So, for those not used to playing on forums I thought I'd just give a few tips & suggestions.

Usually when in a pure roleplay 'scene' people will just post when appropriate for their character to join in a conversation. This can carry in for as long as you want really but of course, in order to move the game along and not exclude others it's best not to get into too many of these situations where it's just one or two characters.

When we get to the point of taking action and making rolls, you can make use of coloured text and the die roller.

Generally, I like to use orange text with an (OOC) section at the end of my post with the proposed action in the brackets followed by the result of the dice roll. Something like this:

(OOC: Slow Action - Melee Attack Vs orc 20:40, Today: Narrator rolled 1 success using 6d6 with the Target Number system with a target of 6 ((3,6,1,1,1,2)).)
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:43, Tue 26 May 2020.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 30):

Lothar is heading to the village as well, looking to sell some of his recently acquired "goods" and hoping this next town has someone in it who can pay propper coin and not another shopkeep who only barters in livestock. I imagine his first stop would be the local tavern to ask around. I can have him wait there for the rest of the group or maybe we bump into each other outside of town on the way in?

Brevis, Cailie and Harinder are just on the edge of the village at the moment. I'd suggest Lothar bumps into them there.

Also, probably a good place for Eins to encounter everyone else too..

There is an inn of sorts there too though.

Ill wait for everyone else to introduce before I post again.

My patience is burning low.

Is there any other character in Runething? Perhaps one of the escaped slaves who reoccuppied the place with Harinder some thirty years back? If not, Ill create one NPC if thats accepted.

How about @Lothar?
This message was last edited by the player at 14:43, Fri 29 May 2020.

Lothar is there, but feel free to interact with any NPC that would reasonably be in a small village..

Once I have an introduction from Eins as well I will move things on.

I wrote a short story on Harinder's story so far. Im thinking I could take the end of it and use here, introducing the NPC.

https://drive.google.com/file/...Eby/view?usp=sharing

I wrote this months ago, and took all the info used so far, from it. The NPC then is Brander, also known as the Killer in his youth. He basically founded the new Runething and was the first slaveboy to arrive there. I will post the end of this story where this fit in.

Could there be some more connection between the character s other than two being brothers and they happen to be in the same village. Perhsps the spring games and bow and arrow tournament can be a good reason for visiting, either way.

Dave, feel free to control my NPC Brander. I have a complete char sheet for him, so he can serve as an alt char. Also gives him some more meat on the bones.

Certainly a gathering at the village could be some reason for others to come and seek it out, yes.

Would be a more believeable reason than 'i was just passing by' in these times.

Cool. I'll check out his sheet on my phone (using my work's laptop at the moment and I can't get on Google Drive) and we can have him crop up from time to time.

In reply to Harinder (msg # 38):

I think Brevis has been living in the village for quite some time already, Caile has come there in search of him.

They aren't brothers by blood, but by circumstance. They grew up on the same streets, in the same alleyways. They both belonged to the same group of street urchins, the Ghost Children, a name given to them by the society that left them out to die. A name taken and embraced by the Childer themselves as a badge of honor and proof of their undying will to exist.

I think (correct me if I'm wrong, Neil) that most of the Ghost Children tried to flee from our township when the Rust Brothers came and started conscripting soldiers. Some died, some were conscripted and some managed to escape into the harsh wilderness of the Forbidden Lands. And thus we were separated. Caile has spent a long time searching for his "family" and so far Brevis is the only one he has found. Alive and free, that is.

In reply to Caile (msg # 40):

Exactly, Brevis and Caile have a fraternal bond as Ghost Children.  The rise of the Rust Brothers scattered the children (who were able to escape) from their group and many have not been able to reconnect.  As such, the fracturing of the Childer has forced them further underground and out of the public domain.

I'd imagined Brevis has been in the Runething area for a year or so, though he's mostly kept to himself on the periphery.

Sounds like they would eaily connect with those of the villagers like Brander, who are the older generation and came as refugees and orphans. They all wear Trident symbols. Most on their arms or hands, but Harinder and Brander got it on the cheek. Harinder is in his 50s and Brandrr his 40s. The other first generation are then recogniseable and similar age (the first refugees were 10 - 20 yo and came some 30 years back.

Have the others come for the Games then? Could be competitions innother than bow and arrow. Riding, for example, or staff fighting.

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One thing confused me about the last post - isnt the red mist gone? Up to GM.

Red mist has been gone mostly for about 5 years but there are still occasional pockets of it that appear from time to time

In reply to Harinder (msg # 42):

Remember that Caile is a minstrel and likely to embellish and exaggerate ;)

Not to be negative, but to me these games feel maybe a bit too frivolous in the harsh and unforgiving Ravenlands. But if everyone else is on board it works for me too.

I've sent messages to Eins on PM, rMail and on the forums where he asked if there was space in the game..if I don't get a reply overnight I'm going to post in the game and Eins can always catch up later.

I've gotten on the IC now. I'll try to get on once a day from now on.

It'll probably be a character thing that Eins is very out of touch with what's been happening in the world, since I'm very new to the Forbidden Lands game. It works character-wise to since he's been participating in one war or another most of his life, and never really asked questions about who, where, or why he was fighting.

No worries. I just didn't want you to get left behind.

I'll post tomorrow, but feel free to head to the Travellers Rest, the village tavern

In reply to Eins Heold (msg # 46):

Nice to see you back, let's get this show on the road! :)

P.S. If it's alright by you, Eins, please refrain from putting words into my character's mouth. What you wrote is alright and definitely fits into his character, but I prefer to write my own lines. The first post with Caile, Brevis and Harinder was copy/pasted from our Messenger group chat. D.S.

Okay, next post is up. As is image of village. But this may be replaced soon.
This message was last edited by the GM at 18:53, Sun 31 May 2020.

Do we play with the rules that you get XP after a session, where you have used your pride and your dark secret? Begs the question how long a session is. I vote for yes, and that GM decides when a session starts. To make it easier for GM to track this, we should mention when we wrote a post and "used" our secret. Using pride should be clear enough.

Perhaps this can all be simplified. For example, GM triggers the secrets now and then in his own posts, and reward XP with it. I think the Pride should still be attempted by the player, although GM has last say if the use was valid.

Thoughts?

In reply to Harinder (msg # 52):

I don't really enjoy "gameifying" the use of Pride and Dark Secret to be some sort of XP-generators. In my opinion they should only be used when it makes sense in the narrative and not shoe-horned in just to gather XP. Furthermore, while Pride is for us players to activate, the Dark Secret should ever only be "activated" by the GM, never by the players, as a means of upping the stakes or to introduce complications that the players must overcome. Players can bring their Dark Secrets into play, but only for narrative reasons.

As for gaining XP, I'll leave that completely to the GM.

My two cents.

They are already XP generators in the FL rules. It's not my idea. But I agree, up to GM to decide how it should play here.
This message was last edited by the player at 13:59, Mon 01 June 2020.