The Reconquista OOC

[Scotley]

Posting Conventions?

BO,

Most DM's list a guide to posting for their games. I usually put thoughts in gray italics and have everyone pick a color for things their character says aloud as well as using quotationmarks. Some folks like to use a specific color for OOC comments as well. However, I see that Thanee uses italics for speech and everyone has different ideas about color use, so it could get confusing--and indeed already has. If Ranger Rick is in fact colorblind we should accomdate that as well. Some direction from you might facilitate understanding. Just my two copper's worth.

 

[Ranger Rick]

BO,

Most DM's list a guide to posting for their games. I usually put thoughts in gray italics and have everyone pick a color for things their character says aloud as well as using quotationmarks. Some folks like to use a specific color for OOC comments as well. However, I see that Thanee uses italics for speech and everyone has different ideas about color use, so it could get confusing--and indeed already has. If Ranger Rick is in fact colorblind we should accomdate that as well. Some direction from you might facilitate understanding. Just my two copper's worth.

I was joking about the color blindness. However, I can not use the color function or font format due to my PC. I either need to write my colors in MSword and copy it or do the [color = xxxx ] coding.

 

[Scotley]

I was joking about the color blindness. However, I can not use the color function or font format due to my PC. I either need to write my colors in MSword and copy it or do the [color = xxxx ] coding.

I suspected you were, but my job is about accomdating people with disabilities, so I get a little carried away sometimes.

You might be able to fix your color limitations. Go to the 'my account menu' and select 'my user control panel' one there you should a choice to 'edit options' on the left pane. Once there scroll down to the bottom and look for 'Message Editor Interface'. There are three different choices there. Try each of the three choices one at a time and see which one works best for your browser/operating system. Someone with more technical knowledge may be able to give you better advice, but that may help. Be sure you are running an updated browser. Are you using aol by any chance?

 

[Ranger Rick]

I suspected you were, but my job is about accomdating people with disabilities, so I get a little carried away sometimes.

You might be able to fix your color limitations. Go to the 'my account menu' and select 'my user control panel' one there you should a choice to 'edit options' on the left pane. Once there scroll down to the bottom and look for 'Message Editor Interface'. There are three different choices there. Try each of the three choices one at a time and see which one works best for your browser/operating system. Someone with more technical knowledge may be able to give you better advice, but that may help. Be sure you are running an updated browser. Are you using aol by any chance?

No AOL and I am behind several comapany firewalls. I will try what you said though.

Thanks It worked. I need to ping that mad austrian mod for not letting me know about this.

 

[Thanee]

I actually use the code-tags for color and everything else. No fancy button-clicking for me.

I generally put thoughts in italics and do not color them, so they do not stand out so much; speech is within quotation marks (“...”) and colored, and I also write it in italics to further differentiate it from the narrative text.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Branding Opportunity]

BO,

Most DM's list a guide to posting for their games. I usually put thoughts in gray italics and have everyone pick a color for things their character says aloud as well as using quotationmarks. Some folks like to use a specific color for OOC comments as well. However, I see that Thanee uses italics for speech and everyone has different ideas about color use, so it could get confusing--and indeed already has. If Ranger Rick is in fact colorblind we should accomdate that as well. Some direction from you might facilitate understanding. Just my two copper's worth.

I'm pretty laissez-faire when it comes to posting conventions, as long as it is clear and consistant. It doesn't bother me if different people use different methods, once again, as long as it is clear and consistant. If anyone gets confused or has trouble reading someone's posts, say something here and we'll address it.

This does bring up a related issue, which is dice rolling. I like to roll most of the dice in non-combat situations, especially if I don't want you to know how well you did on a particular skill check. Just let me know if you want to make a skill check. In combat, I'll let you do your own dice rolling for attack and damage (and anything else related), and then will describe the effects. I'd prefer it if you use one of the many online dice rollers. How does that sound?

 

[Thanee]

I only see one problem with that...

In combat, I suppose, we post actions for the round and you will resolve them in order then.
That's how it is usually done (resolving every action seperately takes way too much time).

Given that, it's just natural, that declared actions will not always work, make sense (after some other actions have been resolved), and so on.

In this case, unless the player had some sense of precognition and gave directions, it's for the DM to alter the PC's action for the round accordingly (sometimes a simple delay will do, sometimes a change of targets, sometimes a whole new action has to be done, where I (when I DM) generally try to use only "simple actions" (move, attack, etc), and generally avoid using up spells and such for the PC; but that depends wholly on the situation at hand).

Anyways... because of this, rolling dice up front while declaring the action (there really is no other time to do this) might not work so well and you will often be required to roll other or additional dice. Working all of that in (including the inevitable errors, that will be done while rolling dice) and mixing it together is probably just more work, than picking up your d20 while writing up the post for the current round and rolling all the dice yourself.

Therefore, I would recommend that you (the DM) roll all dice all the time.

I just think it's easier for you that way.

If you like it better, we can certainly also do it the other way, I'm not opposed to that or anything.

Invisible Castle has a pretty decent online dice roller, if we need one.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Branding Opportunity]

Therefore, I would recommend that you (the DM) roll all dice all the time.

I just think it's easier for you that way.

If you like it better, we can certainly also do it the other way, I'm not opposed to that or anything.

Hmm, now that you explain it that way, it makes a lot of sense to do it this way. I yield to your superior knowledge and post count

 

[Scotley]

I am happy to have you do all the dice rolling. In my current game I'm letting the players roll their own dice, but they are commited to posting pretty much every day. It does make things a good bit more confusing. We use invisible castle. If you look at the thread for my game you'll see it is more than a little chaotic to do it that way. I was trying to keep players used to only face to face games where they did all their rolling happy. We are making it work, but it is a real pain in the posterior. I have been resolving actions as they come in rather than posting summaries, which only adds to the madness. As I said above, I am more than happy to have you do all the dice rolling.

 

[James Heard]

I'd be happy to let anyone do the die rolling as well, mostly because I'm fairly anti-dice (to the consternation of every irl gamer I know) by long habit.

As for posting format, I like Sandy Brown so I pretty much just stick with it for dialog and twitter back in forth between grays for OOC mostly because I can never remember the right one. I tend to type them out longhand in notepad or something first unless I'm in a hurry. Thoughts...Sometimes italics, somtimes as internal dialog. I'm trying to find a natural space that keeps my normal writing tendencies intact as either one or the other, but I tend to use both in normal fiction so it's a little difficult. I've been debating whether or not I should use a different color tag for Mavic's follower's dialog too, for clarity.

Also, I've noticed my posts tend to be a little long? Is that a problem for anyone? Part of it is because, as has been noted, Mavic's a little apart from the rest of the 'boon & friendly companions' because of his being a PTS nutjob. The rest of the blame lies firmly with me talking/writing too much and not as much.