Seeking a Vanilla Fantasy PbP Game

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Sorry Guys. I'm PMing the equipment tweaks now, so
I suppose we're cool to start?
Party Background

This might work, or be a good skeleton for everyone to build off of/please build off of this or change it to suit your liking:

Issemine is on a quest, under the guard of Mot. Perhaps at a standstill as to how to proceed, and is now "finding herself by getting lost." It's clear they don't get along well*.

Early on they were beset by owlbears and were hard pressed until Sir Osric joined the fray and together they chased off the beasts. They soon met "Flash and Smash" (Tolmas and Reynar) who are basically mercenaries and were adventuring with Tomas the very sneaky wizard and Thragg the fighter who, sadly, was lost to owlbears on their previous adventure. Seeing the wisdom of adventuring in numbers, they all joined forces and, seeing that gold is needed to further their ends, went dungeon delving for several months....

or something.

*Keith, let's not get into the Freudian analysis for which this is begging... one of your characters is a Female who worships rainbows and the other is a dude who's boss made him promise to protect her, they quote unquote can't stand each other... OH the sexual tension!

.... hours on the couch. (therapy couch I mean! Get your mind out of the gutter, Elvis!)

[Relaxo]

Ok...

how about moving the actual game to this thread?
http://www.freeyabb.com/trolllordgames/ ... mes#157167

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Silly question, am I/are we supposed to roll initiative BEFORE you decide what to do?

Maybe in a tabletop game, but I'm not sure that would work here, as you've have to wait for whoever is earlier in initiative to post first....

What do you all think?

Also... Let's use this thread for this sort of thing, but the narrative stuff in the other thread, I've seen that work well in other PbP's. The "OOC" "stage directions" still belong in the other one. If in doubt, use the other one.
Elvis, Osric's sword will be officially the higher bonus against "humanoids and Giants" just like the Ranger ability Combat Marauder.
Keith, I've been thinking about the Weapon Master class design... Please Change Weapon Master BtH to = that of fighter, and I meant to clarify earlier that you also get the same + to hit/damage that Weapon Specialization gets. However, remove the additional attacks at 10th level, and I might move the flurry to 10 th level and maybe make it more like the barbarian (4th print) whirlwind attack... but probably not. (not that it matters in a game where you may not make it to 6th level (because that would take a long time, not because I'm going to feed you all to owlbears (well, maybe Marcus, heal THAT, bitch!))) LOL
ALL Please feel free to let me know your opinions of these changes to the Weapon Master class... the original version in on page 1 of this thread. I don't want it to be more powerful than the fighter... or not much more, at least, you know what I mean, ti should still mesh well with the other classes.

[Heruka]

Hi Bill,

I guess on the initiative question I side with it being cool as a Pbp player to state intentions, and to let you rule on the timings of the actions as they best fit. It works for me on the level of I check the site, make a post, go about my day - check back later and repeat... some days I have more time and may make more posts, and these may get out of synch with actions/initiative (in other words, may become plans or intentions yet to happen). That said, I'm happy to go with however you rule it.

On the Weapon Master class evolving - yep, I'm happy with the suggestions you lay out here (though as of yet I don't have a 4th printing PHB so I'll go with the flow on the barbarian parallel etc. Thinking aloud here, does it change the Cleric at all?) - kind of wht this game is for in one way, trying out new stuff, playtesting a class etc.

As for reaching 6th level and beyond - bah! We may be bloodied, but you should see the other guy (er, well, owlbear).

My early thoughts on how pbp play is different to tabletop play (never having done this before) centre on my own relationship to my PCs - so far I feel a bit looser, bolder maybe - I think it has to do with not rolling the dice, its more roleplay led - clearer somehow. We'll see!

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Cleric is unchanged in 4th printing.