This is for general discussion on the campaign for all participating players. Also to help keep Recruitment forum a little clean!
First and foremost, welcome to The Broken Age Campaign! I wanted to thank everyone for joining!
If there are any questions you have feel free to ask them here. Want to make sure everyone can hit the ground running with minimal hiccups :)
Also I had a question, would everyone prefer to have a visualized battle-map for any combat? If so I can find a light weight program to do so. Any recommendations?
Also, check the Campaign Info tab for information on the crafting system! If you have any questions pertaining that as well, feel free to ask.
I love being able to actually see the map when combat is an issue, or if exploring maze-like areas. Otherwise I am pretty easy to please.
Alright, I shouldn't have too much issues getting combat maps set up for the group. Yay map tools :)
Reporting for duty!
Sad to say this was the only blue skinned, yellow eyed male humanoid I could find.
Close enough.
Sad to say this was the only blue skinned, yellow eyed male humanoid I could find.
Haha, he looked like he just ate a bad burrito and is experiencing the unpleasant aftermath.
Yeah I mean the database has a lot of images, until you start selecting gender, class, race....they drop off sharply after that.
Yeah, dat burrito buuuuurrrrrrrned on the way out. Fire resistance came in handy there.
And I gave up trying to specify anything and just clicked 'male' and started looking.
Definitely.
I wish there was a free whiteboard battle map software, where you just have a grid of your choosing, and then you can draw on it like a white board. Then you can upload images of your tokens or things you want to use and then just take snapshots of it.
A lot of virtual tabletops seem to be built around everyone connecting to it, which can be a bit of an hassle.
That would be a really cool idea, almost like a free-form drawing/mapping program.
Yeah, I'm actually half tempted to program it myself... wished I had a device to pause time so I can make it before this weekend!
Or just pick up Fantasy Grounds and call it good.
Okay got a couple of options for battlemaps.
Fantasy Grounds is an external client and can be very interactive (I'd have the GM license to allow unlimited free players to join). The only drawback I see from this is that you'd have to download it and join the session to make your movements, which it can be quite a hassle to do. (Would encounter this with all external virtual tabletops)
Another option is just using Google Draw and just load the maps in and have smaller images you can move around, all done via the web browser.
I haven't found a nice whiteboard style option yet aside from Twiddla.
Opinions?
God I am so excited about getting this going soon. I really want to get some good roleplay going and see the interactions kick off. I didn't overstep the setting with assuming I had been forced into a kind of tunnel or mine digging right?
Of course not, you will be mining in a tunnel actually :)
There are enough applications that I'm going to send off the Acceptance Letters here in a minute actually. There might actually be 9 players by the end of this. THIS is going to be really fun.
Also I just threw up the world map in campaign information.
I couldn't help it, I wanted to start! Go get your intro post done!
Hello all, I am very excited to be a part of this campaign! I will get my intro post up in gameplay momentarily.
Hello all, I am very excited to be a part of this campaign! I will get my intro post up in gameplay momentarily.
Welcome, I hope you enjoy it!
Ooooh map is shiny. Where are we on it?
Ooooh map is shiny. Where are we on it?
You will find out soon enough :) It is a mountain range though...
Somewhere along the Brethan Mountains. But you can't twist anymore outta me!
Hello
Hello
Welcome welcome :) Feel free to make your intro post!
This character is going to be so much fun.
I look forward to it. I had a goblin firebomber alchemist named Ziku that I absolutely adored! And I already like the way your goblin is presented and behaves <3
It seems as if the goblins are where its at!
Damn. Epic rolls!
Holy crap! That is one of the best RPG maps I have ever seen! Did you create that from scratch or adopt from another setting?
Damn. Epic rolls!
Holy crap! That is one of the best RPG maps I have ever seen! Did you create that from scratch or adopt from another setting?
I actually made it myself. The psd is insanely large haha.
Daaaaaaamn. Props bro, maaaad props.
Wow. Ditto, that's some fantastic map-making. Definitely beats my ramshackle little map haha.
Xaeken please don't use the gameplay forum for anything but gameplay. All OOC should go in this tab.
Why thank you for the compliments, glad its likeable :)
Epic rolls indeed, I blame tiredness for my missed perception. As for the sickness...the smell is pretty terrible.
Octavian, it's typically good formatting to bold character speech, like so:
Carl walked around the corner and saw the red dragon staring him down. He froze up, then smiled. "Give me ten seconds and I'll explain why you shouldn't kill me."
I'll remember that in the future, can't edit now because past 1 hour mark.
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No disrespect intended Shady_Motives but I ooc'd because I dotted the thread but couldn't finish my post and wanted to explain if there was a lot of traffic. I'm approaching 8000 posts on the site since 2011, I am clear what things are for and the ooc tag exists for a reason.
If the decree comes down from Vinsomner that he doesn't want any ooc chat in the gameplay whatsoever, I will comply. Let's just say that in my experience it sometimes makes sense to note things for clarity. My 2 cp.
Edit: To be cleared I actually dotted a post, edited it with content, posted it, realized it was incomplete, removed it and inserted the ooc. Method to my madness is all I'm trying to say.
For minor things that are in relation to what's happening (such as clarifying an attack or situation), OOC can happen in the gameplay thread. For major things and un-related things, then I'd prefer using this thread. Just to clear anything up.
Also, since this is going to be a larger group, I will be posting more often to keep things rolling and to give more reactive responses. Let me know if any issues/problems arise from it!
I have the same policy, Vinsomner. Little quick things can be put into gameplay with the ooc tags, anything substantial should fall into discussion.
Personally, I like to dot gameplay threads by posting and then instantly deleting my post. It still effectively dots the campaign and it shows up in your campaign tab, but you don't have your post floating around there.
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Funny enough I didn't realize the dot would hold on a deleted post. Learn something new everyday.
If if helps, I too have the same policy...so I just want it known that I understand the sentiment. Discussion thread is where the discussing happens. I just got rubbed the wrong way but I am also having a long day so I understand if I'm coming off as more brusque than I intend.
Alright, clarity achieved! Let's get to the rebellion! Kill all humans!
It's interesting that most of the pretext of the campaign is the xenophobic king who kills or enslaves all non-humans, yet we have a human enslaved with us.
Yeah, damn humans can't even get genocide right...
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Well pretty straight forward if you think about it. Any human who sympathize with the non humans and try to protect them would be either killed or tossed right into slavery with the rest.
Thaaaats pretty much spot on. Any sympathizer are labeled traitors and are treated far worse then the non-humans. Their hatred runs deep.
Poor human, not even the humans will have her.
These guards are such a jealous bunch, they don't like sharing their king!
Hopefully everything's to par for everyone so far! It's about bed crashing time for me. I do appreciate any feedback you may have.
Noooooooo! It's getting exciting!