Ashy's Oathbound Campaign, OOC [ARCHIVED]

[ferretguy]

woo doggy! I am enjoying this game, although Julian may not have much to say,I will play him as best as I can within his abilities. Definitly havin' fun in this world, although I am a bit lost in where to go I figure Julian is seeing this worlds gods as beings that do need to be stopped if they allow themselves to be so corrupt. Ties in nicely with his old background of taking fighting those that are in power and corrupt.

 

[Ashy]

I don't own any Oathbound books, and I haven't read any of them at all. I see why the knowledge checks are useful to provide information that I don't have access to, but I still find myself in a somewhat unusual situation.

Normally, for most characters, my out of character knowledge has to be limited to what the character would know. Here, the character knows far more than I do, as a player. Thus, I am supposed to roleplay knowing things, that I, as the player, don't actually know.

I know so little, that I don't know when or where knowledge checks are appropriate, because I don't know what is common/uncommon knowledge. I suppose I should just start adding "Knowledge (forge) check" to every post, just so that every time something happens, I learn a little more

You can do that, no prob, or you can just post an "OOC Note" at the bottom and then ask a question here. If it is something that I feel your character would know i.e. common knowledge, I will just tell you (all). If it is something that is considered uncommon knowledge, I will roll the check for you and then spoiler the info for you...

Fair enough?

 

[Ashy]

Sorry... ISP has been down the past two days... gahd, my life is so shallow that I have nothing to do when this tragedy happens. Anyway, It seems to be working now so I'll post a reply now, unless Ashy jumped on the auto before I could get back on, which would be fine.

Ironically, the solution to the problem that I came up with is NOT AT ALL the solution I originally had in mind, but it seemed to work...fairly well...

 

[Ashy]

woo doggy! I am enjoying this game, although Julian may not have much to say,I will play him as best as I can within his abilities. Definitly havin' fun in this world, although I am a bit lost in where to go I figure Julian is seeing this worlds gods as beings that do need to be stopped if they allow themselves to be so corrupt. Ties in nicely with his old background of taking fighting those that are in power and corrupt.

Excellent - again, ask questions along your line of thought to those you meet and decide to trust - I am betting that you will find some info you can use...

 

[Ashy]

Just found this - might help bring some of you up to speed a bit...

http://www.oathbound.net/modules/news/

I'm still looking through this, but it is a safe bet that most everything here is going to be IC knowledge... there's a fair amount of free stuff here as well!

 

[Voadam]

That's a very good foundation for this game - what about the rest of you?

BTW, what do you think about Forged? My wife and I edited it!

It reinforced that the forge is a brutal place with very evil people in power. I remember being surprised that it was as adult as it was and I thought the graphic torture descriptions were over the top (particularly the piercing one).

I remember thinking the protagonist's home world and ethos were not sufficiently established as familiar and normal before he got ripped from it and sent to the Forge where magic is different and his senses and emotions were overwhelmed, I couldn't quite tell what was him acting differently from the setting and changes from what he would normally be like.

It was fun to see things like the underground abandoned buildings, the different bloodholds and the different races interacting.

So I really liked the setting details but was not that entranced by the protagonist (or the piercing torture).

 

[Ashy]

Yea, looking back on it now, I'd have to agree with you. I think it gives a pretty good, if not slightly skewed, view of the Forge (i.e. not everyone who rules on the Forge is necessarily evil, there are some good guys out there...)

 

[Voadam]

Woohoo, combat again! Just wish xerxes and baja were conscious so they didn't have to sit out and watch this one instead of being in it.

 

[deadestdai]

Baja's there in spirit.. O yes.

 

[Vendetta]

Xerxes is teaching Baja poker.