Things are discussed here.
Please finish up characters and sound off here when you're ready.
The plan is to kick off gameplay tomorrow.
Thanks for the pick! I'll go over the character one more time to make sure I dotted the I's and crossed the T's.
Thanks for the vote of confidence by picking me! I'll sort out the character sheet later and bring it up to pbp standards.
I got one question: can I rent a cheap studio/apartment just out of the bridge's shadow for some 25 gp a month? The only book I know that shows prices for renting and buying real estate is the Guide to Korvosa and I based the price on that :)
Just realized I never bought equipment. I'll use max starting gold for a sorcerer (as per Tallgrass' original build instructions). I'm pretty busy this afternoon, but should get to that some time tonight.
Also: sorry about all the typos in my first post. I was posting from my smartphone.
Out of curiosity: Where do all the players and GM hail from? (I always ask this question on PbPs.)
I'm in central New York State, USA, about an hour's drive south of Syracuse(and about four-and-a-half hours west northwest of New York City). GMT-5.
Thanks for selecting me!
I was hoping to hear back from you but first but in the meantime I'll polish off Kalam with my backup plan just to be on the safe side.
For interest's sake I'm in Saskatchewan, Canada. I live in a city called Saskatoon. GMT-6.
It looks like we're just waiting on Daeron to check in.
Holland, living in a city called Vlaardingen, CET. I'm a bit of a night-owl though :)
Is it possible to link Tallgrass' recruitment thread to the campaign? Or is that already pending?
I'm not sure. I sent customer service an email about it already.
Oh, and since I forgot, I'm in So Cal.
My partner Daeron had been silently staring at his drink so long I began to worry he may have suffered a stroke :P However, a quick check suggests our intrepid rogue simply takes his weekends off to enjoy the real world.
A bit of warning would have been good...
I suppose we'll have to begin on Monday. In the future I will likely not be waiting for extended periods of time like this.
Indeed, however I'm simply extrapolating from his posting history. Hopefully he'll be able to squeeze in a couple weekend posts in future once he knows we'd like to be at least somewhat active on weekends?
If you lovely people would like to stay busy during sat/sun perhaps we should think about small character related side activities we can embark on in 2's or 3's. They could happen during whatever downtime our characters have but only be played out on weekends? Just something to consider.
Ahh, sorry folks. I'm not in the habit of posting on weekends, but that's only because my other games tend not to, so I don't often check the site. But I have no problem doing it, and will make sure I do from now on.
I live in Indiana, so I'm also in the eastern time zone, or GMT-5.
Equipment purchased, and I found a couple of minor errors in Lynnda's stat block that I've fixed. I'm ready for action!
Re: Posting--
I can't always be counted on being able to post on the weekends, either. I sometimes don't have much warning about it. I'd propose that weekend updates be optional.
My usual posting pattern is some time during my lunch hour (varies between 11 and 2), and/or in the evening after 9 PM. I may post in the middle of the night if I'm having one of my frequent bouts of insomnia.
Hey all, just a suggestion but I think we should adopt Lynnda's trick of adding our basic character stats to the class/level field of our aliases. I imagine it will save DM Feral a great deal of time.
Picked that up in another PbP I'm in. It's pretty convenient!
Yes, please do put relevant character info into your character header. That helps streamline things quite a bit on my end.
I intend to continue play on weekends. I do ask that if you're going to be away for an extended period of time that you mention it so what we don't wait up for you unnecessarily.
Re: weekend updating...
I'll try my best to give a warning when I won't be around on the weekend. Sometimes, I don't get much warning when I have to run out of town. My elderly aunt lives by herself on a dirt road about thirty miles from me, and I'm the closest relative. I regularly head out to spend the day at her house to take care of her and her property (chopping firewood, shoveling snow, raking leaves, mowing the lawn, etc), and I often spend the night if there's a lot to do. Her house has a telephone landline, but it's a cellular dead zone. (I can get one bar of cellular phone service if I stand at the top of her driveway.) She doesn't have Internet at all, so even if I bring my laptop, I'm limited to things local to the hard drive.
So-- I'll try my best to post on the weekends or let you know if I'll be away, but if I drop out without warning for 2 or 3 days, I hope you won't drop me from the game.
If that is going to be a problem, let me know now, so I can resign before my character gets too involved with the plot.
Thanks!
I ask that you make an effort. If you make said effort and it's still not enough, we'll reevaluate.
Ultimately, I expect the same level of commitment and courtesy from my players that you'd give friends in a face to face game or your employer. Obviously emergencies and surprises are going to come up but it's not hard to spare 2 minutes to log in and post a quick 'Sorry guys. Away all weekend'. If logging into the forums is troublesome I'm happy to share Facebook or google contact info for quicker/easier communication.
Fair enough!
Just know that for me, playing games on the messageboards has an inherent lower priority level than most of the other things I have going on in my real-world life. I mean, I'm a 44-year-old guy married to a woman who works out of town and is only home every other weekend, and I'm raising a teenage daughter. I work 50+ hours a week, and am on call regularly. And I'm responsible for my 78-year-old aunt who lives in the middle of nowhere that I can't convince to move into an assisted living facility. And, like an idiot, I let myself get appointed to the city board of zoning appeals.
I'm not saying that to disrespect you or your game... I just want to be sure that I'm not signing up for a level of commitment that I won't be able to meet.
So... let's shove on, and see how it goes!
There, fixed my character sheet. Now it looks respectable.
Quick note: I posted in my other PbPs this morning, then the excrement hit the air circulation device. I'm probably not going to be able to post today.
It looks like you guys are posting at a rate five or six times faster than I'm going to be able to. Out of respect to the pacing you guys want to play, I think I should bow out.
Good luck, have fun, and see you on the boards!
--Haladir
Sorry to hear it. Thanks for the interest and best of luck in your future gaming.
Would you guys like a new 5th (the alternate) or continue with 4?
A 5th is nice so that when someone is slow/temporarily occupied, you still have enough players to go on. But I'm fine either way.
Agreed with Abramov
Indeed, I would prefer a 5th if possible.
I'd prefer to avoid redoing introductions.
If it's alright with you, let's just assume you were around for the first scene and you're tagging along with the other groups.
Greetings! It'll be nice to have some more traditional firepower, and a fellow disciple of the Accidental God no less!
By the way, I want to give my standard disclaimer of, "DM, if necessary, please feel free to roll any instinctive or reactive checks/saves/etc for me, if waiting for me to make a single roll of a post will bog down the process."
I normally won't hesitate to roll for folks for something minor like that but I got the feeling you were around. =P
Welcome!
Okay.. Miss Yll, while I'm figuring the RP isn't quite SFW, I would like to say that reading your rolls is awesome. I actually laughed aloud.
Thanks. I'm basing her in part off of a friend of mine who said something very similar over brunch a few weeks ago. It had me spitting up mimosa laughing. Fun fact: lube does not mix well with coke. :-p
Just a heads up, but I might be unavailable tomorrow. Happy Holidays to all.
Same to you all, happy holidays!
Daeron, is your plan likely to affect the initial preparations of the rest of us?
If not perhaps we could get an answer from Annabell in order to give the rest of us something to do while the elf schemes?
No scheming here, just trying to distract Lamm!
Ah, just doing your duty to the group, good man. Though I must admit I'm almost disappointed :P
What's going on guys?
I got a little lost after a certain someone deviated from the plan, haha, but I'll simply follow Kalam's example as we try to get the show back on the road :)
Also, happy new years everyone!
As I understand it Daeron was suitably on plan, just a little more quickly than we'd expected :P
halsanna's waiting for the next part of the plan.
Well Kalam is actually waiting on you at the moment my lady...
It seems some of our group are forgetting their courtesies. Remember to give us a heads up if you'll be unavailable for more than a day.
That certainly would be appreciated.