding to (rather than creating a fresh post) and it'll provide the text in quotes so it's clear to whom your response is directed.
3) Preview button is your friend. I can't tell you how many times I forget a slash, or start with a [b] and end with an /[ooc]
More helpful insights from Auberon - huzzah!
In other news, your GM is at work today so look for updates later this evening :)
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Three PbP insights/conventions/suggestions to share:
1) If making comments outside of you character and describing actions, good form to use the [ooc] formatting. I've seen it both to clarify the mechanical aspect of what you've described, but also for questions and clarifications, like Tim asking if there are Knowledge checks he could make, for instance.
2) Sometimes b/c of the difference in time posting, there will be something you'll want to respond to, but it seems the conversation has moved on or it's just been awhile and it's confusing if you don't clarify; so in those instances "reply" to the post you are responding to (rather than creating a fresh post) and it'll provide the text in quotes so it's clear to whom your response is directed.
3) Preview button is your friend. I can't tell you how many times I forget a slash, or start with a [b] and end with an /[ooc]
what is this [ooc] formatting of which you speak?
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[Ooc ] = Out Of Character, which is good for making additional comments or clarifications on something, well...out of character!
For example, during combat posts as a player I'll often do something like:
<Combat Actions, dice rolls, descriptive text here>
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All you need to do is format your text as so:
[Ooc ]Stuff[/ooc ]
Except without the spaces in the brackets :)
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[Ooc ] = Out Of Character, which is good for making additional comments or clarifications on something, well...out of character!
For example, during combat posts as a player I'll often do something like:
<Combat Actions, dice rolls, descriptive text here>
__________
All you need to do is format your text as so:
[Ooc ]Stuff[/ooc ]
Except without the spaces in the brackets :)
Thanks!
One more question: how/where should I state what spells I have prepared? I'd be at this meeting with my standard load-out, but I may change that when we rest if that comes up.
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^Nice! Something else you can do that requires a little more formatting work is create an on-going spoiler for your combat posts to help you keep track of spells and other limited-use abilities as you use them. Here is an example from one of my not-PFS characters. It's definitely not required to do this but it works for me so that I can track spells and such as I use them and also gives me something to go back and reference if there's ever any confusion about whether a spell or ability has been used previously during that particular adventuring day.
If you're wondering about the strikethroughs that you can see under that Spells & Powers spoiler, just do the following:
[s ]<Stuff>[/s ]
Just without the spaces in the brackets :)
Hey hey, I'm sadly almost out of time before I need to head to work this morning so updates to follow later this evening :)
By the way Flynn, I like that you're writing some internal dialogue for your character! PbP is a really nice medium for the 'strong and silent' type of character and even a 'loner' can work out well, provided you give them enough personal incentive to work together with other characters. This is *because* you can display character depth through internal dialogue as well as through descriptive actions and such, which are things that can be a lot harder to get across at a live table.
Another thing I like to see are the occasional comments and bits of small talk that are happening between different characters. Sometimes some of the best moments of a game come from two characters just interacting back and forth with little to no intervention or nudging on the part of the GM :)