CanadienneBacon
Explorer
I've put Vixtrin back up. I don't have a blank template, though. Still, I used the template you originally requested and filled out Vixtrin's sheet according to your request, right down to not only the formatting of the character stats but also of the listing of background, personality and appearance. You may be able to infer the template from how I have her formatted in the new RG.
I'm not certain how to best handle dealing with a mix of old and new in terms of how to go about putting up the IC thread. I can, however, tell you what I did yesterday with my two games. First, I created a new thread and claimed the two replies. I had on hand the first page of the IC thread. I put my own originating post back up in its entirety--needed to do that if only for myself because it contained a heck of a lot of background information on the setting. For the first reply, I took the entire first page of player posts and transformed them into a narrative style post. I left the players' original words as intact as possible, and edited only to correct very glaring or very simply grammar issues or to make the words conform to a paragraph format. For the second reply, I wrote a condensed re-cap telling what had happened, who was were, and who was currently doing what. Then I opened the thread back up to player posts.
Even though I had the last page of one of the IC threads on hand, I didn't mess with it. I used only the first page--couldn't stand to lose all that good, juicy descriptive text that the players and I had worked on. I wanted everyone to have a feel for their character interaction but at the same time I didn't want to get bogged down too much in past events.
Copying and pasting my OP was a no brainer. Took all of about 15 seconds. The first reply, the one where I constructed a narrative, however...that puppy took a long time to write. I had a full page of posts for the Sunless Citadel and it took me just under three hours to whip that up into narrative format. The second reply, the one where I provided a re-cap of events, took about half an hour to write. I like to mull over words sometimes so what took me a long time could feasibly take someone else a much shorter time.
For the City of the Spider Queen game, I spent probably only 90 minutes getting that one back up. To my simultanous chagrin and relief, I discovered after starting in on it that I didn't have a full first page of player posts. The narrative therefore took only about 45 minutes to construct. The rest of the time was spent re-capping and cleaning up fonts, etc..
I don't know that I'd go this route again. It took a lot of time. In hindsight, there's probably nothing wrong with simply copying and pasting your OP as the first post in the new thread, then writing a down-and-dirty re-cap for the first reply to the thread. I might be tempted to skip doing the narrative of the players' posts.
I'm not certain how to best handle dealing with a mix of old and new in terms of how to go about putting up the IC thread. I can, however, tell you what I did yesterday with my two games. First, I created a new thread and claimed the two replies. I had on hand the first page of the IC thread. I put my own originating post back up in its entirety--needed to do that if only for myself because it contained a heck of a lot of background information on the setting. For the first reply, I took the entire first page of player posts and transformed them into a narrative style post. I left the players' original words as intact as possible, and edited only to correct very glaring or very simply grammar issues or to make the words conform to a paragraph format. For the second reply, I wrote a condensed re-cap telling what had happened, who was were, and who was currently doing what. Then I opened the thread back up to player posts.
Even though I had the last page of one of the IC threads on hand, I didn't mess with it. I used only the first page--couldn't stand to lose all that good, juicy descriptive text that the players and I had worked on. I wanted everyone to have a feel for their character interaction but at the same time I didn't want to get bogged down too much in past events.
Copying and pasting my OP was a no brainer. Took all of about 15 seconds. The first reply, the one where I constructed a narrative, however...that puppy took a long time to write. I had a full page of posts for the Sunless Citadel and it took me just under three hours to whip that up into narrative format. The second reply, the one where I provided a re-cap of events, took about half an hour to write. I like to mull over words sometimes so what took me a long time could feasibly take someone else a much shorter time.
For the City of the Spider Queen game, I spent probably only 90 minutes getting that one back up. To my simultanous chagrin and relief, I discovered after starting in on it that I didn't have a full first page of player posts. The narrative therefore took only about 45 minutes to construct. The rest of the time was spent re-capping and cleaning up fonts, etc..
I don't know that I'd go this route again. It took a lot of time. In hindsight, there's probably nothing wrong with simply copying and pasting your OP as the first post in the new thread, then writing a down-and-dirty re-cap for the first reply to the thread. I might be tempted to skip doing the narrative of the players' posts.
And congrats Dichotomy on finishing up school--no small feat, that.
