Not it.
Waiting for me... I was very busy with work until today :( (I kept updating the announcements in the campaign page).
I am now free and I started writing the post in response to everyone. I am sorry for the delay, but these last days have been pretty intense in front of the computer for work, with very little time for (quality) typing for the RPG...
By the way, would you guys please choose a diplomat for the group?
Ah, no worries. Quality over quantity. I will have to remember that you post announcements in the Campaign tab, I keep forgetting.
As for a group diplomat, Zelda has the highest Diplomacy modifier so I vote for her :) For now at least... I plan to add ranks at future levels, which would give me +9 at 2nd level.
Mirelinza has +4 at present but I don't see her being diplomatic per se. She may use the skill when pressed to defuse a situation and will always attempt to talk evil-doers towards the light - but certainly not a diplomat.
I too would vote for Zelda.
I also did not thing to check the campaign tab.
My bad... Posting announcements in the discussion is not transient enough for me :)
Mirelinza, that's why before I said I would expect everyone (willing) to step in and try some role-played diplomacy as well, and roll aid another, and then only one player would roll Diplomacy with the aid-another bonuses.
(Since we are on PbP, I think it would be better if everyone rolled in any order and I just add things up to a result, instead of aid-anotherers rolling before the diplomat. Agreed?)
I have one person do the Diplomacy check and others can aid for +2 bonuses as well when I GM. So here, the "group diplomat" would do the check and everyone else is the +2 aid? Sounds good to me.
I will post tomorrow... too tired to think of something good to write tonight, lol.
Certainly one rolled 10+ would be sufficient for a +2 (which gives a 1/16 chance of not having a +2), but I don't know if adding a +2 for each rolled 10+ will unbalance the preset CDs for diplomacy...
This time I am preparing forthcoming posts so as to avoid delaying the game a lot.
(Throughout the game, if your character has nothing to say/do, please let us know :) I will move the game tonight.)
Apologies for the delay, I will post within the hour...
... I did not know you could set stew on fire...
I will wait a bit more for Aliseya, but feel free to post more conversation you may want to post before I advance to the lunch.
Whoa! I missed a lot in two days. I will post within an hour or so...
"I don't mind sharing a room either."
Lol. I had a feeling you'd be the first to volunteer. ;)
"I don't mind sharing a room either."Lol. I had a feeling you'd be the first to volunteer. ;)
:3
Fyi, I'm using online Romani-English dictionaries for my Varisian. I don't really speak it (hence my grammar is likely quite atrocious), but I always think of the real world Gypsies when I think of Varisians.
An online Romani-English dictionary.
Hear common phrases in Romani.
Varisians were probably designed after the gypsies from Ravenloft...
With the exception of inherently evil languages like Aklo and Necril, feel free to connect any in-game language to any existing one here, and even to use google-translate, if you don't want to bother the effort.
Also, if you are thinking of Ravengro, think of a village in Tuscany.
I have the post ready for the beginning of the lunch, but how do you guys want to manage conversations? Should Mirelinza and Aliseya carry theirs inside spoilers while the game moves on? We could use another thread or two!
Let's try this for now and see how it goes.
I usually do spoilers for non-common languages, though I'm fine altering that if you prefer. Aliseya didn't have a particular plan for the conversation in Varisian with Mirelinza other than to establish their mutual heredity, though she'd certainly welcome further discussion. :)
What do you guys think of an extra conversation thread? Will it be useful?
I'm fine with using spoilers atm, but if you guys wanna do something differant that's fine.
More questions: do you guys want spoiler-privacy for knowledge that only some characters have access to? For languages I am doing it as spoilers too, but for future knowledge checks do you guys prefer, for the sake of fun, to have it as spoilers or private messages? I trust that the players are able to separate, that goes without saying; the question is whether the player whose character has the knowledge wants me to make it "public" as a spoiler, or not to so that the effect of surprise is stronger. (At the same time, revealing what a character knows through spoilers and IC allows the players to better understand the behavior and motivations of the characters in the story.)
Same.
I've actually run this first chapter before, so it goes without saying I can separate character from player knowledge. ;) In fact, I consider it a requirement for all roleplayers to learn well.
I'm fine with spoilers and/or PMs. I think an extra conversation thread may confuse things, though.
EDIT: In fact, I kinda assume we all keep player from character knowledge when I add Aliseya's private thoughts in italics... :)
I avoid reading spoilers that are for other people - or if I don't pass the DC if it's a check-based post - but I'm cool either way.
Oh neat, have fun :3
... I now have this mental image of Naught having to lug around 500 pounds of luggage...
And Ali will carry a tiny bag. Lol.
...waiting on Aliseya's post?
Another idea for parallelizing:
etc etc etc
something else, etc etc
Is this preferable to what we are doing so far for events at different times, or should we only use this one when there are different groups doing different things at the same time?
I see what others are doing and think about incorporating :)
I've tried this myself as GM. I'm fine either way.
It does make particular sense for significant time blocks. The problem to be aware of, however, is that each group inevitably strays from the common timeline, sometimes by hours. I find it best to be very, very flexible with timing on party splits. Otherwise, one group inevitably is paused for days, perhaps weeks, while the others catch up to their timeline... much better to just gloss over the makeup time in a single sweeping post imo so nobody is sitting around waiting.
Animals! My one weakness!
Wow, now that was synchronized posting! I saw 4 seconds ago for both our posts. Lol.
I thought Cellawyn and Aliseya are both just inside the prison wall together, no? Along with Zelda, who also climbed over?
Either way, no worries - she will cast it when next near Cellawyn then.
Apologies for the long absence, real life has been very busy. I should be able to post within the hour.
I think we are all very busy, but we've been going forward, so no worries. I don't really know if we could be going much faster... I am posting every other day or so...
I know nothing major has happened yet, but I hope y'all are excited and having fun.
Yeah I'm liking the game so far, you're doing a good job Ulrik :3
Ditto. :)
I am glad you are having fun!
:3
Oh and don't fret if no one ones posts for awhile Ulrik, it's Memorial Day Weekend in the US so everyone's probably out and about with their friends and family.
You circle around the outside of the prison grounds, a nearly-thousand-feet walk, without finding any reliable place to tie the horses on.
How about the fallen gates? Any rusty iron bars to tie the reins around? Otherwise, somebody should stay with them... preferably someone with Handle Animal training, unlike me. I'm just saying... if anything happens to spook them, I'm not going to be the one to tell Kendra that her horses fled into the wilderness... :)
I thought about the gates too. You can tie them there, but in desperation I don't know how effectives the gates would be at holding them. Well, for the sake of simplicity we may assume they'll stay.
I don't have any idea how horses would react when spooked while tied to something the could normally drag... Rule-wise they can drag up around 3450 lb.
At the same time, it wouldn't be good to leave one character sitting there watching the horses. Well, we can assume they'll stay, but the characters will just have to leave the horses there and hope they don't spook...
Ok thanks.
Did we go back in time? It was 3:56pm, then the last update says 3:06pm? Lol.