OOC Open Table Chat I

[Lordbridge]

Be advised, Nimbus will be good at giving advice (from the rear) and otherwise useless (the joys of an old school level 1 caster).

[jason.connerley]

If I get a break today I'll roll my stats at least, I'd like to do a fighter but we'll see how it goes...

[VonAlric]

Great to have Aron, Jason, and John (soon) in here. Glad you guys could join us and help get this fun adventure (it is going to be fun, right Koren?) out of the starting blocks.

[Koren n'Rhys]

Great to have Aron, Jason, and John (soon) in here. Glad you guys could join us and help get this fun adventure (it is going to be fun, right Koren?) out of the starting blocks.

I mean... I HOPE so!

[reddicediaries]

You can rename your character, so no worries there. It's editable in the character sheet view, or on your character list. Low CON is too bad, but otherwise not bad at all. A couple of nice rolls there.
(I'm going to see if I have the permissions to move this to the Character Creation thread)

Unfortunately my character doesn't show on my character list for some reason.

[VonAlric]

You can rename your character, so no worries there. It's editable in the character sheet view, or on your character list. Low CON is too bad, but otherwise not bad at all. A couple of nice rolls there.
(I'm going to see if I have the permissions to move this to the Character Creation thread)

Unfortunately my character doesn't show on my character list for some reason.

Possible that you archived him by accident?

[Koren n'Rhys]

Maybe - I didn't think of that. I posted in Help & Support so the admins can take a look too.

[aronbc]

Ok my character is up! Are we using variable damage? Does Str mod thrown weapon damage?

[Koren n'Rhys]

Ok my character is up! Are we using variable damage? Does Str mod thrown weapon damage?

I'll look him over, thanks. Yes, variable weapon damage. To me, d6 only is more of an OD&D thing. I don't know that I've ever seen anyone run or play BX without using variable damage actually. Str mod to thrown... I'm going to say no. I re checked and I'm not seeing it in BX. Let's keep things simple.

EDIT: He looks good, you're all set. A couple comments - it's Traladaran, not Talderan, and for your specialization with the spear, I did say that its weapon groups, so let's say that will apply to javelins and lances too.

[aronbc]

Sounds good to me. I’m never going to be able to spell Traladaran consistently so I’ll just stay away from complex words.

[aronbc]

What’s our status? Are there guidelines for frequency of posting? Might have overlooked that.

[Koren n'Rhys]

Hey Aron. Just waiting on the last PC. I'll check in with John today. Ended up a busier weekend than I'd expected and I got slammed at work yesterday. We'll be starting in the next day or two. Hopefully today, even if the last character isn't quite ready.
I'm hoping for 1-2 posts a day if possible. Just a couple sentences to keep things moving is all I'm looking for. I know in the past, I've fallen prey to the idea my posts had to have more "meat" to them and then I didn't keep things moving. I think short and more frequent is key to keeping a pbp alive.

[aronbc]

Sounds good - do we use a caller model?

[Koren n'Rhys]

No need with such a small group. Plus as a pbp, there's plenty of time for everyone to respond on their own. If there is ever any confusion on order of actions, party intent or whatever, I'll clarify that before moving ahead. To start, I'm going to have everyone roll their own dice as well. If that proves too slow during combat, I may change to just getting intentions from everyone and handling all dice rolls on my side, but we'll give it a shot for now.

Our other potential player, reddicediaries, has had to bow out due to lack of time - for now at least. So, I'll get the initial post up by end of day today. Game on!

[VonAlric]

I'm hoping for 1-2 posts a day if possible. Just a couple sentences to keep things moving is all I'm looking for. I know in the past, I've fallen prey to the idea my posts had to have more "meat" to them and then I didn't keep things moving. I think short and more frequent is key to keeping a pbp alive.

This is a rather true statement. It gets hard to resist crafting an interesting story with lots of info that eventually slows down the pace of the game.

Any format to posts you would like? Coloring speech or not? Even internal dialogue (as long as it doesn't detract)? Too many colors making things hard to follow so keep it simple? What say ye?

[Koren n'Rhys]

I think we can keep things pretty simple, until they need to be more complex. I do like having dialog pop a bit, so would recommend using the dialog formatting tag. No heed to do a special color for internal dialogue. Maybe just italics. And to keep things clean, minor OOC stuff can be hidden in spoiler tags within IC posts.

I will get the post up tomorrow - sorry about that. Crappy day.

[jason.connerley]

So all dialogue as that blue color with internal dialogue being italicized blue?

[VonAlric]

More like no color mod and just italicized. rolls eyes

[Koren n'Rhys]

VonAlric is correct. No color, just italics. That will help any proper conversation really stand out. Sorry if i was unclear.

[jason.connerley]

My mistake, glad I asked!