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OOC.

Posted by DMFor group 0
DM
GM, 119 posts
Thu 31 Dec 2020
at 10:57
  • msg #121

Re: OOC

No movement comes after Initiative, so yes this time Beryl was quick enough to drop the staff and run before the green slime gets to move.
Beryl Plotz
player, 13 posts
HP 3 / AC 5
Cleric / Hobo
Thu 31 Dec 2020
at 11:41
  • msg #122

Re: OOC

Just so I understand then, what did you mean by

quote:
OOC Good for Beryl no surprise but he's not out of harms way yet. Dropping the staff and backing away will be based on Initiative. To build up the tension I'll need everyone's declaration before we roll.


Not sure what the difference is between declaration and actions?
DM
GM, 120 posts
Thu 31 Dec 2020
at 16:21
  • msg #123

Re: OOC

By the book the sequence goes:

1. Declare your intention for spells and movement in melee.
2. Initiative: Each side rolls 1d6.
3. Winning side acts:
a. Movement
b. Missile
c. Spells
d. Melee
4. Losing side acts as per point 3.

Using the current situation as an example.

Combat was initiated when the green smile was poked by Beryl.

1. Beryl declared an intent to move.

2. Initiative rolled won by Beryl.

3. a. Beryl moves, rest of the party act too through sequence a-d.

4. a. Green slime moves and any other action as per sequence a-d.

Now if Beryl had been unlucky and lost Initiative the green slime would have got to move and attack before he did.

Any questions let me know.
Connor McGray
player, 12 posts
HP 2/AC 8
More Farmer/Less Fighter
Thu 31 Dec 2020
at 20:26
  • msg #124

Re: OOC

I think Connor acted before he was supposed to.  It seemed quiet and so I made a move.  I missed so forfeit my action this round.
DM
GM, 121 posts
Thu 31 Dec 2020
at 20:32
  • msg #125

Re: OOC

Yes you jumped the gun. However I'm happy to accept his stated action as happening now.
Teodore
player, 34 posts
Veteran
6 HP - AC 1
Thu 31 Dec 2020
at 22:00
  • msg #126

Re: OOC

Theodore will run too. Still afk. We've had a death in the family and I don't know how long we'll be gone I'll stick with the group. I hope your new year starts better than ours.
Ben
player, 64 posts
MU 1 AC 9
HP 3/3
Thu 31 Dec 2020
at 23:00
  • msg #127

Re: OOC

You have my condolences, Teodore.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:16, Thu 31 Dec 2020.
DM
GM, 123 posts
Thu 31 Dec 2020
at 23:20
  • msg #128

Re: OOC

My thoughts to you and your family.
Connor McGray
player, 13 posts
HP 2/AC 8
More Farmer/Less Fighter
Fri 1 Jan 2021
at 18:20
  • msg #129

Re: OOC

I'm with Ben and DM.  Our prayers go out for you and your family.

I was out all day yesterday, it took three months but I am a person again.  I got my military ID card replaced and a state ID.  (Once again, thanks to the Navy hospital for losing my retiree card in the first place).  Because it took so long, I have to wait until tomorrow for their pharmacy to gather all of the meds I couldn't get without my pictured IDs. So, Saturday HOOOOOO..I'll be gone a while for that one too.
Ben
player, 67 posts
MU 1 AC 9
HP 3/3
Sat 2 Jan 2021
at 17:39
  • msg #130

Re: OOC

In reply to Connor McGray (msg # 129):

Then is it Commodore McGray?

Shall we post another round of declarations?
DM
GM, 127 posts
Sat 2 Jan 2021
at 18:45
  • msg #131

Re: OOC

If everyone has declared then we need Initiative.
Connor McGray
player, 15 posts
HP 2/AC 8
More Farmer/Less Fighter
Sun 3 Jan 2021
at 00:55
  • msg #132

Re: OOC

Ben:
In reply to Connor McGray (msg # 129):

Then is it Commodore McGray?

Shall we post another round of declarations?


Alas, the Navy didn't even provide me with one of those 18th century officers hats to take my photo with. Just the same old Army crew cut with a unibrow scowl.
Ben
player, 69 posts
MU 1 AC 9
HP 3/3
Sun 3 Jan 2021
at 18:10
  • msg #133

Re: OOC

Was it a career of service for you, Submariner Connor?
Connor McGray
player, 16 posts
HP 2/AC 8
More Farmer/Less Fighter
Thu 7 Jan 2021
at 22:29
  • msg #134

Re: OOC

Gonna need a couple days, we had a death in the family.
Beryl Plotz
player, 21 posts
HP 3 / AC 5
Cleric / Hobo
Thu 7 Jan 2021
at 22:33
  • msg #135

Re: OOC

Condolences. We'll be here.
Anfinn Moarsson
player, 17 posts
Im pretty
Fri 8 Jan 2021
at 01:32
  • msg #136

Re: OOC

Prayers to your family.
DM
GM, 134 posts
Fri 8 Jan 2021
at 07:27
  • msg #137

Re: OOC

Sad to hear your loss. My thoughts with you and your family.
Siward
player, 19 posts
Cleric 1
HP 4/4
Fri 8 Jan 2021
at 19:52
  • msg #138

Re: OOC

Truly sorry for your loss.
DM
GM, 135 posts
Sat 9 Jan 2021
at 09:58
  • msg #139

Re: OOC

I think despite the outcome looking inevitable that events in the game should be led by the characters and not me. So we may have reached an impasse for a short while. Does anyone else have any opinions or ideas about moving things forward?



To give us all something else to talk about too I thought I'd share some of my life with D&D. Chatting in the RtJ most players have mentioned their life with D&D and I have shared privately with them too but thought it might be interesting to chat here too. To recap for me the first time I encountered D&D was one Saturday morning my dad bringing home the red box (BECMI Frank Mentzer one) we read it together but he didn't get it. This was in the eighties and my dad worked with computers, so was quite a nerdy work place, a couple of years later I went to a bus trip with some of guys he worked with and then next day my dad brought home a tin of hand me down dice that one of them didn't use anymore from when they had stopped playing D&D. Despite having those old school memories I never really played much of the old D&D, the first game I managed to get in on was MERP and later I managed to get my older brother's friends let me join their AD&D game. Played many games inbetween but I didn't look back and get back into old D&D and B/X until about 3 years ago, this time with my two sons who took me to the local game shop. My sons are now 16 and 17, Ashley the eldest is a die hard old school D&D player, whilst Jacob the younger also plays in D&D 5e games. We do play games together with the family but tend toward very rules light games and focus wholly on role play and story. As a family we also regularly LARP, but this last year there's been no opportunity to play but we have been busy with our free time making costume. Our lockdown LARP alternative has been playing Empty Epsilon, a starship bridge simulator, where we turn the living room into a bridge of starship and spend a day flying around the galaxy because we can't go anywhere outside. Anyone else got any stories or want to ask questions about the game? I don't know what anyone else is using as rules reference but I find Old School Essentials (OSE) very useful, I do have OSE advanced books and the OSE fanzine Carcass Crawler so have access to more races/classes, is this something people would like to see more or less of?
Ben
player, 71 posts
MU 1 AC 9
HP 3/3
Sat 9 Jan 2021
at 17:35
  • msg #140

Re: OOC

Well, we have a conflict of "dramatic scene" vs "expediency." Since we have the former, it would be nice to play it out with the principles. Since this is an "easy come, easy go" B/X game, we ought to mosey along after the immolation of Connor. When he's ready, he can return and roll up another host character.

Oh, I got my first taste of D&D in 1981 or so when I joined my sister and one of her friends for a game. My character acquired a talking dagger. That night I called the DM to converse with the taciturn blade. For the life of me, I can't remember anything it had to say.

I would welcome more advanced books.
Beryl Plotz
player, 22 posts
HP 3 / AC 5
Cleric / Hobo
Sat 9 Jan 2021
at 19:09
  • msg #141

Re: OOC

Me, I started around 1977. We had a board game club at my high school that I co-founded, and we had some old fun board games, when one day a female student came in and taught us how to play D&D using the old Blue Box set, and it was an instant fascination for me.

I got the blue box set myself soon after, and dove in to the art of being a DM.

I got the AD&D Players handbook as soon as I could, and actually picked up the DMG the very day it became available.

Played too much in Junior College, then took the game in to the Army, which is great as you have a rather locked in crowd of comrades. Good times.

I've played a lot of RPG's, in dribs and drabs, Traveler, Gamma World, Role Master, War Hammer, Paranoia, The Late, Late, Late, Late Show, Macho Chicks With Guns, Vampire: The Masquerade, Call of Cthulhu, and more, but I always fall back on D&D in the end. I can play 5E, but it isn't my favorite, and I would be hard pressed to say what is.

Sadly don't know anyone right now, but RPoL is a great place to game.
DM
GM, 136 posts
Sun 10 Jan 2021
at 09:32
  • msg #142

Re: OOC

Ben:
Well, we have a conflict of "dramatic scene" vs "expediency." Since we have the former, it would be nice to play it out with the principles. Since this is an "easy come, easy go" B/X game, we ought to mosey along after the immolation of Connor. When he's ready, he can return and roll up another host character.


Anyone else for or against this idea?
Fiene
player, 41 posts
AC 9 - HP 5/5
Smart and Charming
Sun 10 Jan 2021
at 19:18
  • msg #143

Re: OOC

I do agree that Connor's demise is all but a forgone conclusion, BTB.   So I am ok with moving on, or waiting for the player.  At this point it is more a player issue than character.
Beryl Plotz
player, 23 posts
HP 3 / AC 5
Cleric / Hobo
Sun 10 Jan 2021
at 19:38
  • msg #144

Re: OOC

Onward works for me, even if my path forward is back to town.
Ben
player, 73 posts
MU 1 AC 9
HP 3/3
Mon 11 Jan 2021
at 22:15
  • msg #145

Re: OOC

DM:
Our lockdown LARP alternative has been playing Empty Epsilon, a starship bridge simulator, where we turn the living room into a bridge of starship and spend a day flying around the galaxy because we can't go anywhere outside.

That sounds exhausting :). I haven't had an imagination like that since I was 12.
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