[OOC] The First Age of Man

[KirayaTiDrekan]

And, of course, men who don't know their place. (^_^)

She's not a man-hater. She's just a bit out of sorts at the moment and Tekai is getting the brunt of it (unfortunately for him).

 

[Axel]

If ever there was a campaign where men who don't know their place get eaten, this one's it!

 

[Voda Vosa]

Beetlejuice, beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!

Erhm, I mean Therion, Therion, Therion!

 

[Shayuri]

Hee hee. Thrice-repeated invocations have a longer history than that you know.

*pout*

(^_^)

 

[Shayuri]

Quick question just to make sure I understand correctly.

Did Niraya begin her summoning in time to take part in the combat right away, or do a few rounds need to go by first? The impression I had was that the warning came in time, due to some perception checks.

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[Piston Honda]

Yes, the summoning was completed in time, the three in the cart saw the ambush just in time to prepare themselves with Niraya doing well enough that she should have had time to summon, the NPCs still had initiative in the surprise round.

 

[Axel]

Sorry, been out with gastro 3 days. IC post tomorrow morning, 12 hrs or so

 

[Piston Honda]

So yeah, I debated for a while whether or not that seventh Orc would make combat too much, I really didn’t expect it to be a cakewalk, but I also only rolled above an 8 four times in that whole period, surprisingly two involved a crit on poor Sialfi (I also hit a horse and made a Handle Animal roll, whoo). At least now we have a near death tribesman, an outsider stumbling into the mix (Sheng’s not deliberately being ignored by Inguar, his instinct is to bring the person he knows can heal), and the “demon” among the group to resolve within basically the first 15 minutes of a game, not to mention a pile of dead Orcs. How fun.


Anyway, wanted to get some combat feedback from you guys.


Does a gridless system work for everyone?


I’m also thinking about going with a group initiative rather than individual to speed up combats a little, thoughts?


Anything else you guys liked/disliked/wasn’t done but believe would improve things?

 

[Shayuri]

I prefer gridless, in general, in PBP...but it's not always feasible. In particular, if we as a party start using a lot of positioning tricks and tactics, we may eventually want or need a map, but for simple battles it speeds things up a lot for the GM not to rely on one.

I think as long as you're fairly generous about telling us about positional possibilities, like if we can flank or not, or where terrain features are, it'll be fine.

My only comment is that it was a little weird trying to figure out where the orcs were at first. It seemed like they ambushed us from a ways off, but then the folks rushing into melee were right on top of them...maybe in the initial post if you give a little breakdown like:

Orc 1: 30' away behind a boulder.
Orc 2: 25' away and 15' up on a cliffside throwing axes.

And so on. Just to give us a basic idea of how things stand without requiring a lot of overly-specific text in the description that might break up the narrative.

 

[KirayaTiDrekan]

I much prefer gridless (both in PbP and tabletop) so no worries here. This is a "my character" thing - I appreciate the fact that I wasn't the "combat medic" during the battle, but the healer afterward. Its my preference when it comes to playing healer types and I am thus well pleased so far.