
DM Harpwizard |

Oh Celestra kills me. XD
A paladin detects evil into a haunted mansion and is stunned at the sheer impenetrable darkness of its hatred. Curses as it knocks him for a loop and visibly causes him pain and shock while commenting on what a wretched pit of blackness the place is.
And then she chastises him for a potty mouth.
Sorry, TarkXT,
I am still struggling with how to role-play Celestra. I am trying to keep her lighthearted, idealistic, innocent and fun, but it just never comes out that way. In fact, she is probably just rather annoying. Sorry about that!

Poor Wandering One |

So what happened to your dying games? Inactivity?
I guess I will check the demos once I have more free time...(oh wait, that would mean less pbp...nah)
Yup. I don't mind slow. Nature of the PBP beast but there is slow and there is slow if you take my meaning.
Take HOM for example. It has a very dood posting rate now but even if that rate were cut in half the game would not be in danger of death because you somehow create a feling that something is happening. The players feel involved. This is not always the case.Try the demos anyway. They are very tightly coded and can play in a window while you are waiting for the next post.
:7)

TarkXT |

Zyren Zemerys wrote:So what happened to your dying games? Inactivity?
I guess I will check the demos once I have more free time...(oh wait, that would mean less pbp...nah)
Yup. I don't mind slow. Nature of the PBP beast but there is slow and there is slow if you take my meaning.
Take HOM for example. It has a very dood posting rate now but even if that rate were cut in half the game would not be in danger of death because you somehow create a feling that something is happening. The players feel involved. This is not always the case.Try the demos anyway. They are very tightly coded and can play in a window while you are waiting for the next post.
:7)
Speaking of dying Pollux needs to post already so I can move on to the next round. :P
@DMHW: Don't worry too much about it. I think it's a question of tone. Celestra tends to chastise and come off as a bothersome mother or older sister rather than an innocent young cleric. What might help is to reword how celestra says things.

Tirion Jörðhár |

If you want to see a slow AND annoying PbP, check out the one my alias Nngara is in. I want to quit, but we are in the final battle. I would strongly recommend against anyone getting involved in a pbp with that DM.
For instance this was a recent response to an inquiry as to why a concentration +2 rounds spell had not ended.
You do know that not all monsters are going to be run of the mill right. Didn't the four armed trog that does not exist in PF (as far as I know) tip you off. You want that swarm gone, kill it or kill Tasskar.

Mark Sweetman |

And in other news. I have two or three pbp's dying on me. It makes me feel bad to leave because I know how hard the GM gig is but still....
If I do get to that point where you are disenchanted, I'd appreciate fair warning and an ability to change things up

Shifty |

I've noticed that PBP's run well when the players can simply make decisions and post accordingly, and not need long debate or consensus.
An unfortunate habit of mine is to roll in and simply take charge of things, and to be honest it has saved a few campaigns, however with some players they just like to dither about. Spending a whole weekend of posts around who is going to open a door is dull :p
Similarly, if you are going to come up with a 'special bright idea' then post it up and post it in full - fine example was Bloodless running off to hubt something solo. I knew what I wanted to do wo threw up the concept of ops to the GM so that my special 'all about me event' could be done and dusted quickly.
As another pro-tip from the sidelines, where things bog is when one player (ie a Rogue) goes off and scouts. DAYS of time watching them play microdetail is dull - use of summary is best - The scout should post what they are trying to achieve and a Percep/Stealth check and the GM can simply provide a snapshot.
Anyhow.
The most important is for the players to be able to maintain momentum, and not wait for a 1/day poster to spend a week going back and forth on a small detail.

Tirion Jörðhár |

Have to admit I didn't think I'd be waking up in this situation straight from the start. Waking up in mysterious places typically happens to worshipers of Cayden Cailean.
I find that Calistrians have a propensity to end up awaking in strange places with strange people as well. Although my goal is to get Desna and Calistria to combine so that we can have a world filled with wandering sluts. Think of the benefits to remote farmers, woodsmen, hermits and other conservative types.

Poor Wandering One |

Poor Wandering One wrote:And in other news. I have two or three pbp's dying on me. It makes me feel bad to leave because I know how hard the GM gig is but still....** spoiler omitted **

Poor Wandering One |

** spoiler omitted **
Re Qhude. All good. The way I see it Jakob was the outsider and he had the episode that focuses on him and intragrates him into the gang. This forced Qhude into the outsider role so the store now follows him until he can be brought back with in the fold. Meanwhile the Ansha-Tabati-Keirian triad will keep their subplots at the boil while the qhude-jakob story resolves and the main plot marches on. So all good. And frankly the more of the Grand Custodians property that gets destroyed the better. I think he's a baddie.
~will
grmnbln |

Hello! I am back from the maddest few days I've had in a while.
Went on the last skate weekend thing on Saturday and Sunday (think I mentioned it way up the thread but maybe I should have made it more clear where I was disappearing too). Managed not to hurt myself skating but the universe decided to balance that out quite neatly.
Saturday evening I was sat next to a campfire with a load of other skaters and someone dropped another log on the aforementioned fire. This caused a smaller branch to flip out of the fire and come flying at my face. Kind of instinctively caught it and then threw it away, but quite a few of the embers stuck to my hand and I ended up with a lot of small nasty burns all over my palm and fingers.
So there was that.
Then on Sunday everything gets even better when the guy giving me a lift home managed to land pretty much back of his head first on the road (wearing a helmet) and gave himself a pretty hardcore concussion. Blacked out, blurred vision, vomiting, all that good stuff. Got myself temporarily insured on his car and drove him to the hospital, stayed there until 4 in the morning. Drove him and myself home and got back to Southampton 6am. Skated home, ate some food and then had to go to Uni for the entire day.
Got home and pretty much went to sleep in my clothes. Woke up Tuesday morning to my burnt hand throbbing and swollen, decided I should probably go to the doctors. Spent a few hours in a waiting room to be told it was infected and be handed some antibiotics. Then spent the rest of the day catching up on all the work I didn't do over the weekend with a painfully swollen and stiff writing hand. Again collapsed and slept without turning my computer on.
Today I only just got back from University and it has been the first time in the last few days that I got a chance to actually use the internet.
So yeah, that is where I've been for the last few days. Not dead, not dropping out or anything, just very very tired and a bit battered.

Vaughn Elliot |
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I just read that most American students think Germans drink a lot of beer, love sauerkraut and brats and don't like jews.
Well, maybe you shoudl try your Jews *with* sauerkraut and brats. I also recommend strong mustard and horseradish. Maybe you'll enjoy them more.
Yes, I know that was a terrible joke, adn if I offended any Jewish readers, you have my apologies. But it was too good an opportunity to miss. (I'm an equal-opportunity offender, I don't mind offending anyone regardless of their religious/ethnic/racial/whatever persuasion or lack thereof)
(oh, and PWO is right--most American studens are fools. Probalby because most AMERICANS are fools . . .)

Bree Longfield |

Well, fool or no, I don't think that all Germans like these things ;)
I've actually only met one person from Germany (that is not to say people with German heritage, as I myself have a bit, but specifically from Germany), he was a foreign exchange student in high school. He was a rather quiet, gentle giant. Watching him sit in those desks was like watching an adult sit in chairs designed for toddlers. He didn't talk in class often, as when he did most of the students and even the teacher gave him a hard time. To this day, I'm not sure if it was meant in jest or not, but I found it inappropriate at the time. I do recall that he seemed to be far more educated than myself and my peers, though. I can't recall his name for the life of me.

Stiehl9s |
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I just read that most American students think Germans drink a lot of beer, love sauerkraut and brats and don't like jews. Furthermore German women are big, burly and don't shave.
Didn't know we are the land of the ogre women *_*
I worked with a guy that was married to a German lass. She knocked him out with a rake once and pulled a gun on him twice. One of those times she took shots at him as he hid behind the wood pile. He would laugh and say "never marry a red headed German girl"

Stiehl9s |

Stiehl9s wrote:He would laugh and say "never marry a red headed German girl"See I'm a huge red fan, but no matter what country they come from it's always the same deal...
Im a fan as well, big time! couldnt confirm the second part but I'll take your word for it...eh, theyre still worth it ^_^

Tirion Jörðhár |

I just read that most American students think Germans drink a lot of beer, love sauerkraut and brats and don't like jews. Furthermore German women are big, burly and don't shave.
Didn't know we are the land of the ogre women *_*
I lived in Germany as an exchange student for a year. And yeh, a lot of german girls do not shave, but most of them are still quite attractive.

TarkXT |

I just read that most American students think Germans drink a lot of beer, love sauerkraut and brats and don't like jews. Furthermore German women are big, burly and don't shave.
Didn't know we are the land of the ogre women *_*
Huh, none that I know think that.
Most I have known believe that Germans are weird.
I have yet to see any evidence countering this. :P

Vaughn Elliot |

I worked with a guy that was married to a German lass. She knocked him out with a rake once and pulled a gun on him twice. One of those times she took shots at him as he hid behind the wood pile. He would laugh and say "never marry a red headed German girl"
*blink* Wait a second . . . does that speak more to the stability (or lack thereof) of HIM, or of HER???
I don't know anybody who would marry someone who . . . oh wait, my brother. But that just makes my point!!