Welcome! And questions?

What do.you think GM?

I just took a quick glance through all the characters, and I think you're a well set group with a good distribution of skills. A couple of you have two 2 point classes and then a sprinkling of 1s, and a couple of you have one 2 point class and then more 1s.

Again, haven't run a game in the system yet so I can't say definitively if I'd do things different, but it makes sense, and you can absolutely earn more build points as our game progresses. Here's what the book has to say:

EXPERIENCE POINTS
You get 2-3 build points at the end of each adventure. You can use these points to:
○○ Add points to any of your current ability ratings.
○○ Add a new ability, ideally one you can explain having acquired in play ("I’ve been taking auto shop this semester, so I’m putting my points into getting Repair").
○○ Add a new ability to a Relationship character: this costs 2 build points per ability. These points do not add to the Relationship rating. Any player with a Relationship with that NPC can add an ability, or two players can each spend 1 build point to add a new ability.

You can save build points for later: build points gained in experience can go in any "bucket" including Relationships (new or existing). Usually an adventure has also given you a smattering of free Relationships (mostly Likes).

Awesome

I wanna staaaaaart 😤

SO odd request/idea....is it possible to have a section/forum for character's private narration or diaries? Or for non plot scenes where our characters can interact? I don't know if we will have any overlapping houses but I was thinking like spaces for the common rooms, etc.
(Sorry, I'm some characters speak to me more than others, and Bex has a lot to say) :P

That sounds like a fun idea. It would be great to have a "hub" where non-important scenes can take place. Common rooms probably won't be possible if we're different houses. Does Hogwarts have a cafeteria?

Just the great hall I think, but we have had scenes of them hanging out in the equivalent to the Quad, and when we are older there is Hogsmeade.

You're all wild nerds and I love it. I'm definitely down to making this happen. I have a character in a Mage: The Awakening on Gamersplane who likes to sneak off on his own and get up to shenanigans, the GM created a private section of the game for just him and I.

I want this to be a game that focuses on the slice of life stuff, obviously, and downtime stuff will help me take extra time for planning. At the same time everything's going to be happening in a chronological order. To get into some next level nerd stuff, I used to play in a Star Trek play-by-email game, and in between missions we'd have "shore leave" where the characters could do whatever they wanted. I'm going to structure the game in "chapters" where story missions happen. So for instance the first chapter will be the Hogwarts Express and the Sorting, the second chapter will be the start of classes, etc. Each of the chapters will have a specific mystery for the characters to unravel.

In between I'm totally happy for characters to pick a location or event and play them out as part of more open-ended, character-driven downtime. I also want to participate myself as NPCs!

This reminds me of another point I wanted to bring up. Since we're keeping discussion on the forums, I'm going to start another thread for out of character questions about the system and rules when you have questions for your All-Knowing-GM(TM).

I'm feeling pretty confident in the system, so I'm just working a rough outline of plot points. Hoping I'll get the first post up in the next few days!

I love the idea.

Non-plot scenes wouldn't have to be with all of the PCs, either. If someone wanted to play out a scene for their own character development, I'd be happy to help out and play NPCs or some such, if our illustrious GM would be okay with that.

Hurray. Looking forward to this!

This game sounds so exciting! I can't wait to finally start playing

Hey, nothing really to add but I just wanted to say how amazing that downtime-thingie sounds. 😁

Okay! I'm going to to work on getting a first post up some time later this evening, so look out for it! Let's do this, magical nerds!

*sniffle* That might be the nicest thing anyone's called me all week! *sniffle* ;)

"Magical Nerds" I like.

Oh good, I was hoping "this evening" meant "evening somewhere east of me"!

Just clarifying, we are only supposed to interact in the order assigned to the scene, right?

Yes! At least if I understood it correctly.

uhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm so I swear I was under the impression that the boy was called Monty and his cat Montague. Raffa should just have heard that "it's only me and Monty in here" from the boy, right? Hmmm, well... Oh, I know! She obviously wasn't paying a lot of attention and just assumed that the name that she heard was the boy's. 😁. I think it even fits within the context!

Oh, yeah, absolutely. As fast as I'm guessing Raffa's talking, it makes total sense for her to have mixed it up just a bit!