Posting Guidelines for the Island Empire game.
Please follow these simple rules for posting in character. In the title of each post put your character name and class until we all figure out who’s who. Put things your character does in plain text, things your character says in quotes “”, and things your character thinks in italics. Some people like to put the things they say in color as well. You are welcome to do so, just make sure it is something I can read on a black background. We will be using
http://invisiblecastle.com// for rolls, which will be posted in the text. I’ll explain how to use
http://invisiblecastle.com/ below. All metagame and rules info should be at the bottom of your post. For example a post might look something like this.
Scotley Human Dungeon Master
Scotley sidesteps in front of the demon and
swings (1d20+6=22) his long sword
hitting (1d8+1=3) the demon a glancing blow saying
“take that you fiend.” He readies his shield for another assault from the demon thinking,
Come on and die already. He
listens (1d20+4=23) intently for the sounds of his allies approaching.
OOC: 5’ move to the left. Listen check to hear help on the way. AC currently 20 due to shield of faith spell. Current hp 16.
Anyway, that's the way attacks, damage, and skill checks are rolled using
www.invisablecastle.com and information is conveyed. I will normally let you know what you need to hit and the results of skill checks. Sometimes I will roll skill checks in secret and you'll find out the results later, but when you want to do a skill you can typically roll it yourself.
To use the dice roller, go to
http://invisiblecastle.com/ and choose 'roll dice' from the menu at the top. Type in the name of your character, normally you will only make one roll at a time, so leave 'number of rolls' box alone. Next put in the roll you want to make including modifiers. In the above example I did '1d20+6' for my attack roll. You can do some fairly complex rolls, for example a crit with sneak attack damage might look something like this '2d8+6+1d6'. In the 'note' box put the text you want associated with the roll for examples above I used 'swings', then 'hitting' and finally 'listens'. Next check the box labled 'format for EZBoard?'. Finally click on 'roll'.
You'll get a box that contains information something like this:
Scotleyrolls 1d20+2, getting [2,2] = (4)
throws
[*=http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=64916]throws (1d20+2=4)[/*]
but the '*' s will be the letters 'url'. So when I post it without the astarisks it looks like this:
throws (1d20+2=4)
Just copy this last line including all the bracketed stuff and paste it into the window where you are making your post to the boards. Only the word in the middle and the stuff in '( )' will be visable in your final post. Anyway the point of all this is that you may not have dice handy when you post and it keeps everyone honest. Go back up and click on one of the rolls I made above and you can see when I made it and also pull up my previous rolls to be sure I didn't roll repeatedly until I got one I liked. As an example you'll see that I re-rolled my damage against the demon to get a lower roll so I could make this example and use the phrase 'glancing blow' because I wrote this before I went back and made all the rolls. When you are posting you should open an extra window for invisable castle so you can switch back and forth to make and post your rolls.
