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<blockquote data-quote="Matthan" data-source="post: 6749408" data-attributes="member: 20005"><p>Daedarai took a few minutes to collect himself. He knew that they would have a conversation with someone, but he didn't expect it to be the guild leader himself. This was an opportunity to make an impression. He tried to make himself look impressive as his new partners proceeded to accept their hosts generosity. Taking an offered drink from Shen, he listened intently to her story.</p><p></p><p>After she finished, he offered his thoughts. “Stories of treasure are common place. Every drunk in a bar has a tale of hidden golden riches. The war seems like a trigger. That moved you from idle talk to threat in that man's eyes. I wonder if the two are related though. Is it possible that the treasure is from the war somehow? Maybe a hidden cache of the FAS? Maybe it contains information about the war that they don't want to get out.” </p><p></p><p>[SBLOCK=OOC]I'm going to stop there. How much do we know about the war? It was 700 years ago, but with fantasy lifespans, that doesn't seem long enough to be completely forgotten from history unless it had help of some kind (which is intriguing). Do our characters know what war she's talking about or that the desert used to be fertile and was destroyed? I wrote the above assuming ignorance. </p><p></p><p>As for conversations and narrative flow, the few times that I've tried PbP before it's been difficult. You just work within it the best you can. For my character, the players have my permission to write his minor interactions into their post to establish a flow. If you want to hand him a drink or start a conversation, that's fine. You can even have him say a few things. I would just ask for major things to allow me to answer or control (with the exception of the DM when he moves the narrative along). I trust that everyone wants a good story and to have fun. My biggest advice is to not worry about the quality of each individual post. It's a trap to think that each post needs to be x number of paragraphs with so much description. That can paralyze folks from posting and the game will grind to a halt. Just have fun with it.[/SBLOCK]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Matthan, post: 6749408, member: 20005"] Daedarai took a few minutes to collect himself. He knew that they would have a conversation with someone, but he didn't expect it to be the guild leader himself. This was an opportunity to make an impression. He tried to make himself look impressive as his new partners proceeded to accept their hosts generosity. Taking an offered drink from Shen, he listened intently to her story. After she finished, he offered his thoughts. “Stories of treasure are common place. Every drunk in a bar has a tale of hidden golden riches. The war seems like a trigger. That moved you from idle talk to threat in that man's eyes. I wonder if the two are related though. Is it possible that the treasure is from the war somehow? Maybe a hidden cache of the FAS? Maybe it contains information about the war that they don't want to get out.” [SBLOCK=OOC]I'm going to stop there. How much do we know about the war? It was 700 years ago, but with fantasy lifespans, that doesn't seem long enough to be completely forgotten from history unless it had help of some kind (which is intriguing). Do our characters know what war she's talking about or that the desert used to be fertile and was destroyed? I wrote the above assuming ignorance. As for conversations and narrative flow, the few times that I've tried PbP before it's been difficult. You just work within it the best you can. For my character, the players have my permission to write his minor interactions into their post to establish a flow. If you want to hand him a drink or start a conversation, that's fine. You can even have him say a few things. I would just ask for major things to allow me to answer or control (with the exception of the DM when he moves the narrative along). I trust that everyone wants a good story and to have fun. My biggest advice is to not worry about the quality of each individual post. It's a trap to think that each post needs to be x number of paragraphs with so much description. That can paralyze folks from posting and the game will grind to a halt. Just have fun with it.[/SBLOCK] [/QUOTE]
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