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<blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9383201" data-attributes="member: 27780"><p>Well, that went way better than any previous attempts. 6 people signed up well before the session and managed to divide up band roles in a fairly sensible way. One more turned up on the night, along with two of the now predictable zero hour bots who didn't actually engage, for a starting total of 7. However, the drummer didn't actually show for the session itself (already feeding into common musician stereotypes) and the bassist quit after the first one, leaving us with 2 vocalists, a guitarist, a keyboardist and a DJ. This band may wind up rather more electronic than expected. We spent most of the first session on character creation and introductions, which I then rudely interrupted by having the example band Criminal Tendencies smack talk them and challenge them to a duel. This led to a bit more roleplaying as they investigated their antagonists and found out that lead singer Jack Spasm is not nearly as punk as he pretends to be and is getting good grades at college, which they promptly incorporated into a diss track. Things ground to a halt just as we reached the first combat itself, where my inexperience with the roll20 interface once again became an issue, as I struggled to lay out enemy tokens and tie initiative rolls to individual ones. So I need to do some serious swotting up and make sure I'm ready for action next week and hope that enough of them will come back to run a second session. Fingers crossed.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="(un)reason, post: 9383201, member: 27780"] Well, that went way better than any previous attempts. 6 people signed up well before the session and managed to divide up band roles in a fairly sensible way. One more turned up on the night, along with two of the now predictable zero hour bots who didn't actually engage, for a starting total of 7. However, the drummer didn't actually show for the session itself (already feeding into common musician stereotypes) and the bassist quit after the first one, leaving us with 2 vocalists, a guitarist, a keyboardist and a DJ. This band may wind up rather more electronic than expected. We spent most of the first session on character creation and introductions, which I then rudely interrupted by having the example band Criminal Tendencies smack talk them and challenge them to a duel. This led to a bit more roleplaying as they investigated their antagonists and found out that lead singer Jack Spasm is not nearly as punk as he pretends to be and is getting good grades at college, which they promptly incorporated into a diss track. Things ground to a halt just as we reached the first combat itself, where my inexperience with the roll20 interface once again became an issue, as I struggled to lay out enemy tokens and tie initiative rolls to individual ones. So I need to do some serious swotting up and make sure I'm ready for action next week and hope that enough of them will come back to run a second session. Fingers crossed. [/QUOTE]

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