On my first read through I thought it said the make a level 5 character but now I see the others are level 1 and actually you said to make a level 1 character. Adjusting downward!
On my first read through I thought it said the make a level 5 character but now I see the others are level 1 and actually you said to make a level 1 character. Adjusting downward!
Ah, right. That explains it.
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Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny. Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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Just me, practicing some dice rolling in the thread. You can ignore.
Brade screamed in frustration as he angrily swung his battleaxe at the goblin chieftain's head. Attack: 18 Damage: 5
The goblin skillfully ducked, and the great axe bounced off his armor, minimizing the massive blow but still sending him careering into the dirt a few feet back. Scrambling to his feet, he threw the first of several daggers at the group as he looked wildly around the room. Attack: 24 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll.
Can anyone explain the breakdown of the rolls? I asked for a 1d20+5 and 1d12+3, but when I hover over those numbers I get... something else.
Interestingly too after editing to ask my question it now says I potentially manipulated the rolls (i didnt), and the damage roll actually changed.
Yeah editing a post after rolls can flag it. I don’t know why, but there it is.
After doing things on this forum for awhile, my preference is to roll on the character sheet and report the numbers in the post, like this:
Brade’s roll to hit: 11
Damage: 14
you can check in the game log to verify the rolls (I really rolled those). It’s a lot cleaner and easier in my opinion and dodges the glitches of the forum roller. It’s a big advantage of having all the characters joined into a campaign!
If youre going to be afk for a while let me know. Depending on whats going on I may control your character to keep things going. Usually with PbP the tempo doesnt make this necessary, but hey - why keep everyone guessing?
Secret conversations with me can take place through the message feature. Keep them out of the regular thread.
Roll your dice on your character sheet and incorporate it into your post. I can always check the game log if I have questions.
I've been playing and Dming off and on for a really long time, but Im still rusty. The pandemic was not kind. If you think I made a rules error message me private. I'm happy to admit a mistake, and retcon / rewrite if necessary. Doing it privately keeps the thread clean and avoids any piling on / distractions.
We'll roll for initiatve in the opening round of combat, and you should endeavor to go in order. Unless a foe has unusual bonuses I will roll and then spread my enemies out between your attacks if its possible. This is more work, so for a post expediancy perspective I may start grouping them in some circumstances.
When you have a skill or knowledge that reasonably only your character knows I'll deliver that to you in a private message. Its incumbent on you the player to pass that on in the thread then. Or not.
Consider
writing in the past tense, since the moment you post it it has become the past.
staying on task with character actions with comrades, foes, and the environment.
leaving the outcome of your roll unwritten unless youre SURE of your success or failure. I'll handle the followup description.
using a different font color and quotation marks to help differentiate your speech from the rest of your post.
writing less rather than more and letting your fellow players and me interact with you.
Any questions while we wait for the rest of the group to join the campaign?
If youre going to be afk for a while let me know. Depending on whats going on I may control your character to keep things going. Usually with PbP the tempo doesnt make this necessary, but hey - why keep everyone guessing?
Secret conversations with me can take place through the message feature. Keep them out of the regular thread.
Roll your dice on your character sheet and incorporate it into your post. I can always check the game log if I have questions.
I've been playing and Dming off and on for a really long time, but Im still rusty. The pandemic was not kind. If you think I made a rules error message me private. I'm happy to admit a mistake, and retcon / rewrite if necessary. Doing it privately keeps the thread clean and avoids any piling on / distractions.
We'll roll for initiatve in the opening round of combat, and you should endeavor to go in order. Unless a foe has unusual bonuses I will roll and then spread my enemies out between your attacks if its possible. This is more work, so for a post expediancy perspective I may start grouping them in some circumstances.
When you have a skill or knowledge that reasonably only your character knows I'll deliver that to you in a private message. Its incumbent on you the player to pass that on in the thread then. Or not.
Consider
writing in the past tense, since the moment you post it it has become the past.
staying on task with character actions with comrades, foes, and the environment.
leaving the outcome of your roll unwritten unless youre SURE of your success or failure. I'll handle the followup description.
using a different font color and quotation marks to help differentiate your speech from the rest of your post.
writing less rather than more and letting your fellow players and me interact with you.
Any questions while we wait for the rest of the group to join the campaign?
Have you chosen the players yet?
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If I haven’t offended you, don’t worry. I’m sure I’ll get to you eventually.
I didnt get them all done earlier, but they're all out now. We technically have one more spot, which may or may not get filled. Depending on your PC personalities its hard to say how many survive the opening minutes of the adventure.
Your character name, identity, and actions as they are portrayed in this adventure become my property to do with as I see fit, including them in a short story about this adventure, or as a PC or NPC in a future adventure or story.
You lost me right away with this. But I gotta ask why you want to keep someone else's character as your own property?
You lost me right away with this. But I gotta ask why you want to keep someone else's character as your own property?
Which is why I put it right up front. I'm practicing writing fiction, and some or all of this may make into into a broader story or campaign world. It turns out when you write a LOT of characters into a story developing and keeping the personalities, motivations, and back story straight and depicting them consistently is pretty difficult. Or at least it is for me. I'm not asking for exclusive rights. I'm making sure that, if I post something later that is a derivative I wont get someone claiming that I "stole their character."
Will you at least ask us if you plan to use our characters at least?
I did in the opening section of my opening post.
Character sheets in and of themselves are stale, flat, and easy to create. The magic is in the life we give them. I for one am curious to see what becomes of Kimo. Can he hide the source of his magic? Will others in the distant eastern lands of the empire care? Will he find friends? Or will he fight for his life to become an outlaw on the run? Will he abandon his friends to pursue the dark whispers of the nameless entity calling out to him? Will he become jaded by mistreatment to the point he abandons his promise to his father?
Odds are these characters never make it in. Or if they do they become NPCs in a tavern, or a retired adventurer turned shopkeep. PbPs are notoriously short lived (content wise). This is me taking a chance.
I'm HOPING this is the start of a long collaboration, where players get a chance to be involved in something that transcends a PbP game that quietly disappears into the dusty annals of dndbeyond. Theres really no way to know. We're all complete strangers. But in this particular case I'm stretching beyond my original storyline (some of which has already been fleshed out beyond the first novel) to introduce some chaos and unpredictability. I'm nervous as hell. Every fiber of my controlling being says keep my games separate from my writing.
Alright. If all the characters have been picked, when can we expect the game thread to get started?
Also, does anybody that got picked have content sharing? If nobody else has it, then I can kinda make resources available to everybody. I don't have any digital books, but I have the main 3 + Tasha's and Xanathar's physically, and I'm decently adept at the DnDBeyond homebrew system. If anybody needs a non-SRD feat or spell or magic item, then I can make a replica using the homebrewer. I'm pretty sure homebrew is automatically shared with everyone in the campaign (as long as homebrew is enabled on the character sheets), so anybody would be able to use it. If you want any assurances that it works, look at Kiana's sheet-- I actually made the Divine Soul subclass in the homebrewer since I don't have Tasha's. Plus, I wouldn't mind the practice.
That being said, content sharing would definitely be quicker and easier, and it lets you see all the options instead of having to look elsewhere first.
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Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny. Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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Yeah, content sharing would be awesome! As a variant human, I get a free feat, but I don’t want any of the starter ones. I’m planning on actor though, and of you could share that would be awesome.
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If I haven’t offended you, don’t worry. I’m sure I’ll get to you eventually.
Yeah, content sharing would be awesome! As a variant human, I get a free feat, but I don’t want any of the starter ones. I’m planning on actor though, and of you could share that would be awesome.
I just 'brewed up an Actor replica. Make sure that you have homebrew content turned on for your sheet, and tell me if it works. Might take a bit of troubleshooting.
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny. Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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On my first read through I thought it said the make a level 5 character but now I see the others are level 1 and actually you said to make a level 1 character. Adjusting downward!
Ah, right. That explains it.
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny.
Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
How I'm posting based on text formatting: Mod Hat Off - Mod Hat Also Off (I'm not a mod)
Just me, practicing some dice rolling in the thread. You can ignore.
Brade screamed in frustration as he angrily swung his battleaxe at the goblin chieftain's head. Attack: 18 Damage: 5
The goblin skillfully ducked, and the great axe bounced off his armor, minimizing the massive blow but still sending him careering into the dirt a few feet back. Scrambling to his feet, he threw the first of several daggers at the group as he looked wildly around the room. Attack: 24 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll.
Can anyone explain the breakdown of the rolls? I asked for a 1d20+5 and 1d12+3, but when I hover over those numbers I get... something else.
Interestingly too after editing to ask my question it now says I potentially manipulated the rolls (i didnt), and the damage roll actually changed.
Yeah editing a post after rolls can flag it. I don’t know why, but there it is.
After doing things on this forum for awhile, my preference is to roll on the character sheet and report the numbers in the post, like this:
Brade’s roll to hit: 11
Damage: 14
you can check in the game log to verify the rolls (I really rolled those). It’s a lot cleaner and easier in my opinion and dodges the glitches of the forum roller. It’s a big advantage of having all the characters joined into a campaign!
Of course, the DM still needs to do his own rolls. Rolling in the forum should work once you get the trick of it, just don’t edit after.
I agree. Lets do that. The dice roller definitely seems glitchy.
Some more notes
Consider
Any questions while we wait for the rest of the group to join the campaign?
Have you chosen the players yet?
If I haven’t offended you, don’t worry. I’m sure I’ll get to you eventually.
I didnt get them all done earlier, but they're all out now. We technically have one more spot, which may or may not get filled. Depending on your PC personalities its hard to say how many survive the opening minutes of the adventure.
You lost me right away with this. But I gotta ask why you want to keep someone else's character as your own property?
Jesus saves. Everyone else takes damage.
Awesome!
If I haven’t offended you, don’t worry. I’m sure I’ll get to you eventually.
Which is why I put it right up front. I'm practicing writing fiction, and some or all of this may make into into a broader story or campaign world. It turns out when you write a LOT of characters into a story developing and keeping the personalities, motivations, and back story straight and depicting them consistently is pretty difficult. Or at least it is for me. I'm not asking for exclusive rights. I'm making sure that, if I post something later that is a derivative I wont get someone claiming that I "stole their character."
I’m fine with everything.
I’ll have to restrain myself on the going in order thing but I can do it. Writing in past tense will be new but I’m all for it.
I did in the opening section of my opening post.
Character sheets in and of themselves are stale, flat, and easy to create. The magic is in the life we give them. I for one am curious to see what becomes of Kimo. Can he hide the source of his magic? Will others in the distant eastern lands of the empire care? Will he find friends? Or will he fight for his life to become an outlaw on the run? Will he abandon his friends to pursue the dark whispers of the nameless entity calling out to him? Will he become jaded by mistreatment to the point he abandons his promise to his father?
Odds are these characters never make it in. Or if they do they become NPCs in a tavern, or a retired adventurer turned shopkeep. PbPs are notoriously short lived (content wise). This is me taking a chance.
I'm HOPING this is the start of a long collaboration, where players get a chance to be involved in something that transcends a PbP game that quietly disappears into the dusty annals of dndbeyond. Theres really no way to know. We're all complete strangers. But in this particular case I'm stretching beyond my original storyline (some of which has already been fleshed out beyond the first novel) to introduce some chaos and unpredictability. I'm nervous as hell. Every fiber of my controlling being says keep my games separate from my writing.
But, where would the fun in that be?
Alright. If all the characters have been picked, when can we expect the game thread to get started?
Also, does anybody that got picked have content sharing? If nobody else has it, then I can kinda make resources available to everybody. I don't have any digital books, but I have the main 3 + Tasha's and Xanathar's physically, and I'm decently adept at the DnDBeyond homebrew system. If anybody needs a non-SRD feat or spell or magic item, then I can make a replica using the homebrewer. I'm pretty sure homebrew is automatically shared with everyone in the campaign (as long as homebrew is enabled on the character sheets), so anybody would be able to use it. If you want any assurances that it works, look at Kiana's sheet-- I actually made the Divine Soul subclass in the homebrewer since I don't have Tasha's. Plus, I wouldn't mind the practice.
That being said, content sharing would definitely be quicker and easier, and it lets you see all the options instead of having to look elsewhere first.
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny.
Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
How I'm posting based on text formatting: Mod Hat Off - Mod Hat Also Off (I'm not a mod)
Yeah, content sharing would be awesome! As a variant human, I get a free feat, but I don’t want any of the starter ones. I’m planning on actor though, and of you could share that would be awesome.
If I haven’t offended you, don’t worry. I’m sure I’ll get to you eventually.
I just 'brewed up an Actor replica. Make sure that you have homebrew content turned on for your sheet, and tell me if it works. Might take a bit of troubleshooting.
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny.
Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
How I'm posting based on text formatting: Mod Hat Off - Mod Hat Also Off (I'm not a mod)