Conversation thread for "The Queen's Quest"

CutiePie1997 said:

Question: You haven't mentioned experience points until now. How will that work. The couple of times I played D&D as a kid I thought it was hokey (my Grampa's word) that suddenly a character would jump up a level with the accumulation of that one special point.

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CutiePie1997 said:

I want to apologize. I kind of rushed through that post because I had to get to work. Do you mind if I rewrite the creative part of it before you post the results of my turn? I won't make a habit of this. I promise.

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JudeRodney said:

Is there still room for this? I'll join if there is.

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TimTimTyner said:

There is, but...

I'm redesigning the "flow" of action ... making it simpler. CutiePie and I began this once, only to find it too difficult for me to manage; then we started again, only to find the same thing.

I hope to have it ready before the end of the weekend.

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1. Finish up the profiles for your other two characters tonight.
2. Go back and edit the IC a bit per what we talked about in PM.
3. Send you the first string of random die rolls per the Expedited Melee Process which you and I discussed in PM, allowing you to conduct the first few melee rounds on your own.
4. Then, once we are sure this will work, I will open the game to other players.

• This is the new "template" after I adjusted everything. I don't think you'll find any surprises: we discussed all of this in PM over the past days.
• You can feel free to exchange it for the previous templates, simply for continuity.
• I will recalculate the Melee Rounds in a moment, post them, and then we can continue with Melee Rounds #3 and #4.
• I am using the original die rolls when possible. If I see a change that is significant enough to cause alarm, we can reroll a Melee Round or two. But I think the actions you took with the PCs were good, so ... let's see if it works.
• This template may change again in the future, but for now I think this is the best we've had to work with yet.
• Also, another thought: once we finish with a Battle and move on, we can go back and delete some or all of the templates if we want. This allows us and others to more easily read the story as a story. Just an idea.

• Instead of letting a die roll randomly pick which NPCs get attacked in which order -- which was confusing -- I instead let the PCs attack them in order, #1 through #4.
• I added differing Attack Rolls to each of the NPCs.
• I restructured the Surprise Numbers and how Hannah casts spells.
• I eliminated the Natural 6 "Critical Hit".
• Other than that, everything should be as it was.

TimTimTyner said:

Changes I made:

• Instead of letting a die roll randomly pick which NPCs get attacked in which order -- which was confusing -- I instead let the PCs attack them in order, #1 through #4.
• I added differing Attack Rolls to each of the NPCs.
• I restructured the Surprise Numbers and how Hannah casts spells.
• I eliminated the Natural 6 "Critical Hit".
• Other than that, everything should be as it was.

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TimTimTyner said:

Okay, finally done with Melee Round #1.

Sorry it took so long. Now that I have a format, though, I should be able to do a PC's turn in about 2 minutes ... not 2 days.

My eyes are bulging from my head with eye strain. Will you please look for mistakes and PM me back. Also, if you need to rethink your Melee Round 2 attacks, PM me the change OR make the change in your post.

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• I have spent the last 2 or 3 weeks trying to come up with a format that is quick and easy to use and read...
• Only to realize that it's not fun to Host.
• The rolling and creatively writing about actions and responses is great...
• But the formatting of all of the die rolls and such is driving me mad!

• I will no longer do all of the recording of die rolls and such on the laptop.
• I am going to print a finalized copy of the Conducting Combat page, essentially what you see in Post #9 but expanded to include ALL of the possible die rolls.
• I'm going to put that page inside a transparent dry erase page.
• And then I will simply conduct and calculate all of the Combat on paper (or plastic as is more appropriate to say).
• Then, I will creativity write the results in a reply.
• The only "numbers" I will list will be similar to the section that explains how many hit points each PC and NPC has left.
• This will be much more fun and far easier for me to manage.
• I still get to conduct a die roll D&D inspired game...
• And you still get to write in an adventure.
• Please tell me what you think of this proposal.

• First, I only just no realized that the red links to the PC names in the last several posts are not links to their profiles but are instead links to their pics. Sorry about that: the links were supposed to go to profiles so that at any moment it would be easy for players/readers to look at those profiles. I will fix this in my posts, but you will need to fix them in yours IF you want to do so.
• Second, I liked CutiePie's PM suggestion about profiles, so I am going to incorporate the idea tonight when I get home. Essentially it goes like this:
  • I control the profiles as you may have noticed.
  • This is so that I can edit them frequently, as I have on almost a daily basis as we reconstructed how the game was going to be conducted.
  • However, the PC's players themselves should be able to create their own description of their PC's pasts and presents.
  • So, CutiePie suggested that players be able to post a page to the Host's Thread that contains a more detailed past and contains a recap of their PCs' activities in the story.
  • I love this!
  • So, feel free to create such a page; and after you post it I will put a link to it at the top of the character's official profile page, to give you quick access to it without having to search the Host Thread for it.