OOC Thread

Yup, good (and eager) to go! :-)

Same here!

Okay, that's everybody! I'll post a recap tonight and we'll get the show back on the road over the next 24 hours. Thanks for your understanding and indulging me in this long break; I had a fantastic holiday. I feel super refreshed and hungry to play D&D!

I wanted to clear something up. No one was around when Kit stepped through the portal from his book. It was posted in the main feed, but that's player knowledge. All the characters know is that Kit is not around. It probably hasn't been long enough to call him missing. His gear is there, which isn't necessarily unusual, but he typically keeps his uncle's grimoire near to him.

Ok. I was thinking that Pageflap may be having suspicions about what happened to Kit, but if it hasn't been that long yet then he hasn't formed them yet. I'll edit my post

He'll probably hold on to the book until he sees Kit again, though.

Even though Pageflap didn't see Kit disappear, he helped Kit with working out some of the translation based on the similarities between some of the passages and the tentacled creatures below the town. It would totally make sense that he has an idea of what might have happened.

I feel like in this scene Torden is being perfectly lovely and welcoming to everyone, but Barendd is generally quite mistrustful of people who seem to be making some type of connection that's beyond a transnational nature such a shop owner or Inn Keeper. Everyone else in the party has earned Barendd's trust and friendship in some capacity up to this point. Torden just has the bad luck of meeting Barendd when some weird shit is going down so his defenses are up. Plus Torden being a cleric and a dwarf reminds Barendd of his childhood where a majority of the dwarven community left him behind.

I feel like once Torden and the party successfully fight some stuff Barendd's trust will be earned. Is this being too difficult or does this seem appropriate give Barendd's backstory?

Makes sense Starrbeardo. Not to speak for him, but Jabes is an old hand at this. I'm sure he knows this is all part of your RP. That said, it doesn't hurt to be open about it in the OOC. I've been playing a half-orc barbarian/paladin for over a year now who is immediately suspicious of every new character who comes along (including a hilarious moment when he took a swing at a new guy, and I crit-failed the attack roll). Most of the time, you'll find your fellow players understanding of a bit of tension. Not being able to see or hear the player at the table, though, it's usually a good idea to talk things out a bit in ooc.

Yeah, man, it's totally cool! I love a bit of dwarven pig-headedness, and it totally fits your character too! But yeah I definitely appreciate you making your intentions known in OOC. That's always a good idea. :-)

Torden is atypical for a dwarf if there's such a thing as a typical dwarf. He's a bit of a hippie and it's difficult to piss him off - pretty much everything just slides off him. :-D

Hey folks, if this turns into a fight, I was thinking of doing a grid-based combat in an online spreadsheet. If you use this link, you should be able to move and edit the spreadsheet to take your turn. Full credit to the GP user Naatkinson for showing me this technique. If you ever get a chance to play in one of his games, count yourself lucky!

The map, each cell is a 5x5ft square, so movement and such should be easy to calculate. If you move diagonally it still only counts as 5 feet of movement, which doesn't make sense mathematically but is simpler.

I'll try to make a backup of the map every round so that nobody can accidentally delete everything :)

Thats super cool! Based on just looking at the map should we assume Philcock and Amanda just ditched us in the inn? or are they still back in the kitchen?

Is this map mobile friendly?

It opened up fine on my phone, though I haven't moved anything. This is looking nice!

I also have no problem seeing it on my phone.

In my experience, my shiny new smartphone handles these nicely but my crappy old one can only view, not edit. And for some strange reason (again, on the old phone) and sometimes what I get is an earlier version of the map!

Cool. I'm in another game with Jabes actually and the doc being used gets messed up by mobile so I wanted to check

Heh. Too bad Kit's not around. Disguise Self and the Actor Feat would have come in real handy right about now!

@Daykinator: Characters that are not immediately visible are off the map at the moment, such as Amanda and Philcock (since you don't know where they are). For that matter, there may be more bad guys that are visible through the windows of the common room that are prowling around.

@Everyone: Yeah, I can't say how it will work on all of our phones but you have the Google Sheets app (link to Google Play store, link to Apple App store, free download), it seems to work really well to edit and view in mobile. I've only tried it on an android phone. If you are having troubles, let me know. If editting isn't possible, then just tell me where you want to end up (for example, if you want to stand in front of the door, you could just make a post to say you're ending up in square U16.