A bit of a mini-game before we start to get things rolling, and to give the stragglers a bit of time to get their characters posted.  

You can tell a story about one other character.  The story will be true, but only from your perspective.  The person about whom the story is told cannot directly contradict the facts, but can alter the details later on.  Nothing intimate, no romantic liaisons unless the other person agrees, and so on.  We will go one at a time, and if you want to opt-out, you are certainly free to.  By all means, you can also take this opportunity to PM the player and work out the details with them.  Some of you can be from the same previous adventuring group, but no more than three from the same group.  No responding to the previous player just yet, that can come out during the adventure; your story has to be about someone that hasn't been included yet, the last person would then have a story about the first.  If you want to opt-out, Just post 'no story' before things get rolling.

One Horse Town was first to make a character, so he gets to go first.  Tell everyone who you are, what you look like, and how you got here.  You can then exposit about another character of your choice.

Looks like OHT is short on time, so Venosha can go first.

Did I mention there is an award of 1000xp for participating?  

Hmm. Does Venosha have to go first or can anyone just throw in?

Quote from: DeadUematsu;258858Hmm. Does Venosha have to go first or can anyone just throw in?

Venosha goes first, relates a snippet about One Horse Town, then One Horse Town chooses another character and relates a snippet.  That player chooses another character and invents some background fragment, and so on.  Only one fragment per character, so you can't choose someone that already has a fragment.  The last person to participate will necessarily write a fragment about the first person, in this case, Venosha's Monk.

Anyone who wants to opt out can do so, those that participate get a 1000xp bonus.  The fragments should be fairly short, a synopsis of one event your character has heard about or an encounter your character had with the other character.  Nothing radical, remember the other character's alignment, and be nice.    

Post your fragment in IC using a narrative format, and don't worry too much about confirming things with the other player.  Have fun with it, and see what we can come up with!

If anyone is interested, we can use the Invisible Castle dice roller.  Registration is free, and the dice convention is the same as OpenRPG, which I can post if anyone is interested.  Not that I don't trust anyone, but it might be easier than having to lug dice around all day and find a place to roll them where your cubiclemates won't start pestering you with questions.

Here is how it cuts-n-pastes:

  2d10 → [2,8] = (10)
   2d10 → [9,2] = (11)
   2d10 → [6,4] = (10)
   2d10 → [7,9] = (16)
   2d10 → [8,8] = (16)

Removing the formatting isn't fun in WYSIWYG mode, however.  I had to switch to plain text to find the closing bold tag.

Still, looks like a good option to keep track of the rolls.  It automatically copies the link to your clipboard, so you get pretty output like this:
Copy and Paste test (2d10=10, 2d10=11, 2d10=10, 2d10=16, 2d10=16)

It looks like Invisible Castle is able to use the dice functions as well, and you can combine them, as long as they don't contradict, so no .ascending().descending()  It looks like it performs them in Left to Right Order, so the last function is the one that will sort.

OpenRPG dice formula basics:

You can roll dice by typing them manually into your text intry box under the dice toolbar (where you type your normal chat messages).
These dice rolls will always be in the same format:

[(# Dice)d(Sides of Dice)(+/- Modification or Function Call)]

Where:
(# Dice) Is the number of dice rolled
(Sides of Dice) Is the sides of the die rolled
(+/- Modification) Is the number added to or subtracted from the die roll with the sign
(Function Call) Is the .function called in format.

To keep it in perspective the following are all valid rolls:
[1d2]
[1d20+1]
[1d20-4]
[3d4+56]
[1d8+4d6-3]
[4d6.takeHighest(3)]
 
List of Functions Inluded in the standard (std) roller

.ascending()

    *Arranges the dice rolled from lowest to highest and then totals them.

      [5d6.ascending()] -> [2,2,5,5,6] = (20)

.descending()

    *Arranges the dice rolled from highest to lowest and then totals them.

      [5d6.descending()] -> [5,4,3,3,2] = (17)

.takeHighest(num)

    *Takes only the highest num rolls and totals them.

      [5d6.takeHighest(2)] -> [6,4] = (10)

.takeLowest(num)

    *Takes only the lowest num rolls and totals them.

      [5d6.takeLowest(2)] -> [1,3] = (4)

.extra(num)

    *Rolls an extra die if the number rolled is greater than or equal to num, then totals all the dice.

      [5d6.extra(5)] -> [[5, 4],[6, 3],3,1,3] = (25)

.open(num)

    *Rolls an extra die if the number rolled is greater than or equal to num, and rolls again if that roll is greater than or equal to num.

      [5d6.open(5)] -> [4,2,4,[5, 4],[6, 6, 6, 1]] = (38)

.minroll(num)

    *Re-rolls any dice that are less than num, then totals up only the rolls greater than or equal to num.

      [5d6.minroll(3)] -> [5,3,6,3,5] = (22)

.each(num)

    *Adds num to each die roll individually, then totals up the modified values.

      [5d6.each(-1)] -> [[3, -1],[5, -1],[4, -1],[3, -1],[2, -1]] = (12)

.vs(num)

    *Counts the number of rolls greater than or equal to num.

      [5d6.vs(4)] -> [6,3,1,4,1] = (2)

As a final note, you can perform arithmatic functions in brackets. That is to say you can +,-,/,* numbers when you enter them in [ ] and send them to chat.

Looks pretty complete, but somewhat complicated.  I can throw a few cut-n-paste standard rolls together if you want to use it but don't want to mess with the semi-scripting language.

Grey Pumpkin or anyone else participating, feel free to write about my halfling druid.

ugg...my first test roll on the site was a fumble....methinks it doesn't bode well.
Tim

Little swamped at the moment but should be able to post on Wednesday

Quote from: GrayPumpkin;259249Little swamped at the moment but should be able to post on Wednesday

No problem, I will let DeadUematsu jump in there, and you can do a write up on his character tomorrow.

Ok, DeadUematsu, you're up!  Anyone except GrayPumpkin, One Horse Town or Venosha.  When GrayPumpkin gets some time tomorrow, he will do your write up, then we will continue with whoever you chose to write up.

Timrichter9 chimed in, any other thoughts about the dice roller?

Quote from: StormBringer;259294No problem, I will let DeadUematsu jump in there, and you can do a write up on his character tomorrow.

Ok, DeadUematsu, you're up!  Anyone except GrayPumpkin, One Horse Town or Venosha.  When GrayPumpkin gets some time tomorrow, he will do your write up, then we will continue with whoever you chose to write up.

I wrote about Thaelie (that's Tim).

Ok, Tim, you are up.  Venosha, One Horse Town and Dead Uematsu have already gone, Gray Pumpkin will be writing up Dead Uematsu, so you can write up any of the other characters:


Sinjin767 - Elven Thief, still to post
Shellbee - Elven Ranger/Magic User, still to post
Oni Kadaki - Human Cleric - Sander Lightwalker
Eric E. - Human Fighter, still to post
Narf the Mouse - ? Magic User - still to name

It will be a bit more challenging to write up the players still working on characters, but a little challenge never killed anyone, right?  

Dead Uematsu:  I will have your halfling retainers posted tonight. (Sorry, I lost track of who was hiring them)

We can get to the hiring of retainers/hirelings and shopping trips after the intro, for whomever wishes.  You will not be expected to pick up and go immediately after the meeting with the Duke's proxy, so there will be some additional time to get last minute supplies the afternoon/evening following that meeting.

The list narrows.  Oni, it is your turn:

Sinjin767 - Elven Thief, still to post
Shellbee - Elven Ranger/Magic User, still to post
Eric E. - Human Fighter, still to post
Narf the Mouse - ? Magic User - still to name

If you want to write up Narf, then Narf can write up Venosha, and when the other three get characters posted, they can go in listed order.

Oh, sorry - Was a bit tired when I wrote up the full sheet and forgot to copy-pasta the write-up.

'Naren Ezer. Hmm...LN, cold, logical. I don't do neutral often, nor the other two.

Brought up by a distant and cold Wizard his parents 'apprenticed' (Read: Sold) him to, he scrubbed floors, cleaned dishes and learnt magic. It wasn't a loving environment, so he doesn't really know that emotion, but it was stable and reliable. He suspects he was taught magic because the wizard (Arceth Zezzar) didn't know what else to do with him and was LN as well, so fair pay for fair work.

He finished his apprenticeship at a mutually-agreeable age (Check ages) and left to adventure and as aquantances.

(Bit of a departure from the standard 'Sold into slavery' story. Suspect he was done a favor, in the end)'

It's also edited into the sheet.

Two notes:

First, I stayed up all night so I wouldn't oversleep and miss seeing my Mom off on her flight to see her sisters. So, I'm very tired and will post after I get some sleep.

Second, did I get magic items done? Because last I checked, OSRIC doesn't have them.

Oh, and a third - Just having the names proved a wonderful way to bypass my perfectionism. With nothing to compare, I just went with my instincts.

Forth - I tend to develop characters more in play than beforehand.

I'm a bit confused, is this minigame part of the in context thread or in this thread? I'll gladly post a story in either, just tell me what to do.