General Discussion

Windyridge and crazybirdman,

Don't forget to roll 1d54 for me when you get an opportunity.

Sorry, I'm making a last minute change to char gen. I'm revising the rules for starting gear, as I feel that they are slightly too restrictive. While your characters are supposed to be poor and under-equipped, I think it's a little too hard to get certain items.

For Gear, your characters now get to begin with six items of choice, instead of three. These items may be of the Common and/or Uncommon varieties. For a Hindrance point, you may select a Scarce item in addition to the six starting ones.

You may use the Gear chapter in the SWADE core book to select equipment, as well. If you chose something from SWADE, just run it by me first. Obviously, the item should be something that exists in Holler and makes sense for the time period.

I'll revise my gear selection

rollin'

Added some more gear from the Holler book, nothing fancy

Adventure card rollin'

I've heard a lot about these adventure cards from forums etc. not wanted to part with my money. but they seem a cool add-on. I take if you get a "bad" one you simply chose to not use it? did u get these just from the normal SWADE website? and are they just like a deck of cards? same size etc and you hand them to ppl at the table?

Yes, it's a physical deck. It's roughly the same size and number of cards as an Action Deck/playing card deck. You can also buy it as a PDF, which is where I got the images. You can purchase a deck from Pinnacle's website or from DrivethruRPG. Some settings even have their own Adventure Decks tailored to the setting, though Holler doesn't have that yet, so I'm using the generic deck.

I've used the Adventure Deck in my face to face games, and it was always a blast. I've never used it in a pbp game, however, so this'll be a little experimental. Because play-by-post moves slowly, I don't foresee adventure cards getting played too often, and there may be whole chapters where no one feels the need to play one.

If you draw a card with a "negative" consequence, you can simply choose to not play it and discard it at the end of the chapter. There are no cards with purely negative effects, though. They either have beneficial effects, or a mix of the two.

Just a heads up, I’ll be making the first post for the game either tomorrow or Tuesday. I’ve already checked over the characters and messaged people if I had questions or comments.

The first session is going to begin in a small town in the Great Craggy Mountains area. This may be your character’s hometown, or it could just be a place that you’re passing through. Either works.

Crazybirdman has informed me that he’s on a trip and will be joining the first session a little late.

Is everyone here experienced in SWADE? I know some of you are. Just trying to gauge if I should be explaining rules as I go.

I have experience with it, yes.

I've played a great deal of SWADE.

Quite fluent in SWADE too, thanks.

yeah quite well versed with it too, thanks.

I am also experience in SWADE

Okay good. Seems like all of you have experience with the system so I don’t need to bother with explaining rules as we go.

I added a list of Appalachian vocabulary to the Dialect thread.

Sorry for the delay, everybody. I got held up with work this last week and the first post took me longer to compose than I thought it would. The game is now live.