Welcome! And questions?

Hello, and thanks for joining this little adventure!

I wanted to create a thread for OOC and system questions. Also, in the past when I've run text RPGs, it sometimes helps to use a group chat tool. I've used Discord pretty successfully, helps let people know when you've posted, or to ask questions or have convos in real time. But at the same time not everyone has a Discord account, so if that's the case I'm happy to keep everyone on the forums. Let me know your thoughts!

I’m fine either way — forum or Discord — as I check both pretty often. Okay, too often. I probably need an intervention...

Hey y'all! Uh, well, I don't use Discord but I can download it for the game. Still, I'm not so sure how much I would remember to check it. I mean, I can promise to do my best! But I feel like I should be honest. x)

Edit: To be clear, I'm up for it!

How many build points are we going to be using? If 4 players is the max, I'm assuming that 6/9/13?

Let's go with that! We can adjust down if need be.

Okay! Anyways, I just submitted my character. In case someone's curious or wants to avoid spending points on an ability potentially already covered, here is my spending:The only two things missing is the backstory - Which I'm not sure if I'm supposed to write it? I'd assume so but I prefer asking it just in case. And secondly: Aphelion, how are we going to spend Relationship? Should we create characters from our past like family members and hold on to remaining points, or maybe we should wait for the NPC cast to be eventually introduced?

I'll answer the sorting hat questionnaire as soon as my character is approved. I want to answer it using her avatar. x)

I don't have discord yet. I would personally prefer to keep everything on the forums but I could download discord. I'd probably check here more than I would there, though.

I'll create my character in a bit. I just need to get a bite of food first

I just got the Rulebook last night. It make take me a day or two to put together an official character. Looks like Lux and I would overlap a bit in classes...

Okay, I've spent my points as well now.I didn't do anything about Relationship because I'm not sure how we're going to handle this. Also, since this is my first time doing anything in a Gumshoe system, I hope I didn't make any major mistakes so far. I'll turn this into a character sheet and find a profile picture soon but I think I'll do the Sorting Hat quiz first

Whooops, I hadn't seen your post! Hmm, well, I will swap Ancient Runes with Muggle Studies. Tbh I wasn't really sure what to invest besides Potions & Charms, which are the classes I imagine Rafaella would be really interested in. x)

As for overlapping, there are only nine skills for the four of us who are probably picking two to four skills, so that's probably gonna happen no matter what we plan :/

Awn, we're gals!

I haven't spent yet, but def want DADA, divination, and transfiguration. I haven't gotte the rules yet, but this looks fun

Awn, we're not all gals anymore. :c

Probably a good thing. We need a token male. :D

Lux, your answers were hilarious. I'm going to like your character

I think the contrasting personalities are really, really fantastic. I'm super excited about everyone's characters thus far.

I'm working my way through the Bubblegumshoe book, and making some notes for myself for a little first year story, so in the mean time brush up on the rules a little, work on your characters and stand by! I'll get something going hopefully some time this week as I get a grasp on the system.

I'll write a full background probably tomorrow, possibly the day after. Should I post it somewhere here or send it to you privately when it's done?

I'll also read through the rules some more because right now, I'm still not sure about how everything works.

Awn, thanks! As Aphelion said, I also agree that our cast is contrastingly amazing, each characters with their own unique quirks.
The game is very easy. Keep in mind that, since we're using the HP hack that aphelion linked in the game description, some of the nomenclatures have changed. But the very chassis of the game is based on Trails of Cthulhu. For some context, ToC is based on Call of Cthullhu, and the main difference is that you don't have to roll to gain clues. As long as we have a point in the ability, we get the clue. We can also, sometimes, spend a point to gain extra information.

The only exception is for the General Abilities, who are rolled using a 1d6+ whatever bonus we want to spend. Meaning, if Rafa is playing Quidditch and wants to do something weird or hard, she will roll 1d6 + a quantity of Broomstick Flying points I want to designate. If my current pool of Broomstick Flying is 10 and I know the game is far from over, I will then decide that I only want to spend 2 points to roll a 1d6+2. That will leave my pool at 8 points. Difficulty tends to be anywhere from 2, which is something easy, to 8, which is something incredibly hard and almost impossible - I think. What I remember is that standard set difficulty tends to be 4. Assuming that your roll passes that number, you pass.

We can refresh any ability pool if we take a long pause - Eat a pizza, hang out, whatever.

The only thing I'd read is how Relationships scores work, and take notice on Cool, which is kinda your health. Oh, and Throwdown, which is the standard skill used for (social) combat.

Thanks for that explanation! That's really helpful

Hello! I don't have access to the main book for bubblegumshoe. Anyone have a character creation cheat sheet?