Where is my heavy weapon? Stowed on the valkyrie?

Heavy weapons and their ammo are placed into storage containers, referred to as "coffins", and are dropped along with the troops to be collected after they reach the ground.

How do you guys feel about using or not using initiative for combat? I lean towards not rolling initiative because it would enforce a certain posting order for everyone. Thoughts?

@AdvancedJ3lly I feel like initative would be great if we were doing this on discord or something, but where it could take hours (Or more) initiative is just gonna make things tedious and cause us to wait for that one guy.

The problem of not using initiative is this. How often will each player be able to post during a fight, and how often before the other players have a chance to post?

If each player can only post once anyway in a round, than it makes no difference if we use initiative rolls.

@Ollumhammersong We could give people a day to post before the DM reacts.

While that could work. That is potentially punishing someone for just having a busy week. I personally can't post on Tuesdays and occasionally Wednesdays. Is my turn just going to be skipped if the DM happens to make a post on Monday and I can't respond until Thursday?

I admit there should be a point where too much time has passed and the group just goes ahead. But saying 'you got one day'? No, just no. That isn't giving people nearly enough time if life happens to get in the way. Which it will.

@Ollumhammersong I don't want to wait too long, I'd hate to do some simple action like "I shoot a cultist" and have to wait a entire week to find out whenever I hit or not. Would 2 Days be better?, this way you have double the amount of time to post without waiting too long. Personally in my opinion RP's tend to die when it takes more than two days of waiting for a post.

And I find that forcing a breakneck pace is also bad for an rp because it forces some people out immediately, and causes burnout far quicker, potentially driving more people away and not necessarily offering encouragement to new joiners.

This is the main disadvantage of the forum rp. Unlike meeting at a house where everyone sets aside one night a week. This is subject to peoples daily lives. I'm happy that you are able to post every single day if required. But not everyone can.

I would say 3-4 days myself. But ultimately this is the GM's decision.

The way I look at it is this:

People have busy lives. I work full time and take night classes in the evenings for example, and I know others do even more than that. Strict initiative is generally bad, as if Player A has time to post Monday but can't because he has to wait for Player B to post, but player B can't post until Tuesday, it screws everyone up.

Simply splitting it into rounds where everyone takes their turn, then we begin the cycle again fixes that to a degree. In situations where you don't have time to post for a couple days and people are waiting, simply PMing myself can work in a pinch, as I can roll your character's actions into a post and cover the die rolls. It unfortunately means you lose out on the opportunity to describe the event from your character's perspective, but it keeps things rolling.

I think it would be best to keep the RP more towards streamlined gameplay. Sure you could find a reason to roll dice for practically everything in a tabletop RPG, but this format makes it a bit cumbersome. Viewing it as a normal forum RP with some dice tossed in rather than a traditional tabletop RPG jammed into a forum format is probably the best way to go.

If in your post, for your "turn" you shoot at something or attempt picking a lock, or do something that is not a guaranteed outcome, include a roll at the bottom of your post (or multiple, if you're doing something like shooting and include the damage roll). If you aren't sure if you need to roll or what you need to roll, feel free to PM me or ask me in the OOC. You can PM me your roll ahead of time and I can tell you the outcome so you can include that in your post as well to make things easier.

Apologies for the text-wall.

Also, @Nohbdy still with us my dude?

@Ollumhammersong while I do agree that quick posting kicks out newcomer's, I feel like taking too long with every post makes the RP boring, it kills the pacing because a simple fight could take a week. I like advanced Jelly's idea though with PMing your roll ahead of time though.

Three days is good but I feel like four days is excessive. to me if you haven't posted within two days you're probably a little to busy to make the third In my opinion.

That may well be your opinion on the matter and it may at times be true. But I also feel you are being impatient, and probably don't have too much on your plate as far as day to day activities, doing things after work, etc. I don't mean that as an insult, merely an observation based on what I am reading.

And just because something is slower paced for you doesn't mean that it feels that way for everyone. personally I find 4 days is the most reasonable window of time to grant that ends up suiting most people. Which, in the end is the purpose of establishing a schedule. It needs to work for the most people. not just the ones who want to get going the quickest.

I agree a strict initiative order would be a bad thing, And I am more than willing to give the GM's idea a go and I think it would work. But you need to give other people time.

@AdvancedJ3lly

I am. Still haven't really come up with an Appearance, but y'all should know what a Tech-Priest looks like. If/when we see him with hood up/robes of, I should be able to come up with something. If I can get an OK, I'll go ahead and post the CS in the proper section in the morning and hopefully have an IC post up tomorrow evening.

Prolly gonna try and Tech Use to commune with the Valk's machine spirit to try and clear up the augur/find out what we can expect when we hit the ground.

@Nohbdy

Seems fine to me, though you still need to get a background figured out sometime soon.

@AdvancedJ3lly

Already got a background on the updated version. Appearance was the only hold-up.

@AdvancedJ3lly

Already got a background on the updated version. Appearance was the only hold-up.

Is this updated version anywhere on this thread? The only CS of yours I see is on page two which is still in its initial form.

@Ollumhammersong You're right I'm a impatient guy, you are also right about me having a lot of free time. but I seriously think that if you're not able to post within three days, you're sure as heck not going to be able to post for a forth. I like the DM's Idea and I want to give it a go though, but I feel like waiting 4 day's for one guy is too much. I also feel like there may be miscommunication about this, I think we should wait until the last post is 3 days old because then the majority likely posted, I feel like you think I want to wait until the first post is old then move on. which I think is dumb.

At the end of the day this is all the dm's decision. it's up to him to decide.

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Is this updated version anywhere on this thread? The only CS of yours I see is on page two which is still in its initial form.

It is now. The only changes between the two are the Background, swapping Language (Techna-Lingua) for Trade (Armorer), and listing the regimental modifiers.

Got a full day ahead, but I'm gonna try and get an IC post up this evening.

That roll went well. May not get that post up tonight, but it's coming.

That roll went well.

This could be a very short roleplay.... :P