Risen is a homebrewed 4E D&D campaign set in a Points of Light setting. Play begins in the land of Keshet, a pharaohnic kindom filled with magic and intrigue.
IC Posting Rules
Pretty standard stuff, some guidelines to keep the IC thread tidy and readable.
Speech - In quotes. Not a huge deal if you leave them off, but it makes a better contrast with thoughts.
Thoughts - In italics. If you choose to write your character's thoughts, they should be in italics.
Languages and OOC - Different colors per language. Both the color name and coordinate are listed (some are not default colors and will not have coordinates).
Rolls - Make your rolls on Invisible Castle and post them in the OOC section of your IC post, as appropriate.
Example:
Stan staggers over to the door of his cell a blade concealed along the meaty part of his forearm. He is dead drunk, at least, he wants the guard on duty to think so. "Oi!" he hollers, slumping against the bars. He drowses a bit, on the verge of passing out before shaking himself awake. "Oi!" he hollers again, this time raking his tin mug across the bars of the cell. "Guard!"
"Shaddup, ya halfpint halfwit," growls Murray from across the aisle. Murray shifts on his bunk drawing up the thin covers to better hide his nervous face. Gods, I hope this works...
(OOC: Stan uses Bluff against the Guard (assisted by Murray) pretending to be drunk. Stan also uses Thievery to conceal a dagger. Rolls)
I'm in the Iron DM competition and my round starts tomorrow (9 AM local time Tuesday through 9am local time Thursday). I'm also DMing a face-to-face game on Wednesday night. So. I'd hoped to get my stuff together for the first IC post tonight, but I have to turn in early this evening. Sorry for the delay folks. Wish me luck!
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Character Development For all PCs (alternates too)
While I'm busy with things, I have some character development Challenges for you all to do. Completing a Challenge is like completing a Minor Quest. However, the more Challenges you complete, the more XP each is worth. If you do 1 Challenge it's worth 100 XP, if you do two Challenges you'll get 250, if you do all 3 Challenges, you'll get 450. Astute readers will note that's nearly half of your level in XP for doing some character development.
Cursory completion (just a sketchy paragraph or two) will get full XP, but exceptional work that shows effort and care will get bonus XP.
The Challenges
Each challenge is intended to give me insight into your character, but also to build a group of NPCs (friends and foes), places and plots your characters will interact with and are interested in.
If you're stumped, or work better with more concrete settings just shoot me a PM with a couple questions that would help you get started. I'm working on all sorts of different bits of the setting, so if you need me to focus on a particular area, just tell me IN PMs. We're gonna try to keep mystery going for at least a little bit.
Remember that the setting is Egyptian-like. There is a strong pharaoh who has dragons at his command (dragons as far as you all know are very dangerous, but not known to be intelligent, ornery and powerful, yes, powerbrokers, not so much). The Pharaoh is more General than Diplomat and leaves running the Kingdom to trusted officials. They are more or less competent and more or less corrupt.
To complete the Challenges, everyone (even folks new to the area) will need to create at least a couple people that you know or know of in Bakara. Bakara is a large, wealthy city, situated on the southern corner of the Great River's delta. Bakara was the capital before the Pharaoh, Long May He Reign, moved the seat of power to Yut Ka (apparently moving the capitol is some sort of Pharaonic compulsion). There is a lot of wealth in Bakara, new and old, a lot of business, a lot of culture, a lot of decline.
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Just so folks know, this is not a typical start to a PbP game, generally DMs are ready to go with adventures and settings and such, ask for characters, pick the players and go.
Since this was a 'hey, come play' because I wanted to give some new folks who weren't getting into games a chance to play and hadn't really planned a new campaign, it's a little off-the-cuff.
Thanks for your patience.
Last edited by Sparky; 20th October 2009 at 09:03 AM..
You listed gray for Nethyr(Common) and DimGray for OCC, but then used the opposite colors in your example.
Just oversight. I fixed the examples.
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Originally Posted by KarinsDad
Also, could we use some brighter colors for some of the text?
Us old guys or people with bad monitors might have a problem with some of the DarkRed, Indigo, DarkSlateGray, and DimGray colors.
I took my time picking these colors and I'm happy with the set. If there's a block of text that's hard to read, I suggest highlighting it. I won't be printing pages and pages and pages of text in most instances, anyway.
For OOC stuff, I'd be fine with making it normal size.
So. You can post at the IC thread now. We're not in a situation that calls for initiative just yet, so you're welcome to write your In Character (IC) responses to the situation. Generally speaking, I'll let everyone reply to a given post, but if someone is taking several days (or has let me know in advance they'll be offline or unable to post), I'll go ahead and push on forward.
General guidlines for what sorts of things to post are not too different from a tabletop game: don't assume success or failure, ask if you have questions, don't post actions or responses for characters that aren't yours (that includes me, in general I won't post for your character unless you're absent, though I may take small liberties from time to time).
NOTE: It is not required that you finish your Character Development Challenges before you post your first actions in the IC thread.
Also, unless I call for initiative or say we're entering a skill challenge, you're free to post your in-character interactions. In fact, I encourage you to do so. If I need you guys to slow down, I'll let you know.
Generally speaking, I'll let everyone reply to a given post, but if someone is taking several days (or has let me know in advance they'll be offline or unable to post), I'll go ahead and push on forward.
PLEASE do so.
Let's rock and roll Sparky. If someone doesn't post for 48 hours, move the game onward.
__________________ The first sign of a broken rule is when someone suggests that the way to stop it is by readying an action.
@KarinsDad: I know this is the internet and there is no door to slam when you leave a room all mad, but posting your farewell snipe in the IC thread seems cheap. I'm sure you still had this thread subscribed and/or bookmarked - no need to crap on the rest of the group's (delayed) fun.
I'm giving Sparky the benefit of the doubt, although 10 days is a long no show. What's going on Sparky?
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