Block init Enemies vs Party allows everyone to post when they can and you order it in the recap. That way no one's waiting days to take their actions.
We can always to an init roll for the party, one for the enemies and then everyone adds their init modifier so you now what order to play out the actions in.
Feel better Idana! The plague children bring are always the worst ones.
DM Salsa's Rule: Never let the dice get in the way of letting a PC end the fight in a cool way.
Okay, Looting time.
You can load the wagon up to 1000 gp of various goods and supplies, including the ale and wine that Daedaelus is loading.This does not count what's below.
Off the guys you massacred you can get:
-11 CLW potions
-1 CMW potion
-1 potion of barkskin
-1 oil of invisibility
-10 heavy wooden shields
-9 sets of studded leather armor
-9 gladii
-1 MW chain shirt
-1 MW set of chainmail
-1 MW heavy wooden shield
-1 MW longsword
-1 MW cold iron longsword
-1 MW mithril dagger
-1 noble's outift
-1 signet ring
-1 fancy leather belt pouch worth 25gp
-1 gold ring set with a garnet worth 75gp
-1 gold circlet worth 250gp
-various gold and platinum chains worth 500gp total
-and 925gp in various coins.
The jewelry and noble's outfit, once it's been cleaned up and repaired, will sell for 100% of their value from the book as will the potions.
So we're definitely taking the potions, and should carry two a piece, Sigurd the CMW potion for obvious reasons. I wouldn't mind the Cold iron longsword.
This list includers the dead guys' stuff right?
This is all of the gear from the dead guys in the room, yes. I haven't done the math, but hopefully this will get you close to 1500gp of wealth apiece.
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A couple of potions of cure light wounds are definitely useful, yes. Also, I think Kieran could find some use for the potion of barkskin if nobody objects, at least until he can sorta kinda cast barkskin himself.
I am down with getting the potion of CMW and 2 potions of CLW. Sigurd is a growing, usually bleeding, boy.
Okay, so you are grabbing all of the potions and the coins, I'm assuming. Anything else? The masterwork gear and the jewelry?
Yeah to bother, either selling or using it can be useful later.
Okay, I'll update the loot list then.
2 heavy horses
1 heavy wagon
11 CLW potions
1 CMW potion
1 potion of barkskin
1 oil of invisibility
1 MW chain shirt
1 MW set of chainmail
1 MW heavy wooden shield
1 MW longsword
1 MW cold iron longsword
1 MW mithril dagger
1 noble's outift
1 signet ring
1 fancy leather belt pouch worth 25gp
1 gold ring set with a garnet worth 75gp
1 gold circlet worth 250gp
various gold and platinum chains worth 500gp total
and 925gp in various coins.
Plus enough supplies to get you wherever you want to go.
Go for it.
I think Sigurd is taking some stuff to sell. Can you tell me what and how much of it you are?
At least for myself...anything masterwork that was there and all the jewelry and such.
So, for Kieran: Cure light wounds x2, barkskin, invisibility, yes?
Also, a heads up...
Due to my being in the middle of two rather major RL events, those being a) looking for a new place seeing as I am married and looking to eventually start a family, and b) trying to set up the whole private practice thing, my posting will be... erratic, spotty, what have you for the weeks and quite possibly months to come. By all means, if I seem to be taking too long to post, move along, DMPC even. And I will do my best to catch up if or when such a thing is needed.
Olyenna's grabbing 6 CLW potions (two for each sister) and the Cold Iron longsword
@ F. Castor: Don't worry about it, I'll run Kieran as necessary. Good luck with getting your practice going and congrats on the marriage!
@ All: Okay, who's taking the first, second, and third watches?
Sigurd take either the third or second watch, something so that the spell casters don't have to wake as much.
Olyenna will take the middle watch.
Idana will sit on first watch.
Okay, I'll have Keiran take the third watch and Daedaelus will take the first with Idana.
As for the resting thing. Generally, I'm not going to whack you for not getting a full eight hours. That said, I'm assuming four hour watches, so you'd get eight hours anyway.
I'll try to move us along tonight, but it might be tomorrow before I get a post up.
Okay, well, I don't really have an excuse for how late this is. I'll try not to let this happen again.
Anyone heard from Idana's player? I was waiting on her to act, but I think I'll need to move this along.
Sorry. I checked the thread early in the morning, intended to post, and then got distracted.
It's fine. I'm not mad or upset or anything, just wondering where you went. :)
80 seconds till the pain train
Hey, are you guys waiting on me? I tend to be paranoid, so I'm feeling like I did something to kill the pace we had at the beginning. Is everyone just busy or do I need to do something to keep things going?
Just as a follow up for when things with the site get fixed. I know there's an issue with the notifications, but the slowdown's been happening for a good bit now.
I am here, albeit somewhat inconsistently so due to current real life circumstances that I have touched upon in a previous post. Other than that, I think we are waiting for Olyenna's roll?
I've posted a roll 3 times and for some reason it won't stick.
That and everyone's actions for this moment of time. It's not just the people in the mist that need to post, and I still need to know what you guys are doing.
And that wasn't meant to be a criticism against anyone. I know that you're busy, F. Castor, but I don't know about everyone else, and I wanted to know what was going on. I recently had to put the kibosh on the longest running game I've ever run, and that has me a little nervous when I see things happening here that were happening there. Chalk it up to paranoia, it'd even have the virtue of being accurate. :)
@ Olyenna: That's odd. have you tried different browsers or devices/computers?
To be honest I just have nothing to post right now. Each round is pretty much the same as the one before it until the fighting starts.
Same from multiple devices. I had to post from a different alias first then edit the post.
That's weird. Have reported it to Paul's webmaster yet?
I am simply getting dressed for the bloodbath ball. So either things will go well and the group will ambush them or it will not and I will be all all rushed together to go into combat.
I'm fine with us moving up to the next big scene, I thought we were going to do a more "Okay, you have these many rounds before the Orcs get there. What do you do?" kind of situation than a round by round session.
Okay. Sorry about that. I apparently didn't think things through. I'll move us on once I think on how things are progressing. It'll probably be tomorrow night.
Idana is here. Idana got eaten by the winter dragon.
Alright, how many of you are still with me? I've been waiting on replies from Daerdryn and Idana, though it appears that Idana's busy at the moment. Are you guys still having fun? Do you really want to continue? I want to know because if the answer to those is no, then I'd be doing us both a favor by shuttering this game.
Please, let me know. I would like to continue, but if feels like there's not much enthusiasm for this adventure anymore.
I'm still interested, though if the majority wants to stop I'm alright with it. I just hope Idana returns soon so we can keep the sisters together, if we loose her my interest will likely fall off significantly.
Still here and interested with continuing but will go with consensus.
Still here as well. Methinks it is the combination of sandbox and PbP that tends to slow things down. Also, perhaps we should consider trying to recruit a new player or two? New blood and all that? Not to mention more potential posters and thus potentially more posts and more often?
I'm not sure if new blood is going to magically keep the game going, though. Only three of you are posting with any sort of regularity and part of the problem seems to be that I'm expecting you guys to drive the story while I determine what happens. With a sandbox campaign that's more important than normal, but I get the feeling that you guys are waiting on me to drive the story forward, which is causing problems since I'm waiting on what you guys do and making the world react to you rather than having something happen in the world and then you guys react to that.
I'll be honest, I don't have a tightly plotted story or anything in mind when I through hooks out. I tend to do my best when I have an idea and let it out in the wild to see where it takes you and then have things happen accordingly. I can run a tightly plotted campaign, yes, but even then I tend to throw things at the players to see what happens and where things go. Sometimes I have a reason, but just as often I don't.
To sum my rambling up, I think part of the problem is differing expectations on what our responsibilities are. I see myself as a storyteller that's describing what's going on into reaction what the PCs do. It's the PCs that are the driving force in the story, and while I may determine the outcomes of their actions, it's up to the players to steer where things go.
I think another part is that I feel that everyone isn't really having fun with this. There's not any spontaneity or interactions beyond responding to whatever I have posted. There hasn't really been any attempts to get to know each other on the characters' part or really any kind of back and forth or curiosity. If it's because you guys aren't having fun, then I have failed as a GM. I enjoy that kind of interaction and my favorite games here are the ones where there's a lot of that going on. I know not everyone does, though, and maybe that's where I went wrong.
What makes this a big deal for the future of this game, beyond the obvious, is that I'm starting to see it as a chore. I feel like that you guys aren't having fun, so if you aren't having fun, enjoying yourselves, and telling a great story, then I start to feel like I've failed you and I don't know how to overcome that. What's the point in posting when only half of my players seem to even check the boards at all? Or what's the point of recruiting someone new when they aren't even interacting with each other?
Basically, I feel like you guys aren't enjoying this and having fun, and that kills it for me. I lose any motivation to continue because it's a little like pulling eyeteeth to get anything going. I know that's honestly as much my fault as anyone's, and I'm not trying to lay any blame at anyone's feet but my own. I'm just letting you know how I feel and why I asked if you really wanted to continue? It may just be that our playstyles are too different or that I'm an incompetent GM. The fact is, I'm not sure if I want to continue if it's just going to stay like this. I can post more, but at what point does it just become rolling dice against myself?
Sorry if that last post makes it seem like I'm whining or blaming you guys. I'm not doing either of those things. I know that the lion shame of the blame, whatever the case, is probably mine.
Again, sorry if it sounds like I'm whining. I want to know if you guys really want to continue or if we should just get it over with and put this one to bed.
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Ah, no worries. You are frustrated. On such occasions a bit of venting can be good.
As for the blame, considering I find PbPs a perhaps more cooperative type of RP than PnP, well...
For my part, I still stand by what I said in my previous post though.
Sandbox games can be... difficult when played as PbPs because, I think, due to the whole forum thing and posting and all that, the rails of AP can more often than not prove quite useful indeed. I have been in a few sandboxes here on the forums; some were successful, others were not. And it is exactly because a sandbox requires quite a bit more from the players (and the GM of course) than structured APs. And speaking for myself, I have generally never been particularly adept at driving things forward (probably one of the reasons I have never GMed a game here), though I have done it on occasion. And I have to admit that my current schedule and RL circumstances (happy and positive some of which are) are not helping with either my energy or my free time or my mood. And I suppose it did not help that I went with a bit of an oddball character, no matter how interesting the concept felt at the time.
As for new players, I do agree. New blood does not magically fix things. It might up frequency of posting and the chances for interaction between the PCs and maybe the new guys would be better at acting rather than reacting. Quite a few maybes of course. But losing half of the party in quick succession certainly did not help. Especially when the ones lost are the verbose and boisterous Sigurd, Daerdryn with her story hooks (I do believe we were going to explore one of those before the town and the orcs and we were to continue with it after?) and Idana, who was one third of basically a set.
The above offers no solutions methink, just cents. Two of them.
Yeah, I was going to move on with Daerdryn's story, but that's kinda moot now if her player's gone. I threw the orcs at you to eat up a few weeks of in game time to help make things fit more nicely.
I can post a recruitment thread and see if there's any bites, but I'm not sure how to go about getting them involved. I might just say that they need to have a reason to be out in the wilds where a bunch of orcs are roaming about.
I'll give Mark Thomas and Drogeney until Friday to chime in on this. That should be plenty of time to respond. If they don't, I'm just going to assume that they don't want to continue and I'll see what to do from there.
I will admit that I do tend to have problems sometimes with pushing things along myself. It greatly depends on what I have going on at any given time. Between the new job with my regular schedule with ten more hours a week than the last one I have far less time to post most days since I work four ten hour shifts a week. I've also gotten caught up in some of my video games again and that is always a hit on my pbp time as well. It's not that I've lost interest by any means, it's more that I just need a little more drawing me in I suppose, whether that comes from the other PCs or the GM is kind of up in the air. I am trying to do better at keeping up with my various games now and it helps that a few of them have been reaching their conclusion or dying out freeing some of my burden up. I still want to continue, definitely.