The Whispering Vale OOC

Hey guys! Thanks for joining. Glad to have you. I’m going to give it a bit more time to see if we can nab a few more players.

Go ahead and start working on your characters. It seems like this site has a way for you to submit them to me? I’m also fine just making a character sheet thread for us to post them in as that’s how I normally do it on other sites.

Let me know what works best.

Just a reminder, roll 3d6 for stats, as per the book, but feel free to assign them as you see fit.

Goodness. Love that old-school grit.

That is why you hire henchmen and hirelings, hp soaks.

Indeed, indeed. Is there a way to tag people in posts here, do you know?

Sounds good. Rolling for stats!

Sel'Via
Elf Fighting Woman
Strength: 11
Dexterity: 10
Constitution: 7
Intelligence: 12
Wisdom: 4
Charisma: 10
HP: 2
AC 2

Platemail
Sword
Dagger
Shield
Waterskin
Wineskin
Rope, 50'
Backpack
Mallet, 3 Stakes
12 iron spikes
Rations, Standard 1 Week
Steel Mirror
Wine, quart
4 GP

I absolutely adore how simple and clean the OD&D characters are. I’m so excited to run this game.

Hey, guys. I've heard that some have had a hard time submitting characters to the site. I've opened a character thread instead. Go ahead and post your characters here:

https://gamersplane.com/forums/thread/10888/

Looks like we’re just waiting on a few more characters to get posted to the thread and then we can get started. Thanks again for joining.

Do you need mine posted as I already submitted it?

If you could. Sorry.

I think we just need Valdus’ character. So, I’ll get the first post up soon.

Cleric present and accounted, I decided to play straight from the roll.

That’s awesome. Doesn’t get more old-school than that.

First post is up in the new thread:

https://gamersplane.com/forums/thread/10926/

To answer the question from the other thread, yes to RP. We’ll make rulings and create story based on what you guys are doing RP-wise.

Figured to move the RPing discussion over here. One of the reason for a more hack and slash with less rping back in the day is that the game was new and the idea of roleplaying was being learned. Many faced it more like a board game at first. Dungeons were highly deadly and to be overcome. This lent it self to create an atmosphere of kill them and take their stuff mentality. All the stuff for having RPing between NPCs and PC were there, but there was no to little guidance of how to do it. Most NPC were not named. For example in Keep on the Borderlands, As you enter the Keep the first person you run into is a guard that you need to sign in with. In most newer adventures he would be given a name and an attitude that he approaches the players with. In the module he is given a rank and combat stats and the rest was left to the DM.

In addition, many OD&D players, like me, came from the wargaming community, just like the TSR folks did. We were more used to number manipulation than character development. Since dungeons were so deadly as Viking1031 pointed out, characters often didn't last long so we didn't get too attached. I remember rolling for multiple characters in a single day for one DM's dungeon.

I, for one, welcome our new RP overlords.

Speaking of RP, my character, Celvin the Kind, has a Charisma of 3. His nickname is an ironic one. I'm playing him as a bitter, angry, "the world's against me" jerk. His is off-putting, but reliable.

Great points on the RP discussion. I had assumed a lot of that based on what I've read about it. It's what fascinates me so much about OD&D. I hadn't even thought to address it here, but I totally should have.

Similarly, I should probably set other expectations. For instance, I hadn't planned on using any of the Chainmail rules in this game, unless some special case comes up and it would be more fun, for some reason. And I also plan to make a lot of rulings on the fly depending on the situation (one doesn't really have a choice, as you know since you played it).

For things that need a roll outside of combat, I was going to do the "roll a die" bit. I was even considering if it's something I think, based on your stats, you'd be good at, I might consider the "percentage chance" you have and apply that to the d6 roll. Saying things like, "Oh, you're strength is high. Roll a die, on a 3+ you break the door."

Let me know if that fits or if there's other ways to do it. Or any feedback, really.

Do you have a pantheon for the gods of Law, Neutrality, and Chaos?

That’s a really good question. The gods in this world currently are nebulous because I haven’t needed to define them. We can do so together. You’re god is the god of Law, correct?

Mine is. The original books didn't go into detail but there are some that do.

Yes, the alignment of my character is Law.

If it helps, I believe the Law/Chaos alignment came from "Eternal Champion" books by Michael Moorcock. The most famous Champion was Elric of Melnibone.

Yep. Makes sense.

Ura, Goddess of Law and Creation. She is often is depicted with a spear in one hand, a handful of soil in the other, and wearing ornate armor. In carvings and paintings, she usually has a plain, yet beautiful face and a powerful, yet shapely body.

Sorry guys. Insane work week with visitors from out of country. I should have post up soon.

Sorry everyone. Got sick this week. Should have a post soon.

I want to see if everyone attempts to cross the bridge and then we’ll move this forward to something more useful. Thanks for sticking with it guys.

Did we lose everyone?

not me

Hahaha. That I know.

Celvin is still there. waiting for the party to cross.

I think it’s just you two at this point. You guys okay proceeding forward as two? Would you rather we wait it out?

Might as well move forward but hopefully gain some people as 2 lvl1 characters cannot take much damage.

Still here! Sorry, had some work come up.

No problem. We’ll move forward.

Give it a little bit to see if we get some opinion on it.

is this game still happening? I have a few games that are not moving. I don't want to quit but I only have time for so many and if this game is done I will replace it with another.

Ok it has been a month since anyone besides myself posted here. So i am going to pull out now.

Sorry guys. Going to shut this down. I apologize and thanks for playing. All the best.