In reply to shady joker (msg # 770):

Sounds interesting, but I'm already getting myself game over extended. Good luck on the game.
Have you thought of trying a G+ Hangout and/or Roll20 one shot?

In reply to OggyBenDoggy (msg # 771):

I'm willing to share duties, I suppose.

I can help manage, too. I am here almost everyday.

In reply to OggyBenDoggy (msg # 771):

I can lend a hand too.

In reply to OggyBenDoggy (msg # 771):

I am willing to do it. But if some one else wants to step up let them.

... so who else threw in some funds for the Weird War Rome kickstarter?

I did. Glad it finally is seeing the light of day. I was very briefly involved in some playtests a few years ago. Don't know how much it has changed from back when, but the concept was great.

Me (on rome)

I like who it's broken up into mini-campaigns.

My group is a little erratic, smaller campaigns might be easier to finish.  we could even rotate GMs

might also work well here, since things take longer in PBP

luke, strickland, gave you GM access

Thank you, sir. I will help manage things as best as I can!

How do I post a link to the Raiders & Ruins pdf book without pissing off rpol moderators? It is a FREE fan made book but I can't find a web page for it and If I just link it to something like drop box they mods might think I am promoting piracy.

Have you asked the moderators?

Put it on Google Drive and create a public link to it here.

If the book is free as in "freedom", you should be able to link it from your dropbox without any problems.

On the other hand, if the book is free as in "beer", there may be a chance that the creators get some kind of cash flow from people visiting their site. In this case, it wouldn't be a good thing to share through dropbox.

Well the Author posted it on Google Documents for all to have. My computer illiterate self spent the afternoon figuring that out and posting his shared link to my game. *Facepalm*

I've started a few games here.  THey all pretty much went the same.  4-6 people started in it.  The game played for a while, a few dropped out, and few new players added.

Then something would happen.  Work would get busy for me.  Vacation.  Something.  I'd post a game delay/apology.  Then after a while I'd close the game, saying I didn't know when I'd be able to get back to it.

But was I wrong?  I've also been in a few games that lapsed for a long time, months even, but were successfully revived.

I'd been tempted to do a WW:Rome game or Kaiser's Gate , War of the Dead, a number,  but I'd think, "but I can't run again, eventually works get's ugly and it ends".

But was I wrong?  Would it be OK, maybe with proper warning to the players, to do a game which might have occasional long pauses/breaks?  Preferrably when the plot allows.

I've run some of those long-break games you've been in! I certainly notice a pattern my own self of periods of low/no activity moving to high activity then back again. As long as you've got players who are understanding of the long breaks, it can work.

So anyone know about the distance modifiers in the CHASE rules? I'm running a cowboys on horse back chase and my players think that having 5H card and the target a 4D card means -4 Long Range Modifier. I thought The distance was relative to your action card and the targets action card.

The range is based on the card drawn (and whether they can attack at all is based on if they have a higher attack bonus or not), not relative value. Chases are abstract -- anything between a 3 and a 10 is considered a long-range shot because of the current situation in the round, which is supposed to represent more than a single turn's worth of movement, tricks, attempts to shake pursuit/gain ground, and so on.

Do they still get the Unstable platform penalty for shooting at people from horse back or a wagon?

In reply to shady joker (msg # 791):

Unstable platform applies if you're shooting from a horse or wagon but not if you're stationary shooting someone who's on horse back or in a wagon.

Well these guys are riding their horses and shooting Single action revolvers. I figured they can do that Since many decent riders could put the reins in their teeth, steer with their knees, or some other such thing a trained rider does to use both hands while on horse back. Now the Wagon Driver can't do that that's why he needs a guy to run shot gun or at best use a double action revolver with one hand and the steering thing in the other. Granted not very realistic but it is a movie game so some things aren't realistic.

They CAN do it, just not with any great accuracy unless they've been trained to do so, which is why the Unstable Platform rules and and Steady Hands edges exist in the first place. It's not particularly easy to hit a moving target while you're moving as well.

Also, the range is not just range.  It could be (in this case) dust from the chase, having bad angle, cover from rocks/trees in the way, etc.

Basically, the card represents the one clean shot/attack the characters get over the course of this round's worth of chases.