[OOC] Constables of the 14th Ward

[Scotley]

Hear! Hear!

The start to the game is going great!

I am looking forward to more flashbacks to fill in the group knowledge of being a
constable in the 14th Ward.

One quick question: Should our characters in the Rogues Gallery be updated at any sort of interval? I see that some added in the campaign bonuses already.

We will continue to fill the wiki with more information including flashbacks.

It is in your best interests to keep your character sheet in the Rogue's Gallery as up to date as possible. That's where we'll be going for information about your character. When have a change take a moment to edit your post. By the time the next fight rolls around I expect to have a hard copy of everyone's sheet handy, but for now I've been refering to your posts for things like Armor Class.

 

[Scotley]

I have a question for you all. How are the excel based battle maps working for you? I guess a better question would be did anybody notice the maps and bother to look at them? It certainly helps me figure out what's happening. In future when having your character move it would be helpful to have map cooridinates, so I know exactly where you want to go such as 'Brave Sir Robin falls back to F13.'

 

[jkason]

I have a question for you all. How are the excel based battle maps working for you? I guess a better question would be did anybody notice the maps and bother to look at them? It certainly helps me figure out what's happening. In future when having your character move it would be helpful to have map cooridinates, so I know exactly where you want to go such as 'Brave Sir Robin falls back to F13.'

I'm definitely a fan of maps, especially with all these area effect spells I had Moru memorize.

jason

 

[Scotley]

I'm definitely a fan of maps, especially with all these area effect spells I had Moru memorize.

jason

Hey the swarm is out in the open now, blast away!

 

[Helfdan]

The maps look great, it would make it much harder for us (and for you) if we cannot see a grid.

 

[Helfdan]

Just wanted to say:

Great start to the game, Leif and Scotley.

The combat is developing quite nicely. Everyone seems to be doing a great job, making interesting posts... keeps me checking the thread over and over again during the day.

Nice touch adding/editing everyone's posts into a coherent thing for the round. Good job, DMs!

Keep it up, everyone. I think this game is gonna be great.



Maeglin

Let me add my heartfelt agreement. This is loads of fun! From a story telling perspective, I particularly like starting in media res and getting the story as flashbacks.

Great job!

Only one comment... Leif and I need to have a talk about bucklers...

 

[Maeglin]

I have a question for you all. How are the excel based battle maps working for you? I guess a better question would be did anybody notice the maps and bother to look at them? It certainly helps me figure out what's happening. In future when having your character move it would be helpful to have map cooridinates, so I know exactly where you want to go such as 'Brave Sir Robin falls back to F13.'

The maps are working excellently. Have looked at them for every single round.

I personally believe D20 MUST be played with a map. Attacks of opportunity, 5-foot steps and all that...

For a PBP, it's great to planning your strategy. I think it helps tremendously. Keep it up.

BTW this is my first time using excel maps... did not even realize the whole coordinate thing until you pointed it out. It works great (you can specify detailed movements. Move through square F13, then F12 , F11 and E11.. etc... great for figuring out AoO)

 

[Scotley]

Excel is the quick and dirty way to do maps. I wish I had the funds and technical expertise to use a more advanced program, but at least with excel I can quickly get across the locations of all the combatants and some idea of the terrain. I agree with several of you, the current iteration of the game really requires at least this amount of mapping to work.

 

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[Scotley]

I do now. I've been making periodic backups of both wikis, but it has been a while and a lot of new stuff is up since the last one. I just made backups of both and will get a second set on another computer tonight. I should probably make backups of the EN World threads too.