For what it's worth, I agree 99.99%! In a face-to-face game, a stun effect is one thing that may perhaps keep a player quiet for a few minutes. In a PbP game, it's something entirely different and horrible, with the potential to take a character out of the action for a week or more!Re: events can't always swing our way.
I'm all about fairness and balance. My comments weren't out of a sense of entitlement, but rather that I believe good games are about making interesting decisions. When a player can't act, they can't make a decision. I accept the randomness of D&D as a source of tension and excitement which is mitigated by player skill. But no amount of player skill can mitigate randomness if the player can't act. Stun == Bad.
That's my $0.02.
- Everyone: While I'm apologizing, let me add a big one for my quiet in this game. Part of it is the same scheduling issues that have slowed my daily updates...but this game poses some other challenges to me that I didn't expect. I created the character entirely with the online DDI character maker...which unfortunately does not export to a format that any other program can read. This means I only have access to my power descriptions at home. I've never really played a bard before, so I don't have the familiarity to just know what power does what by heart.
So. I started a Notepad sheet this morning, which I -will- fill in with power descriptions from the DDI when I get home -before- scratching the TOR monkey's back. That should solve my problems and get me back in the game. Once again, I'm sorry that such a silly thing could lead me to inconvenience you all like this. I hope I can make it up to y'all.
Believe it or not, Shayuri, when I first read this post I thought it was authored by Scotley! (The 'bard' should have tipped me off, oops.) I know that Lou has a genetic or voluntary tendency toward imbibing, too, so let me just plead with all three of you to ease up some! We like having you around and don't want your tickets punched prematurely by cirrhosis (best guess at spelling on that one) or anything like that.- Sparky, I didn't mean to imply you were commenting out of a sense of entitlement. I'm very sorry it came off that way (and, on rereading, I can see how it would). I'm not a big fan of 'stasis' type effects either, and Leif has an excellent point about PBP vs tabletop.
- Everyone: While I'm apologizing, let me add a big one for my quiet in this game. Part of it is the same scheduling issues that have slowed my daily updates...but this game poses some other challenges to me that I didn't expect. I created the character entirely with the online DDI character maker...which unfortunately does not export to a format that any other program can read. This means I only have access to my power descriptions at home. I've never really played a bard before, so I don't have the familiarity to just know what power does what by heart.
And I've been struggling with posting after gettin home just because I'm usually pretty burned out, and spiritually unable to resist the clarion call of The Old Republic. I say 'just a few missions,' but the next thing I know it's pushing 1am and I'm nodding off at the keyboard. It's a sickness.
So. I started a Notepad sheet this morning, which I -will- fill in with power descriptions from the DDI when I get home -before- scratching the TOR monkey's back. That should solve my problems and get me back in the game. Once again, I'm sorry that such a silly thing could lead me to inconvenience you all like this. I hope I can make it up to y'all.