Yay!
nice
Those are pretty sweet!
Does magic missile count as a ranged attack for the purposes of this place? There are no attack rolls involved – the spell simply deals damage.
Nope you're good. PEW PEW
Hey guys so I've been dealing with an underlying health issue I'm getting treated but the result has been I've been sick and thus unable to keep to a regular posting schedule which has resulted in some stop/start in games that's certainly been frustrating for me, and unfair to you guys.
I'm going to take a proper break for a little while to ensure the game can post regularly. Hopefully just a week or so but I'll update at that point.
This is still a game I am committed to for the long haul, and part of a long commitment means sometimes taking a proper break to reset and come back energized. Thanks for hanging in there. I'll check in next week.
*hugs*
Take all the time you need.
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No worries here GM SpiderBeard - I started doing PbP about 6 or 7 years ago. I have run into those situations many times, and have ignored the need for a break more times than I care to admit. Take what you need!
On another note, I'm catching myself falling into habits for an old character of mine in this banter with Osveta. Cyrus the Flea - Exceptionally gifted acrobat and talented slink, hopelessly awkward and helpless around women. (pretty easy to roleplay, lots of material to draw from... ha!)
Pollo is supposed to be a moderately spoiled son of a noble so far away from a proper inheritance that he generally gets all the benefits of wealth and station with hardly any of the responsibility. No reason not to be unreasonably cocky/confident. I've written and deleted several posts already to make sure there isn't too much Cyrus in my Pollo, if you catch my meaning. I hope he comes off more caught off guard by Osveta's indomitable self confidence as opposed to being awkward.
Or maybe I'm just thinking about it too hard and those are basically the same thing in this situation. :)
Oh man though, I do chuckle to think what that poor ninja would do in this group... ha!
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*headpats*
I am seeing caught off guard rather than shy.
Holy crap... re-reading some of those threads just to find that one link was a pretty fun trip down memory lane...
Idea - no pressure to participate - anyone else here have a thread snippit of a character/story from a game you were a part of that you enjoyed? Toss in a link here, I wouldn't mind reading it. Tell me why you thought it was awesome too.
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I have a few characters I'm particularly proud of.
And of course myself, but you specifically asked about other characters. lol
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Here's a moment in my Hell's Rebels game where my character decided to hold a funeral service for a dead NPC. It was someone that she'd never met, but it felt wrong to him to not be remembered. She's a Dawnflower Dervish Bard, not a Cleric, but she's a very religious character. She later officiated at funeral for another NPC, and spoke at a third funeral. She is somewhat paladin-like, although she can be rather impulsive.
Here she is comforting an NPC on the loss of his mother. And chasing a tooth fairy that just stole two of her teeth.
Ok, I just took a quick look. This is good stuff!!
I'll link a few of mine tomorrow morning. Love it :)
Backgrounds might be my favorite part about creating new characters. I go one of two ways. I either whip something up real quick and try to make the early adventures the "back story", or I go all in and way to deep, spending a crazy amount of time trying to write a story for a character I might not even play...
My all-time favorite backstory is for Cyrus, the character I linked above. I used moments in the games we played to tell his story. Also, Cyrus almost always adventured with Ibid. The guy who played Ibid is a close friend, and we would chat on the phone a lot just spitballing ideas for a shared backstory between the two. I think it turned out pretty spectacular, but I am biased...
If you followed the link I posted above, you get your first taste of who Cyrus is.
This scene, which takes place before the adventure starts properly was where I first started revealing bits about Cyrus' backstory. We were waiting for a couple of players to be ready, so the GM took one of his favorite characters and 'picked a fight' with the PCs who were ready and waiting. Cyrus gets the super-crit treatment right off the bat, pretty much the same way Pollo has actually... I crack up re-reading that whole sequence every time...
Here Cyrus and Lort reconcile after the bar fight, and Cyrus mentions his dad.
This is where the backstory telling starts to take a more direct approach. Ibid and I had worked this out ahead of time from all of our conversations, and decided to work in this back and forth between Cyrus and Ibid during a storm in the adventure - using the storm as a way to prompt Cyrus to ask questions he suddenly wasn't sure he would be able to ask if he didn't take the chance at that time. This was also the first time I figured out that linking back to all the other clues we had dropped in previous adventures would start to tie things together for the other readers.
And here is the Pièce de résistance for the Cyrus and Ibid Backstory - The culmination of the backstory written between them. We wrote this all offline, formatted it with the BBCode and just blasted the thread all in one go. I loved writing this story. This thread was a game thread our regular group used for all of our characters for... whatever.
Alas, I have no other characters on this board worth sharing. :|
I was thinking using a Reagent, but I would still have to roll a Crafting Check vs a DC you set since it's an improvised item that has not been created before. Perhaps with a little more research (i.e. next level up) I could make it an actual item I could make without rolling.
Why not, go for it. Make a crafting DC and you can create an item that causes persistent damage 1 on a successful hit, damage 2 on a crit.
Osveta you still here?
HOLY CRAP I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT THIS GAME ;_;
I wasn’t seeing any new gameplay posts in my focused forum viewing, I’m sorry >_<
No worries. :) Me calling anyone out would be pretty hypocritical, so certainly wasn't doing that, just bumping the thread :)
Sorry guys! post tomorrow
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Hey everyone.
SO. My life circumstances have changed a little bit and unfortunately I have to scale back my games. I hate starting games and being unable to finish them but I have to mothball one of my games and it has to be this one. My others are all multi-year commitments I've put too much time in to stop now.
Unfortunately, that means I'm going to make the call to cancel this game. I'm really sorry to do this as I posted with the intention of finishing but I was recently elected president of my union and it has seriously cut into my free time and energy in my spare time.
Thanks so much for playing such fun and interesting characters and coming along with me on this ride. I'm so sorry to do this but I'd rather close things down than string you along and be unable to keep up a posting rate and quality that I'd want from a GM.
No worries. Life happens.
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No worries GM. It's often harder to admit that and stop when it is necessary than it is to pretend you can keep doing it and just keep plugging along. Much respect :)
Thank YOU for running such a fun and interesting game, helping us (me!) learn and get a feel for 2E, being patient and being awesome at adjudicating the game in a fun way. I enjoyed your GM style, I would play in any game you were running.
Thanks to all the players here too, you guys made this fun. I enjoyed your characters and the interactions.
The ultimate disappointment here is not knowing if Pollo actually survived the blight to see if he could survive a night with Osveta...
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Death.
By.
Snu.
Snu.
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AAAAAaaaahhhhahahahahahah That is so good
Alas for Plaguestone, but as they say, all things must come to an end sooner or later. The game did run for the better part of a year at least, which is pretty good by PbP standards. (I'm sure we'd all be filthy rich if we had a nickel for every game that petered out after a few months at most.)
Anyway, in my opinion we had a great line-up, GM and players alike, and I'd play alongside y'all again in a heartbeat. Take care, everyone!
Death.
By.
Snu.
Snu.
*cackles*
Sorry I couldn't post more in here either, *offers hugs to everyone*
But f!@$ yeah, Union Prez!