Go Badgers! (OOC Area)

I dunno, bro, your OOC speech definitely passes my speech check. If you're really concerned about your writing, try focusing this into it. When I'm writing Abigail, I tend to slip into her mindset. What is she thinking? What is she feeling? What is her intent? You can express all of this through descriptive writing.

Why don't you try it? Right here. No better place to practice, if our glorious leader doesn't mind a little chatter.

I’ve done PbP since about 2013. If any of y’all have spent time on other PbP sites, including the one I think this game might have initiated from, we’ve probably crossed paths. Being a working stiff without a lot of time or gumption for all-niters anymore, this is a good format for me.

I may have mentioned this, but I've technically been roleplaying since 2017, but fast-paced freeform. 3-4 paragraphs fired off every 10-15 minutes, and only ending after a scene is closed or the participants refire because exhaustion caught up with them. I crave the heat of momentum, and dislike the long waiting times between forum responses.

You and I are like-minded. I’d rather engage a single game, with lively posting, than having to do what I and others sometimes otherwise do, which is a veritable small-stable of games to stay entertained in a few while others stall.

I've definitely noticed this. I can usually post every day, so I end up with multiple games and hope that at least one has something for me to respond to. Kind of the way it works. Unfortunately I've lost 3 games in the last week, one of my favorites among them. But this one is off to a great start, so hoping.

@Aisede that sounds cool, but I don't have the time or talent to pull off rabid posting like that. I write a lot of emails for work, so my business writing is pretty good, but my RPG writing is more challenging. I never play druid, so this should be interesting :)

All my pbp experience came from Naruto RP back in the height of the proboards era until recently with mostly RPGx and mythweavers, this one is brand new to me, but I've been playing dnd since 3.5 and pathfinder since release in person. Posts every 10-15 minutes seems a bit extreme for my tastes, but I like to think I can do relatively detailed posts in short spans of time, of course limited by the speed of the gameplay. I'd like a diverse breadth of games to play a multitude of characters ideally, but practically, 3 is probably max lol. Though I'm getting ready to run a fallout one of my own soon.

In my experience Pbp can be very very slow. A simple interaction in a tavern can take a days, Combats can go on for a week or more and single uncomplicated dungeon crawl months. Don’t get your hopes too high with lightning fast posts.

On RPGX I could expect multiple posts a day. In my Solo Campaign (an introductory campaign) I could at least expect a post+ every day. That's about what I expected, until we migrated here.

The roleplay culture I was raised in promoted fast responses, like what I described. But my roleplay experiences have also near-exclusively been one-on-one, where the only person I need to wait on is the DM. I've never really liked large groups all that much, and just barely tolerate my fellow human beings unless there's some mutual benefit involved. Probably one reason I never proactively sought tabletop games. Even when I did find something tabletop-adjacent, it was... Well, extremely fast-paced; a designated DM would post a "bounty" in one channel (this was on Discord btw) and up to 4 people would join and embark on a... Hmm... "Session" that would typically last around 1-2 hours straight. During that entire time, the party would post in a predetermined order, usually spaced 10+ minutes apart, and the custom system the fossil of a moderator made allowed for fast-paced fluid combat. It was all very exciting, and the DM's were all extremely competent and talented.

Only problem was that just about every single one of them was an amoral elitist that would axe your a** if you displayed anything less than impeccable grammar. People went to the chopping block just about every other day, and new players showed up just as frequently. Call it a high turning rate.

The server went extinct after the mods/DM's all turned on each other, and the server owner antagonized their strongest supporter, lol. I think Dipper might find such a story entertaining.

. . . Anyways, just wanted to share that here. I've never had much by way of patience, and find the wait to be borderline agonizing. But I'm also on the autism spectrum, and I have a bona fide anxiety disorder, so that may just be me.

Highly depends on the campaign. I'm in a campaign that started from level 1 and we just hit level 19 in under a year (about 11 months so far). Another game I'm in took 6 months to go through 2 levels. And all of that is if you're even lucky enough to get into a game, and then lucky enough to finish the game.

Is there something notable about Alestair's necklace? And if so, what kind of check would you need to identify it?

Ah, sorry, I thought Raven was an elf for some reason

No worries.

Is it okay for us to make micro posts? Abigail would be quick to note Raven's apparent isolation and motion him over, being the only other magic-user. (And because he's alone)

I don't see anything wrong with micro posts. I like to see activity on the thread. The only issue with that though is that if someone is only able to look at the thread once a day...there might be a lot of catch up for them. Or. maybe they are in a time zone in europe for instance and may not be able to interacte with your posts right away or post at odd hours (for you).

As far as Aleisters necklace goes, other than being unusual there is no real signifcance attached to it... make sure to use the ingame thread for ingame stuff, observations keeps everything tidy :)

Follow The Rule of Three.

For those unfamiliar with it:
The Rule of Three - This is an etiquette thing that we have in my old PbP home that I should not have assumed was universal. Basically, after you post, you should wait for at least three other people to post before you post again. The point of this is to deliberately slow things down so that people don't feel like they're being left behind or have an entire novel to catch up on reading before they post. The advertised posting rate here was 3 posts per week, and I think some people may have joined with that speed very much in the forefront of their minds. Which, speaking of...

What 3/week Means from a DM Standpoint - If YOU want to post more often than the standard three times a week, you are welcome to, so long as you follow the Rule of Three as stated above. But I will NEVER* post more often than that, and it is not appropriate for anyone to consider my lack of response before my next posting day to mean anything concerning NPCs ignoring you or passively letting you get away with stuff. If your post demands a response from me, then don't post again until I do, it's that simple. And as a reminder, I post on Monday, Thursday and Saturday.

*Except, of course, on the rare instances when I do, because I'm complicated and I contain multitudes. But no one should ever expect it.

Sounds like good guidance. Thanks for the clarification. I definitely at times find myself holding off on posts waiting for other players to get a chance to join in.

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Didn't get any response earlier, but I'm gonna assume if the necklace portrays anything magical, you'd need an arcana check to identify its significance

Or religion ;)