Hi everyone, this is my first play by post campaign/adventure. I hope that everyone will help me with playing my character. I have been playing RPGs since 1977, so I am familiar with the game play mechanics. Looking forward to playing this character and having a lot of fun doing so.
Feel free to PM me if you have any questions or suggestions.
Greetings from Uriel the Fist. Thanks for the selection, DM Mathpro. I am similar to you in gaming history, Makoa, so please ask away if you need any help from a player perspective.
This character will be a bit of a challenge for me, as I usually play more average to exceptionally intelligent and tactical characters. Uriel is a well-meaning and friendly sort, but he is...well...not smart. He approaches things like a 12 year old in the body of a formidable martial artist--he has learned some discipline, but doesn't think things through like a normal adult would.
Please feel free to read Uriel's profile to get an idea about him, especially if you are a long-time resident of Falcon's Hollow who may want to take him "under your wing", as it were.
Thanks for the selection DM Mathpro, Welcome to PBP Makoa, looking forward to getting started.
Now we just need our Dwarven Cleric and we are ready to go! Speaking of such, Kilain, if you have been in town a while—especially if you have visited the priest, you have likely met Uriel. If you wish, you could be deigned worthy by the priest and Uriel would be very likely to defer to you on matters of big adult decision making...
I have to finish the equipping and checking a couple things to make sure this 'reskinning' from reign of winter to Falcons Hollow is accurate but ill be done today.
in Kilain speak hrrrrmmm! Thankee for the acceptance and warm welcome
Kilain will have just arrived in town at the beginning of the adventure.
Makoa would be from out of town, he would be here because of a mercenary opportunity. Is there some kind of request from the town for Makoa to respond to? or perhaps from the herbalist?
Taicho has been in town for a while finishing working off his indenturement, so I guess he is local. Or is that loco...
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Uriel is a local boy.
this is a varied group...
Dwarven Cleric
Tengu Rogue
Half-Orc Barbarian
Suli Monk
very interesting.
Indeed. It should be fun. Although we are missing arcane firepower, hopefully we will have everything else covered.
DM Mathpro, let us know when you calculate it is time for us to post in Gameplay...
ouch, get feeling better!
Wow, that's terrible! I hope you are recovering quickly!
Very cool, looking forward to starting.
Makoa would be part of a merchant caravan that is in town trading for lumber. Guarding the caravan brings in money, but can be very boring. He is always looking for more "interesting" ways to earn and Falcon's Hollow looks like it might have such an opportunity.
Just some additional information on how Makoa would be involved in helping out.
Kilain would be coming into the town as a way of having a launching off point to the investigation of the dwarven ruins in the vicinity. He is smart enough that he would need assistance with this and would be looking to find a band of adventurers to be part of this.
I have seen GM's do some very smooth combats with posting and rolling in this forum and tracking of maps in Google docs/slides. Good use of bold text for people who are up next, tracking of damage & status effects, rules for botting if people don't post in a reasonable amount of time, etc.. Here is a good example, and this DM also uses Google Docs/Slides with a shared link so we can move our own character icons.
So I've done several games where the map is on roll20, but have never used it for combat. The times I've used it's 'dice roller' I didn't care for it. Here I can keep a list of general attacks on Taicho's page, then copy and paste the appropriate one and post it after his 'Narrative' making whatever changes that are needed.
I'm willing to give it a try, but I don't think it will be simpler.
I'm good with us posting our actions and you doing a round summary. That normally works best if we do "Block initiative" which also seems to be quicker. If you have us go in 'initiative order' (which is slower) a summary wouldn't be necessary.
But hey, "It's your Barbeque" so if you want to try something new, go for it.
I am ok with any approach, I have used Fantasy Grounds instead of roll 20.
That's cool, have a good day off!
Everything okay, DM Mathpro?
I am not certain, but I have seen other PbP use Google drive to store maps for the campaign and put links to the drive location in the campaign info thread. Some campaigns put letters on the map's columns and numbers on the map's rows (like an Excel spreadsheet) after they put a grid on the map so players can specify where they are. Is that what you did before?
DM Mathpro,
Is everything alright? We haven't heard from you since Tuesday...
DM Mathpro,
It has been a week since you posted. Is everything okay? Is this campaign still running?
I think this campaign is dead. Been over 6 weeks without a post.