Flush was a dumb custodial grunt before things happened to her. Some pronunciation things may still stick there.Still, knowing how much someone writing in 'first person' drives *me* up a wall, I'll try to keep an eye on it.
It's not a big deal, really. It's just, "ordnance" is on my buzzword list, mostly because of my job. I figure you might use it a lot, in character at least, so I figured I'd point it out.
As I didn't explicitly state it earlier, Brob will have his rifle out when the conversation leans towards fighting.
I thought you were going to turn this one into a social encounter!
Ummm, dude! We're playing Giantslayer at your place tonight! Pay attention!!
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I try to hold my players to the same expectations that I hold of myself. And personally, I'm going to find it hard to find time to make a quality post within the next 24 hours. So... I'll give everybody 48 hours to make their next post within this round.
Happy Thanksgiving to those who are celebrating! (Happy eat-a-turkey day to everyone else!)
Dubrovnik is on my wife’s bucket list.
I watch Game of Thrones, she doesn’t
You will not regret it if you ever visit DubrovnikDubrovnik is on my wife’s bucket list.
I watch Game of Thrones, she doesn’t
I find that I rarely regret helping my wife do what she wants.
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Alright, let's talk about the elephant in the room. Space Combat.
In PbP, it's terribly slow and boring. So, this is how I propose we run it. If you have any suggestions or comments, please speak up. I'm still refining this.
I'll ask for the scan roll as the group enters the ship. Then, I’ll roll the initiative at the start for all ships based on the respective piloting checks.
Then, once it reaches your ship’s turn, everyone will post* but I will resolve the actions in the Engineering – Helm – Gunnery phase order. As such, while you can declare your actions in the open, please have your dice rolls in spoilers.
*There are two exceptions to this.
(1) Gunnery phase might need to wait for all the ship movement to finalize to determine which weapons are available for firing. So Gunners might want to hold your posting until then or set up a series of contingency actions depending on the final facing and positioning. (2) If the Captain wishes to buff the pilot’s initiative roll, please indicate this and roll for this in the previous round, or state if that’s your default for start of combat (in which case I’ll roll that as well.
Can you post the stats, or a link for them, for the ship we’re being assigned?
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Something I've seen work well in person and which might help with PBP space combat. Have the Gunners, if multiple and I presume we do have two, designate themselves as primary and backup gunner, with an order of priority for backups if multiple. Then they can all roll as normal and the GM just uses the the rolls in descending order of weapon power. So the primary always fires the biggest gun in whatever facing, the backup fires the second weapon if any, etc and so forth. This doesn't work as well with multiple opponents, but otherwise it'll let the gunners post as normal without waiting, and the GM can just roll the damage as needed for whichever gun they assign.
Just a thought that might help with the speed.
On a side note, could we get a sound off from people as to what role people expect to fill in space combat? I know we discussed roles when we started, but I wanted to make sure everyone was still on the same page so we don't stumble around the first round with three captains or five gunners and nothing else.
Sal; piloting +7
Backup: Engineer +8
Gunnery is either BAB or Piloting Ranks, plus DEX mod right?
In that case:
Gunner: +4
I could, in theory, Captain, with a +4 Intimidate.
My Piloting is +3, so I am sure someone has me beat there.
Ok, so a couple important things of note regarding the ship:
The most powerful weapon is the turret, which can fire in any arc, so our best gunner should be on that.
All of the rest of our guns are equal, with one in each direction except aft. Our shields are equal in every quadrant. Basically, as long as our butt isn't facing the enemy, we're doing ok.
She gives +2 Computers, +1 Piloting, and there are two other floating +1s that can be used each combat round. I would propose that our pilot uses one of them, and the turret gunner uses one, every round. Unless, we end up in a low shields situation where we need the Engineer to be getting the shields back up.
Obozaya is not some waifish mammal to rethink her decisions at every turn! She remains committed to firing guns.
Just a brief RL note, our household is being force-migrated to fiberoptic connectivity on Friday. Theoretically it will have minimal impact, but just wanted to make folks aware.
Congratulations?
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Just a brief RL note, our household is being force-migrated to fiberoptic connectivity on Friday. Theoretically it will have minimal impact, but just wanted to make folks aware.
Hopefully it's an upgrade and you don't experience any outages! Thanks for letting us know, just in case.
By the way, Brob, I very much appreciate your wonderful songs.
Ditto!
Keep ‘m comin’