Twisted Minds OoC: Act 0, Now let's do the twist... Options

[Feshy]

This is the Out of Character thread for Act 0 of my Twisted Minds campaign.

In Character Thread
Recruitment Thread (for reference only)

Cast of Characters:
Spook, played by Jaid
Bubbles, played by DireRadiant
Dual, played by BlackHat
Snapp, played by GingerKid
Codger, played by Toptomcat

As stated in the recruitment thread, there’s no rush to post to the IC and OOC threads yet; if you still want to tinker with your character, feel free to do so. Assuming I’ve already approved your character, once you post in the IC thread, consider that character finalized though!

Toptomcat, I know you are still working on Codger a bit. I'm assuming you keep the contact who's call I posted in the In Character thread -- if you don't, I'll edit the post and have one of your other contacts call.

Rules:

What goes in the In Character thread:

The In Character thread should just be descriptions of attempted actions, conversations, and descriptions of results – the later will generally be provided by me.

What goes in this thread:

Everything that doesn’t go in the In Character thread goes here. All die rolls and rules discussions and so on take place here, in the Out of Character thread. Die rolls ugly up the suspension of disbelief I try to keep going in the IC thread, so keep them here only please.

Spoilers
What I post in spoiler tags is only for the person whose name is next to the spoiler section. For example:

Fred

[ Spoiler ]

Only Fred should read this.

Should only be read by Fred. (Well, except for in this example, of course.)

Formatting:

Honestly, formatting isn’t that important. Looking at other games here, I find some things that improve readability – announcing the time, location, and character name at the top of the post in a different color; using italics for thoughts, removing signatures from posts, etc. But really, I’ll forget at least as often as everyone else, so it’s not that big of deal. I’ll make an effort to stick to the above suggestions, but make no promises.

Die Rolls:

I use the “Omniscient” system of die rolling. That is, it’s like the honor system, where it’s up to you to be honest in rolling and reporting your results – except that I claim to be able to read your mind and hit you with lightning bolts if you’re naughty about it.

As far as reporting the results goes, you can list each die in the order it’s rolled, or just the total number of dice and hits. This way if I find there are too many dice (modifiers I “forgot” to mention or the like) I can either just remove some from the end, or roll to see if the die I remove was a success or not. If you use a die rolling program, don’t bother to list all the dice if it sorts them; that just won’t help me any more than only reporting hits and the number of die rolled.

It would also help if you list the modifiers you expect with your roll, so I know where the numbers came from. I know your skills and attributes, so you don’t need to list those. Just things like:

Smartlink +2, called shot -2, medium range -1.

And of course, if you’re looking for a die rolling program, I recommend mine (if the link still works anyway)

Post Guidelines

Dumpshock forum rules of course apply – stick to their posting guidelines. It’s their forum after all. Above all, be respectful of each other – I don’t anticipate this being a problem.

Above all, have fun, and good luck!