I figured I should let y'all know that... otherwise you might write yourselves out of the game on day 1. :)because, yeah, you are going to miss it.Dude! Spoilers!
You have to admit that'd be hilarious though.
"Ya, I lost a character once. OH, no, he didn't die, but he would have if he missed that birthing ceremony!
Is it ok if Mama's on the boat? Because she'd probably become Xin's shadow after she confirms what happened. Not getting in the way, but making it know that Xin is nowhere near as lonely as she must have seemed. Even if she beat the ever living crap out of the man, the Captain's decision to remove HER speaks volumes to Mama and she hangs around to deter reprisals from the crew.
She starts preparing and secretly casting Itching Curse on the sailor in question's nethers at least once per day. She also starts preparing Hydrolic Push every day. Just in case she has to eject someone from the ship.
You have to admit that'd be hilarious though.
"Ya, I lost a character once. OH, no, he didn't die, but he would have if he missed that birthing ceremony!"
That would be a story to tell!
Cool. I can roll with it. :)
Other than actually finishing out Xing's backstory, I should be ready to roll.
Color me stoked.
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I'm glad to hear you are stoked! With just a bit of luck, the game will be kicking off sometime tomorrow.
Doh! One more team vote question, I completely forgot...
Do we want to do Hero Points?
I've never played with Hero Points. But we could?
Sabelina is coming by ship as well. Maybe Xing is crew on one of Sabelina's dad's ships? He's not a captain or anything and not on board, just the owner. The reason Sabelina's on one is the free passage.
Unless something happened right under her nose, Sabelina would be unlikely to notice. She's to busy thinking about her destination to pay much attention to what happening onboard. Nothing interesting ever happens on short boat trips.
Do we want to use discord (or similar), or sick to this thread for discussion?
For the moment, let's stick with this thread for discussion. While I can use Discord on my personal laptop, I can't load it on my work laptop and I'm using both currently for DMing stuff.
Hero Points: no
I'm surprising myself with that answer, but our heroes are going to be pretty freaking amazing already. I don't know that we need more layers of super heroism.
Sabelina is coming by ship as well...
Yep, I'm aware of that. :) I've got the introductions all worked out. I'm just polishing the wording at this point.
Hero Points: no
I'm surprising myself with that answer, but our heroes are going to be pretty freaking amazing already. I don't know that we need more layers of super heroism.
<-- my jaw hitting the floor on you making that choice, Eben. That is not what I was expecting you to say.
What can I say? I'm a surprise a minute. :)
I've never played with Hero Points. But we could?
Is that a 'yes' or an unequivocal 'maybe'? XD
I've never played with Hero Points. But we could?Is that a 'yes' or an unequivocal 'maybe'? XD
That is a firm and unreserved maybe. ;)
Eben is right though. They do seem powerful. Then again, there's that BDH question again. Just how much hero do we want in the beginning?
I'm fine with using them, but in my personal experience they are often forgotten about and hardly ever used.
OK, it seems like the consensus opinion is 'meh' so we'll call that a no on Hero Points for the time being.
I'm fine with a majority decision on hero points either way. Like Nick, my experience with them in other games has been they seldom get used. It's a rare player that spends them on small things rather than hoarding them to avoid a character death should it come up.
Hmm. I could use some outside opinion. Do people like this new avatar? or the one I had before?
I preferred the other one, I think.
Have you thought about using this one?
I'd say you know your character better than anyone. Go with the one you thinks fits her better.
I find the lack of reasonable avatar choices frustrating myself. Mostly I add character art to profiles to convey appearances, and choose approximate avatars to convey a character's emotional register or general vibe.
The current one you have reads younger and spunkier than the previous one, which read more experienced and world-weary to me.
Yeah, I looked at that Reiko one, SR, but it feels like more of a lateral move from the original. And I think I agree with RD about the newer one ... not quite the right character vibe.
Oh well. I was looking for something with white hair, but that's not worth shifting the whole thing.
Thanks. :)
This is probably weird, but mostly I choose the avatar that puts me in the right frame of mind to write for the character.
Kinda like a tuning fork for writing since I see it as I write posts.
Like, you can probably guess a lot about how these three characters are different in personality by the avatars, even though the physical appearances aren't wildly dissimilar.
I think the only white haired and asian avatars you'll find are of the iconic witch Feiya.
Yep! to all of the above. The diversity of choices - particularly for non-caucasian looking characters is (I'll be generous here) 'limited'... which irks me in many many ways. Tien =/= 'HAWT Geisha'.
The reason I wasn't digging your second choice, Eben, was because the character looked more caucasian than Tien to me and had sort of a cyberpunk feel.
That said, as you know, I'm always down for you picking the character image that works for you. But since you asked for opinions, I offered one.
You do you, Boo! You do you.
OK... guys! I am going to be kicking off the game shortly with a set of posts. You bought the ticket... time to take the ride! :D
I work for 4 hours and there are there 19 posts! Gah!
LOL. It'll slow down. People are just excited to jump in.
No worries! I totally understand. I was just surprised!
KITTY! The kiddos are going to love you!
Right?! Look at that big grin. What's not to love?
I don't know...I'm kinda terrified.
One person wants to snuggle. One wants to shy away?
You guys are kind to so quickly validate my character's entire concept. :D
(I'm not even kidding with this post)
Oh, I got someone else who wants to 'snuggle' with the kitty... incoming post. >:)
Where's the "unfavorite" button? :(
Here... kitty kitty...
Guys, I have meetings coming up so I probably wont' be posting until later today or this evening. Thanks for your continued patience!
Quick explanation...
When you are in battles, you will see me switch to other aliases, nearly all will be Villainous [insert title]. That indicates the creature type you are facing so you don't have to speculate what kind of Knowledge check you need to ID the beastie.
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Constructs, Dragons, Magical Beasts = K: Arcana
Aberrations, Oozes = K: Dungeoneering
Humanoids = K: Local
Animals, Fey, Monstrous Humanoids, Vermin = K: Nature
Outsiders = K: Planes
Undead = K: Religion
Here... kitty kitty...
Grapples are ... like ... combat snuggles, right?
Nuggies!
Here... kitty kitty...Grapples are ... like ... combat snuggles, right?
This is the entire concept of another character of mine.
Yash missing Wrestlemania! Yash sad again.
Yash totally invited. Yash come save cat! Go, Yash, go!
How far off shore is the boat?
Let’s call it 50 yards.
The nautical term for that distance is "a long-ass way".
Yeah, if only you had like a boat or something...
So I keep going back and forth on this and wanted to broach the topic of talking, or table-talk I guess. What's the etiquette everyone is comfortable with?
Honestly I am feeling like I'm at Wrestlemania and I want to scream "hit 'em with the chair!" so badly.
Normally I would roleplay it as my character shouting instructions but since Yash is not actually involved, and barely aware of this combat, I feel like I should ask so I don't step on any toes or ruin the atmosphere for anyone.