So what's currently going on with the booming and the potential chasing and/or the moving above us?

Just trying to gauge what sort of "imminent threat" we'd likely assume we're under and from what direction.

So the noise is there and every few seconds you see more of the ceiling falling in your path but right now nothing has shown it's face.

What can we see with the increased light Lirian has cast?

Yeah are there grates or something above us?

been training the last three days. Going to get back into the saddle hopefully this afternoon.

...I just realized you are also running Aether Odyssey XD

Where I am playing a very similar character XD XD

Yes, guilty as charged, I play 90% the same thing (the rest 10% is background and characterization, and it can vary wildly).

You're Oliseo? Cool!

Who am I?

So you all play thes game too?

I don't know FATE system...

It's clear you are Skinner. I get the Jenkins vibes.

I've seen Lirian in a few other places as well as Allison ;)

I usually create new heroes for each game. I am using Dragonborn Paladin in D&D and a Halfling Fighter in Dungeon World. Usually I like Druid or Ranger but those classes have been fun.

Yup. I decided to create something similar to 7th Sea but using Airships and magic. The game will focus less around combat (but combat will still happen) and more around social settings and adventures.

I'm afraid its not me, as I've never used this name...

Oh wow. I thought for sure it was you. I forget what game but I thought it was a Savage World game. Might have got my wires crossed. Not sure.

I'm playing another SWADE game, that's true, with a character quite symilar to Lirian, and as its name is Alice maybe you just missremebered it...

That's probably it.

I take it these things are snakes?  Or at least snake-like?

Snake-like

I have to repeat the question, what range are they at?

RE: above - I tend not to repeat characters but there's a lot of the same notes that seem to come out.

What about Piper?

Piper is just too small to count...snap..I knew I was going to miss someone. Hold on let me generate a card and add her in.
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Bingo, though he's not Jenkins, he's Spiderman.

But I was looking for a possum like character icon, and came up with nothing. "Male animal characters " had a gnoll or dog faced creature, "female animal characters" had nothing, then I found much further down "neutral animal characters" which 8 pages of icons to choose from. That turned out to be page after page of nothing blanks until the very last page that had a small bear like creature with a twisting nose and open mouth, and it looks like he's either taking shit or asking for a beer (or both), so I just had to go for that one. So there we have it, a Spiderman silent assassin who talks a lot of shit and likes alcohol.

I'm in six games on RPOL, One of thems a real pirate game using Seas of Dead Men and we are having a ball. Ones a Medieval French game where we are knights investigating murders. It turns out that we have a werewolf problem, possibly created by a bishop in a neighboring province that wants to call a Crusade on us so they can take our lands. Ones a Vaesen game that has a lot of promise.

What's troubling is that they all are great games, but it seems there is one other active player and maybe one or two hangers on,and if a good player leaves then that's it. Unfortunately,  i suppose that is the nature of RPOL, and perhaps roleplayjbg in general.

This game is probably the only one that feels like a group, with a bunch of people posting regularly and working together.

Most games on RPoL pretty much always have to be set up so that characters can move in and out.

If you're lucky you'll get a core group of a few players and then everybody else will cycle in for a time and then back out again.

It's unfortunate but to maintain a healthy game a GM has to generally be proactive with recruiting, getting new folks in before attrition causes too many issues.

I have busy times, but this is why even if I can't check in multiple times per day I only keep about 3-4 games and I tend to do a pretty good job of updating each one 1/day.

I'm in several right now, started some weeks ago after a veeeery long hiatus for personal reasons. In my current lifestyle, I am literally on top of it every day, for hours on a day, so I don't have a problem- and that will be my lifestyle for the rest of the year for sure. Which is a great change, because life always got in the way with a very inconsistent schedule.

On the other hand, many of the games I joined up I either quit because the vibe was wrong or the game was great but the GM folded- and many are very, very slow. One I was even kicked out because I argued with the GM for being overly pedantic ("You did not say you are holding the quarterstaff with one hand, so you have no free hands to pick up the book"- true story, though not mine, mine was a quibble over another thing). So... yeah, this is one of the games I'm really enjoying.

But yeah, I see what you mean, and it doesn't just apply to RPOL. I run two playtester groups and frankly I've had to cycle through a lot of players coming and going because life in 30's sucks. Gone are the days of "we are five friends and gather once a week to play something"- then again, I never was much of that kind of person anyway, I was always in and out in a ton of tables.

Personally I'm currently in 5 games. 2 are AD&D (though one seems to be dying, as there has been some argeing among a player, who finally seems to have left, and the GM hs openly told about killing the game, and about half the players had already left it), 2 are SWADE and the otehr one is MERP.

THis is the most active too, though the other SWADE and the remaining AD&D are run also at steady pace.

Most games I've played to now, though, had not survived introduction, in most cses due to the referee disappearing, all too often without even a warning. It's bad when a player ghosts a game, but when is the referee who does it, it's quite frustrating.

Oh, absolutely! I'm picky about the games I'm in, I'm picky about the system and the setting and the concept, it has to be something that is intriguing and interesting and make me want to creatively explore character concepts.

Then, coming up with that concept and learning the system and developing the character and creating a backstory is a lot of investment, so it's very  frustrating when game fails to take off due to people disappearing.  GM ghosting is the worst.

Though I think it's hard to be a good GM. That's a lot of work, creating the game, NPCs, rules, it's a big commitment. I suspect some people try to make a game then give up when they realize how much work it is. Or they are typing big descriptions and the characters all just say "OK, we get in the boat then" so it feels like the GM is dragging everyone along in a novel. I think a good GM needs to facilitate inter character interaction somehow so the focus isnt always on him, and I don't think that's easy.

This is definitely the most active for me as well.  Sorry I haven't been more active -- I had a couple projects drop unexpectedly in my lap.  But I try.

I have four other games going, but they're more sporadic, which is okay for me.  This is the first time though on RPoL where I didn't have a single D&D game going. I got this one, two DCCs, and a Blades in the Dark.  Maybe a fifth, Dark Shadows, but that one has long pauses, so I never know.  Fun game though.