"There's something very important I forgot to tell you."
"What?"
"Don't cross the streams."
"Why?
"It would be bad."
"I'm fuzzy on this whole good bad thing. What do you mean bad?"
"Try to imagine all life as you know stopping instantaniously, and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light."
"Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon."
Updated map.
We really need a Cleric
If you're serious, I can recruit.
A cleric wouldn't help. They can't do anything about negative levels until 7th.
Skaar's just going to be crippled for a while.
Well, just 24 hours, perhaps less if you know where to go.
24 hours in game can be weeks in real time. =P
It's not even the penalty/HP loss that's the problem, it's the instant death if you get hit again.
Well, Harakhty is willing to put himself on the the line to stop you from getting hit again :) You should give him a cookie.
Banana.
Banana cookie?
Harakhty has his two effective HP still. He can tank it for a while.
He can have his banana smoothie after he gets hit and withdraws like Skaar.
I'm talking about the fact that we've been on the island for like half an hour and faced a bunch of undead. Clerics can stop the negative levels from ever happening in the first place.
Although if I get killed I might just make a Paladin.
I must be unaware of this cleric ability. Regardless, I'm not meta-ing. Knowing the danger as a player, I wouldn't have Harakhty go anywhere near - he does have a crossbow. However, he is seeking to defend the injured, so even if it's folly, he's fighting this thing.
"You don't like bananas?"
"Of course I do, I'm a monkey."
Channel positive energy, 30ft range, keeps you from being punched in the face and level drained.
A single cleric isn't going to stop the level draining.
Level drain is one of those things that you have be reactive about.
...Maybe hollering at Hadrinn might be an option at this point.
Looks like its Aurelia's turn for a negative level.
lol. Soon I can just run Crypt of the Everflame :P
I decided to remove the time portion of the campaign info. It was silly of me.
Silly how?
In the sense that it would have just been easier to use the a.m./p.m. system. Yet, that doesn't really click in a fantasy world. I think I need to rework it, but don't know how yet.
Dawn
Sunrise
Morning
Midday
Noon
Afternoon
Sunset
Dusk
Evening
Midnight
Yes, but, if you walk up to someone and ask what time it is, 'Dusk' is kinda vague.
Edit: I'm probably overthinking this as I usually do.
If the world has pendulum clocks then you can do the am/pm or day/night thing.
If not then any given town/country is going to have it's own way of descibing time. Candles, cooking a common food, shadows, chimes, etc.
Unless it's important for spell durations or something I prefer to just assume time moves at the speed of plot.
lol
Heh, that's a Joss Whedon term.
How long does it take for the Firefly to reach the next planet?
As long as it needs to. =)
Okay, I'll try and sweat it less then.
If not then any given town/country is going to have it's own way of descibing time. Candles, cooking a common food, shadows, chimes, etc.
Could help but think of this:
"What are you doing?"
"We're having breakfast."
"You've already had it."
"We've had one yes, but what about Second Breakfast?"
"I don't think he knows about Second Breakfast Pip."
"What Eleveneez, Luncheon, Afternoon Tea? Dinner? Supper?"
"I wouldn't count on it."
To anyone interested, this, is my first recruitment thread.
I wish I could, Drago, but with DMing 3 games and running in 2, I don't know how good I'd be. Plus July is going to be an awful month for me. I have to head to Oklahoma on the 8th (wife's cousin has a rare cancer and is at the cancer institute there. her cousin may not make it so we want to see her.). Following week, my mother-in-law is having surgery so I will be gone for the better part of the week. I'll see if that kindly aunt will let me post at some point. And then at the end of the month, my mother has a sleep study that she asked me to drive her to. Well, she didn't really ask me, she told my wife. That won't interfere with my posting but, eh, it's just icing on the crazy cake.
Here is a horrific reproduction of the map on Lienne's table.
It's awful quiet here today.
"Look! I'm doing a Horse Stance."
"Ah, yes. Horse Stance...excellent for taking a dump."
Man, I hate killing off a PbP...
What happened?
Oh, my other game, "Unexpected", didn't go anywhere. At least my new one is doing fairly well.
Was Unexpected the one with the commoners?
Yep.
That's a shame. Sorry to hear it.
Did you learn anything at least, about what may have gone wrong? Were the players just not interested?
Drat! I was looking forward to a /popcorn moment, Drago! :)
Drat! I was looking forward to a /popcorn moment, Drago! :)
Same.
????? I'm confused.
"So how do you suggest we solve this dilemma?"
"Well, it so happens I have a solution." *shoots her with a tranquilizer* "Gotcha."
"What the f#~# did you just shoot into me!"
"My greatest invention, or at least my favorite. Don't touch it or I'll put another one right in your cheek. What lies within that dart just begging to pulse its way into your veins, is a very powerful and quite infalible truth serum. I call it, The Undisputed Truth. Twice as strong as Sodium Pentothol, but without all the druggie after affects. Except for a slight wave of euphoria. You feel it?"
"Euphoria?"
"Yes."
"No.
Well, the players weren't interested as you guys or the folks I have in the Bill Quiverpike game. They wanted more of a forceful GM, saying that I should have rolled initiative (though they did it in between my postings) and that I should have skipped people who didn't post for 24 hours. Unfortunately, I'm not really that way as you know.
The whole commoner to hero thing doesn't really work in PbP, though there is very little difference from an NPC class to a PC class. They were effective as a group, but to the point where the NPC thing was pointless. And since it really didn't make much of a difference, the story wasn't that compelling to me.
"How long does this s~!# take to go into effect?"
"About two minutes, just long enough for me to finish my point. Now, a staple of the superhero mythology is, there's the superhero and there's the alter ego. Batman is actually Bruce Wayne, Spider-Man is actually Peter Parker. When that character wakes up in the morning, he's Peter Parker. He has to put on a costume to become Spider-Man. And it is in that characteristic Superman stands alone. Superman didn't become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit with the big red "S", that's the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears - the glasses, the business suit - that's the costume. That's the costume Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race. Sorta like Beatrix Kiddo and Mrs. Tommy Plimpton."
"Aso. The point emerges."
"You would've worn the costume of Arlene Plimpton. But you were born Beatrix Kiddo. And every morning when you woke up, you'd still be Beatrix Kiddo. Oh, you can take the needle out."
"Are you calling me a superhero?"
"I'm calling you a killer. A natural born killer. You always have been, and you always will be. Moving to El Paso, working in a used record store, goin' to the movies with Tommy, clipping coupons. That's you, trying to disguise yourself as a worker bee That's you tryin' to blend in with the hive. But you're not a worker bee. You're a renegade killer bee. And no matter how much beer you drank or barbecue you ate or how fat your ass got, nothing in the world would ever change that."
That's a common problem I've found in my PBPing. A lot of players want a game where they can passively observe and want the DM to move things along.
The problem is, this flies in the face of the other kind of player that wants to control every facet of the story. These types of player consider the first type of gaming to be 'railroading' and will heavily chafe under a DM that runs a game that way.
Well, I prefer to run games that are about the characters just as much as they are about the story. Color me weird.
That's cool too.
The trick is finding players that are on board.
Right. I think some players have a PFS mentality and, after running 4 PFS PbP's myself, I can understand the passiveness and railroadiness of it all.