New Horizons on an old and stitched together horse... (Inactive)

Game Master Helaman

We were unclear on how the spell worked. Does the protective field stay centered on the caster? If so, we lead goblins here to the field. If not, we go attack (presumably).

edit: Oh, maybe you answered already?

It's movable because ... why not at this point. And it's more fun.

As far as I’m reading, we haven’t decided yet. Sarn has offered two potential options as the last post.

Stay or press on. Now the spell is clarified, either is ok, but Sarn is worried that pushing on into “home-turf” could be bad got us/aid the enemy.

Given Terion’s uncharacteristic absence we are both stuck for direction as he is, after Nilelane’s scouting, generally the point-man and is really the only fighter.

Hmm, looking at his other games it seems hes been gone about a week. We might need to recruit a fighter, or I could switch to one temporarily or something I suppose (would prefer to play thief).

Terion did post on Feb 6th in another thread that he had a busy week at work ahead of him. Maybe he hasn’t caught up yet.

I’d prefer to wait a bit before replacing him but will support what ever decision is made.

I don't want to replace the player...

Food for thought, it's Saturday here in Australia and I'm out of town with my family. I'll PM him and we will let it ride until the US Monday.

Sounds fair. Thanks.

Yep, happy to wait. However I’ve been wanting to add a player since Elbowtotheface didn’t really engage with the game…I know the four person party of Fighter, Magic User, Thief and Cleric is pretty…classic apparently, it doesn’t leave much room for facing greater numbers of enemies…at least until higher levels. Never been a fan of the concept myself…

If you know anyone I'll take em.

I haven't heard any word back at this point

Neither have I. It’s been two weeks since he posted.

What's the group thoughts on continuing or starting anew with recruiting?

I’m fine with continuing with Terion as dm NPC until we can recruit someone or some-two.

Sounds the ticket... we will pick up again tomorrow.

Usual device down... and other issues. Will post in a few hrs.

No worries.

Apologies, away for 2 days but the new player can throw his voice in and the rest can RP among themselves.

Back... it seems this game is likely dead.

I'll wait and hope the others chime in. If not, I'll pull life support.

No dead yet. I hope.

Sweeeeeet :)

I’ve been posting, but I admit, after we lost Eddrikk immediately and then Terion who was the most active in terms of pushing us along as ersatz party leader, I’m a bit out of sorts.

I feel ya. Definitely feel ya.

Posting likely restricted in the next 48 hours with work and other issues.

Again, just RP among yourselves if I don't pop up.

Thanks for the heads up.

And back

I'll give it a day or so for you guys to do the get to know you thing

Delayed but still here.

Hey, I'm still here. She was lurking in the shadows so I didn't have much to add. I admit I've been a bit less inspired these days.

I’m dealing with a family emergency and won’t be able to post until Monday. Apologies.

Hope everything is ok Din…

Hope all is resolved to your satisfaction.

So... you guys going back down?

I love u guys... never considered that.

Nor I. Until Nilelane, ever the pragmatist, mentioned it. And given that we are a very small party (Eddrikk and Terion notwithstanding as GMNPCs) we kinda need to be…pragmatic.

I just enjoy players taking different approaches to situations. Not murderhobo-ism necessarily but your "solution" is logical within the context of the game/story. Best option? Whose to say? I'm neutral on it except I like out of the box player solutions.

@Helaman, any chance we can get a map so as to see how Sarn (or anyone else who decides to attack first…it’s an ambush really) might begin? How many gobbos are there? Are we in a tent or outside by the fire where we first “chatted” with them?

@Daniel/Vik - you might want to read the booklets homebrewed by Helaman with regard to options in combat - there are options for called shots and particular tricks that come with their own mechanics. Mostly its about making the opponent an offer to take damage or suffer a consequence inimical to their future survival…I’ll see if I can locate it…

Page 9 of the Rules Booklet, Combat Maneuvers. Linked up in the top of this page.

awesome..thanks OSW I will give it a look through!!

Hi all... I'll throw up something in a few hours, on a train atm.

Hey guys, really sorry to do this again, but I need to take a break from the boards. I will let you know when things settle down...I will probably be back in a few months.

Sadly I think that I too am at an end here. Increased work assessments, outside study assignments, health issues and just the wear and tear of the current tempo has all but finished me.

I want to thank everyone for their time and effort, particulary our latest addition who went to some trouble to make their character only to have the game fall through. For everyone who gave feed back and ideas on rules, gameplay etc I also give thanks.

In the next few weeks I'll be looking at slowing down my non GM games just to see where I am at.

I felt this was coming. This is the last game I was in too… Oh well, thanks Heaman for all the work that went in to your homebrewing booklets. I’m sorry if my inability at the outset to use Roll20 slowed things/created inertia. Was fun while it lasted, Sarn was a fun character to play. Thanks also to Smiles-a-lot, Albion, Mishima and Daniel (and Elbowtotheface) for playing.

If I may, I might post a little piece here about my thoughts about the health of a PbP. I’ve noticed that we generally desperately under-utilise the Discussion tab, and although this is most likely a function of mostly being time poor (either because of the necessities of RL or having too many games running or running in in addition to those real life necessities) a game really needs the characters to be interacting alongside the main narrative. Characters should be conversing, quibbling, questioning, helping, advising, ignoring, harassing, teasing, assisting etc each other, and this can be done as if it were its own space that might not need to exist in the same timeline. Without this we are playing insular characters that react only to gameplay posts that are by and large functional rather than narrative or social. I know we hardly have time to post most days, but maybe we need to give our games a bit more, as counterintuitive as it seems.

I dunno, just been thinking a lot about the nature of the medium, although I also wonder about the ubiquity of ChatGPT and just how happy I am that everything I post here is grist for some AI wordmill. Then again the last time I said that to someone (in a PM) they never posted on the boards again…

I agree on your points. I generally, and I think I did here too, was to regularly post in discussion or post ooc comments about good rolls, or good rp etc. PbP table talk as it were.

Yep, and appreciated. I…didn’t really post as much as I wanted to, just finding the time to keep up is often the hardest.

so is this game now closing??

Yep, is done.