Out of Character

That's a lot of drama from Jabari given he still had 1 hit point, haha.

But seriously, when recording your hit points, leave the total box on your character sheet at your maximum. Many people use the notes section to keep a running total of hit point and ability damage.

Those are some incredibly inopportune attacks of opportunity, gang.

I am going to dial down my game activities, so I'll be leaving this game. I wish the rest of you a good time

A dungeon crawl is a particular challenge in PBP. It is slow and somewhat less conducive to actual roleplay. I've played up to nearly the end of the fourth book so far IRL and it's mostly this style of play.

There are opportunities for RP with NPCs, some of which are fairly important, but 90%+ of the adventures are exploring and combat.

There was a bit of discussion about this on the GP Discord. Would anyone be opposed to some of the following ground rules for making the dungeon crawl experience move a little more swiftly?

1. Enforce a time limit on deciding which way to go before the DM decides for us. Qralloq mentioned 2 days. To me that seems too long... I'd suggest one day, but he's the DM, so... :)

2. Assume that Sasha always takes 10 on trapfinding, and if necessary, Avaline can act as backup for finding/disabling (she's also trained in those).

3. Anyone can decide which way to go, and by default we all agree to follow without having to post agreement. If the DM knows there's something that requires a little more discussion, he can slow us down.

Good ideas, I am for all of them.

Dramasailor appears to be back and will take Bennekheb back from my clutches.

Indeed! Once I catch up on where we are and what her deal was, lol.

So what do you four want to do? I think one of you wants to exit stage left after this bit. So for the remaining three, did you want to recruit more players when you get back to town and keep going? Or pull the plug on dungeon crawling by pbp?

It was fun and thanks for running it, but I am more a fan of a mix of everything.

I’m going to bow out. I really appreciate you running it, but I’ve come to realize that extended dungeon crawls aren’t my thing in PBP. Thanks Q and everyone else! I’m sure I’ll see you around GP!

All right, thanks everyone. I don't think dungeon crawls will prove to hold interest very long. Thanks for trying this with me.

I'll shut this down in a few days, to make sure that drama and gene see this.

Thanks for the shot Qralloq! Definitely an adventure that seems like it'd be more "interesting" as a live game where the tension of the crawl can be felt. Hard to feel the intensity when a few minutes searching is spread over multiple weeks/months.

Thanx for the run. If you get going again. Let me know.