OOC Chat

Just a channel for us to talk out of character.

This is a short light-hearted adventure that I drafted up which happens to be friendly for kids. If there are aspects that you would like to see let me know, and I'll see if I can add them in.

For example, there is little to no combat in the original design, but that can be added. I can keep it more family friendly, or I can increase the horror and add adult themes. Just let me know what you like best.

I think I'd most enjoy playing the kind of game that you most enjoy running.

AND personally I most enjoy gritty games that are all about PC's feelings.

AND I'm excited to play something very different from that.

Thanks for the invite! Excited to play :)

I'm doing work travel (from Europe to USA) all week - hope I have time to post, but might be slow or silent. Although hope I can at least post a sentence or two as needed. Just wanted to give a heads up.

This ranks up there in some of my most favorite sentences that I've seen in a pbp game.
I think it's a great name.

I am happy to be of service. XD

Hey everyone - I'm f4eling unwell and can't concentrate on the posts here stm. Happy for you to deal with Bay anyway you like - act for her, sideline her, whatever works best for you. Sorry. Hope to be back again soon.a

I hope you feel well soon!

Typically when this happens I have the character fade into the background unless something critical happens.

However, I’m always open to different suggestions.

Thank you @SpiritualSocket - fading into the background sounds good :)

So it's covid, realise I had it all the way through Europe<->USA work trip - no wonder I was feeling miserable heh.

Back home in Germany now, and symptoms improving - so going to check out The Story So Far and see if I've got brain space to make a post.

Feel free to post questions about what’s happened. I know it can be a lot to go back a read stuff, and I don’t mind helping you get up to speed.

Thank you! I've read through all the posts now.

One question/advice probably about GP/PbP in general - I'm finding it hard to keep the different PCs (including Bay!) seperate in my head. I guess when I play in-person/online-with-voice, then the different voices help cue me into the different personalities/characters, and I'm struggling without that. Any tips on keeping this straight in my head?

My guess is I need to make a really simple character keeper for each PC - that records the stuff I find myself remembering about them. But, yeah, wondering if that is a common challenge people find with PbP and if so, whether there are any common ways people work with it?

Great question. - Some of what you’re experiencing may be how I’m GMing the game. I tend nudge things forward quickly which doesn’t always allow the PCs’ personalities to shine through, and there hasn’t been a lot of opportunities for each PC to show off their uniqueness. This is also a classless RPG which doesn’t help differentiate each character.

I personally try to think of PCs in Mausritter in terms of the items they carry. Bay stands out to me because of his trident. Sky uses a sword and has loaded dice. And Hazel uses a bow.

One thing we can do as a group is to commit to everyone using a specific color for their dialogue. Sky has been using green. Bay could stick with Red. Then Hazel could pick whatever @soises prefers.

If you like, I can add the PCs profiles and pictures to the reference subforum.

I can also do the same for notable NPCs.

Thank you for your thoughts and feedback! I'm not feeling rushed through, and do feel I'm experiencing a solid amount of each PC personality - it's just that I struggle to keep personality, avatar, background kinda all clustered together in my head. Your describing of tracking them by what they're carrying already helps! Thanks for that. And yes, I'll use red for Bay's speaking.

I'll see how I get on now I'm back, and if I keep struggling I might come back to you about this.

Also - thanks so much for running this with us! Never considered playing Mausritter even though I'd heard of it, and am loving the change of style and pace compared to what I usually play - and it feels really good to be led through it by someone who clearly knows the game and system well!

Oh, also - @soises, if you were OK making your character sheet public, so @Adrasthea and I can also see what's in it, that might help me keep track of what's going on a bit better.

And, @Adrasthea, if you could add Sky's "Background" at the top of her sheet, I thought that might also help a bit with the keeping-track stuff.

np of course if you prefer keeping your sheets as they are :)

by now my sheet should be public. I choose the colour black for speaking with Hazel. :)

Thank you for making it public, @Soises! You might like to edit the "Background" field - I think Hazel was a member of a raft crew?

I tried out colouring text as either black or white - black doesn't work with the night theme of the site, white doesn't work with the day/light theme - @SpiritualSocket do you know if there is a way to specify a highlighter/background colour so that these two colours also work in both light-themes of the site?

Or is there something else I can do as a user to make those text colours readable all the time?

Testing black text

Testing white text

@BeardHare Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to make those readable in both themes. You can highlight like this:

Testing black text

Testing white text

Ah, that works perfectly for me, @SpiritualSocket!

@soises, if you were to post Hazel's black text by also adding a formatting tag to set the background colour to white, then it would, for me at least, show up in whichever theme you were using.

i.e. like this (just quoting this from @SpiritualSocket)

Testing black text

Maybe even using something like

Testing black text

so it also highlighted in both themes?

Here's an image of the markup I used here: