Well, Lydia has pet names for over half of the original group, and I didn't want to forget them. She'll probably come up with nicknames for the rest of you too. Goddess' character will probably be "Thorn Queen" or just "Queen," for example.
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Goddess FallenAngel
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Ooh, I'm royalty now. (Won't that just go to T'aria's head. *L*)
Although it is more of a headband than a crown - it doesn't really go all around the head.
Although it is more of a headband than a crown - it doesn't really go all around the head.
Brother Shatterstone
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Isida Kep'Tukari said:
Ahhh yeah, that makes perfect sense and good call on T'aria's pet name.
Goddess FallenAngel said:
And yours...
Hey all,
Just letting you know my next IC post will be Madame Brie's arrival, which will require a lot of exposition, since it should mainly be Dulanse talking with her (since he knows her), and then she has to explain what she'd like you to do. Don't have time to write all that right now, but should be up by tonight. Yes, at last, a plotline will rear it's ugly head
Serpenteye: I'm a little confused on who Alicia is "flirting" with. There aren't any male clerics (priests) in the party. If you meant Accalon, he's an Unholy Warrior, and probably doesn't verbally promote his religion (although I guess, in a sense, he "spreads" it ), so you probably wouldn't see him as religious.
Just letting you know my next IC post will be Madame Brie's arrival, which will require a lot of exposition, since it should mainly be Dulanse talking with her (since he knows her), and then she has to explain what she'd like you to do. Don't have time to write all that right now, but should be up by tonight. Yes, at last, a plotline will rear it's ugly head
Serpenteye: I'm a little confused on who Alicia is "flirting" with. There aren't any male clerics (priests) in the party. If you meant Accalon, he's an Unholy Warrior, and probably doesn't verbally promote his religion (although I guess, in a sense, he "spreads" it
), so you probably wouldn't see him as religious.
Brother Shatterstone
Dark Moderator of PbP
Sweet take your time, besides I would like to see Alev, guilt puppy, have a chance to reply anyhow....Telsar said:
Who knows maybe the Madame will have a situation to deal with... Though it shouldn't come to blows.Telsar said:
He shouldn't, I'm sure he has an evil aura of a low level paladin but I don’t see to many good paladin in the group who could detect that little aura.
To be honest he probably doesn’t even have a unholy symbol on him, at this level there no need for one and it could cause all sort of issues if found.I said Madame Brie would tell you what she wanted, but I decided to break it up so I don't have 10 paragraphs of exposition in one message. Someone ask her what she wants, please.
A question to DMs of PBP games- do you find yourself ending a lot of messages with NPCs almost leaving. I've only posted 4-5 times, and it's already happened 3 times already. When it's time for an NPC to leave, I have to make it the last thing happening and make them not quite get out the door, to give PCs the opportunity to stop them and roleplay with them, if they want. Oh well, either a side effect of the PBP effect, or my inability to write creatively.
And here are some possible corrections needed to characters (tell me if I'm wrong):
Serpenteye: Alicia's MW Greatsword I calculate the attack bonus to be +8 (+2 BAB, +6 Str, +1 MW, -1 Large), and you have down +10
Cepter: Hit Points are max first, 3/4 (round up) thereafter, so Sunedilar's HPs should be 29 (10(1st)+8(2nd)+8(3rd)+3(Con))
I total your skill points at 30 ( (2+2(Int))*6(3rd level) + 6(human)), and it looks like you spent 22
Guilt Puppy: I get your total skill points as 56 (8+2(Int))*5(2nd Rog) + (4+2)(Ari)), and it looks like you spent 52
Also, I have a house rule I use in my tabletop games I'll let you use, if you want. The NPC Classes are generally much less useful than PC classes, so, in the case of Aristocrat, you can count 2 levels in it as 1 level for fitting in the campaign, so if you want you can be Ari2/Rog2. This is effectively the same as getting a -1 Level Adjustment (as long as you have 2 levels of Aristocrat). If you do this, you also will be 4 hit dice, and therefore will get your ability bonus. If this is all too complicated, then just skip it, but if you want to add another level of Aristocrat, you can.
A question to DMs of PBP games- do you find yourself ending a lot of messages with NPCs almost leaving. I've only posted 4-5 times, and it's already happened 3 times already. When it's time for an NPC to leave, I have to make it the last thing happening and make them not quite get out the door, to give PCs the opportunity to stop them and roleplay with them, if they want. Oh well, either a side effect of the PBP effect, or my inability to write creatively.
And here are some possible corrections needed to characters (tell me if I'm wrong):
Serpenteye: Alicia's MW Greatsword I calculate the attack bonus to be +8 (+2 BAB, +6 Str, +1 MW, -1 Large), and you have down +10
Cepter: Hit Points are max first, 3/4 (round up) thereafter, so Sunedilar's HPs should be 29 (10(1st)+8(2nd)+8(3rd)+3(Con))
I total your skill points at 30 ( (2+2(Int))*6(3rd level) + 6(human)), and it looks like you spent 22
Guilt Puppy: I get your total skill points as 56 (8+2(Int))*5(2nd Rog) + (4+2)(Ari)), and it looks like you spent 52
Also, I have a house rule I use in my tabletop games I'll let you use, if you want. The NPC Classes are generally much less useful than PC classes, so, in the case of Aristocrat, you can count 2 levels in it as 1 level for fitting in the campaign, so if you want you can be Ari2/Rog2. This is effectively the same as getting a -1 Level Adjustment (as long as you have 2 levels of Aristocrat). If you do this, you also will be 4 hit dice, and therefore will get your ability bonus. If this is all too complicated, then just skip it, but if you want to add another level of Aristocrat, you can.
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Goddess FallenAngel
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I think it is a side effect of pbp. I have only just started my pbp game, so I can't give you any advice (I'm about as new to it as you are).Telsar said:
It is quite different from DMming tabletop, is it not?
Brother Shatterstone
Dark Moderator of PbP
Can't busy...Telsar said:Someone ask her what she wants, please.
Telsar said:
While not a DM myself, I lack many of the skills, I can say I've honestly studied allot of them… It’s a byproduct of RPGs to be honest; PbP just shows and highlights this flaw more. An NPC for the most part is only there to react to the PCs. Honestly that’s all there for, they might be attacking them but this is simply a reaction to the environment. (Or at least it should be.)
As for ways to keep this from happing, simply think of it as a meeting where information is being put out on purpose and questions are expected and welcomed. As soon as your information is finished your NPC can say sorry but I have something else to do. (Time is still money, and the Madame is running a whorehouse so she needs to keep on the move to make sure her costumers are abusing or short changing her girls, and also she needs to make sure her girls are not short changing her.)
Obviously this won’t work every time, or at least it will get stale but if your pushing the information you need across to use then everyone will understand and there will, of course, be times where NPCs can’t or won’t respond to the questions of the PCs.
I doubt I helped but I felt compelled to try....
Also I shot you a reply to your email earlier today... Did you get that or did my webmail eat yeat another email?
Brother Shatterstone said:I doubt I helped but I felt compelled to try....
Also I shot you a reply to your email earlier today... Did you get that or did my webmail eat yeat another email?
It helps a bit
I'm not sure I agree that all NPCs are just there for PCs to react to; a few NPCs in my tabletop came have taken on a life on their own. In fact, I can think of 2 NPCs who became so interesting, I wound up playing them as PCs in other games. But I get your point.Just replied to your email. I really need to check it more often now
Very different. Some things work better (like finding players who can make interesting charactersGoddess FallenAngel said:I think it is a side effect of pbp. I have only just started my pbp game, so I can't give you any advice (I'm about as new to it as you are).
), some things worse. But all still fun.Similar Threads
