Khyber, 13 new posts! Chierak will join the scene when I get back home, need to run now and I'd like to write something good rather than rushed.
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I apologize in advance for the low quality of the map and the unusual size of some of the faces compared to others.. If anyone who didn't state marching order wishes to change places before combat begins I will allow you to do so.
For reference, here is the empty alley.
DragonBlood, are you going to roll Poppy's initiative?
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Oi!
Might I make a suggestion? Instead off having everyone go in explicit initiative order, simply let everyone post their action when they can and then you resolve it after, making adjustments or allowing the player to change their action if someone higher in the initiative does something to affect that. This way, a combat round should take no more than a day, rather than 3+, if everyone can post that day.
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Both systems have their perks and flaws. With allowing everybody to post actions and sorting them out, there will be a lot of backtracking and do-overs, but a little bit faster pace overall. The way I am running it now goes slower, but less room for characters stepping on toes or having to change actions/dialogue.
I'm willing to see what everybody thinks though. Anybody have any feedback on either format?
I prefer 2 sets of initatiative in PbP one for the good guys one for the bad guys. That way one combat round can be resolved per day and the DM can NPC folks who stall longer than a day. Otherwise combat in PBP can become a game breaker.
on the two formats I think we should test them out, next combat is method two and third combat can be Dhara's method if we want to try it out....
Sorry guys for leaving you hanging for so long, I really have a problem these days with not actually sending my posts but leaving them in some open tabs instead :(
As for the ways of dealing with encounters, I'm cool with both. I think Illyri's suggestions has merit, but whatever results in less work for the GM is probably good.
I personally do NOT like the idea of having two sets of initiative. In video games that do things that way I always get pissed off when the enemies all get to go and some of my people get killed off but there's nothing I can do to try to prevent it or resurrect them until all of the enemies have gone. At which point, if the enemy is strong enough, I have to choose to either resurrect that round or heal whoever is left standing, either way that whole round ends up with little combat and a lot of healing. I know that this isn't a videogame, obviously, but I can see very similar things happening.
I don't care if we go with Illyri's suggestion or not. As the DM said, there are pros and cons to both. I think there is a middle ground between those two, where players can take actions whenever when their actions would have no affect on the initiative order. Such as, readying actions, using items, drawing weapons etc.
Honestly, I was opposed to the two sets of initiatives at first when I came across it, but it grew on me, I feel it's really the best option as things do move much faster.
Not sure how to do it. Some GMs roll everyones init and average it, others roll only once for each group with an average modifier.
You can also roll indivdually for players and once for bad guys. Then say group a) comes before baddies andgroup b after baddies.
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I'm back! Had an amazing weekend filled with comic books, Wii sports, German food and beer, and laughing to tears often. I hope you all enjoyed your weekend as well.
Dharatatak you are welcome to finish your action if you wish to occupy a space with Micha or Poppy, otherwise we'll move on to Chierak!
I had a relaxing weekend. Nothing special, but plenty of much needed downtime and R&R.
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Surprisingly enough, my weekend included all of those things. I went to a con with a group of friends for the weekend.
Megacon
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What he really means is that he's jealous.
I'm headed to a birthday party, been gone all day. I will post when I get home tonight, or if you'd rather, the DM can NPC Poppy and Micha.
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I will be out of town this weekend for Larp so I will update Sunday evening or Monday. I hope you all have a great weekend! I'll talk to you soon!
WB DMDB472 :)
It's cool man, sounds like you had a fun couple days. I'm cool with a slower style game.
Sorry guys for letting you wait so long, my PC broke down and I had trouble repairing it. I'll try to get back into the game later when I'm home. Sorry again... (I don't have other access to the internet right now).
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Of course not :P
I'm having fun! What xp track are we using? Fast?
Micha can haunt your characters as easily as Silian can mine. ;)
Gotcha.
I've got the plague or something. I'll try to check in again today, but please DMPC me as needed.
Fair enough
No thanks... that hadn't even occurred to me...