Glad to hear the move went well.

Just got back from vacay myself and had to hit the ground running. Now that things are moving forward, I'll start transcribing sheets into character sheet tables soon.

Seeing all the intros made, I now see a naming convention. Must ruminate on a new thread title. Hrrrm hrrrrmmmm *activates super brainstrom mode*

GM: your choice of move interests me. I may badger you about it later in PMs. ^_^

Empress: Hey your highness! Is everything alright? If you can spare a moment, please check out your background thread as I'd love to connect with you, your ladyship!

Im doing okayish! I'm just getting into the swing of things because I've had a rough time with uni, I was planning to do background thread stuff in a couple of days.

Well glad to have you back!

I'm sorry to hear about uni. Anything we can do to help, or is it just general work-life stuff?

just general work-life stuff, had a really good groove going and was getting everything done but got burnt out and now feel like everything I had worked to get good grades on for the first half of the semester will mean nothing.

I think you'll be okay. I think knowing you are getting burnt out is the most important thing, because now you know you re-assess things and re-prioritize how you handle your day. A big part of going to college is learning time management and how to handle being an adult.

Hell it's something at nearly 40 I'm still trying to figure out some days. :P

Working on character sheets now and I'm curious how the willpower mechanic works and if it is similar to vitae. Kinda like how Humanity in a lot of WoD is mental health and when it ticks to zero, something nasty happens.

I assume that our vitae stat determines how much we start with and then it ticks down to zero when our characters take damage. However, is willpower similar or more a pool of dice we draw from for certain rolls?

The reason I ask is I'm trying to figure out the best way to keep track of player stats during threads. Especially since there are multiple threads. My initial idea was to have individual tables for each scene a character is in. See below:

When someone takes damage in a thread then it would be updated to look like this:

However, if Willpower is more a dice pool, then it might be better to find a different way to determine where vitae is for each person at any given time. I've had players keep track in their little character Biography tab when they post, but if people are in multiple threads, that could get messy. Therefore the individual tables are usually my go-to when players are playing in multiple scenes.

Update: See that they both act like dice pools. However, still curious if they depleate at all w/ damage, and that effects the pool, like Numenera system or something.
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:41, Fri 24 Feb 2023.

Willpower works like fate points, you can spend willpower to reroll failed checks. Remember that magic in this game is tech, it's tracked as skills tests or device usage - it doesn't draw on a resource pool.

Hmm. Willpower might also be used for Edges? I've never had players survive long enough to earn an Edge so I will review that.

On a different subject, are there any topics that people are very uncomfortable with? There is a lot of bad shit in the lore but there are topics you don't want involved in your characters arc let me know. For example, I have a personal beef with imprisonment and powerlessness, so I will never put your character in a position where you do not the benefit of attempting escape.

As far as topics go any sort of violence towards small children makes me really uncomfortable. To a lesser degree domesticated animals as well.

Thanks Prometheus.  "Meow."

In reply to The Fool (msg # 128):

I thought vitality would be edges since the copy says you can spend one to push yourself to suceed a roll.

I'm also going to assume that they don't deplete then. Though I'm unsure now how we keep track of health, if we even are.

As for uncomfortable topics, I'm pretty ok with everything and everything I'm not is already covered by the game's general rating.

I don't want rape in the game.

Rape of a PC is never okay without the player's consent, and the default answer is NO. Rape of NPCs should fade to black and be implied etc as needed, but be exceedingly rare. Honestly I think even most mega vile folks won't ever opt for it, and not having it in game at all is fine for me too. But when in doubt, ask the player and assume no if you're unsure.

No kicking or hurting puppies or kitties unless I get the opportunity to activate virtue with the gods oddly not looking and be able to go after the asshat.

I admit, since this is neither an Adult or even Mature rated game, I just assumed none of that was on the table anyways. Anything sexual or romantic stays to a pg13 level on screen. Like... maybe we'll kiss and make a crude joke when we feeling spicy.
This message was last edited by the player at 21:33, Fri 24 Feb 2023.

Oh. Bumped the game to Mature, drug use and violence.

Sexual violence will not occur on screen or to PCs unless a PC feels that should be part of their characters arc, for several reasons.

A significant reason why I only GM and do not play is because of instances where GMs I played for thought that was okay - and another instance where they thought that having a child I was protecting die in an accident I had no ability to prevent was acceptable. Yeah, no.

I'd prefer we make this an Adult rated game (with lots of things fading to black), but still limiting the rape and puppy/child harm elements. Mature will work though either way.

Man do I have some catching up to do :)

Content: I am ok with whatever is brought forth as long as it helps the storyline (and as others say, as long as there is somewhat a setup that allows to counter it if it is extreme). Fade to black is usually the better option. If my puppy has to die "a la John Wick" then I expect to be able to bring forth retribution (but would be ok, mind you mighty angry, as just as in that case it would move the story forward). If it's just a kill to be "mean" without true purpose nor ability for retribution but to simply remove something from the characters "backpack", so to speak, then no I am not really ok with that.

It's all about the "story" so there :)

I wanted to post my first post for the campaign tonight for my thread and post a recap of what was dealt with other players as well but I just got back home from work after a 15 hour shift (I own restaurants) and I am BURNT. Tomorrow will probably be a no go as well nor sunday but WILL TRY. If not monday at the latest.

This is not the norm for me (as anyone who has had me as a player knows) so really do appologize for my tardiness in posting this week Fool.

No worries my man, the benefit of having a solo thread is you don't hold anybody up by taking a second :)

What even is rpol's adult game policy nowadays? I'll have to take a look.

It's a bit more artistic license. But all the things we just discussed still can always be player-optional, even if the rating is adult. Like most adult games generally don't have rape (and the bits that are there are only tasteful story elements with player consent, and generally even then aren't depicted in graphic detail but more topically), and never EVER have naughty stuff with minors and stuff.

There's a whole rules area on this site about Adult games.

Character sheets have been added under "Character Details".

Is prywin actually a separate player in this game? I don't see any posts from them or a background thread, so was wondering if it was all part of Grim?

Prydwin is active on the discord but has been having real life tumultousness.

Oh

We will have to continue without Prydwin, alas.

Also, I am very sick. Like delirium-fever-dream sick. I can't look at a screen for more than few minutes without my eyes watering. It sucks.