OOC Nonsense

If it is, Cass will probably still be stuck in that tube.

However, it's kind of interesting to note the number of different time zones here. I don't remember if we've ever comprehensively discussed it before. I'm on Pacific time.

I’m on Pacific time too.

We talked about which zones we're in one time but that might have been before we added new people.
I'm in Central European (GMT+1)

Yeah, I think you're right, it was before we added the newer players.

About Machiabellys question: That shouldn't happen. I'm planning to get the groups to reconnect soon. If something happens that really delays one group, I'll find a reason to delay the other one as well.

Central here, GMT -6

Eastern, GMT-5

Looks like we have openings for three US time zones left. For any new players, priority should be given to those in the Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian time zones.

And you know what? This is still a hundred times more streamlined than trying to get an entire group together for an in-person session on time!

So true! My first D&D group (I only started RPGing about a year and a half ago) almost never had a full complement of players even on an every-other-week schedule, and sessions frequently had to be cancelled. We once went a month and a half between sessions because various people couldn't show up.

Oof. I ran one in high school / early college that met once every six months for like, 12 hours. Fun fact. Human knees aren't built to be cross-legged that long.

Hah! I can't sit cross-legged at all, never have been able to. I would get kicked out for pacing in a group that did that.

I’ve been in an online group for about 5 years now. We’ve met every other week most of that entire time, except when we finished the first campaign and the DM was preparing the second. I miss about 10% of the sessions, and I’m by far the most absent
one. It’s unreal.

They’re almost entirely hack-and-slash though, which is why I came to PBP. Need my RP fix.

78, that's wonderful - the attendance and frequency part, not the hack-and-slash part. The group I'm in now is an evolution of my first group. There are three members of the original group and two new players and a new DM, who more or less decreed that we would meet weekly. That has done so much good for the attendance; it's easier to build a weekly game into your schedule than a biweekly one, and it commands more priority in an adult's schedule. Fortunately, we all like a good mix of RP and combat. The one time we did a murder hobo-y slaughter, it started by accident due to a misunderstanding on my part as a player. We all felt kind of sick afterward, lol.

Oh, no, Moonbeam! And I get it, 78! A buddy of mine just started a game IRL and after blinding another PC in one eye for desecrating a corpse, he started to get a feel that maybe his group was less of an RP gang...

In a way, it was kind of our DM's fault - he had us role for initiative as we were approaching the docked ship of the gang of extortionists we were trying to stop, before we'd even discussed a plan or spoken to anyone on the ship. I was at the top of the initiative round (because I can't roll for shit when it really matters, but I can always manage to roll a high initiative score when I have no idea where to start), and for some reason, we went into initiative right away. Because they had a half-orc on their crew (which are rare in the game world and I was afraid he'd give us a lot of trouble), I started by firing an arrow at him. After that, it was just a bloodbath. It still bothers me, lol.

Man. That does sound like a lack of communication, though.

It was. Part of the problem was that it was the first game when one of the old players was returning from taking time off due to a new baby arriving. We'd just met his character literally a couple of minutes before, and my mastermind rogue wasn't entirely sure whether to trust him. So that RP dynamic was in the air already. Then we as players just hadn't stopped to confer about what we wanted the encounter to accomplish. Plus my character is secretly a member of the Harpers and she knew one of that organization had infiltrated the extortionist group, so she was trying to make contact with him to let him know who she was and to protect him from being killed in the attack. But this is a secret from the players as well as from the PCs, and the new character thought I was trying to stop the guy from escaping and used some badass long-range spell to fry him.

Sheeeeesh! There's a lot of layers here - aside from the accidental murder-hobo-ing, it sounds fun!