OOC - Mad King's Monkey (Thread Closed)

[doghead]

Re: glint of steel

Is that enough to cast ear piercing scream at?

If Jan had readied the action, I would say 'Sure. Done.'

As Jan hasn't, I say "Roll the dice - Reflex check vs DC10 to react in time." If you are successful, so is the spell. I have already rolled the gnoll's Fort Save. It failed.

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[Axel]

All these partially complete rounds are beginning to confuse me some. I'll hold off a day for the laggards to catch up for this round. Still, it is feasible (or possible) that anyone that doesn't post an action within 3-4 days gets NPC'd for the round?

 

[Scott DeWar]

If Jan had readied the action, I would say 'Sure. Done.'

As Jan hasn't, I say "Roll the dice - Reflex check vs DC10 to react in time." If you are successful, so is the spell. I have already rolled the gnoll's Fort Save. It failed.

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pfffft. rolled a nat 1

1d20+4=5

 

[doghead]

All these partially complete rounds are beginning to confuse me some. I'll hold off a day for the laggards to catch up for this round. Still, it is feasible (or possible) that anyone that doesn't post an action within 3-4 days gets NPC'd for the round?

The posting of Round summaries has been a bit slow at my end of late. I apologies for that and will work on upping the rate.

I agree that posting partially completed rounds is not ideal. However, in this case it is not so much about players not posting, as events changing making players posted actions either impossible (ie: Sukri) or dangerous (ie: Eban). This one is a bit of a rock and a hard place - giving people time to modify their PC's actions kills the momentum and can make events seem more fragmented.

I can't really see an ideal way out of this other than doing what we are doing. However, I am going to start trying to push the pacing of the game a little.

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[doghead]

I can't really see an ideal way out of this other than doing what we are doing. However, I am going to start trying to push the pacing of the game a little.

Which means, once a Round is posted (complete or not) you are free to post your actions for the next Round.

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[Axel]

Understood. It's not the pacing that worries me (we all have to fight the 12HD real life monster from time to time) - that's just fine. Partially complete actions and rounds make it difficult to judge what to do "in the future", where I'm trying to play out actions in advance of those that haven't been fully completed yet. Totally get where you're coming from though. Rock 'n' hard place? Yep...

 

[Scott DeWar]

I need to be more diligent in making full posts.

 

[doghead]

I recently joined a game. I have been making a conscious effort to write posts that move the game along. I sometimes need to think about it.

Axel has the knack of it - his posts can be like size ten hobnail kicks to the arse.

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[Axel]

I recently joined a game. I have been making a conscious effort to write posts that move the game along. I sometimes need to think about it.

Axel has the knack of it - his posts can be like size ten hobnail kicks to the arse.

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Thanks for damning me with faint praise... I sadly have difficulty separating the way I communicate at work with PbP posts at times. I need an email signature that says "Special Negotiator for Morons". Not that I think anyone is a moron...I just have "the knack" as my boss continues to feed me crap jobs...

 

[doghead]

Round 7 is posted and done.

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