Hi everybody! Welcome to the game.
We're not due to start until the 6th of October, but feel free to chat and introduce yourselves in the mean time.
We still have a little under a month to go until the official start, but I think it’s time for us all to start getting better acquainted. As you may already know, this is my first time GMing a PbP game, and I’m pretty inexperienced at face to face play as well. As such, I’m likely to make mistakes. If I do, please let me know. It’s the only way I’ll learn. ;)
Normally, I would only make one major post a day along with a few quicker ones to keep combat flowing. However, I'm a little concerned about time for this gameday, so I'll be running this game a little faster and hope that y'all will be willing to keep up with a couple of posts a day if needed.
Here Players A, B, C, and D can post there actions, Players E and F cannot. The players can post in any order (Player B does not have to wait for Player A post, for example) and once everyone has posted, I will resolve all the actions in initiative (not post) order. The numbers in brackets represent the amount of damage a character has taken in this combat and is not the actual hp for each character. Once Players A, B, C, and D have posted, I will resolve Baddie A's action and the initiative tracker will look like this:
Now all the players can post and I will resolve all the actions in initiative order as before.
Feel free to talk amongst yourselves, and once you've decided on which characters y'all wish to play, please make sure to fill out the table on slide 3. It will give me important information for chronicle sheets and general play. Thank you.
And finally, the gameplay thread is open for dotting. If everybody is as impatient as me, we may even be able to start a bit earlier. Have fun everybody! If you have any questions, just post here or PM me and I'll answer as soon as possible :)
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Hey, Shieldbug! Finally playing in your game!
This would be low-tier right? I have a couple of options (a grippli gunslinger or a nagaji uc monk) immediately available. If we wait till a week more (I estimate), I'll have a support shaman available as well. So depends on what the party needs.
Howdy folks! Welcome aboard!
I've never actually seen a swashbuckler in action before, Grimdog73, so it'll be fun to see what Patros can do.
Hey, Shieldbug! Finally playing in your game!
Yeah, it's going to be so weird! I can't wait :)
I would prefer this to be a low-tier game. With all the crazy abilities that characters get at mid levels, I think it might be easier to find my footing with lower level characters.
Sounds good to me! Plus, you should take those rolls as a good omen, you're getting crits without even trying :)
Welcome aboard guys!
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Hi again. I need to create a new character for that game, and I'd probably like to go with a halfling U summoner with a mount Eidolon. Except if the common thought would be that we still need something healer-oriented (fifth player originally announced to play a Skald), in which case I'd go for a cleric.
Hello everyone and thanks for running the game Shieldbug. I signed up with The Black Crow, a Tengu Skald, but since this is tier 1-2, I could easily adapt/bring a new char.
Howdy folks! An eidolon riding halfling sounds like tons of fun, and skalds are another class I have yet to see in action :)
So that's everyone checked in, now for the fun part. What characters do y'all want to as and when do you want to start?
The tentative line up looks something like this...
grimdog73: Swashbuckler
kuey: Gunslinger, UC Monk, or Shaman
Blake's Tiger: Blood Rager
Xynen: Aerokineticist
WormysQueue: UC Summoner or Cleric
djpika: Skald
Seems like a team that can certainly handle themselves.
I'm not sure if a healer-oriented character is strictly necessary. As long as y'all have a few potions between you and perhaps some UMD skills, you should be fine in most scenarios, I think. And, Xynen, we can wait a little longer if you want to play as Selmy. I don't want to rush you into playing a character you don't want ;)
My shaman is actually a healbot
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Well, then I'd go with the Summoner. And UMD was something I'd planned to go for anyways.
I'm under no pressure to start this, so I'm absolutely fine with waiting for Xynen.
Individually, I don't have to work on Sunday (and probably Monday neither), so it should be no problem to have the character ready until Tuesday latest.
Righto! Let's aim for a Wednesday start then, to give everybody enough time to fill out sheets and stuff, and maybe even free a character or two from other games.
Excellent! It looks like we're on track for a Wednesday start.
That can't easy, good luck with your shift!
As for the game, how about this? I open the gameplay thread on Wednesday so that everyone can start introducing themselves, but I won't push forward until you've posted on Thursday.
You can if you want, since you need to roll for your dayjob anyway, but I would prefer it if you filled out the table in Slide three. That way all the information I need will be in one place ;)
And we're off! The gameplay thread is open for introductions and information gathering :)
Howdy folks! With the first combat complete, I am wondering what y'all think about the whole resolve in order of initiative or posts thing?
I'm now thinking that resolving in post order will be better in the long run. Would any of you mind if I switched to that method from the next combat onwards? I think it would allow me to resolve some of the posts as they come in, helping y'all decide what to do next, and generally make things run smoother. I just really wanted to try the old fashioned method first to see what it was like.
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I'm sorry about that. After my shift, I had to prepare the house for my son's birthday party, and then just had to catch some sleep. I thought that I could log on in time, but failed.
Re: combat. Either way, I suppose. It might matter more if I was playing a spellcaster, but since I just hit things, order doesn't affect me much.
No worries Sidi, real life comes first, as does sleep. In hindsight perhaps I should have waited a little longer before updating.
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Howdy folks! With the first combat complete, I am wondering what y'all think about the whole resolve in order of initiative or posts thing?
I'm now thinking that resolving in post order will be better in the long run. Would any of you mind if I switched to that method from the next combat onwards? I think it would allow me to resolve some of the posts as they come in, helping y'all decide what to do next, and generally make things run smoother. I just really wanted to try the old fashioned method first to see what it was like.
Lol! I went through the same thing as a GM. Started with init order but eventually shifting to post order instead. :) Actually, as a player, I don't think I mind either way. But I did find it easier to manage as a GM going by post order since I just resolve them as they came.
Thanks for your feedback, folks! It looks like we'll be trying out post order for a bit.
As an added bonus, being able to spread out updates like this is certainly making things a little more manageable. :)
I think you skipped Black Crow. If Black Crow is riffing, add 2 to Hit and 3 to damage (Skald's inspired rage activates Barbarian's and Bloodragers class rage for free).
I haven't skipped Black Crow (they are at the top of the combat tracker), but we may be seeing what Selmy was talking about. Because of the time difference, me posting a new round of actions when I did may put them behind in the combat while resolving in post order. So now I'm wondering if a happy medium can be achieved somehow... Maybe I shouldn't roll over the rounds in future combats so that players with lower initiative rolls don't feel they have missed a turn?
P.S. Thanks for the heads up about activating your rage, I totally missed that last time.
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I personally feel it's fine, so long as when we post, we clarify beforehand some triggers, conditions, etc. For example, what Sidi is effectively intending is to delay until after Black Crow has gone, and if he activates raging song, Sidi will accept, then attack.
An analogy would be how in face-to-face game, even when we follow initiative order, we often would discuss among ourselves to delay for each other to various tactical purposes.
That sounds fair enough, let's see how it goes :)