Sable, Xing, and Cookie... you guys should have control of your icons. Any problems, let me know.
Thanks. Sorry I haven't hopped on roll20 yet. We have family in over the weekend and I'm finding it hard to have the time to catch up on internet stuff.
Xing, sorry I didn't place your character in the right spot. I was moving the group around and screwed that up.
We still need a couple players to check in to Roll20 so I can assign their icons.
No biggie. I'm happy to help adjust stuff. :)
And t looks to be working for me.
My icon works just like it should.
OK, you should all have control of your icons now.
Thanks. Sorry I haven't hopped on roll20 yet. We have family in over the weekend and I'm finding it hard to have the time to catch up on internet stuff.
Not a problem, life happens!
Apologies for posting late in the day. This cold is whipping my butt and work is gonna be 'interesting' this week. I'll try to post earlier if I can.
Cookie? You still with us?
Cookie? You still with us?
Sorry guys, I have had a crazy past few days and have barely had time to sit down at my computer. Post up though!
Sorry to hear that! Thanks for posting!
I messed with the two posts I put up earlier this hour ... for some reason they got swapped vertically, which made them make less sense.
Plus ... having them as one is just cleaner. (this is in case anyone saw them before I made the adjustment).
... carry on.
I tend to write/post in blocks. I write a set of posts offline - Senna action, monster action, and DM update. Then I copy/paste to post them. The problem is... you have to wait a few minutes between posts, until you see them 'post' with a timestamp that is consistent before you can do the next in line. If you post them too quickly, the order in which they appear can get jumbled. It's kind of a PITA. Not sure what server changes they've made but it didn't happen that way 'back in the day'. Anyhow, that's my observation. It isn't that big a deal in the player seat because you are rarely spamming responses... but it can be a bit of a pain as a DM. YMMV.
Hmm. Weird. But yeah, I can see that.
FYI, I've gotten volunteered to work on an urgent internal project so my posting until April 22nd will be a bit sporadic. I'll try to knock out at least a post every day but I may not be able to keep to that schedule.
Oh, I missed the post about Xing being tied off with a rope. I'm confused, why are we doing things that way?
Xing go down the hole!
Oh, I missed the post about Xing being tied off with a rope. I'm confused, why are we doing things that way?
Just in case one of those muck creatures grabs someone and attempts to chuck them down the Hole of Doom
Yeah, I was trying to scout the room (and maybe secure a way across) while mitigating the likelihood that one (or more) of us went down the drain.
Okay, Maybe I should take back my action then. I thought we were just crossing.
Eh. I say we don't get into retcon territory. As a player, I'm happy to let it play out. The most fun stuff can happen in the wake of faulty decisions.
... well, assuming we don't die. :D
Work is slamming today and then I have an event this evening. So I will try to post around the end of the work day.
I don't anticipate muck dwellers speak Common - or are sympathetic to our goal of cleaning the sewers - but it seemed like the neighborly option given that were trying to establish a friendly neighborly reputation. :/
We are? Sabelina should probably be told this. She thinks the goal is to establish a reputation for extreme awesomeness.
Based on Senna's previous roll... she could tell you that Muckdwellers speak their own language and a rare few speak Draconic...
And 'awesome' and 'neighborly' have flexible definitions when you are hip-deep in sewage. :P
And wearing ugly wader overall things. It's really humiliating.
Mean, while Xing has adopted these very functional waders into her already eclectic outfit. Yes, quite fetching, indeed. :D
Mama's waders are somewhat less effective than the waders on you longshanks!
Maybe we could refashion them into a little dinghy?
Sabelina is more than happy to give Yash the bone.
*snicker* I didn't realise Yash was your type. :P
Yash and Sable sittin' in a tree...
I guess things are not what they seem! XD
Sorry for the posting lag... had to get my urgent project to the finish line. It's now in my rearview so more frequent posts will resume!
Woo!
Sorry, guys, work decided to jump my ass. I'll get this rig rolling tonight! Apologies.
Empathy does not flow like water from Sabelina.
Lol. No, it does not!
It's not exactly empathy that's guiding Xing's suggestion here, though. More like a survivor's "do we know what we're messing with?" approach in general.
Sorry for the slow post on my part ... busy week.
Once again I'm very sorry it's taking me so long to get posts up. Both April and early May have been just overwhelming. My workload is up and we transitioned back to working in the office part time. Since I work for the state and all such changes happen at all state offices together, it was a big change with many, many meetings and emails involved. On top of that many federal rules changed at the start of May as Covid-19 policies and procedures are replaced with 2+ year old versions from before. That meant many more meetings and emails.
Meetings would sometimes run so long over their scheduled slots they would completely swallow the meetings scheduled behind them, which would then have to be rescheduled. With all this going on we also still had our regular work to get done somehow. I also had a pet die. It's been a lot.
I think I'm mostly in the clear now with work and things will be returning to normal again. I'll be catching up on gameplay over the next two or three days.
I hope I haven't been too much trouble to wait for.
I'm sorry for all the hassle, RD. And I'm especially sorry to hear about your pet death; that's rough. I sure hope things smooth out for you.
I've had my fair share of surprise-busy-times, so I certainly won't hold it against you. :)
I'm very sorry to hear about your pet. I'm dealing with some health issues with my 15 year old pup myself.
Don't worry about your revised work schedule. It happens.
The claws are coming out now.
Don't be jelly of Ariana Grande, you minx!
Everyone alright? It seems a touch slow the last week (myself included). Has everyone else gotten the "wait-what-my-kids-are-going-to-be-here-ALL-the-time-now?!" summer break issue? :D
I ran away to the coast for the long weekend, an attempt to save my sanity. I'm back now and getting caught up here.
<— this is my jealous face.
... all I got was COVID.
I was out of town all weekend, so ya. Sorry. I probably should have posted a warning.
<— this is my jealous face.
... all I got was COVID.
Did you get a t-shirt, too?
I don't want to be intrusive into anyone's private life... that said, a little heads-up that you expect to be away for X days would be greatly appreciated.
Did you get a t-shirt, too?<— this is my jealous face.
... all I got was COVID.
There was no t-shirt, though there is a stubborn, lingering cough. So that's cool. :/
I vastly underestimated the impact that the beginning of summer would have on my posting.
I'm going to try to create some discipline around getting at least 1 post up in the mornings moving forward. I"m still here! I want to see what's next! Don't give up hope on me! :D
So, how do we want to handle inventory?
I’ve kind of been in games where we handled it 1 of 2 ways.
Option 1 is just having people claim what they want or makes sense for their character. This is definitely simpler, but over time can create imbalances in player wealth .. and largely relies on the honor system to track parity.
Option 2 is more involved, but does a better job of maintaining that parity. This is how we did it in a previous game, and it worked pretty well.
We created a Sheets doc that tracked all gained loot as “Group Loot” with secondary “Personal Loot” tabs for each person.
Basically, all money (or other ‘liquid’ assets like gems, etc) was immediately split equally among the characters.
Looted gear (weapons, armor, wondrous items, etc) was dropped onto the Group Loot tab, but assigned to the person who carried it. If you’re carrying it, you can use it, but you don’t own it … it’s still a group decision what to do with it.
If a person wants to own an item, they can “buy” it from the group loot at a value equal to what the group could sell it off as (generally 50% the cost of the item).
Consumables (particularly smaller consumables) generally got left on Group Loot, and used as party resources, unless there was an item that a person just really wanted to have on their own … and it was treated as other items above.
I’m also open to other ideas, if people have them.