In reply to GM (msg # 51):

Well, perhaps a more detailed example is able to explain my typical posting style and thus elaborate on my earlier comment
I just copy-paste a post from two days ago in a WFRP2 game. I have edited to strike the passages that would be PLs in your game.

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Wolfgang looked a bit restless.
"Well, yes, smith then scholar or vice versa. Whatever it takes to identify the owner of this sword."
He could not quite follow why a smith's expertise would make it easier to fingerpoint the device, still, he was pretty certain it would be a lot easier to find a weaponsmith than to find a scholar, so that made perfect sense to him.

Wolfgang suddenly realized that he had come to appreciate the resourcefulness of his companions. And that had settled into a certain expectation. They were too few to learn all they had to, so they had to take it step by step.

The Wolfling had thought the matter settled but then the wizard reacted to their noble companion's earlier reservations.
Wolfgang listened, tried to follow, then blew his cheeks and let out the air in irritation.
The wizard was blathering.
Or, he had to admit as he remembered their late and extensive stay in Altdorf, at least by northern standards. He had had to get accustomed to the many inconsequentual  words and phrases of Reiklanders whose main purpose seemed to only be to hear their own voices. In other words: blathering.

The Ulrican lost the wizard. Would she go or not? Would she help or not? It looked like she would rather follow her obsession with that weird southern festival.
"Don't mention the room, it's a small affair. You need not feel any kind of obligation towards us. If you'd rather, you know, check out that festival then do that. It's what you came here for anyway."
Wolfgang shrugged.
Once again, he was thrown off track by his assumption that any righteous person would do his or her very best to end the threat of a chaos artefact. Frau Minhelm seemed not to care, though, and merely seemed to consider the matter a leisurely endeavour to while away her free time.
"Well, I will not venture forth into an unknown city at night."
"There's a lot to do, so we better rise at first light. I intend to anyway."
He finished his food and drink and would then turn in for the night. Wolfgang left the common room.

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Now let me add the OOC comment of the wizard of the character Wolfgang was talking to:

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You know, I am really liking this dynamic. The best part is that Milly is from Ostland and this verbose pretense is something she picked up i Altdorf, to put on airs of sophistication and be as fashionable as the other 'cool' folks of Altdorf. Plus she is embarrassed if not downright ashamed of her native accent, which is associated with poorness and being the lowest kind of uncultured pleb. A fact she is painfully aware of, making her try to mask her accent without much success.

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My "concern" (it actually is not a concern, just an observation) is less the literacy aspects (most obviously much shorter readable posts), but that actually a lot of personality would have been lost (or rather: be limited to the GM's knowledge). In fact, if not for that OOC post I would have been a bit irritated. "I" as in "the player" as opposed to "the character". Well, to understand that you'd need to know the whole exchange, but kindly just take my word for it that it would have been the classical misunderstanding which naturally comes with forum-based roleplaying.

I am not opposed to this approach, mind, I'm just saying that I need to adapt and write a lot more in spoken words, I guess, which probably can become a bit awkward sometimes, hopefully not offensive.
In fact I cannot even assess if it is "bad posting policy" or not since I never had that approach.

In reply to Harmast (msg # 53):

Perhaps think of it this way, everything in the IC post is observable by all characters in the thread.  So your body language, facial expressions, etc. indicate your thoughts and feelings if written down.

Ok, I actually have no experience of the policy I suggested, and it doesn't seem like a common one. I'll change it so the policy is more in line with what is mainstream on rpol. I don't want it to become something players have to think about adjusting to.

In reply to GM (msg # 55):

Well, maybe we should have waited for the other players' opinions ^^
Maybe it's just me :D

As for 'mindreading' (for lack of a better word).
Yeah, that's what Insight skill is all about, right ? Now, Harmast seems to be fairly good at that kind of thing as the authors obviously sent some percentiles that way. Naturally it would ne nice to see that it actually has some benefit in game, i.e. the nuances of the non-skilled vs the skilled. No idea how to do that, except for specific situations where an actual implications of a certsain attitude is essential.
Well, whatever.
I repeat: I have no isssues with adapting. I cannot claim that I will succeed all the time ^^

I'm only a lurker, but I have played a lot of games here over the years on here. I have found a mixture of 'open' thoughts (normally in italics) and private thoughts shared with the GM to be a good fit.

In reply to GM (msg # 55):

and if some of the players like the system described, while others do not.  There is always the option of using PMs.

I'm waiting for two characters to be finished, but I think I'll start the game as soon as I find the time. If those two characters aren't ready at game start they'll join the party as soon as they are able to.

Please fix your character sheets so that they're comprehensible.

One thing to consider is making a list of the events that have contributed to your reputation.

How to do that with the pregens?

Try to get some clues from the character's backstory. Or make something up.

Not sure what GM listed for you but in the book p. 88:



So we are kin!  Let me know if you want to work out some background.

I was under the impression that reputation is a lot dependent on what your grandparent and parent did. And less in what one did oneself.

As for kin, I'd like to draw ypur attention to my Post #36 here.

I need to research some about the Battle at Pennel Ford, too

I'd guess 5-10% of Harmast's reputation is simply from being the chieftain's son.

My guess, too.
In the attempt to retro engineer the character I believe he has Noble occupation and that alone suffices to get the Reputation he has, i.e. 15%.
So I'd say, both events he actually did take part in, Battle at Pennel Fort, Liberation of Sartar and witness Starbrow becoming Prince really were the 'survived' incidents.
So, yeah, nothing too outstanding. With the low CHA that is fine.
Clearly he would be somewhat awed by his two kin who contributed more noticeably and valiantly.
I think Orlanthi base their leaders on accomplishment, i.e. being the chief's son is just that and in no way positions me as a future chief or anything.

So hopefully we will have eight characters ready shortly:

Brastan - Odayla hunter
Breganya - Chalana Arroy healer
Harmast - Issaries trader
Mansur, Daka Fal assistant shaman
Meowmast Slink - Yinkin hunter
Tannis - Orlanth warrior
Vasana - Orlanth (Vinga) warrior
Yanioth - Ernalda assistant priestess

You are all from the Ernaldoring clan of the Colymar tribe even if some of you have been away for shorter or longer periods.

At game start you will be making a stop in Apple Lane on your way to Jonstown to see what's going on at the front. Is the Lunar garrison still there? Not on anyone's orders, but out of curiosity.

Your clan chieftain, Baranthos, father of Harmast, tasked you with escorting a delivery of gifts to Verinos the Old in Runegate, chieftain of the Taraling clan.

For various reasons none of you are in any particular hurry to return home.


This message was last edited by the GM at 19:20, Sun 09 Dec 2018.

If anyone is uncomfortable with the above immediate background, please send me a PM.

In reply to GM (msg # 67):

Since that's my father youre talking about... why 'the old'... he ought be be 43 years old

Maybe he went gray young and people nicknamed him "the old" because of the graying hair.

Hehe you're right, I got carried away with "the Old"-stuff. Editing post.

I'm opening the game introduction thread again. Please go ahead and post if you feel like it.

 I am eager to get started, but my character is not finished. Damn real world.

I still have a few things to finish up.
I should be done soon :-)

Look forward to playing with you all :-)

Ok, I will have to slightly adjust the background again. You're not heading home at all, you're going towards Jonstown to see what's going on at the front. Not on anyone's orders, but out of curiosity.

old is dependent on the period.  If you look hard enough you may find that 30 was old somewhere and some time.

True. But Baranthos is not called "the Old" in general. His father is, and that other chieftain is.

Are we still going with past tense, because so far everyone is writing in present tense?  I don't care, just trying to be consistent.