Feel free to say hi. ill be going over posting rates and how i manage combat in another posting.
Thank you for the invitation. I'm glad to hear they figured out what was going on with your wife.
Glad to hear your wife is okay. Having both severely pulled muscles around my ribs and fractured my ribs, I can concur that such things can be incredibly painful and strange in experience.
Excited to get into the nitty gritty!
Damn, so it looks like Kunala the Barbarian and Herb the Hermit have both backed out (Kunala back on the 28th, Herb after you announced the selections). I don't want to see this game die off, @RizzenMagnus, hopefully some of the other candidates might fit?
Our barbarian avoided getting eaten by the zombie horde!! at least not yet anyway....
yes, we are still good to go. sorry, my dryer decided to die and i spent yesterday fixing it. grrr, when it rains, it pours.
I feel like appliances only ever break down when other chaos is already going on in your life. Curses
Greetings.
I've been out of pocket with work this past week. So, please accept my apologies for just now checking in.
Between now and 11/22 I have our year end board meeting at work which will require some long days. I will light on posting to the boards until we get past that.
Looking forward to this see where this campaign goes!
hey, i finally posted a game thread. feel free to start gaming.
Posting Rate:
I plan to post at least once a day. It may be more, but i will strive to achive an average of one post per day. My goal is for everyone to be able to post at least once per day.
The normal schedule of posting will be monday through fridays, with an occasional saturday and sunday if need be.
I am in the Central time time, and i will nominally be doing my postings around 1200 CST.
Combat:
I have found the following to be an easy way to manage combat within a pbp setting. Others may do it differently, but for me, this way works, and is easy.
1) players will have 24 hours to post their combat actions.
2) Player initiative is managed by first come, first post, first combat action. meaning that you dont have to wait for someone else to post before you due to a higher initiative. If youre on the board, post your action and whomever comes next can react to your actions.
3) The DM goes last in combat. always.
4) when the DM posts for combat, that is the end of the round, and a new round starts.
so, what does this mean? Lets say hodawn, zero, and amhern are in combat with a jaffa. I will set the scene, have the jaffa perform an action, and then post. once i post, players will have 24 hours from 1200 CST to make their combat post. Amhern posts first, zero second, and hodawn posts last. At noon the next day, i will compile the actions, have the jaffa/monster act, make a nice summary of the previous round and post. Zero, being on the site early that new day, can immediately post, followed by hodawn and finally by Amhern. And the process repeats itself until the jaffa is dead, or the whole party dies.
and yes, i realize that this makes improved initiative useless, so if you took it, feel free to replace the feat
this is a end of the world zombie survival adventure, so there needs to be a survival mechanism that enhances the mortality of this game. you watch any survival movie, read any zombie novel or comic, and inevitably the need for food and water comes up.
so to add a certain need, for lack of a better word, to this game, i am currently trying to figure out a rule or two that meets this criteria. It is going to be based off of food and water, but what i havent come up with something fully fleshed out yet.
i wanted to give you guys a heads up so that youre aware of what im thinking of, so youre not caught off guard when i finally post it.
Damn, would've liked to play out my action myself, as my direction to my allies was for them to wait for me to do my action before they moved at all. I was planning to post this evening, but was hoping for a response from at least one of the dwarves before posting. I guess I find myself a little confused by posting protocol on this game.
Oh sorry. I didnt mean to step on your toes. If you want to do something different, then we can redo it.
Whats your question about posting?
No worries, my confusion was just on expectation of posting frequency. I totally get you were just trying to get things moving on. I figured the others would wait for me to act, thereby preventing a bunch of non-stealthy characters from blowing my chance to take out the lone zombie before it became aware of us. I actually think its kind of fitting as there are often 'growing pains' when people begin to learn to work together.
Ahhh. Yeah. Ill be honest, im still working the kinks out for me and my posting rate, when to hold back, and when to step in and give a nudge.
Pin was finished, the gate is halfway. The bracket is fitted into the wood, but the wood itself isnt fully repaired. Think of it as if you screwed into soft wood, the screw will stay, but wont hold much.
I'm good with continuing.
Hey guys, sorry. To be honest, i forgot about this game cuz i got so sucked into my other two games im DMing.
If you want, we can pick this back up and do a two person game, open up recruitment to find a couple others, or just shelve the game.
I'm fine with two as well, but I wouldn't say no to more now or maybe later. Never know who you'll run into in the wastes.