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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hanuman47" data-source="post: 2911772" data-attributes="member: 18349">Questions AnsweredI want to apologize for the confusion about characters and PbP mechanics.  Most PbP games start with an out of character thread to hash out such details and questions.  I had hoped that the PDF and emails would be sufficient to render this unnecessary, but it looks like there were several things I either didn’t think to cover or didn’t do so clearly enough.Character descriptions:  It was my intent for everyone to describe themselves in character.  I guess I wasn't explicit enough about that when I said "tell us what our first impression of your character is" in the first post.  Most of you gave at least a brief description in your first posts.  If you haven’t yet done so (or want to expand on what you wrote), please include your description, as you want to be perceived by the other characters in an sblock labeled “Description” in your next post.Character Sheets:  My reason for having everyone post character sheets is so that they are here on the thread for easy reference and so that I can get a copy of any I don't have already.  No one else has any particular need to look at them (see below).Spoiler Blocks:  Again, I was unclear about how to use these.  In general, I use them 1) to set aside information that only a subset of the player characters would know or 2) to enclose large blocks of text that would otherwise cause lots of scrolling. I see that I created unnecessary confusion by not adhering to either of the above rules in my last post.  I’ve fixed that now and will try in the future to be more consistent and make certain that the audience for spoiler blocks is readily apparent.  In general, assume that a spoiler block in a player’s post is intended for the DM only unless otherwise labeled.     There is of, course, nothing to prevent you from reading spoiler blocks that aren’t intended for you.  I don’t have a particular problem with that; I trust everyone to be able to separate character knowledge from player knowledge.  If there’s something that you really don’t want anyone else to see, email it to me.Undead Abilities:  Another thing I was unclear about in the first post is the amount of time that has passed since your deaths.  Everyone died at midnight the Vult 16, 997 YK.  The game started on Vult 28 (twelve days later).  Now it is very early in the morning of Zarantyr 1, 998 YK (New Year’s Day).  My point is that you’ve had nearly two weeks to explore your condition, so you are reasonably familiar with what you can and cannot do.  If you want to role-play discovering your abilities as you use them, that’s OK, too (you as a player know what you can do but it’s OK for your character to use an ability for the first time by instinct, for example).  I’m going to assume that any undead who need to feed have done so recently (some of you actually even referred to having done so in your first posts or in emails to me).  The “hunger clock” starts from the moment the game started – late night on Vult 28.  Ghouls do not have to eat living flesh, but the fresher the better (and the flesh of sentients “tastes better” than that of non-sentients).Assume you only know what other characters tell you about themselves, apart from the fact that everyone looks dead.Conventions, Revisited: In general, I will type most game events in prose in white text (with colored text to denote speech).  Silver text will used to discuss things in more mechanical terms.  Meta-game issues will be in smaller silver text ({size=1}, if you’re curious about the syntax).  Privileged information will be handled in sblocks or, if it’s something double ultra-secret, by email.Rolling Dice:  There's an online dice roller here:  <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/rolldice.py" target="_blank">http://invisiblecastle.com/rolldice.py</a>.  It keeps all rolls for a particular character in a database and generates a hyperlink to the result - copy that hyperlink into your post.  Here's my preferred format for die rolls:Sample Check (@1d20+4) = {url=http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=492990}21{/url} (as always, use [], not {} -- those are the keys next to the P key, Andrinor.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />) Hopefully that clears some things up.  If you still have questions, feel free to post (in silver and/or sblock) or email me.Game update to follow.</blockquote>

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