[OOC] Wrapped up in books

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

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 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.

I think I agree with both these ideas - they seem compatible.

@Harrigan?

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. :)

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."

Please choose whether Opportunity Knocks, and if not, please roll.

Roger that.

One of my favorite pieces of GM guidance ever:

Excellent advice for sure.

"If I'm the smartest person in the room, I'm in the wrong room."

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.