Into the Sunken City (DCC)

Game Master Branding Opportunity

This will be the OOC discussion thread for "Into the Sunken City", a Dungeon Crawl Classics adventure.

One thing I haven't written about yet are my posting expectations for this game.

I would love it if everyone could make at least one post to the IC thread during the week (M-F) and at least once on the weekend (Sa-Su). Please let us know if you don't think you'll be able to able to keep up this pace on the regular. RL interferes all the time, of course, so let us know if you expect you won't be able to post on the regular for a certain period of time, or if something comes up keeping your offline.

Dot

Boop!

Sorry, just realized I made a pretty big typo above:

On the topic of posting frequency I meant "one post to the IC thread PER DAY during the week (M-F) and at least once (TOTAL) on the weekend (Sa-Su).

Hi. Peachbottom checking in. I'll use this alias.

I would love it if everyone could make at least one post to the IC thread during the week (M-F) and at least once on the weekend (Sa-Su). Please let us know if you don't think you'll be able to able to keep up this pace on the regular. RL interferes all the time, of course, so let us know if you expect you won't be able to post on the regular for a certain period of time, or if something comes up keeping your offline.

I am fairly consistent.

Dot!
No worries on the posting frequency.

FYI, something that I will be doing occasionally while we are playing in the IC thread is a technique I borrow from the various games published by Gauntlet Publishing (Brindlewood Bay, The Between, Public Access, etc.) called Paint the Scene.

Paint the Scene is a question about a location that I ask you as players and which anyone can answer. This question asks you to create a detail about the location that helps explore a theme or an idea associated with that place in the fiction that we have already established. By the end, a stronger sense of the location, both visually and thematically, has hopefully been built up or "painted" in all of our minds. You can answer these questions from an OOC perspective (as if you were the storyteller in a piece of fiction) or from your own characters' perspectives. Also, when answering a Paint the Scene question (which I will clearly label), don't just add more set dressing to a location, but have fun and explore the place thematically. You may also advance the plot with the answer you give. This might change the adventure "as written", but I am totally okay to improvise how your description changes things and find that a story in which everyone has a bit of input tends to work better than one that springs forth solely from my own brain.

Let me give an example that is unrelated to this game:

In your search for the missing boy, you walk into a small hut at the side of the road after you find the door hanging open a few inches. Inside you see a small table and several chairs stacked in the corner.

Paint the Scene: Something tells you that the boy has been here and was struggling in some way.

Possible answer: Discarded in the corner is the small doll the boy's mother told us he carried around with him everywhere. One of his legs and arms is missing, as is one of the stitched-in buttons for his eyes. When picked up, it still feels like it is warm.

Possible answer 2: I walk over to the wall and discover that a small piece of paper has been wedged between the slats. Opening the note, it reads "Help me!" in charcoal in a child's handwriting.

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My Players

I like that paint the scene idea.

My first post in the IC Thread is up!

Posted hope it works

I'd like to wait for the sixth person who posted characters to make their first IC post before moving on from Mustertown. If others want to post in the meantime, there are still NPC to talk to here. Also, please let me know if you want to use your (meager) funds to buy any additional supplies I mentioned in the Recruitment thread.

I've already included purchased supplies on my character sheets.

I'd like to wait for the sixth person who posted characters to make their first IC post before moving on from Mustertown. If others want to post in the meantime, there are still NPC to talk to here. Also, please let me know if you want to use your (meager) funds to buy any additional supplies I mentioned in the Recruitment thread.

I know you have a lot of experience in PbP GM BrOp, and I just wish I had had the chance to play in many of your other games, but from my end, if you have posts from 5 out of 6 players, it is time to move along. PbP is fickle!

I know you have a lot of experience in PbP GM BrOp, and I just wish I had had the chance to play in many of your other games, but from my end, if you have posts from 5 out of 6 players, it is time to move along. PbP is fickle!

Oh, I'm aware. We'll continue soon.

I'm terrible at coming up with names. Someone else pick one.

Salems' Lot

Heroes of the Swamp?

Works for me.

The Forlorn Hope??

Does anyone have anything else they want to accomplish in Mustertown?

Nope

all good

Good to go!

Nope. Touch the stone!

We all are together Right?

We all are together Right?

By "we" do you mean all the PCs? If so, then yes.

I've created a quick survey so that we can pick our name:

Google Form

What's the results of the poll?

Drumroll. Brrrrrrrt.

What's the results of the poll?

Drumroll. Brrrrrrrt.

The winning answer is: The Forlorn Hope.

Thank you all for playing.

Well better late than never...sorry was busy the last few days...

Well better late than never...sorry was busy the last few days...

Glad you are here now!

BTW, if all of your PCs die, just roll up four new ones and I'll introduce them as quickly as possible. Given how the adventure is set up, it makes sense that four more people can travel through the Sending Stone behind the main group and then run into everyone else.

Do any of the PCs have a outdoorsy background?

Gabi is a beekeeper and Claude is a ditch digger. Both are outdoor occupations. However, I think your question is more directed towards a ranger-like character. In that case, no.

BTW, if all of your PCs die, just roll up four new ones and I'll introduce them as quickly as possible. Given how the adventure is set up, it makes sense that four more people can travel through the Sending Stone behind the main group and then run into everyone else.

Will do!

Do any of the PCs have a outdoorsy background?

Maybe Bram Underbough, since he is a dwarven herder?

Alwic is an Elven Forester and Boric is a trapper, but I do not know if these backgrounds convey abilities onto these characters or not.

I would consider the herder, forester, and trapper as all "outdoorsy". Thanks for getting back to me.

With this many PCs in the group, I think it would be impractical to RP the group's decision-making process. I therefore think we should handle it OOC in this thread.

What do you think of that idea?

I am absolutely fine with the idea - it will feel as if we were around the table. There is always a mixed IC and OOC discussion :)

Sounds good to me...!!

While you can theoretically move in any direction, the only two directional indicators you have seen are the arena-looking structure to the northeast and the smell of cooking meat coming from the east. You have not heard or seen anything other than swamp (with the trees I mentioned) in any other direction.

You can move northeast, but the ground definitely becomes boggier in that direction and you can see taller reeds ahead.

OR

You can move east along the path in the direction of the cooking meat smell.

OR

You can head off into the swamp in any other direction.

Which way would you like to go?

East! To see if we get to eat or are eaten.

I agree...off to see who is eating whom!!

East it is!

I also would go east.

East

OK, now that we have a direction, do you want to take any particular precautions about HOW you move? You're obviously a big group (including folks who are leading livestock!), so stealth is going to be minimal for everyone together, but some of you have backgrounds that would indicate you have training in being stealthy. This latter group could move on their own as scouts if you want.

You can also think about how many abreast you want to walk and in what order. Let me know your thoughts.

I don't think my gang has a scouting bone between all of them, so they just want to make sure they stay in the path, and not go into the tall grass. Stick close to each other and the others if possible - safety in numbers and all that.

Any soldiery people?