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Play by post - Setup and examples
Play by post style guide
Example II
Unclaimed / Character sheets
??? unconfirmed player
For Wally
For Mage
Might not be playing?
Lukas
: Is it OK if I end up casting a fire bolt on the door, or will that totally derail things?
- DC stands for Difficulty Challange. You need to beat 10, else you fail. So roll me a D20 (20 side dice) + add your Modifier, which is located on your character sheet
Kaldrak
David
I’m EST
The idea so far ...
Not set in stone yet!
Minimum 1 post per day; going around the ‘table/group’
As a DM, I would try check and response throughout the day.
Expected posting window:
A window of 1-3 days allowance before turn your turn is skipped.
The 3rd day I’ll try ping you for a response, and as a back up leave a placeholder card - in case you’d like to respond after being skipped.
Though, that placeholder card has to be flavor ; a response that doesn’t derail the future posts people have made in the game.
Non-impact responses to the fiction, if that makes sense.
What If I’m busy??
Life happens so not gonna press you heaps, and no pressure if you cannot reply during that window - This is just to keep the game moving, and you’ll be passively moving along with the group until your ready/caught up.
Possible active mode:
We can establish a golden hour where everyone’s time syncs to do a rapid fire, a kin to IRL play, but this depends on the group. This would require us to work out the best times for everyone, based on the timezones.
The sun rises over the Stonehill Inn in Phandalin. Downstairs, Toblen Stonehill helps staff ready the tables for breakfast. , the sun rises on the window of your room, awakening you. It’s a warm day and that strange wound on your arm shows no signs of healing. You also find that your pants are missing. , because you rolled so high on , your thievery did not seem to alert anyone last night.
The Card Posting Style Guide
: Totally fine if would take down that door, but there’ll be consequences.
Your shouting awakens other patrons, some of which peek out of their rooms to see you heading down the hall. Toblen notices the sudden ruckus and makes his way upstairs.
“Is everything alright?”
he asks .
DM & Players - Out of character:
Player In character
stretches awake in bed surrounded by his spellbook and scrolls. His other adventuring gear litters a corner of the room. He turns over in bed and reaches for his pants, or he would, if they were where he’d left them. Finding them missing, he leaps out of bed, his cheeks flushed.
“Joey! Where are my pants?”
He hurriedly grabs his shirt, wraps it around his waist, and rushes out of his room and down the hall to ’s room.
“I know it was you! You’re always stealing my pants! Come out before I burn down this door!”
The room is filled with the warm of fresh baked bread, and there is fresh sandwiches by the counter. The baker is preoccupied with a flour merchant, and has not noticed you walk in.
For players
Character dialogue would be set in using:
In game:
Heading 2 with quotations
+ assigned colour card.
Optional: Add Italics for emotion (adverbial modifier).
Out of character:
Tag + card at 50% transparency
DM - In game
Example:
Casual writing - not too long, short and sweet
What does fireball do?
Example II :
Medium detail writing - A little more detail but not too much.
Player 2 card colour
How do I short rest?
Reading orientation
You post your cards vertically and any OOC would be on the side.
Roll me a D20
Player 1 card colour
Out of Character cards - Questions and Dice rolls
DM card colour
In game card - Dialogue
Read vertically, with out of character + dice rolls done on the side of the cards
Sectioned into Sessions or chapters
This is a work in progress, but would be how a Play-by-post would look in Kinopio