Out of Character General Chat

Just a heads up that I'll be traveling internationally for the next few weeks. I should be able to get online, but it may take a few days to iron out the kinks. Sorry for any delay. Please feel free to have Makasi act as appropriate.

Holy moly!!!

2nd nat 20 in a row. Gamersplane is showing favoritism hahaha

I just attended a Blòt and made sacrifice for my birthday its been like this in all my games. The Gods love me

Heads up, Ylliane is up. deadline for a post is tomorrow 5pm est

FYI -- I'm flying home today, a process that will take more than 24 hours with layovers and everything. I may not be able to post for a couple of days. Please feel free to have me act as appropriate in my absence.

Waiting on anyone else to say something to the gnome

Been slammed by rl. I will post tonight

Question for you all. I like to do dungeon crawls, but PbPs may not be the best place for them. I wanted to see what you all thought...

I'm neutral on them, hence my vote. I've seen some games abstract dungeon crawling via a few rolls (some version of Orientation or Architecture of whatever's appropriate). But a traditional dungeon crawl is fine, maybe with some ground rules like, "assume we always hug the left wall;" assume we always look for traps, assume we always listen at closed doors; assume we always go in XYZ order, or some such?

How is everyone doing? Since my last post I've only seen Jomsviking say anything.

Sorry! I somehow missed the call to action. Makasi's got it covered.

Is the dungeon crawl making things awkward to post? If so, I can skip some of it to speed things up, help us get out faster, and focus less on dungeons and more on situations

More on situations is best I think. If there is an encounter lets hit it. The crawl part is the worst part of adungeon in PbP I think

If anyone seconds that then I'll simplify this. Either way, what do you guys do about the trap on the floor to the other section?

Yeah, I think encounter-based play is just easier to run in PbP. Nothing against the venerable dungeon crawl, but it's hard to do in a delayed format like this. I've noticed a lot of games abstracting the dungeon crawl. For instance, maybe we make a check with relevant background to navigate to the next encounter, and the results dictate whether we do so quickly or slowly (and thus lose resources like torches, etc.)

Whether "Trained assassin" makes you good with traps is up to you. Backgrounds should be narrow enough that it makes sense when they aren't applicable, but also broad enough that you get to use it a few times per session. If you want to say "As part of my assassinations, I had to disable alarms and other things to not get caught", that could make you ok with traps.

Going to give @Falconloft the chance to comment on the foul smell and sounds in character before I proceed. From what I'm hearing, Makasi and Edgar are good to go in, even if it is gross, and Hrafe is questioning if they should.

What is the party plan? I don't want to automatically make a fight happen in case someone has an idea, but it looks like these creatures are aggressive.