[OOC] Wrapped up in books

May 23, 2022 11:34 pm
The beginning of this game will be an attempt to escape from the Sarapesh Private Library.

At the outset, expectations: we will behave with due consideration for everything that we do and don't know about each other, always in the mind that how we affect others matters.

I personally don't like graphic descriptions of violence (what I'll refer to as my "no bloodspatter" rule). Additionally, "no sparkles" please. Whatever murder or romance your characters do, let's allude to rather than explicitly describe.

Now: everyone please pick one character from the set of seven, first caller first getter.
May 24, 2022 1:27 am
Character sheet example (The Thief)
tibbius sent a note to Harrigan
Viewable Thief
OOC:
if anyone takes the Thief, copy these two links into your custom Character Sheet? Make the editable one a Note to yourself.
May 24, 2022 1:30 am
The warrior priest for me, please!
May 24, 2022 2:04 am
Qralloq says:
The warrior priest for me, please!
tibbius sent a note to Qralloq
View Qralloq's Cleric <- Qralloq, please copy this into your Character Sheet that you submit, as a public thing
May 24, 2022 2:07 am
I'll be an elf!
May 24, 2022 2:08 am
Rolling for stats: 2,3,1,1,3,-2
Last edited May 24, 2022 2:15 am

Rolls

Attributes - (2d10, 2d10, 2d10, 2d10, 2d10, 2d10)

2d10 : (69) = 15

2d10 : (107) = 17

2d10 : (67) = 13

2d10 : (66) = 12

2d10 : (610) = 16

2d10 : (21) = 3

STARTING COIN: 1d10 gp, 1d12 sp - (1d10, 1d12)

1d10 : (4) = 4

1d12 : (8) = 8

May 24, 2022 2:11 am
Windyridge says:
I'll be an elf!
tibbius sent a note to Windyridge
View Windyridge's Elf <- Windyridge, please copy this publicly to the sheet you submit
May 24, 2022 2:58 pm
Attribute Bonuses = 0,2,2,1,2,3
SP - 7
Last edited May 24, 2022 3:05 pm

Rolls

Attributes - (2d10, 2d10, 2d10, 2d10, 2d10, 2d10)

2d10 : (74) = 11

2d10 : (104) = 14

2d10 : (104) = 14

2d10 : (93) = 12

2d10 : (104) = 14

2d10 : (89) = 17

Elf Starting coin SP - (1d10)

(7) = 7

May 24, 2022 3:16 pm
I've begun creating a sheet, but won't finish it until this evening.
May 24, 2022 3:37 pm
Qralloq says:
I've begun creating a sheet, but won't finish it until this evening.
no rush! I'm hoping we'll be at this for a while.
May 24, 2022 5:08 pm
Just messing around
up the stacksup the stacksup the stacks
open spacehttps://i.imgur.com/knM7VY0.pngCatwalkhttps://i.imgur.com/5W7ouA5.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/dQSAjNA.pngopen space
down,down,down,

More messing around
Viewable Map <- disregard the "fighter" token, that's a placeholder for whoever @Harrigan wants to play ...
May 24, 2022 5:29 pm
I have my character concept done but I think I'd like to reveal her in game if that's ok. So she will keep that in her quiver until then if it suits everyone.
May 24, 2022 5:33 pm
Windyridge says:
I have my character concept done but I think I'd like to reveal her in game if that's ok. So she will keep that in her quiver until then if it suits everyone.
good - she is an elf, right?
May 24, 2022 6:14 pm
Turn Tracker
tibbius sent a note to Harrigan,Windyridge,Qralloq
Viewable Turn Tracker
I might make this a GM Character ...
May 24, 2022 10:14 pm
Hoping to get going on a character tonight, btw! Busy times at work.
May 25, 2022 1:22 am
Submitted Brindell Po, Templar of the streets.
May 25, 2022 1:28 am
Qralloq says:
Submitted Brindell Po, Templar of the streets.
Looking good! - just reminder about the hacked combat rules, his AC should be +2 rather than 12.

Question what does Brindell Po worship / serve?
May 25, 2022 2:02 am
Submitted Merith Quilana, Seeker of Knowledge
May 25, 2022 2:05 am
Windyridge says:
Submitted Merith Quilana, Seeker of Knowledge
Also looking good! again, a reminder about the hacked armor class: no armor = +0 rather than 8.
May 25, 2022 4:33 am
Going Thief.

Rolling some bones, resulting in:

Brawn 0
Cunning 0
Daring +3
Commitment +1
Charm +3
Awareness +1

Silver Coins: 18
Last edited May 25, 2022 4:36 am

Rolls

Brawn - (2d10)

(65) = 11

Cunning - (2d10)

(27) = 9

Daring - (2d10)

(107) = 17

Commitment - (2d10)

(210) = 12

Charm - (2d10)

(89) = 17

Awareness - (2d10)

(67) = 13

Silver Coins - (2d12)

(126) = 18

May 25, 2022 4:42 am
So what's the sheet creation process from here? I remember seeing that Q had created a GP sheet, but it looks like there's also a form-fillable PPT or something?
May 25, 2022 10:33 am
Harrigan says:
So what's the sheet creation process from here? I remember seeing that Q had created a GP sheet, but it looks like there's also a form-fillable PPT or something?
Qralloq's sheet is nice*. If you want to use the Google Drawings sheet, here are links:
tibbius sent a note to Harrigan
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/e/2PACX-1vQziTXBrshcfWNVFV6SW_fRW2Z-P_b2WEdY3jnBMZfDUvLxTmrZSfGXBApD23mM1VWYtjuZS0T29J_P/pub?w=960&h=1632

*note that I hacked the combat rules, as mentioned in Game Details. So for AC it's 0 - 1 - 2 - 4 - 6, rather than 8 - 10 -12 - 14 - 16.
May 25, 2022 10:35 am
Time for IC posting!! :grin:
May 26, 2022 4:43 am
Sorry, where is Qralloq's sheet?
May 26, 2022 10:59 am
Harrigan says:
Sorry, where is Qralloq's sheet?
from the recruitment thread:
Qralloq says:
I set up a character sheet. We can mess with it, and get your feedback before we make it an official template.
[ +- ] Old School Hack
May 27, 2022 6:03 am
Ah, thanks. I have to apologize -- work was relenting a little as I signed up for this game, but things have taken a sharp turn for the incredible busy. Hoping the weekend is okay to finish my PC? If not, start without me. I can step back if need be.
May 27, 2022 11:01 am
I don't mind waiting.
May 27, 2022 12:08 pm
You bet. My free time has vanished for the second half of this week too.
May 27, 2022 6:49 pm
no worries! This is play by post ... it's not like we're all fidgeting around a table, checking our phones as we wait on you.
May 27, 2022 7:20 pm
Some of us might be (I'm not talking about me either). Hahaha. S'all good in the hood. I just wanted to get my requested roll in.
May 29, 2022 4:43 pm
Alright, sorry again for the delay. Just submitted Ernesto the Sly, and there are some really neat bits to this system, which I've never even -heard- of before. It's not new, either!
May 29, 2022 4:44 pm
Will catch up and post IC today if given the a-ok on Ernesto. Let me know if anything needs to change on his sheet.
May 29, 2022 5:20 pm
Bem-vindo, Harrigan e Ernesto! I don't see anything needs to be changed.
May 29, 2022 5:24 pm
Harrigan says:
Alright, sorry again for the delay. Just submitted Ernesto the Sly, and there are some really neat bits to this system, which I've never even -heard- of before. It's not new, either!
I can't help feeling that Old School Hack, released in 2009, may have inspired the "playbooks" of Apocalypse World, released in 2010.
May 29, 2022 11:11 pm
It has a ton of stuff in it, and on those sheets, that looks kind of like -- "hey, cool" in in 2022.

But in 2011, which is the V1.1 that I have... even the *layout* is progressive. It's good stuff. We'll see how it plays, though. ;)

(2009 is when it was first published?)
May 30, 2022 1:01 am
Harrigan says:
It has a ton of stuff in it, and on those sheets, that looks kind of like -- "hey, cool" in in 2022.

But in 2011, which is the V1.1 that I have... even the *layout* is progressive. It's good stuff. We'll see how it plays, though. ;)

(2009 is when it was first published?)
Around about then. I played it right when it was released. I can't remember how I set it up, but I had an RSS feed back then for a "simple DnD" Google search, and it popped on that.

Edit to add: Remember, I hacked the combat to run faster in play by post (no whiffs) - so it won't really be O.G. flavor.
May 30, 2022 2:02 am
Did you hack anything else other than the AC and opposed rolls / simultaneous damage? I'm an enormous fan of that in or out of PbP these days. See: Warlock!, Rangers of the Midden Vale, Troika!

Posting IC now.
May 30, 2022 12:01 pm
The entire hack is in the Game Details. I made the Face Die cause double damage vs +1. Thinking about that more, I feel like maybe it should go back to +1. There's something to be said for the idea that Armor of Scars would make a stalwart fighter immune to be aced by even the heaviest of weapons swung in the most effective manner.
May 31, 2022 12:08 pm
What is a play-by-post "game session?"

Tabletop, most adventures are meant to be wrapped up in a solid session of play. GMs do various pacing tricks to try and pull that off. Sometimes it doesn't work and an adventure spans multiple sessions. When that happens, "per session" abilities renew the next time the group meets.

Here, on-line, we're in a superposition of "meeting" and "not meeting" so that we need a different definition.

Thoughts?

Edit to add: This may be helpful: https://gamersplane.com/forums/thread/25583
May 31, 2022 12:18 pm
I think the session end should be a natural point in the game in the same way a chapter in a book ends. The time between chapters doesn't need to be consistent, it should simply make sense in the narrative and there can be multiple sessions in a PBP game.

So a session is a chapter in the story. That's my thinking anyway.
Last edited May 31, 2022 12:20 pm
May 31, 2022 1:23 pm
I think number of encounters is the way to go. Three encounters of a type and difficulty that players might use per session resources is probably a good starting point.
May 31, 2022 3:28 pm
Qralloq says:
I think number of encounters is the way to go. Three encounters of a type and difficulty that players might use per session resources is probably a good starting point.
Windyridge says:
I think the session end should be a natural point in the game in the same way a chapter in a book ends. The time between chapters doesn't need to be consistent, it should simply make sense in the narrative and there can be multiple sessions in a PBP game.

So a session is a chapter in the story. That's my thinking anyway.
I think I agree with both these ideas - they seem compatible.

@Harrigan?
Jun 1, 2022 6:19 am
I've actually always played fast and loose with this kind of thing as the GM. I think it's pretty difficult to base it on scenes, encounters, in-game time... and instead I usually go with what feels right. Kind of like the chapters Windy is talking about. For a caper like this one, it probably makes the most sense to just use the thing once, perhaps twice if there's a second act where we're escaping, etc.

In short, just tell me when it refreshes. :)
Jun 1, 2022 6:20 am
Oh, and do I roll first, or not?
Last edited June 1, 2022 6:20 am
Jun 1, 2022 12:40 pm
Harrigan says:
Oh, and do I roll first, or not?
We all seem to be in same place on going "per episode" with this, and I like that!

I am really, really on the fence about your current question. To misquote a master, "There is only roll or roll not, there is no takesybacks."
Jun 2, 2022 3:50 pm
Harrigan says:
Oh, and do I roll first, or not?
Please choose whether Opportunity Knocks, and if not, please roll.
Jun 2, 2022 5:28 pm
Roger that.
Jun 29, 2022 12:11 am
One of my favorite pieces of GM guidance ever:
Jason Tocci, 2400 Emergency Rules says:
Present problems without solutions. Don’t worry about "balance" or even whether a problem can be solved. Let the players surprise you.
Jun 29, 2022 1:55 am
Excellent advice for sure.
Jun 29, 2022 2:17 am
"If I'm the smartest person in the room, I'm in the wrong room."
Jun 29, 2022 8:54 pm
That is also something I repeat often.

What's the game plan with this game? I'm not really sure what's going on, or what we're trying to do, or who I am. It's kind of random and difficult to really picture what we want to do going forward.
Jun 29, 2022 9:14 pm
Qralloq says:
That is also something I repeat often.

What's the game plan with this game? I'm not really sure what's going on, or what we're trying to do, or who I am. It's kind of random and difficult to really picture what we want to do going forward.
This is a problem with starting in the action. Hopefully my latest post begins to fill this in. Please feel free to ask questions here and I will supply more stuff your characters would know. This is a very low-prep game, I am making a lot up as we go and trying to be consistent. But I do have the bones of scenario in my head.

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