On the Road (OOC)

Out of character chatter about On the Road can go here to avoid cluttering up the Roleplay thread.This is for longer questions and answers related to that Roleplay, general rules questions can go in Help! or in General.

Add a link back to the post in question so we can have context. After posting you can right-click on the orange header and select 'copy link address' (or whatever your browser calls it), then paste that in your OOC post.

First person (I, me) text can become very hard to read, especially if there are more than one person saying 'I'. See Help! - Viewpoint and Tense.

In our first post, there is also no mention of who is even 'speaking' (a pitfall of first person). Consider rewriting this as 'Growing up as the son of the town's blacksmith has given Leiland a strong body...' to alleviate these Play by Post problems.

You can also post as the character so we see them on the side and see their portrait to remind us of who they are. This also allows us to click on the portrait to see the character.
For this to work the character needs a name entered in the 'Character Name' box on the sheet as well the name you gave them when you created the character, these names need not be the same. Meht does not appear to have this done, so they can not be posted as (they also don't have anything in their sheet at all, theatreofcomets let me know if you need help making the character sheet, or copy from one of the other players if you can see them).

You can go back and edit a post and change the character posted as, this does not change anything, just neatens things up.

Got it! Will be posting in third person

Cool, you can edit the existing post or leave and do the rest in 3D.

PbP can be janky when it comes to timing.
We don't need to assume that events posted earlier happened first.
As an illustration, we could easily say that Meht arrived before Rook and Leiland and they see him standing there looking lost, or we can decide that they didn't/don't and that they meet up later (we can decide when here in the OOC), or that Meht knew one of you already.

Obviously don't contradict what an earlier post said, but feel free to post something that came before where it makes sense. You can always add the text 'Earlier...' or 'right before that...' to the new post to make it clear, or we can work out the timing in OOC.

Yeah I've twice filled out the same character sheet and saved it, and been able to go back to it, but then later it's empty again. I must be doing something wrong, but not sure what.

Would Meht go to the bar? He seems like he might not want to be around people, but I could see them end up talking there. Or does he have an animal companion? That could be a point of connection as well. Or possibly, they could just be guards who happen to be near each other on the trip and get to talking.

You will definitely meet on the trip. The question is how much time you guys want to spend before setting off and whether you want to do that together. I am happy to run you separately (easier on PbP than live), but that can also take a lot of time.

Let me know where you each want to go and what you want to do in town, and when you want to have the caravan leave (your characters know he departure time).

Have you made any other characters on this site?
Can you try just adding a name to the Character Name field and then saving to see if that sticks?

Have recreated Meht in a new character sheet, and submitted to this game. Will see if that makes a difference!

Approved and this one appears to have something to say. I guess you removed the taciturn trait? :)

To add, could Meht be a hunter? Bringing fresh game to the town market? Lots of ideas to jump on once established.

Sorry Meht is awkward around people! But yes he does have a pet stoat and has just pulled him out in the RP thread. :)

Should we think about a color to write character name in? Maybe blue or green since red seems to be for Player names?

Blue is very hard to read on the dark theme. Red is very jarring.
Bold is probably the best all round for both users and characters. Bold is also easier than colors since it is just a ctrl-b away.

What might underlining be good for then? Since bold also contains spoken words and italics are inner thoughts.

Bold and Italic are for emphasis, we don't need more than that, and they are optional.
Too much formatting and things get confusing. Formatting should not be used as a substitute for clear writing or for punctuation. I see some people leave the quote marks off their speech when they bold it, this gets confusing and some devices (e-ink) don't show the formatting at all so everything is lost.
Clear writing should not require any highlighting, so leaving it off (handy on a mobile) is better than using too much formatting.

Gotcha

theatreofcomets: I really like how you are bringing across Meht's focus on using his Intelligence to manage his social skills in your post.

I'm ready to set out whenever everybody else is