Discuss whatever you wish here.

“I’ve had a hell of a lot of fun and enjoyed every minute of it.”

Errol Flynn’s last words, and, I hope, most everyone’s feeling after playing here.

Welcome aboard!  I wish Errol Flynn was playing too, but you can’t have everything.

I’m still waiting on players to finish up their characters.  I have NPCs generated, so we can get started as soon as everybody’s ready.  (If anyone requires assistance, let me know.)

Or I could randomly generate the characters for you.
This message was last edited by the GM at 08:48, Sun 04 Mar 2018.

From now on, unless they insist on doing it the old-fashioned way, I think I'm going to generate four randomized level 0 (unnamed) characters on behalf of each player who joins.  I can easily do this using the Crawler's Companion app, from Purple Sorcerer Games.

So are we all suppose to travel as a group or choose different paths in the maze?

Also how do we view our generated characters?

Thanks

Click on Character Details, which is leftmost in the menu above, and immediately below the box that says ROLEPLAY ONLINE.  Then, to enter character names and alignments, click Edit Character Sheet.  (Or just tell me the info, and I’ll enter it for you.)

In Orc Maze, the party travels together.  However, Orc Maze is just an optional mini-game, not the main campaign thread.  In Orc Maze, there is no XP or treasure, and death doesn’t count.  In the real campaign, located on the Sailors on the Starless Sea main gameplay thread, your characters may go their own way, if they wish.
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:58, Mon 05 Mar 2018.

How do you make your dice rolls appear in a different color?

After you paste some text (such as your dice roll), select it, then choose a color from the styled text menu.  It’s located in the lower right of the window immediately below Cancel.
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:54, Wed 07 Mar 2018.

Hallo all, Uxnard the Unbowed at your service. Literally, because I'm an indentured servant who's been sent to join the party and bring back riches and buy my freedom.

Welcome aboard, Uxnard!

Over the weekend, the game has been slowing down.  I just want to assure everyone that I'm totally committed to going the distance with this, and then continuing with further adventures.

I want to make this the best damned Dungeon Crawl Classics play-by-post game on the planet.

Thank you for allowing me to join, I’m excited to play and looking forward to playing through this adventure and any future ones.

I am online M-F, less so Sat-Sun, so feel free to NPC me weekends.

Will do.  Any preferences as to how I handle them?

I'll come up with some default actions, but it'll take some play to arrive at that! So: Soon.

I tried repeatedly to post a link today.  No dice.

Sometimes Rpol pisses me off.

I did cut and paste the link, that was a cool and oddly enough I was just reading today about an older Dcc module that game with a soundtrack cd for certain encounters and areas, so very serepidous.

Hey quick question:  what is your rule on infravision?  I’d like to have my dwarf look into the well but I’m not sure if he needs to be in total darkness for it to work or if he can peer into dark places with it.

After reading about half of the Wikipedia article on Infrared, I’m ruling that you should be able to see down the well, as almost all infrared radiation from sunlight is in the near-infrared wavelength, whereas most earthbound sources produce mid-infrared.  Just don’t try it while standing next to a fire.

Sounds good, thank you

I’m definitely still accepting new players, in case anyone was wondering.  One of the reasons I’m running this campaign is so that anyone who feels like playing can join on any given day, and be up and running in a very short time.  There are too many people out there who want to play, but can’t.
This message was last edited by the GM at 03:53, Mon 19 Mar 2018.

Added two new players today.

Awesome, welcome guys!

Just so everybody knows, there will be an opportunity to replace dead characters a little further on.

Quick question: could each character take a try at a task, such as opening the coffer, or does one failure mean we won’t get it open by force?
Thank you
This message was last edited by the player at 19:05, Tue 03 Apr 2018.

I will be offline starting now, returning Monday. Feel free to NPC Homund's foursome.

It's open, so you now know the answer.

See you in a few days, Homund.

I should drop out of this game for now -- it's been fun!

Drop back in any time you want.

After the first run-through of SotSS... and I intend to run it multiple times... I will be running Grimtooth’s Museum of Death.

Hey guys, I apologize for being somewhat awol the last week and a half, had a bit of a family health emergency, but things are back to pretty much normal now.
If you are based in the US I hope you have a great Memorial Day weekend

Yikes!  I hope the health emergency wasn’t too bad.

Thank you, my wife slipped and fell and ended up with a concussion, we were lucky in that it wasn’t too severe and she’s now feeling much much better.  Scary stuff though, happened in he blink of an eye.

I hope she gets well soon, Gurren.

A reminder for everybody: this campaign is active and accepting new members.  If you have already joined but haven’t posted lately, feel free to jump back in,

Hi there! I guess I finally got in?

Welcome Varrish!
I’m another player here, it’s been a great game so far.  You may have read the gameplay thread already, but in case you haven’t: we have finally gained entry into a tower in the ruined Keep and rescued some of our fellow villagers, I think if you already have your characters this is a prime spot for them to join in, one of the other players has a character who has been stung by an unknown (and as yet unseen) creature and is having some dermatology issues at the moment, waiting to see what happens next before continuing to search the ground level....

So far on this adventure we’ve encountered:
Vine zombies.
An unknown (probably beastmen) who dropped a portcullis on us.
A weird well that seemed to be some sort of sacrifice contraption.
A ruined chapel that contained a tar ooze (nasty), a frog demon idol, and now has two beastmen locked inside as prisoners.
A sinkhole that seems to have some supernatural activity eminating out of it.
The current tower featuring a cascade of increasingly unpleasant beastmen, prisoners from our village, and the aforementioned unseen stinger.

Looking forward to playing with you, I think you can start posting at any time, let me know if I can be of any help.

In reply to Gurren (msg # 36):

Thanks! I got as far as the temple in the other online game I was in. My herbalist made the mistake of tasting the incense cone, and went blind. :D

Welcome, Varrish.  If you wish, you may jump right in and join the party.  Your characters will safely crawl in under the gate and cross the courtyard to join the others in the tower.

Hi Bigredtwenty,

Quick question:  how do we handle healing?  Grum got dinged by one of the beast-men, will he heal over time or because we're zero level we have to wait until the end of the adventure?

One more:  do the lucky signs have any effect at zero level or are they only for after zero level?

Thank you, hope all is well with you!

An uninterrupted night’s rest heals 1 hp, and lucky signs do indeed count at level zero.

Two more quick questions:

Are all of the characters of the players who are away now considered NPCs or are they considered off doing their own thing?

If there were to be a plan that could use some NPC asssitance, is it ok to ask them if they will participate and you can evaluate if they would agree to help or not? (It would not be anything that would be trying to use them as cannon fodder, but simply something that is aligned with the goal of the peasant mob — root out the evils facing the village, in this case specifically, help me investigate the beast men we locked in the chapel and potentially interrogate them, more than my guys might be necessary if something got to them or they have regained their resolve...)

Thank you

For now, all player characters remain under the original player’s control no matter how long they’re away.  In the future this may change, but for now I’m keeping this loose so that people are free to jump back in even if they’ve been gone for a while.

What are the characters doing while their players are away?  This is uncertain.  They may be lingering in the gatehouse, or returning to the village.  They won’t be very helpful until their players return.

However, keep in mind that “Yeppo” in an NPC “player” whose characters are controlled by me.  You may ask them for assistance, and they will most likely provide it.
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:51, Mon 03 Sept 2018.

In reply to Bigredtwenty (msg # 42):

Is this game still running?

Yes!

Looks like I forgot to add you to group 1.  But I just added you, so you should now be able to see the main gameplay thread.  Feel free to jump in.
This message was last edited by the GM at 04:02, Wed 26 Sept 2018.

This game is still active.  Current players, feel free to go ahead and post again.  Meanwhile, I’m always accepting new players.

The game is moving again!  Can’t keep a good campaign down.

I finally bumped the ad for the campaign.  New players incoming?  Time will tell...

Well, you've got one new player. Hi to those of you still here! Is it just two others?

Hello!  Welcome!

Welcome to all the new players!

Welcome, everybody.  Four new players have sign up so far.

And if you’re an old player who hasn’t been active in a while, feel free to jump back in.

Hi all! Glad to be joining the game! Let's all get brutally killed run away adventure!

I don't expect anyone to take Tina's suggestion

I figure we were all a little curious about the crack in the wall, if the consensus is to head down the stairs, we can definitely do that instead.
Hope everyone is well.

I may run Grimtooth’s Museum of Death after this.  Would that interest you, or would you rather do something else?

Also, we had a wave of new players join, but only one of them (Kitty) has posted in the past two weeks.  Should I look for more players again?
This message was last edited by the GM at 00:20, Wed 10 Apr 2019.

I’d be happy to play through Grimtooth.  I’m pretty open to anything you want to throw at us.

Can’t hurt to bump the ad again, I think we’re the only DCC game looking for players on Rpol so we may get another inflow and even if only one or two stick around that could be good.

I like museums of death!

Just keep in mind that this particular Museum of Death is aptly named!  And some things will be changed around.

Hmm... I'm not really sure of how we go forward from here? Ideas? Stuff that hasn't been poked?

A short passage exits the chamber to the north, ending with descending stairs heading east.  Didn’t I mention that?

Hi, everyone, there are four more zeros on their way to join you.

Bigredtwenty, thank you for inviting me to the game.

Let's turn some zeros into heroes!

Black Sabbath reference noted and approved.

Welcome to the game, puppeteer

quick question on do the people who picked up the skulls compulsively: is their compulsion to have to hold the skull in their hand or that they just wont get rid of it from inventory?

Oofi, Kitty, Puppeteer,

So we just found ceremonial robes, earlier we found a censer and evil smelling incense in a burned out chapel where some people died in the past and then two party members died to an tar creature....  I'm wondering if there will be an opportunity to use them somewhere down here... we only have three incense cones but if anyone thinks of a possible use for these or sees a possibility, I'm all ears.

Also, the people who passed their luck save were the ones who picked a skull...I had the other guys on my team take one as well based off that...will I come to regret this... Possibly :-)

Unless someone has any thoughts on the pool, I'm ready to descend.

I’m not sure Lord Fernroar has any thoughts at all, beyond I wonder what they’ll serve for supper tonight?

Decend away!

Btw.. you may want to suggest that he goes down first, He may throw a tantrum if he’s not shown the proper amount of respect and I doubt the possibility that there may be traps set in this place has occurred to him. :^)

@Bigredtwenty

I need a rules clarification, please. It was may understanding that when rolling a luck check the idea was to roll under the characters luck score.

The game mechanic I was invoking to listen at the stairs is:

"Characters can make Luck checks to attempt feats that
succeed based on Luck alone. The judge will provide
the specifics of any attempt, but the attempt is usually
resolved by rolling equal to or less than the character’s
Luck score on 1d20." (Core rules pg 19)

In this case, if there were going to be a critical success or failure on the roll, I would think they would be on a 1 and 20 respectively. Since the target is reversed from the norm, I'd expect the results that generate crits would be reversed, too.

I'm not invested in the issue, or the roll, at all really. I just want to make sure I'm on the same page with you on the mechanics.

Thanks!
This message was last edited by the player at 00:19, Wed 22 May 2019.

You’re right.  Next time I’ll to remember to specify whether or not you want to roll high or low.

And geez louis, I need to keep a closer eye on this thread!  Sorry it took me so long to reply.

No worries, it certainly wasn't a game changing issue. I do appreciate the response though.

Sorry about the delay in updating.

No worries, I hope you are well.

Although this campaign has ground to a halt, it’s still active.  I’m checking daily, and still welcoming new players (and the return of old ones).

I like your idea Gurren! I'm going to give others a little more time to respond to my last post, but I intend to send at least one and maybe all three of my remaining characters out to the boat in my next one.

Thank you :-)
Sounds good, let’s hope this works, hoping there will be controls Lucky didn’t have a chance to look for (RIP)....

I may have asked this before, but do you want to continue with Grimtooth’s Museum of Death after you finish with this module?  (You won’t need to survive this one to play in the next one).

Is that another funnel, or will the characters who survive this adventure level up and be playable?

If you survive this, you’ll level up.  But you can also start at level 0 in Grimtooth’s Museum of Death (which is aptly named).

I’ll probably also run Sailors on the Starless Sea again.

Things are moving along quickly now, so if you’ve been idle but still want to jump back in, this is the time to do it.

I would like to continue with Grimtooth when we get to the end of this module.

If I have a survivor I would prefer to level them up and play that character moving forward. If I don't, or if that isn't an option I'd be game for another funnel. Either way, the answer is yes, I would like to continue. I suppose I should wait to worry about the particulars after this adventure is finished.

Now I wish I had picked up some of those robes wehen I first came in.... oh well. Maybe they wont notice us.

I think we are thinking along the same lines, I think there were only four robes, my guys took them and I just posted a message using them but I’m happy to hand two over to you if you want a part in the bluff I’m setting up....my thought was to have four people play off like late arrivals and have the rest duck down.... I’m not sure what else to try :-)

Although if our approach is noticed, and or there’s nowhere for the others to get out of sight on the boat, maybe plan B is for the others to hide their weapons on their person and pretend to be the prisoners of the four in the robes.... (“Stand aside, more sacrifices for Leviathan!”)

If Yeppo’s boys want a robe, I’ll give him one as well.
This message was last edited by the player at 12:26, Mon 02 Sept 2019.

I think his Lordship is just a big enough jerk to take you up on that. He couldn't possibly pretend to be a prisoner. That would be ridiculous.

Gurren will have to provide the list of who has robes for you, Bigred.

Have I overlooked the way to poke a player on this site, or is there just no way to do that?

I’m not sure what you mean by ‘poke a player.’

Regarding the censer and the incense:  I’m of two minds, I suspect that the real prisoners are from our village and I would like to save as many as we can.... I’m hoping the incense smoke will harm or grant us an advantage somehow over the beast-men/chaos lord.... too soon to play that card?  Do you want to wait until we get closer to the top?

Yes, or at the minimum until they figure out we're not on their side.

Thank you, let’s see how this starts to play out then....

Btw, I don’t think RPOL has a way to alert another player to make a move other than Direct message.... but I think you also have to opt in to the site sending you an email notification that you have messages :-)

That's what I decided. It seemed like it would be a good feature to have until I remembered that part of the appeal of PbP is flexible play timing and that one of the things about it that appealed to me was that it is a good way to practice patience. :>

I think it’s time to attack, what do you think?

I think I hope you do a better job of it tham I did. Good luck! :>

Does anyone have a positive initiative modifier? I do not.

Gurren has +1, I’ll make the roll :-0

I apologize in advance, but I will probably be slow to post for the next week or so. I have midterms this week and next.

I'm guessing that Gurren will make the initiative roll again.

Good luck with midterms!

Good luck.

It's been a long time, but I'm still open to continuing this some day.

I’m game. (Pun definitely intended.)

Head on over to the other OOC thread, for group 1.