Post your out of game chit chat here.

Here's a character sheet I made...  It uses codes for formatting.  Looks best in anything other than Internet Explorer.

Note: Use at own risk. I dont really want to support everyone with the code stuff, but if you get stuck here and there, feel free to ask.

Edit: I cant get the code to display so you can copy it... If you want it.. PM me your e-mail address and I can send it to you.











x Denotes a Class or Cross Skill
* Denotes Armor Check Penalty (Double for Swim)









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I am on leave all of next week, but not really going anywhere nice, just Bristol and a house hunt.

I doubt the hotel they have booked me into will have any decent access to web, so my posting will be limited from 3rd to 9th August.

'Bristols' sounds like a nice trip away actual (pouts)

send me a postcard?

http://www.thedenverchannel.co...20423352/detail.html

I won't be able to post over the weekend.  Have a happy holiday.  See you all Monday or Tuesday.

Have a great holiday weekend and happy birthday, ya old coot!
*cough* pot *cough* kettle ;)

BTW,
15 *should* pretty much kill us all.  I hope you've got some Ewok prisoner story to work out or that we get insanely lucky on rolls

Busy and no Internet connection at home, but will post from work in the morning.

No worries.  One thing I know about D&D and that 1st level characters are fragile and need to be babied a little.  That's why I sent a little help.  I'm not going to swarm you guys under (yet).

Sorry that Holly not been posting as much as I'd like.  Work really got hectic over this week, and probably next.  Still no broadband!  Not having much luck there.

Will keep up as best I can, and ensure that there is a little input everynow and again.  If we hit combat again, I'll keep up with short but prompt posts if i can.

Certainly been an interesting start for us.  Glad we didn't have to get mcuky with them gobbo's.

I will be sunning myself on the beach in Tenerife from 16th to 24th October, so doubt I'll have much time to keep up to date.

Will be back up to speed and posting again from the 26th (Monday)

Tenerife?!! Color me so very lime jello

Wow. Go you!

Have an awesome weekend!!!!

I reposted a bunch of in game stuff from this item to the OOC - in game thread and deleted the posts here.

I'm going to put leaving town Wednesday night and I won't be able to post again until Sunday night or Monday (November 2nd).

That's tonight!!!

Is it just me or does this almost feel like a scooby doo cartoon, where were the meddling kids? ^.^

Absolutely! Makes you wonder who the Scooby Doo character is though!

In reply to Holly (msg #21):

the eye

(laughs) we have to figure out the eye's scooby snack then ^.~

I was hoping it might be Trogs...

Zoinks!  We saw the whole Scooby Doo crew (minus Scooby himself) in costume at the big party in Dayton's Oregon district.  Tetris pieces, pirates, superheroes (and superheroines), and bees were the most common costumes.

We'll have to pull the mask of Arkus and see who he really is.

wow.  Did we totally tank those spot checks or what?

and if this is really a scooby doo adventure then, Arkus is behind the raids with the Trogs, and will have to say, "... and i would have gotten away with it too, if it wasnt for those meddling kids..."

lol... I totally agree on both.

Well we still have the two NPC's to hope to see something at least?

You guys must've saved all the good rolls for the NPCs.  6 rolls, only 1 under 10.  No fudges, honest.

BEHOLD~!

The mathematical power of the law of averages!

I moved your question to in-game OOC item.

I'll be away until Sunday night, so I likely won't be able to post again until then.  I hope everyone has a good holiday weekend.

In reply to Fritzholm (msg #33):

I should be around online over the next couple weeks, but I am moving to Syracuse so I may miss a couple days depending on hotel internet service (or lack thereof)

I'll be out of town until Sunday night.

Safe travels fritzy

Been a little under the weather.  just a quick note to let you know that and to ask fritz to NPC me a little till i get back.

That's okay... I expected the game to slow down a bit due to the holidaze.

Feel better!!

And Happy New Year to all my Triplefang cousins!!

Some stuff to do tommorrow so i wont be about, if everyone goes after Glumr, Snow follows after then putting the plate away and hoping it's a two way magical gate and not a one way one.

I have a very busy week with regards work, and I’m not sure what access to web I will have as I travel the country.

I'll post tonight before i get on train.

Phil

Glumr is arguing to go investigate a Pit, he didnt even notice/see.

It was noted that *SNOW* noticed the Pit.  At no time did Snow ever mention this pit to Glumr...

I thought it's like this:

Person A and Person B are walking somewhere.
Person A sees something that draws their attention.
Person B notices the item without Person A saying "look what I see" due to body language, direction they are looking and the such.

Otherwise I would think the GM would have made that section of text private, such as if you saw a sign in draconic.

Guess we'll let fritz make the call.
(I mean not in the jerk ass way of I'm right and you're wrong, but I think both our interpretations on Fritz's post are valid.)

But why wouldnt Snow point out things she saw to her party anyway?  :P

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All that being said, I think this is an awesome game.  We're so playing very indepth characters instead of just the typical hack and slash for exp and items.  The family drama puts a interesting spin on things.  We're soo like a real family. lol.

Have a good weekend everyone!  :)
This message was last edited by the player at 21:06, Fri 22 Jan 2010.

For the same reason she didnt tell you what the banner said, she doesnt want to encourage Glumr to go do something silly by himself.

She's going to report everything she sees/knows but when the party is back together.
This message was last edited by the player at 22:37, Fri 22 Jan 2010.

I've been typically employing a Dungeon Mastering technique by which I choose a player, mostly by whim, to see or hear things that require no spot or search check.  (Spot is used to counter hide.  Search is typically used to examine details or actively look for something not obvious.)  I think it's more fun to roleplay than just always saying everyone sees and hears everything at once.  This way someone notices it first and can point it out to others.

That said, I didn't envision that the party would reach such a point of bickering that they intentionally hide their discoveries from each other.  It leaves me in a tricky situation.  On the one hand, Snow has valid reasons for not pointing the pit out to Glumr.  On the other hand, there's no reason that Glumr would've missed this obvious feature.

In this case I think I'll let Glumr see the pit somewhat after Snow saw it.  I'll try to be more careful dispensing knowledge in the future.  Sorry for the confusion.

Then we are where we are and nothings changed.

In reply to Snow (msg #45):

I recommend analyzing Snow's reactions a bit.  All other personality traits aside, if she wasn't intrinsically curious and didn't have a taste for power and adventure, she wouldn't be training to be a frost sorceress and she'd never have signed up to do any of this stuff.  You'd just be the wistful cook at a Triplefang camp.

Sure, be the super-ego counterpoint to the id-kid Glumr and play up the part.  But deep down inside, its all a ruse.  Protest staying, and finally make the excuse to provide overwatch while Glumr searches, only because his foolhardiness will surely get him killed...

But thats not the real story--you need him to go down there because you might not be ready to let yourself (yet), but you just gotz to know whats in that creepy pit.  You spotted it because it stuck out to you; you just knew something was odd about it.

Play it however you want, but thats my take on it.  As-is, the reactions don't explain why you'd ever have left the Triplefang cooking fires.

Snow has her reasons for the way she behaves, i've already had discussions with Fritz over them.

There are reasons why she came, though if you think back, the 'adventure' was only suppose to be for 2~3 days, and it's notably extended, so she's just a little homesick at the moment.  She also takes a very dim view on Glumr's jump in first, think of consequences later view point.  She's conceded to his desires and got cut up good in the last fight to prevent having him swamped by trogs, and he still hasnt learned his lesson.

I believe on the last fight not only was she not appreciated for trying to help but a dim view was taken on her standing in the front line, when she's so ill suited for melee.  (It was to keep Mord from being flanked, and Glumr from being engaged in melee while he had a bow in his hand)

At this point if he wants to run off on his own, he needs to learn the consequences of doing so.

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Out of character, the player thinks its bad to investigate an encounter designed for six characters with three.  That usually doesnt end well.  If someone is going to jump off a bridge, i'd be foolish to follow.
This message was last edited by the player at 14:31, Sat 23 Jan 2010.

It sounds like you are thinking about it as a person playing a game more than someone in that situation.  There's no reason to believe that the situation we are in is geared for 6 people just because we are in a group of 6 characters.

Just saying.

Likewise, I dont know why your character would feel unappreciated in the situation, or looked down on for joining the line.  There was no mention of hint of that from my point of view.

I mean I could say the same of Glumr in the goblin ambush situation.
But more so I think everyone is just expected to do what they can in a combat situation.  Plus there will be much more time to give praises and talk about close calls once the adventurers are safe at the end of this quest from the characters point of view.  If anything, Glumr is not intentionally doing that, but maybe just needs to be reminded that a little thanks can go a long way.  He's not used to working with groups as he's spent much time alone on the out skirts of town during his adolescence.

From Glumr's point of view, it's not that he's brash.  It's just that's there's nobody else to do what needs to be done.  And in a situation like this, he feels that the more knowledge they have, the better off.  He tends to almost over think situations before he acts, but likewise is not one to wait and loose the initiative in a situation.

By not checking the pit out, considering that it's not really any more risky than their current situation (in checking the triangle structure), the team could be making decision down the road off of impartial information, which could cause them to make wrong decisions.  So in his mind "We need to know, and if not me, then who will go?"

Likewise, from Glumr's point of view, his cousin Snow seems to expect hit o follow her lead, yet in situations such as talking to folks they meet, she likes to move to the back and go unnoticed and not direct the conversations at all.   She also seems to not back Glumr up in social situations, which gives him an idea of how she must feel about him and his lines of thinking.  And then likes to contradict most of his ideas without being willing to really talk things out.

Glumr wants to air all of this out as he really likes his cousin, but feels like this is the thing that should be done in more comfortable surroundings as this adventure has been fast moving for the bunch.  He just doesnt get why she doesnt seem to have his back except when combat is happened (he's just happy that she does do that, so she likes him enough not to want him to meet an untimely demise).

I expect these issues to fade away as the group becomes less fragile and more comfortable with how the others react to situations.  It's a lot of fun playing characters how we are... It adds a lot of depth to them allowing us to play them really in character and less as a player.

I agree with Mord on how Snow is acting.  But realize that she is being played similarly with a lot of background stuff effecting how she handles situations.  But once again adds realism into it as many times in life when you have a job to be done with a group of people, there is always mixed enthusiasm and conflicting ideas on how a situation should be resolved.

It is what it is.

If Fritz thinks i'm misbehaving, and i'm out of character, or worse the character is unplayable he can tell me so and i'll scratch Snow and make a new one.  He's the only one that sees all the facts and is closest to impartial, I dont have more to say on this, since it's counter productive.

I think you misunderstand...

I think you are playing snow great.

I like that she and Glumr but heads.  While he doesnt always get her motivations, he believes that her line of thinking is what she believes is best course of action.

It's just character interaction.  These are situations that make the game more like a real situation and less like people playing a character.

So dont feel like this stuff is making the game less enjoyable.. I think it makes it more so.

I mean if we all thought things should be done the same way, the game would be pretty straight forward and basic.

Please dont feel like I am upset or frustrated with how you're playing.  Glumr from time to time is frustrated with Snow, but from player to player I dont feel that way.  You have reason's for your character's actions and I dont feel like any of them are 'to spite me'.

So please play on. :)

I feel bad dumping this on Snow too after all the grief, but I assure you there's a reason for the sickness and I'm not just being mean.

Snow's not one to really complain about being sick.  She doesnt want to slow the fangs down at this point so far from home, with so much to do so she'll put on her best face and play it down.

Been out sick..  Am back.  Catching up here.

hurt myself over weekend.

typing one handed bites.

will post when i can.

I hope your hand feels better.

apologies.

gettig ready for holidays.

reply soon.

Out of Office for a few days, but should be back online for Thursday.

some stuff happening here irl, so my post time might be a little laggy, please dont let me slow the game down.  Will try and keep up but cant promise anything.

RPOL added e-mail notification... Under User Preferences, you can set it to e-mail you an alert when there are new posts.

/usermodules/profile.cgi?action=emailschedule

It's not real time, but you can set it to scan every 15 minutes.

It does not send you a message unless there are new items since last check.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:33, Mon 12 Apr 2010.

Already did a detect magic, that's what caused Snow's little altar save throw thing.

The whole room was essentially magical, making the detection of non room magic difficult to impossible.
This message was last edited by the player at 17:37, Thu 15 Apr 2010.

That was the alter room... we left and went into a different room.  Nobody has done any detect magic in the new room.

I'll be away this weekend and busy Monday so I probably won't have any detailed posts ready until Tuesday.

Enjoy the weekend Fritzy

I got Holly and Mord each rolling on their between adventure narrative time activities.  I'll try to get Snow and Glumr going tomorrow.  Sorry for the delays.

I'm gonna take a 20.  :P

oki~

AWOL for a day of travelling and boring meetings, so not sure when back to post.

I'm off out of the office for three days, (Tues to Thurs) but should have access during evenings.

I talked to Mord's player today and he's going to drop out of the game.  I'll run Mord as an NPC for now, but we probably want to add another player to take up the role.  I'm not exactly sure how to recruit a new player.  As for the character, I'm pretty flexible.  The new player could take over Mord the way he is now, or change him around, or make a totally different character with legendary strength.

Thoughts?

We can always advertise for a new player but it'll be pot luck to find a player i think theres no harm in trying though.

Aw.. .that's a bummer.  I'll see if I can turn up anyone as well.  :/

I will be away for a week from Thursday. Off to Lanzarote, and unsure of connectivity where I am going.

Wow... For business or holiday?  Very cool destination. :)  ¿Hablas español?

A well earnt holiday. No spanish skills, so will rely on the good old sign language and go from there.

We're at the city, where he said he'd bring up, theres no reason to keep him with us now that he's done what he's said he'd do, we should pay him and part ways?

If so, Snow will pay Cuma's fees herself, she figures she owes her cousins for covering the cost of her horse and dogs.

I'm back. Slightly tanned, very relaxed and catching up today.

In reply to Holly (msg #76):

welcome back...  Nothing is happened yet.  We need to figure out what we're going to do.

I'll post today for sure. :D

I just posted a request for a Mord replacement in players wanted.  This is the first time I've ever done anything like this on RPoL, so I don't know what to expect.  I'll keep you all posted.

In the mean time start planning (out loud - preferably in character) and make your next move for the Tome.  Don't wait on the new player.

Wow that was fast!  We have a new character joining the group, Farden Triplefang.  I'll introduce him into the plot as soon as we get stuff like a character sheet and description.

A new player will be taking control of Mord, but Mord will now be legendary CON instead of STR.

Please welcome both of our new players.  :-)
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:40, Sun 21 Nov 2010.

nifty.

to celebrate, and because i think it's time Snow let her hair down, i got a new avatar ^.^

I like it.

Nice.
So one white haired cousin, one green haired cousin...

And welcome to the new cousin!

avoid washing together or you end up with two cousins with lime green hair.

Hello to all, and hello to the new Mord too.

Glumr's player is under the weather today.  If someone else wants to fill Farden in on what little you know, that would be good.  You can go back to the room if you don't want to discuss it out in the public dinning hall.

(Happy Thanksgiving peeps), lil busy with preparing food and stuff so... update when i get a chance.

Just so the new people know, the game often slows down on the weekends.  Feel free to check and post, but don't be surprised if there's not much activity.  We do most of our posting M-F.

Happy Thanksgiving!  Enjoy the holiday weekend.

Hope you all had a good Gobble Gobble day!

I spent two days writing a 15-page report on cash optimization. And I have end-terms this Monday. So not much of a Thanksgiving... but then we don't celebrate that here anyway =P

ouch... That's a rough couple days.  Hope that this week is looking smoother for ya.

The morale of the story, celebrate Thanksgiving to avoid 15 page reports?

Sorry to hear you had a rough weekend Farden.

That wasn't too rough... about par for the course. I'm just looking forward to the week-long vacation once the exams are over.

Don't worry it won't affect my posting - I can't remember the last time I was properly prepared for an exam anyway =P

*quirks eyebrow at Kitten comment, and laughs at an inside joke/amusement*

Had to do a double take there for a moment to figure who Farden was talking about, dont mind me, i thought it was funny at the time.

I thought that was funny too.  I am in the know.

(Snow's cranky nature should not be mistaken for Player cranky behaviour.  She's just really easy to offend, and has a long memory for holding grudges.  She still has no intention of sending Mord out for shopping if she has any other options to use.  =P )
This message was last edited by the player at 16:14, Tue 30 Nov 2010.

Lol...  I totally get that.  We're so playing characters.  I'm sure we'd get along fine out of character. :P  (and we do.)

Farden would rather look at lacey fabric and thread with Snow, than pointy sharp implements of wounding and maiming?

You're planning to buy lacey fabric for the proctor?

Wait... the whole reason I was suggesting snow do this is it's a diplomacy check, which is charisma....

Meaning, she'd have a knack at such things our characters would observe.

I thought we were just going to roll for that check and the 'gift' would be just whatever...  from the abstract.

If we roll play it (according to Fritz) it's not a diplomacy check, it's the GM discretionary if the proctor likes it or not.


All that being said, I'm still (or Glumr is) leaving up to Snow.  ;)
This message was last edited by the player at 21:33, Tue 30 Nov 2010.

In reply to Fritzholm (msg #99):

Snow will shop for 'stuff', its her first time out of the inn, she's going to shop for herself too you know :P

STuck in meetings all day tomorrow, and then off on road trip, so probably not back in til Tuesday. Hopefully notebook will work, but not sure in the location I'm going.

I've been stupidly sick the last 2 days (and still am).  But headache is gone so computing is tolerable.  Sorry to leave the game hanging.

(sorry sorry, some holiday emergency snafu is keeping me busy today will get to this asap.)

I will be out on vacation with the family from December 31 to January 2nd.  I do not believe i will have access to the internet where i'm going.  Please plan accordingly for my absence.

Oooo, look at the pretty Christmas RPoL decorations.

I'll be out of town this weekend, so it'll be at least Tuesday before I can post a good update.  Have a Merry Christmas everyone.  :-)

Happy Holidays Z.

At least this time Rpol has a good reason for the funky colors. Twice I have seen the website turn all sorts of colors for no apparent reason.

Merry Christmas, try not to get killed celebrating.

Happy New Year Everyone!

Sorry, had bad new year. Will be up to speed by weekend.

whew... six days into the new year, i hope you've used up the seasons quota then?

was feeling pretty sucky yesterday, and after shoveling snow this morning i'm feeling worse, going to crawl into bed now, posting from me might be spotty at best for a couple of days.

Hey...  Feel better Lady.  It's no fun being sick.   Hope the weekend will give you some resting up so next week you're back in the game.

(seriously down sick at moment)

How many words for colors would a nomadic barbarian culture have?

http://www.straightdope.com/co...nly-see-three-colors

I'm guessing the Triplefang might only have four - probably Black, White, Red, and Green.  Don't worry.  I'm not going to enforce anything of the sort.  You can still talk about purples, browns, pinks, and beiges.

Feeling better from flu , but it looks like the end of the chapter is closing on us.  No clue where we are in the chapter but Snow's level 3 now (yea!)

I get to look at new spells to cast (i think).

In reply to Snow (msg #116):

No, sorcerers don't get new spell level until lv 4. You might get new spells at existing levels, of course.

*nods*

I get ... a cantrip.

I went up from 1st level sorc to 2nd level sorc, Snow has a level of rogue.
This message was last edited by the player at 05:21, Sun 30 Jan 2011.

I will be in Atlanta until Sunday.

I'll get the action rolling on Monday.

Enjoy your weekend! I have a paper to finish off, and then a nice relaxing weekend writing some stories.

Thanks to a storm scheduled to ice up Detroit's airport, I will be  in Atlanta one day longer than previously planned.

Sorry for the absence. I have a lot of... Things going on in RL that are calling for my attention. I'll try to post when I can, but it may be a day or two more of no posting from me. Once again, sorry for the inconvenience.

Don't worry about it.  It's not a problem.  Mord will get another shot at combat soon enough anyhow.

Doesnt a dog in J8 and Snow i M8, create a Flanking attack?

They're both in melee, and they're both on opposite ends of each other.
This message was last edited by the player at 03:25, Sun 06 Mar 2011.

Here's the order things went.  One dog moved and attacked.  There was no one threatening from the opposite side, thus no flanking yet.  Next (let's pretend the wildcat was still fighting after the first attack) the second dog attacked from the side.  There was no one threatening across from him either.  If snow then moved to where she planned to she *would* be flanking.  She'd get the +2 and the sneak attack damage.

Assuming the wildcat still survived, the next round dog 1 would get the +2 for flanking, but the second dog wouldn't because there's no one across from him.  The flanking rules have always been a little screwy.

I thought once something was flanked, it was considered flanked for anyone meleeing it, not just for the two that triggered the condition...

(shrugs)

If that's the way it is, that's the way it is.

Though if were really going to quibble, the dogs arent listed in the initiative order, so i figured they acted with Snow.  If that's the case.

Jeff would move in to set up the Flank, no flank bonus but he didnt really need it.

Snow would move in after to finish the flank move, so she could get a sneak attack.  The Cat should be flanked for Mutt's attack at this point?

Snow CAN NOT get into position to flank the cat by Mord (at least not without trigger an attack of opportunity for the cat, which i'd rather not do).  If she does, the cat gets an Attack of opportunity if she takes more than a 5' step unless she's withdrawing and giving up the ability to attack.  Even if she gets to M12, she's doing it on a withdrawal and cant attack, and wont be able to flank that cat.  So regardless of how the flanking situation works out, she should be at M 08
This message was last edited by the player at 04:58, Mon 07 Mar 2011.

I think flanked used to be a status in 3.0, but I could be wrong.  In 3.5 the rules just say this:

When making a melee attack, you get a +2 flanking bonus if your opponent is threatened by a character or creature friendly to you on the opponent’s opposite border or opposite corner.

As for drawing AOO form the wildcat when you moved, your dogs had already taken it out of the fight.  You could move to flank Mord's cat unhindered.  One of the great things about that 10 foot reach weapon you're using is you can maneuver around enemies without entering any squares they threaten.  Handy!

You guys finished off all the cats in round three.  You can now stand in any square you like.  :-)


All this talk about flanking aside, I wanted to say that I liked how you played Mutt and Jeff.  It felt like they acted like dogs would.  Entertaining and nicely done.

So, is Mutt long, quiet, and intelligent while Jeff is small and scrappy?

In other news, do I have any trouble regaining control of my horse? And why this sudden dearth of IC posts?

Also: XP?
This message was last edited by the player at 03:50, Tue 08 Mar 2011.

I'll total up experience when you come to a natural break point and have some time to reflect and maybe train a little.  Don't worry,  I'm keen to get you caught up to the others at 3rd level soon.

Mord 2.0's player has faked his own death via rmail.  (I'm not kidding!)

So it's official that he will not be back.  I have a player in mind who will probably take over and hopefully be more active than Mord 2.0 was.

One note that might hamper this minor kickstart of the game.  Glumr's player will be out of town for a couple of days to attend a funeral.

I take it back.  He's back in town already.

I was out of town and am back today, but havent had any time for the game.  I know combat is probably waiting on me.

I'll get caught up very soon here before I leave work for the day.

(bad snow... bad bad snow.)

lil distracted with some stuff, will try and get caught up soon.  npc me a bit longer, sowwy.

On road trip today, so can't post til tonight...

My my this is an exciting battle going on here.

messy.

I'm having fun. This is the part where I take advantage of the grease to whirl around while lying on the ground, whacking at ankles, like Jason Stratham in Transporter.

LOL

I'm gonna do it too, if one of the enemies remains within melee range. I'll take a -4 penalty doing it, but that'll just make it more awesome if I pull it off.

Will I have any difficulty regaining my feet if I want to?
This message was last edited by the player at 16:20, Thu 16 June 2011.

I'm starting a game using a new system published by Cubicle 7, based on Call of Cthulhu, and set in the Bob Howard Scifi/Fantasy/Horror/Comedy series by Charles Stross, which I absolutely love.

Check it out, apply if you like.

link to another game

Who was that one guy with the sword?  Where did we drink that one beer?  How much did I pay for that magic lamp that didn't work?  Who was that girl who could dance to cast spells?

The answers to some of these question may some day be all in one place - the brand new Triplefang Wiki!

http://triplefang.yoyo-pete.com/doku.php

It's in the early building stages now, so there's not a huge amount of content, but come check it out.  Register as your character name.  Edit your character's page, but certainly feel free to create new pages, fill in places and characters, etc.

Thanks go to Glumr's player for the web space and setting up the wiki.

Please register...  Once we're all in, I'm going to disable registration to prevent ad bots from registering and posting it all up.

I've listed over 75 characters now.  Phew.  That's close to everyone you've met along the way.

I seem to be getting this error message everytime I try and register - "Looks like there was an error on sending the password mail. Please contact the admin!"

Don't think its a cookies problem. Anyone else had this?

I see you registered three times.  I'm going to keep the hollykahn account and delete the other two.  Can you sign on with the hollykahn account?  If so try creating and saving Holly's page.

OK. will have to be at home, as closed machines in work for cookies.

Now, just have to remember my password...

The SMTP stuff isnt setup right... That's a problem with the server.  I'll check into that.

I fixed all the registration troubles...

Should be all good. :D

Been on and all good. Will update Holly soon.

I'm going on vacation this week... I'll be out of work starting Wednesday till the 25th.  I'm camping Thursday - Sunday (back monday).

So that might impact the game a little.  I'll have Fritz RP Glumr if need be.

I'm taking my chrome book so I can check in, but I'll be driving most thursday and sunday or monday depending on when we hit the road.

Going to All Good: http://www.allgoodfestival.com/

Cool. Looks like some great times to be had. Hope weather stays nice.

I've even heard of one of the bands!!! Heh, heh,heh.

Look ma, 3000th post!

Is any of you going to be at WorldCon, Reno? Maybe I'll see you there, as I'm heading out day after tomorrow to attend, after which a little vacation to Niagara Falls. All in all, I'll be away from home until Aug 26, but I'll take my laptop with me on the trip. I'll post whenever I get wi-fi access, but feel free to NPC me if I'm silent for too long.

If you ever have any doubt as to how Farden would act, just ask yourself what a professional paranoiac would do.

Have a great time.

(not i sowwy, have fun though)

Wow!  Reno and Niagara.  That's quite a tour of the US.  Have a great time.

I seem to have made one big mistake already - inviting my dad to come along =p

I am away this weekend from Friday for a wedding (niece's) and then on a weeks course, so I may be with limited ability to post until about 4th Sept.

That's my birthday.  :-)

There's a promising D&D game just starting, and the evil team needs a few members. I'm on the evil side myself, anyone who wants to be a team-mate, please apply. Or you can apply to the good side, that roster hasn't been closed either.



link to another game

I'll be out of town for a week.  I'll probably be able to check in, but I'm not sure how reliable my wifi will be.

I have some real life issues that's killing my free time.  I'm going to have to withdraw from the game, i'm sorry.

After playing together for over two years, you're going to drop out because you dont have time to spend about 20 minutes a week on this?  That's the lamest thing I've heard.  I admit my life has been crazy busy and I've fallen behind (catching up now), but after a 2 year investment into these adventures, you're just going to leave us hanging and not come back?

Glumr, I know a little more about what "Giselle" is going through at the moment, so please don't be too hard on her. There are some very, very good reasons for it, which I cannot go into.

There might be a possibility of a return, but that will be up to her, if things go her way in the future.

I am going to be in Portugal for a week from Sunday, but will have my netbook with me and hopefully some wifi connection, so shouldn't miss much...

Well I cant say what she's going through.  I know I've been really stretched and it's been hard.

More so I honestly have enjoyed playing the game with her a lot.  Even though snow and glumr bumped heads all the time (as cousins will), it really added a lot to the game in making the roleplay aspect have a real feel.

I'm going to miss her in the game is all.

I totally agree. The cousins fixture made it extra special.

I see a bunch of new stuff all over RPoL.  There are new choices under the editor box and this [first|last|new] stuff after the items.  I'm sure I can figure most of it out by tinkering with it, but if there's an explanation of the changes posted somewhere I'd sure like to read it.

There's a list under the Rpol Announcements forum, and another thread in the General Rpol forum that people can post questions and/or bugs to. I haven't read the whole thread over, but I did give the list a quick once-over, so if you have any questions I might be able to help.

I know the tr, th, and td buttons have to do with tables, while the list buttons obviously have to do with lists (list+ being bulleted, while olist+ is numbered). Also, the 'code' button will add [code][/code] so you can show off code.

Here's an example graph.



... and the code for it.

<table><tr><td>example</td><td>example 2</td></tr>
<tr><td>another example</td><td>yet another</td></tr>
</table>

If you want to make a table (for some reason), I have a basic knowledge of how to do so and will gladly help.

This is a 'list'

• example
• still an example

This is an 'olist'

1. example
   
2. also an example

You can even combine the two if you wanted.

1. topic
   
   • point
   • point
   
   
2. topic
   
   • point
   • point

Ah, looks like tables work just like in standard HTML.

The spoiler mark up sort of makes me chuckle.

---

Spoiler text: (Highlight or hover over the text to view)
Soilent Green is made of PEOPLE!

---

I do like being able to view just the new messages on an item.

Very cool stuff..

I use the table thing for my character sheet.   It's pretty advanced. :P

Here's what my character sheet looks like.  Minus the links to allow editing and what not.  But I'm making extensive use of the table stuff.

http://d20.yoyo-pete.com/  <-- Character Sheet for Glumr


Also, this is a cool feature:

"Added support for [dice=...] in character sheets and messages.  Allows links to be automatically generated to go to the dice roller and setup the options ready for a roll.  More information is available in the help (under Games \ RuBB Code)."

Does anyone use Chrome?

I created a RPOL.net application so it shows up in my apps when I open a new tab.

I'll share if anyone wants.

If this game starts up again, and i hope it does, then please RMAIL me. Deleting from stickylist...

BAD DM!

Sorry about letting the game lapse.  I've replied to Holly's latest PM.  I'll try to get everyone back.  Hopefully other people will post ideas for getting the book and discuss the options.  If not, we'll move forward with the one we have - Smash and Grab.

I just received a PM from Israth that he's dropping out of the game.  He sited the slow pace of the game as a major reason.  It has not always been this way, and I can certainly see where he's coming from.  I wonder if it's something that would be fixed by merely skipping over some current plot elements, or whether there's general gaming fatigue.

So I'd like to ask everyone their opinion on how we (and if we) should continue.  It seems like we have a few options.

1) Go right into the songbook nabbing encounter and press forward from there.

2) Narrate recovery of the book and return to Rankor Heights and skip to the beginning of the next adventure.

3) Call this a good stopping point and wrap.

If we choose one of the first two options we'll probably need to recruit a new player or two at some point.  Please post your thoughts.
This message had punctuation tweaked by the GM at 16:54, Tue 13 Dec 2011.

I know the game has been slow, as I have recently as well, but would like to keep going.

I think the 2nd option might work in getting the pace going agian, as I suspect the others are like me, not into thieving as such. Holly is justifying it to herself that it is actually retreiving a stolen item, and that stealing it from someone from the Empire is in the Triplefang tradition. Just not normally on our own soil...

I'd say skip to next chapter/adventure, and see who we can recruit.

No way, I say no 1! I want to roll me some dice and kick some ass!

I admit that I have not given the game as much attention as I would like due to life being busy and all...  But I want to and hopefully will have a little more time to be active on a daily basis.

I vote 1.

I think I can be happy and go with the "boys" and say we go for Option 1 then.

I sent an rMail and a PM to a person who wanted to join when we were trying to replace Mord, but got no reply.    This opens up our empty character slot.  If anyone can recommend a good player from another game I'd prefer to add someone we know before placing another public request for strangers.

I can ask in the game I run, they're folk who've been with me for a year so they're solid.

Cool.  We're looking for a social/skill based character, probably legendary CHR, but INT would work too if they'd like to go that way.   Rogue, Sorcerer, and Bard are obvious choices.  I'd be willing to hear other class suggestions too.

My apologies, but been ill and only just got home. All back together again now though, so will catch up and post.

I've been sick for the last two days too.

I'll post right after Holly.  We're very near the end of this chapter.

No takers for the Israth/Snow replacement yet?

http://i.imgur.com/jIY3t.jpg

Oh that's funny  :D

RPOL said everything had new posts today.

I'm sure if I bring this up to the authorities, it will be my fault as I've not cleared all my caches and built a computer never touched by humans to get on the site whit.

I "bumped" most of the topics so that Chapter 05 would slide down to where the other inactive topics are.  That's what caused everything to appear as if it had new posts.

Ah..   glad there was a legit cause.

Going on a family vacation starting day after tomorrow, gone for a week. Internet connection will be unsure, I'll try to come online but I can't say if I'll be able to.

Have a great vacation!

In reply to Fritzholm (msg #196):

Was traveling since Friday and am back today.  I'll get read up and post when I can.

I've always wondered whether characters would actually call "masterwork" items that, or whether they would call them better quality, or "specially made"?

My guess is the crafter might call a weapon a "Masterwork", but the wielder would have a different view.  It adds flavor to the game if you describe it as you did to Cordelia.
This message was last updated by the GM at 21:07, Tue 24 Apr 2012.

Sorry for the long pause.  I've been incapacitated by neck pain for a few days.  I'll get a major narrative post up tonight and we can get rolling again.

Hello everyone, sorry for not posting the last days. RL is quite busy, but I will be back on Monday.

Since it's a holiday weekend, I doubt there will be much posting until Tuesday anyhow.

I am away on hols for a week from tomorrow (Fri 8th), but should have access, so do not anticipate any hold ups in posting. Unless I relax too much of course!

Sorry guys, health issues.

Worked in some of Level 4 stuff in chaaracter sheet, and doing spells now...

Yay!  Just in time.  Welcome back.  I hope you're feeling better.

Was on holiday, sorry I forgot to say I was leaving.  I'm going to catch up and post before lunch.

Bet you guys didn't notice, but I was in China for pretty much all of last week. Research conference. It was a good trip, got to see the Great Wall, the Ming Tombs, the Forbidden Palace, and hear some interesting presentations, and the best part is I didn't have to pay a dime :)

Sweet!  Great trip.

SOunds like a cracking trip!

Wow!!  Really awesome!  Glad you made it back.

Are you using your kickstarter money to start the manufacturing process?  lol

All right, you're going to have to explain that joke....and I hope its not as dumb as I think it is.

Now I'm out of town.  If I find some free time I'll post something on the road, but at the very latest I'll have something ready Sunday when I get back home.

Seems like all kinds of new hardware gadget startup things are funded on kickstarter and being manufactured in china as china has changed their business practices to make small business be more attracted to working with them.

Like the pebble watch.  http://getpebble.com/

Yeah, I suspected that was the joke you were making. And it is dumb :p

haha... Well yes it was dumb, but you never know what people are doing.   My humor i a tad cliche and punny.

I'll be out of communication from Thursday to Sunday while I'm at the All Good Music festival.  http://www.allgoodfestival.com Just FYI.  Fritz can play Glumr as needed.

Birthday time again, so off to see the family. Will be able to read, but might not be able to post until Monday.

Have a Happy One!!!

Sorry, I came down with something this weekend and I haven't had much energy.  I intended to post, but didn't quite get enough work done.  I've got the tactical map ready, but I still need to make a bunch of rolls and write out the first post.  I'll try to get something posted on Monday.

On the plus side, this will keep Holly from missing anything.

I'm leaving town 'til Labor Day.  See you in September.

Dont know if ya'll read XKCD, but today's is relevant to our quest for weapons.

http://xkcd.com/1114/

That's funny. But I was very impressed with "Click and Drag" from a few days ago.

I looked at it ALL.  well didnt go up that far.  :/  It had some real funny stuff hidden in there.

Holly's player sent me a private message saying that, due to health issues, he is going to have to drop out of the game for now.  He would like to return, but doesn't know when or if he'll be able to.  I wish him a speedy and complete recovery, and I have to admit the game will be diminished without him.

I'm inclined to finish out this combat running Holly as an NPC, but I'd like player input on the following option.

I recently received an unsolicited request to join the game.  My thinking is we could ask this player if he or she would like to take over playing Holly during the original player's absence.  If and when Holly's original player were to return we could add another character for the substitute to play.

What are your thoughts?

That's cool with me... kind of a bummer though.

We'll need the new guy to take over Holly for now. Once this adventure is over, we can decide if he's going to continue running Holly or bring in a new character.

Oh, I hope Hollys player gets well soon.

I like Fardens idea.

Howdy all, I'm ZomboRobo, I'll be your replacement player. Will be happy to hop in once the DM gives me the info on playing Holly.

Hello and welcome!!

DM just sent me the background notes yesterday. I'm a school teacher, so we get fairly busy during the week, but I'll read up on everything and post in sometime this weekend once I feel like I can comfortably fit into Holly's shoes.

Everyone here already knows Holly and Holly knows everyone, but it might help to introduce and describe yourself for ZR's sake.

Sunna and Farden can post on the Introduction item, since all we have there now are Snow and Glumr.

I'll also post a little questionnaire on the OOC item.  Feel free to answer any or all of the questions with info about your character.

Holly is out of town now and will be able to post on Thursday.

Sorry for the delay, I was on a business trip last week. I thought I would be able to get online, but I didn't want to spend a lot of euros for one hour of internet access. Asking three people about the prices got me four answers - and in the end the worst answer (the most expensive one) was correct :(

It's no problem.  As luck would have it you weren't causing any delay.

So... I've been playing XCOM - Enemy Unknown. And I gotta say I love it. Even though the game could not make it any clearer that it hates you, personally. Your thoughts?

Have not played it but I did play a lot of 'XCOM - UFO Defense' the original one. The game was tough on the player.

Hey guys, sorry about the delay on my end. I currently have the flu and have been very sick these past few days. Will keep you all posted on my recovery.

Never played the original, but those who have played both say that the new game cuts out a lot of the base management aspects to focus on the ground combat. The combat is not only unforgiving on "Classic" difficulty, it can get very dramatic. When the camera zooms in on an alien aiming at your troops, you know that's the signal that one of your troops is going down. At that point, all you can pray for is that it's only a critical injury that can be stabilized, and not insta-death.

I'll be out of town this weekend with limited access to the internet.  I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving holiday weekend.  See ya Monday.

Saw my prompt. Had an incredibly busy workday and will post in tomorrow afternoon.

No prob... Was worried you gave up on us.

I'll be in DC this weekend.  See you all Monday.

In reply to Fritzholm (msg # 242):

Have a good time!!

Have a great weekend!

Has anyone seen Holly or Sunna?

I'm sorry, I'm still here but I rarely have time to check the thread on weekends. Given the inconsistiencies I've been having with my free time lately, I'm starting to think it was a poor decision to accept your invitation to the game- everybody seems really invested in it and you guys post more frequently than I'm able to in order to keep up. I don't want to just drop with no further considerations, but I'm considering handing in the reins so that I don't leave this group hanging. Thoughts?

When we started this game it was pretty well accepted that people wouldn't be able to post regularly on the weekends, but we were hoping everyone would peek in every weekday and post if needed.  That doesn't typically take any more than 5 minutes to read a few responses and write a few lines in reply.  It's more about habit than time.

That said, over the holidays everyone's schedule gets screwy.  People are away on vacations or busy hosting.  I'm not sure what happened to Sunna, but we might have to all take a little time off til the end of the year and see if she returns.

I'm hoping that you're willing to stick around and play once we get rolling again.

I try to post once per weekday/workday...  It keeps it moving quickly enough.  You can set up your user prefrences to notify you via email of game activity.  It's a nice reminder to post.

/usermodules/profile.cgi?action=emailschedule

Well, I'm able to check the site daily, and I do, but I haven't found myself with the time recently to post in and I feel bad about it. I'm usually not the slowest-paced player in a game but I'm finding that to be the case here, as the game's moving faster than I can keep up with my workload.

<poke poke> is this alive?

I'm still here. Been finishing up the last week of school before the holiday (today of which is the last school day) and I'll be posting in sometime soon.

Not really sure what to do though:/

I agree it's tricky.  All of your spells have verbal components, so casting spells in this silence is impossible.  Sunna and Farden seem to have the Stone monsters occupied.  You could move to E7, E8. or E9 and attack one of the stone monsters.  You could also charge up to D7, D8, or D9 and attack the dwarven smith if you'd like.  Either of those might make a speedy retreat more difficult, though.  If all else fails you can just stay put and wait for an opening.

http://zachery.path.med.umich....lefang/forge_map.jpg

Silence has a limited radius. Drop back and summon up a monster.

Some cool RPOL resources:

http://www.matthew.fenn.dsl.pi.../Downloads/index.htm

I  got asked if my character HTML sheet can be added into this project:

http://pcgen.sourceforge.net/01_overview.php

I'm going ot say yes.

Here's the RPOL thread:  link to a message in another game

I noticed this Other Name: field up in the right corner and wanted to see how it worked.

Must be a GM thang.

Sorry guys, I'm going to have to drop from this one. Way too busy with life in general to take the time to enjoy this game. You guys wrote up some great characters, and the GM is damned good. As a result, I don't want my inconsistency in when I'm available to post to hold back this game any more than it already has.

I understand.  Thanks for giving it a try.

Looks like we need to find another player for Holly.

We do have a good GM.  I love that it's a sandbox adventure instead of walking us down movie style events.  Sorry you cant stick around.
This message was last edited by the player at 19:43, Wed 13 Feb 2013.

Yeah, I am too. I will look this game up over the Summer when I'm free of this school semester and have no obligations getting in the way to check and see if you guys may have space for an opening then. Hopefully I'm welcome to do so.

Does anyone know of a player from another game who would like to take control of Holly?

If not I'll post a request for a substitute.

Don't know of any player willing to join another game :(

I posted in Players Wanted and turned on RTJ.  I'm preparing for a flood of qualified applicants.

I've added statesman88 as Holly.  We'll bring him into the main thread as soon as this negotiation with Xyzeryx wraps up and statesman is able to absorb enough of the background to feel comfortable posting.

Say hello to Holly 3.0

That's me! Hello, all!

In reply to Holly (msg # 266):

Yay!  Greetings and welcome to the clan.

Anything you want to know about history or why things happen (or are happening), just let us know. :)

I know we have our own wiki, but now RPOL does too.

http://wiki.rpol.net/?id=37407

Ooh, nifty!

At the former player's request I've removed Giselle from the character list.  I also changed Israth from NPC to removed character.  This shouldn't have any real effect on the game, just less clutter in a few drop down menus.

Will be on a trip for the next two weeks with only little internet access. I'll try to check in regularly but I won't be able to check every day.

I realized today that our new Holly has been here for 2 month and we haven't had a single tactical battle yet.  I hope you're not getting bored!  :-)

Nope! I like the story and the exploration. I've been coming up with ideas for druids in battle, though... this is my first time playing one.

Sorry for the late response, had to get back into work and everything here. Plus, there was a lot to think about. I like Favrick :)

And again: sorry for the late response. I would have loved to post something a good while earlier. But as it is work's consuming too much time and too much of my creativity at the moment :(

I hear ya, Sunna. It's the same here.  Work is just about killing me right now.  Don't feel bad about it.