'Poly D&D- Coordination Thread. - Page 5

Urban Ranger · July 12, 2003, 00:37

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Originally posted by Jon Miller
no

have them all be GMs, we could use them

it also seems like 3rd it is

so all the GMs need to decide together is the setting

Jon Miller

I could be a GM

Anyway, why not have 2 or 3 separate campaigns? Or is that too much?

Urban Ranger · July 12, 2003, 00:40

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Originally posted by Barley
Can someone post a link to the original thread, I must be daft cus I cant find it.

Don't worry, just use this one.

Jon Miller · July 12, 2003, 03:54

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Originally posted by Urban Ranger

I could be a GM

Anyway, why not have 2 or 3 separate campaigns? Or is that too much?

I was thinking several (maybe one for each GM)

yah

Jon Miller

Makeo · July 12, 2003, 08:14

Well i'm enthused about this and have started thinking about character creation. Not sure if its legit since I haven't played before.

However I'm going to play a chaotic neutral human rogue. With Samarui tendencies. I was talking to atawa and he said something about there being a yakuza type of character but I don't know about that.

Sandman · July 12, 2003, 08:38

I know nothing about AD&D, but I'd like to play. I played the last one, and it was quite entertaining.

MattH · July 12, 2003, 09:43

Ming replies!

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After much thought... Please keep your D&D game in the OTF for now. And also, limit yourself to ONLY TWO active threads at any given time. Let me know if you need old ones closed.

I will monitor how the game is going, and if justified, we will find a more permant place for it if warrented.

Thanks for your understanding... and even asking in the first place

Maybe the GM's can get together and start planning...

Wraith · July 12, 2003, 09:52

I just started reading this thread, but there's something I've just got to respond to.

--"I know practically nothing about Greyhawk as an example"

If you choose Greyhawk, I have the best campaign module I've ever seen, which is set in Greyhawk. It's titled Castle Greyhawk, and it is the most amusing adventure I've ever seen that wasn't homebrew.

Wraith
I have developed "Power Word Nuke". Send me all your gold

Jon Miller · July 12, 2003, 10:20

we could have two parties (besides snowfires) to start with

Jon Miller

Solver · July 12, 2003, 11:33

Jon and others, you have gotten a bit too far for understanding of near-virgins such as myself and virgins such as some others. Can anyone get it a bit slower

?

MattH · July 12, 2003, 11:36

Solver: we're considering playing dungeons and dragons in the same "world", but in different groups of people led by different Dungeon (or Game) Masters. The Game Masters (see voting thread) have to get together and co-ordinate their games so the worlds match up.
(did I read that question right, or did I answer something totally random?)

Solver · July 12, 2003, 11:40

MattH, thanks, that pretty much explains what I was confused about.

I understood that this idea arised because of the high number of people interested, but what's the exact drawback of having one group under one GM?

Jon Miller · July 12, 2003, 11:42

having one group under one GM is the usual...
Jon Miller

MattH · July 12, 2003, 11:47

I was thinking one group for ease of use... The 20+ players aren't all going to be making all the decisions... some will leave, be offline, etc... Jon proposed different groups... it could work

Jon Miller · July 12, 2003, 11:50

since we only have two threads I would suggest three groups

one for Snowfire (done by email mostly)

two with some combination of Japher/Lonestar/Victor Galis/bookwyrm

Proteus_MST · July 12, 2003, 12:03

Interesting, if I had time I might be interested.

I own the First Edition of both the Players and the Gamemasters Handbook (the german Version)

LDiCesare · July 12, 2003, 13:50

I couldn't find out any reference as to how often players would play/when they 'meet'/chat etc. I might be interested, but I suggest that you link the active thread to previous inactive threads so that old information can be found out easily if it is relevant.

Jon Miller · July 12, 2003, 13:57

we actually ahven't thoguht about that

we woudl problably have two running threads which would run how the GMs running them want tthem to run and we will have one PBEM group (Snowfires)

Jon Miller

Victor Galis · July 12, 2003, 14:08

I'm thinking some might run in the thread and partially via e-mail and/or PMs (not every action a character takes needs to be made public).

What I was thinking of doing actually was to start everyone in a rather large tavern/inn/whatever (yes, how cliche) populated with at least 5 NPCs that have some sort of problem they wish to have taken care of, as well as some minor NPCs. Over the course of a couple real days, the PCs would make their entrance, describe their characters, etc. They would talk to the NPCs and decide which of the quests they'd be interested in (this would lead to the partition in multiple groups) and after that the individual DMs could probably go from there.

That being said, there's a lot of organization stuff that needs to happen before we get to that stage, such as deciding firmly which edition, setting, houserules, character creation rules, etc. Then creating all the characters, and helping the people who are new to this create their characters, etc.

(We might need more than 2 threads for this. Heck a whole forum would be nice, but we don't have that at the moment, and we might not need the whole forum after the business of figuring out where and how we're playing is settled.)

Makeo · July 12, 2003, 14:14

*newbie speaks*

So can i go about creating myself a character or do I need to wait for the DM?

Questions: I've been looking around and I guess my character needs a character sheet with stats and stuff. Does the DM assign stats?
Can I decide what weapons/armour I have?
Should I write a character background kind of thing?

I have other questions but can't remember them right now. I'll be back.

I have no skill in writing fantasy but will give it a good try. No laughing.

Jon Miller · July 12, 2003, 14:34

the GMs need to decide the setting and starting level of characters

I personally think that FR and level 1 would be good

Jon Miller

Lord Merciless · July 12, 2003, 14:39

I'm in favor of Forgotten Realms(FR) and Level 1 characters too.

Victor Galis · July 12, 2003, 15:13

Character creation will be done by the players with the characters then run by the DMs for approval. In general legal characters will be approved, this is just to try to catch mistakes in the char creation process (both in the character's favor and otherwise (like say you forget to assign all your skill points)). Character creation can't really start until we decide how to assign stats, how much money you get, etc.

You can start thinking of a character background and/or write it because that's really not that subject to rules or stuff like that.

Solver · July 12, 2003, 15:15

So I can start thinking about my Elf Wizard character, I assume?

A question now... has anyone already decided on something about our game world?

Jon Miller · July 12, 2003, 15:15

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Originally posted by Victor Galis
Character creation can't really start until we decide how to assign stats, how much money you get, etc.

I tihnk we are letting GMs decide that (and in particular, you)

Jon Miller

Solver · July 12, 2003, 15:17

Can anyone experienced come up with the usual figures of starting levels, starting money, etc?

Makeo · July 12, 2003, 15:21

ok so i'm going to go ahead and write a character background for Makeo Sumiyori Mixtashiro.

Jon Miller · July 12, 2003, 15:33

starting level is usually 1

starting money is usually done as per table 7-1

barbarrian and bard 4d4x10
monk 5d4
cleric and rogue 5d4x10
fighter and paladin and ranger 6d4x10
sorcerer and wizard 3d4x10
druid 2d4x10

Jon Miller

Solver · July 12, 2003, 15:34

Thanks Jon.

Barley · July 12, 2003, 15:44

As im new to PBE, online type roll play (played D&D loads before - but was face to face).

Do I assume I develop a Character persona / background in terms of something like this.

Character:

Dorgbeard Longshanks (Fighter) of Akinarie, born of a blood lust between rival feudining knights to unite the quarraling tribes. Trained in the art of swordsmanship by Darwield or Derberinan (Master Swordsman). On a quest to prove his valuour in order to fulfill his destiny and in serach of the keep of the fallen Knight "Dingdong"

-> Excuse the name Dingdong but twas the name of a much prized 9th level fighter I once lost in battle with a Red Dragon way back in around 1982.

Makeo · July 12, 2003, 15:45

if possible. sorry for bugging you. could one of you guys send the pdf's to gmdoz@supanet.com please. and i'll try and decode it this time.