Rules of Play

Use this thread to discuss the mechanics of playing this adventure online.

My initial thoughts are:
1. I expect posts everyday and due to the slowness of online play the maximum time I will wait for each player to post is 24 hours. The game will continue even if your character has not acted.
2. Real life happens. Please PM me if you know you'll be offline for longer than 24 hours.
3. Use ** to convey thoughts; "" for conversation; bold for shouting. Other ideas or preferences welcome.

What are your thoughts on OOC content within the game thread? I usually just do something like:

OOC: Blah, blah, blahbity, blah.

Also, if you haven't seen the "notes" feature it's a pretty cool way to leave private notes within a thread (as opposed to PMing stuff to people).

Cool with Ooc idea.
I'm going try the notes feature. But can't find it... Help!

You can just click on the icon above and enter a name and it will put the 'notes' stuff in the post. It should look like this:

[ note="Merlin"]Only you should be able to see this, Merlin.[ /note]

(Only without the spaces after the '[' characters.)

So like this...

I think as the GM, you'll be able to see all of them.

It's fairly common to use bold for normal speech here on GP, but I like your suggestions for conventions, too. For myself, I'll try to separate speech as a new paragraph, and I may also put it in blue so that it stands out better. Also I tend to use italics for thought.

"So this would be me talking..."

"This would be me SHOUTING!"

*...and this would be me thinking*

How's that?

Personally I just write posts the way I would see it printed in a physical book. I put a line break in between the narration and any OOC text. But I will basically follow whatever format is agreed upon by all, or whatever he GM dictates. :-)

Perfect, space-seeker, you got it! Go to the top of the class. I might not use colors though... I always find that a pain in the ass.

I would love to post colors, but it's a pain to do that when posting from a phone so I'm fine to keep it the way you have listed it above for speaking vs. thoughts.

Does anyone want to have any pre-set bonds or should we wing it based on our interactions?

How would Szent address Roland? Calling him Roland doesn't seem right, but I'm not sure something like "master" does either.

Maybe there's an honorific to their faith, like "reverend" or "sir"?

I like Sir... Sir Roland, perfect for a knight.

Done!

Sorry for lagging behind in posts... been having an insanely busy week. And that's really saying something, as I am someone for whom a 100-hour workweek is routine and unremarkable!

No problem. My plan is to keep things ticking over unless there's a need to wait for everyone, such as combat.

(Ooc: as a general comment to everyone, when I ask for a die roll please allow me to determine the outcome. As DM only I know the DC, and as many actions are simultaneous if no initiative has been rolled, then I should have the prerogative to interpret the outcome of the round. This is particularly important in play by post)

Whoops- just realized Vicious Mockery requires a saving throw, no rolls on my part.

So, I wondered about what players think about building into this game an easy way to advance. My thought is everytime a thread is completed each character gains one XP. When you get 3xp you advance a level. It would be very accelerated advancement, but I think applicable to the slow pace of pbp.

What do you all think?

That sounds fine to me, PbP is slow to advance as is, so a quicker way is always welcome