I sent you a PM, Norv.
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Thanks, Edward!
Ok, gang, here's my plan for taking care of port actions. Sorry it took a while to come up with (I had a busy weekend).
Similar to how everyone has ship-to-ship combat roles, why don't we determine what each person will do as a "default" in any port you stop in? Then we can just fast-forward through each port stop unless there's something unusual going on. So, for example (just basing it on what's happened so far), the tasks might be:
Edward = Raise Infamy
Diana = Sell plunder
Arhiel = Recruit Crew
Isaac = Sell plunder
Alabaster = Recruit Crew
Jaina = Sell plunder
I'll then just roll us forward using each person's best roll for such tasks, and assuming you stay in port long enough to sell all your plunder (unless you tell me you want to retain some).
(Obviously, feel free to change your default role, this was just my rough memory of what people do a lot.)
The port actions are important to the mechanics of the campaign (you do need to keep your Infamy decently high, as well as needing to convert plunder to gold), but they do bog down play in PbP. I think it's like dungeon-crawling...something that works pretty smoothly at a real table, but gets deadly slow and boring when you can't just say, "All right, everyone make the dice rolls you want to and tell me what you get!"
I like this. And Diana is happy to perform any diplomacy type roll. She is not nearly as good at Bluff or Intimidate, though she has recently make some hard bluff rolls to raise infamy, partly due to her ability to roll as charisma check twice and take the better roll once a day.
Note that the boards criticize this AP heavily for the repetitiveness of both port actions and sea skirmishes that can go on for a year in PBP. I am in favor of anything that can help us move forward.
I like this as well. This change is fine with me.
Looks good to me.
Norv, Edward would also like to buy 3 stacks of the materials i mentioned in the PM.
Hey guys, sorry for the delay. Work has delivered me an unexpected wallop that mayblast a few days. Please bear with me and we'll return to our regularly scheduled programming shortly!
no problem... I'm still on puppy caregiver duty, and I have the flu so I've been slow to catch up on games lately anyway - life always has to come first...
Hey Norv, i noticed you signed up on my Cosmic Captive table.
Cool. ;)
I wanted to give a heads up that I will be on vacation and traveling through central Europe from May 9-May 25. I'll be able to post some while traveling but will have to do so from my phone or iPad. So please bot me if required and know that I'll post when I can.
Wow! Have a good time, Diana!
I moved the ship diagonal up 30 feet to the left.
Thank you, Isaac. Apologies for the delay, all...I seem to be getting slammed with one thing after another these days. I am sending a PM to Alabaster too, but moving forward for now.
Heads up all... I am going to Gamex this weekend... we leave early in the morning and not sure when/if I'll be able to check in before Monday night... If I can post, it will be limited in time with brief posts... Please feel free to bot me if I'm holding things up... thanks...
I am back home and ready to jump back in with more regular and longer posts. I think I sorta kept up with this game but doing so from a phone was much harder than I expected.
Seems like I just got back (Its been three weeks +) but I am about to be on another trip. This time I'll be gone from tonight until Sunday June 25 and will not eve have cell signal so I cannot check in. Please bot me as needed.
It's no problem, Diana. Have a good time!
Indeed! Have a good trip. :)
Sorry for the lack of update, all; I was sick and had quite a time going on at work, all at once. I'm back now, though!
Oops. Forgot to delete the top part from my post.
Hello? You ok Norv?
Norv had posted in one of my other games. He said that he's been sick. He's taking medicine now and he's getting better. So he should post sometime soon.
yay... sorry hes been sick, but glad to hear things are getting better for him.
I apologize for the absurd delay, all. As Isaac said, I was laid out by an illness and have since been scrambling to catch up with everything I missed. I am feeling much better, however, and ready to jump back into the swing of things!
so glad to hear you're feeling better! let's get moving if you're up to it! WElcome back!!!
Welcome back, Norv. I'm sorry for saying something on you behalf. But I wanted to keep everyone updated.
Welcome back.
Btw, how far are we from a new lvl? Just curious here.
Glad you are feeling better. Welcome back to the world. :)
Thanks, all! And I'll have to check, Edward… Not too far, I don't think!
Hey guys, i found our new anthem for big battles.
It'll be a blast.
Hmm. Really should not have played that one at work...
You did?
Awesome! :D
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Was it because you couldn't resist singing along, or was sound on and the manager heard it? :D
Oh....imagine hearing you didn't get the job, and play the repeats out loud on your Phone, aimed at them. ^^
However, Diana.
I hope you had the chance to pause when you opened it, as the title gives away strong language.
Pardon for not providing a warning of strong language.
:o
Well, I did have the good sense to be wearing headphones. :) A strong language warning might have been appropriate. I doubt our IT security folks are monitoring everything, but I'd not want to try to explain that one to them. LOL
Haha that is indeed quite a title.
...quite a bit of strong language in the song, too, for that matter. :P
On a different note, how did Jaina become such a crit magnet? Is that a feat, or...? I feel like every combat you get clobbered by someone's lucky roll!
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I think I know why--it's because our party doesn't have any dwarves.
Whenever I'm in a campaign with a dwarven PC, the dwarf suffers a string of botches and I get a string of lucky crits. The closest I figure, I'm actually a luck vampire.
So its been more than 3 months since we have heard from Alabaster. Was there any decision about him. Is he still with us as an NPC? If there was some decision announced I missed it.
I don't think there was any decision made. I haven't heard from him either. Is he now an npc? Hope he's okay.
Hey, yeah, I've tried to get in touch with Alabaster more than once, but haven't heard from him. Sorry I failed to update you guys (hard to remember to do so when the update is just the status quo).
My plan, unless he suddenly shows up, was to quietly phase him into a background PC and/or take him away from the boat somehow (tougher to do). That's actually why he didn't appear in this last combat: I can't keep running him constantly. But he (and Sandara!) are around to provide some healing support!
Hey guys, I'm setting off, now, on a vacation to Japan with family. I'll be there until August 3rd. I should have internet access but I'll have a lot less time to post. Please be patient and bear with me over the next two weeks!
Ah? Where to?
I have been to Japan a few months ago.
have a great time! I'm so jealous...
Should you get to Tokyo, go visit the Akihabara disctrict.
It's unique, to say the least. Plus, you'll see plenty of temples everywhere. ;)
I have been to Japan on business a couple of times and have considered a vacation there. I'd be interested in your experience. Have a great time. Oh, I recommend Kama Kura as a day trip if you have the chance.
Have a good time, Norv! I'm really jealous.
So far so good, though I've had even less time to post than I'd expected! ;)
Sorry I haven't gotten a post up. I'll try to get one in tomorrow.
I'm back! Thanks for bearing with my trip. Posting should pick up now.
What the...I had a post yesterday morning, but it looks like it got eaten by my poor connection! Apologies, all. Will attempt to reconstruct it.
Sweet Besmara, is your ship called the Silver Shrike or the Love Boat?! :P
(How does this always end up happening in my S+S campaigns??)
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Pirates.
That is all.
(If it makes you feel any better, I'm going through a similar thing in my Jade Regent campaign.)