I could definitely see that being Papado.

Sounds good to me. Where is that image found Olivia?

Male historical, 17th Century, page 2.

Got it. XD

Maybe mh1930 for Edmund, and fmc747 for Beatrice? Not sure if those tags help at all.

Is this who you wanted for Edmund? This is the one that looked right to me on the first page, because as far as I can tell, mh19 030, is a young boy dressed in a civil war uniform.

I got Beatrice though

Let’s go with it. I imagine being the father of Davon would have you age prematurely ;)

Sorry for my absence. Time slipped away from me.

Hopefully everyone had a happy holiday. :D

I'm gonna try to keep the game moving along again and just keep Phena on the side for now.

I am new to Pathfinder. Not sure how multiaction and reserving an action works together or even if it can but Apple is trying to be prepared as possible for whatever roof-top-figure may do.

The way I understand it, the action economy works by giving you 3 actions and 1 reaction a turn to spend. Some actions like certain spells or attacks cost 2-3 actions to perform. You can make 3 basic attacks if you so choose, but there is a multiattack penalty if you do (-5 second attack, -10 third attack), making second and third attacks usually useless without outside help.

Reactions usually just use your reaction slot or sometimes need the prepare action to activate. for example, Aid needs you to prepare first to aid a fellow player's specific skill/attack roll, using the Ready action, which takes 2 slots.
On the other hand, Attack of Opportunity (a fighter only feature now) can be used whenever it is triggered (a creature leaves your range, etc). I will just not keep track of your class or specially gotten reactions though so it's your job during combat to mention stuff like Attack of Opportunity so I can roll for you when your enemies trigger it.

For now, I'll leave these aspects out of the equation until full combat starts in game (not quite there yet). I'll give you a roll to try to interrupt his action though.

mmm... i browsed the rules, but it's hard to figure out how many actions something does, so... just let me know if i do something wrong.

(okay posted let me know if anything needs to be changed.)
This message was last edited by the player at 02:11, Thu 24 Feb 2022.

I was going to wait to see the outcome of Apple's rolls before acting, but should I just jump in?

Oops, I just assumed I’d give everyone a chance to react before adjudicating rolls. In that case, I’ll post an update later tonight. EDIT: scratch that, next post will be tomorrow morning, got home too late tonight.

You can post here if you’re waiting to see what happens or have no reaction. I’m still getting used to how much or how little to move the action along each post of PbP, and I’m erring on the side of more player intervals right now. I’ll adjust based on your feedback. :)
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:20, Tue 01 Mar 2022.

Hey all,
Sorry for my lack of posting. Turns out buying/selling house takes up a lot of freetime.
I've put a little post there, but could use some GM input. Think it's good to have some OOC chat going on, just so we know the game is active. Hope you're all good.
Cheers
S.

wow.  Felt bad for being distracted this week, but not much seems to be moving.

o.o

Yeah, I’ve been really busy myself so I was okay to let the game slow down for the week. I was hoping Apple would come back in this time too, but we’ll see how it goes. I’ll try to get organized this week and put out an ad to fill Phena’s spot later. I’ll move the game along tomorrow.

ah, we lost Phena? Too bad... and now, maybe, Apple too?

Hey Olivia, Davon, just wanted to give you guys an update since you've stuck it out,

I think I'll have to retire this game for now. I didn't want to come to this decision, but I was making a lot of the plot while you guys were crafting your backstories and I tried to weave all your elements into the game. Phena disappearing might've been salvageable, but Apple's disappearance was really demoralizing. My plot involved her backstory heavily. Even if I found a replacement player, they wouldn't have the same investment as Apple's player would've. Maybe I could've still put in the work to rewrite the plot, but the stress of my actual work has been picking up more this week. I used to be able to check in on the game almost every day and now it's been more than a week and I'm still exhausted.

I feel really bad, especially since Olivia's been so patient and persistent and Davon made this beautiful town map for the setting that he never got to show everyone. I was afraid things would turn out this way, and I'm sorry if I've disappointed you two.

If you wanted to copy/paste or save any resources from this game, feel free. I'll keep an eye out here if you need help. I'll delete the game in a couple of weeks.
Thanks for playing with me and I hope you enjoyed (the beginnings of) this game.

Yeah.  I wish i could say it was a surprise, but the sense of pacing was really off so i suspected their was a disturbance in the force.

Cant we continue with Apple as an NPC?

btw, i missed the last post update cause it's been so one and off intermittent... so i plead guilty to that.

Ah, sorry to hear this GM, but I understand if you've invested a lot of concepts into one character and they've disappeared why that might be demoralising.

Unfortunately I think one of the hardest things here on rpol is that initial momentum and keeping it going.

When i game master i plan with the law of statistics.

No matter how good a batch of players you think you have, statistically, a few of them won't be as good as you think and will was out.

So either you have to be prepared for attrition and recruit new  players or you start with a slightly over sized group so that when attrition happens it naturally pars down to what you want.


I will make an effort to salvage what i can from the campaign today.

I put enough time in Olivia to want to salvage stuff, particuarly since this is my first experience with seconds edition.

Well i saved Olvia, so, i guess that's it then.  Take care all.  I'm taking the game off my watched list at this time and wont look back in unless you poke me to let me know something is different.

ttfn