2BlackJack1 wrote:
One problem I have with that idea is that I use the action rolls to form some form of internal conflicts. I wouldn't have much to work with, and I would worry that Crusade progress would slow to a halt, if we only have one day with actual story progress once a week, and everything else doesn't actually mean much in the bigger picture.

 Kharne the Befriender wrote:
Here's some constructive criticism: add terrain
All I saw was jungle and jungle
My previous statement still stands

Also, I think I killed CoF I. I started the whole discussion about it

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 Buttery Commissar wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:
I feel so bad, I think I was one of the reasons why COF 1 is being cut short. I feel like an a***** now.

It was a joint effort.
Between the discussion and the post Christmas die-off. Smudge is picking up slack for users who just vanished, as well.

I wasn't trying to be blaming, I just meant I have concerns for slowpokes. There are weeks I'll be off the net entirely in the next few months, and with CoF, that wouldn't have mattered. The current pace is not maintainable for me across the second, though.

At the end of the day, I'm grateful to take part. I'm just scared I'll hold anyone up and then it'll stop feeling fun.

I thought about instilling a "1 roll per week." This would encourage more depth for characters by fleshing out internal conflicts and making this feel like a narrative, not a game.

It's an interesting concept. Would that 1 roll be for both factions? Or one roll for each of my factions?

Each faction would take one roll. Apart from that would be narrative character building.

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
One problem I have with that idea is that I use the action rolls to form some form of internal conflicts. I wouldn't have much to work with, and I would worry that Crusade progress would slow to a halt, if we only have one day with actual story progress once a week, and everything else doesn't actually mean much in the bigger picture.

Everything is story progress and it does mean a lot in the bigger picture. Think about every one of my plots. Most of those revolved around something fleshed out in a "narrative blurb."

Allowing one roll would make you really consider your options. Another idea to go with this, would be more active modifiers. If you have a lot of forces on your side for an attack, you will get a little bonues to your roll, more forces against you will give you a negative modifier, etc. I will explain when the time comes.

 EvergreenArcher wrote:

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 Buttery Commissar wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:
I feel so bad, I think I was one of the reasons why COF 1 is being cut short. I feel like an a***** now.

It was a joint effort.
Between the discussion and the post Christmas die-off. Smudge is picking up slack for users who just vanished, as well.

I wasn't trying to be blaming, I just meant I have concerns for slowpokes. There are weeks I'll be off the net entirely in the next few months, and with CoF, that wouldn't have mattered. The current pace is not maintainable for me across the second, though.

At the end of the day, I'm grateful to take part. I'm just scared I'll hold anyone up and then it'll stop feeling fun.

I thought about instilling a "1 roll per week." This would encourage more depth for characters by fleshing out internal conflicts and making this feel like a narrative, not a game.

It's an interesting concept. Would that 1 roll be for both factions? Or one roll for each of my factions?

Each faction would take one roll. Apart from that would be narrative character building.

How would narrative character building work with tyranids? They were my plan for CoF ll and I don't really know what narrative character building would be for them.

 EvergreenArcher wrote:

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 Buttery Commissar wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:
I feel so bad, I think I was one of the reasons why COF 1 is being cut short. I feel like an a***** now.

It was a joint effort.
Between the discussion and the post Christmas die-off. Smudge is picking up slack for users who just vanished, as well.

I wasn't trying to be blaming, I just meant I have concerns for slowpokes. There are weeks I'll be off the net entirely in the next few months, and with CoF, that wouldn't have mattered. The current pace is not maintainable for me across the second, though.

At the end of the day, I'm grateful to take part. I'm just scared I'll hold anyone up and then it'll stop feeling fun.

I thought about instilling a "1 roll per week." This would encourage more depth for characters by fleshing out internal conflicts and making this feel like a narrative, not a game.

It's an interesting concept. Would that 1 roll be for both factions? Or one roll for each of my factions?

Each faction would take one roll. Apart from that would be narrative character building.

How would narrative character building work with tyranids? They were my plan for CoF ll and I don't really know what narrative character building would be for them.

 Buttery Commissar wrote:

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
One problem I have with that idea is that I use the action rolls to form some form of internal conflicts. I wouldn't have much to work with, and I would worry that Crusade progress would slow to a halt, if we only have one day with actual story progress once a week, and everything else doesn't actually mean much in the bigger picture.

Everything is story progress and it does mean a lot in the bigger picture. Think about every one of my plots. Most of those revolved around something fleshed out in a "narrative blurb."

Allowing one roll would make you really consider your options. Another idea to go with this, would be more active modifiers. If you have a lot of forces on your side for an attack, you will get a little bonues to your roll, more forces against you will give you a negative modifier, etc. I will explain when the time comes.

Quite honestly as someone who's been running narrative-only since I joined, 1 per week is too restrictive.

I would say cap it if GMs are busy, but I've needed 2-3 to get things going as springing points.

For example I needed permission to explore and land, but also a success rate for my search parties.

 Buttery Commissar wrote:

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
One problem I have with that idea is that I use the action rolls to form some form of internal conflicts. I wouldn't have much to work with, and I would worry that Crusade progress would slow to a halt, if we only have one day with actual story progress once a week, and everything else doesn't actually mean much in the bigger picture.

Everything is story progress and it does mean a lot in the bigger picture. Think about every one of my plots. Most of those revolved around something fleshed out in a "narrative blurb."

Allowing one roll would make you really consider your options. Another idea to go with this, would be more active modifiers. If you have a lot of forces on your side for an attack, you will get a little bonues to your roll, more forces against you will give you a negative modifier, etc. I will explain when the time comes.

Quite honestly as someone who's been running narrative-only since I joined, 1 per week is too restrictive.

I would say cap it if GMs are busy, but I've needed 2-3 to get things going as springing points.

For example I needed permission to explore and land, but also a success rate for my search parties.

 chazz huggins wrote:

 EvergreenArcher wrote:

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 Buttery Commissar wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:
I feel so bad, I think I was one of the reasons why COF 1 is being cut short. I feel like an a***** now.

It was a joint effort.
Between the discussion and the post Christmas die-off. Smudge is picking up slack for users who just vanished, as well.

I wasn't trying to be blaming, I just meant I have concerns for slowpokes. There are weeks I'll be off the net entirely in the next few months, and with CoF, that wouldn't have mattered. The current pace is not maintainable for me across the second, though.

At the end of the day, I'm grateful to take part. I'm just scared I'll hold anyone up and then it'll stop feeling fun.

I thought about instilling a "1 roll per week." This would encourage more depth for characters by fleshing out internal conflicts and making this feel like a narrative, not a game.

It's an interesting concept. Would that 1 roll be for both factions? Or one roll for each of my factions?

Each faction would take one roll. Apart from that would be narrative character building.

How would narrative character building work with tyranids? They were my plan for CoF ll and I don't really know what narrative character building would be for them.

thats a good question as Nids don't really have characters, my suggestion would be maybe physically evolving your Brood Lord every so often, just avoid becoming OP and unfluffy like oh Now my Brood lord is invisible and can speak gothic. lol also you could do cool flashes of what its like inside a tyranid's mind. like maybe it consumes something and gains it memories like a space marine does idk.

 War Kitten wrote:
So basically it's like this.

If one of my Knights wants to have a discussion with Jhe's leader or someone else I'm free to post however many of those I want. Or if my CSM get into a minor scuffle with some feral Orks I can post those whenever I want, and say I won. But if my CSM decide to go launch an attack on BC's AdMech, or Bob's Scions I'd have to roll and that would essentially be their "big" action for the week?

 chazz huggins wrote:

 Buttery Commissar wrote:

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
One problem I have with that idea is that I use the action rolls to form some form of internal conflicts. I wouldn't have much to work with, and I would worry that Crusade progress would slow to a halt, if we only have one day with actual story progress once a week, and everything else doesn't actually mean much in the bigger picture.

Everything is story progress and it does mean a lot in the bigger picture. Think about every one of my plots. Most of those revolved around something fleshed out in a "narrative blurb."

Allowing one roll would make you really consider your options. Another idea to go with this, would be more active modifiers. If you have a lot of forces on your side for an attack, you will get a little bonues to your roll, more forces against you will give you a negative modifier, etc. I will explain when the time comes.

Quite honestly as someone who's been running narrative-only since I joined, 1 per week is too restrictive.

I would say cap it if GMs are busy, but I've needed 2-3 to get things going as springing points.

For example I needed permission to explore and land, but also a success rate for my search parties.

no one per week is a minimum with feel free to spam us, as per character development pieces those are completely free on you, just don't say "Oh you see my Captain needed to single handedly wipe out every ork on the contienent as it was critical to his character development" stuff that involves non combat or minor incidents of combat are free to use and require no roll

 War Kitten wrote:
So basically it's like this.

If one of my Knights wants to have a discussion with Jhe's leader or someone else I'm free to post however many of those I want. Or if my CSM get into a minor scuffle with some feral Orks I can post those whenever I want, and say I won. But if my CSM decide to go launch an attack on BC's AdMech, or Bob's Scions I'd have to roll and that would essentially be their "big" action for the week?

 Kharne the Befriender wrote:
I think instead of being limited to one roll a week we should be limited to one or two posts a week

I personally due 3-6 rolls every week

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 Kharne the Befriender wrote:
I think instead of being limited to one roll a week we should be limited to one or two posts a week

I personally due 3-6 rolls every week

That's counter intuitive to the narrative. This isn't a game with a narrative, its a narrative with a game.

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
The Histans can loan one, if anyone else isn't jumping to that. We owe House Fairfax, so they'd be willing to do it.

Oh, and nice piece, Bob. Very poetic end for Voidspider.

 Kharne the Befriender wrote:

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 Kharne the Befriender wrote:
I think instead of being limited to one roll a week we should be limited to one or two posts a week

I personally due 3-6 rolls every week

That's counter intuitive to the narrative. This isn't a game with a narrative, its a narrative with a game.

I understand that, I only do this for the narrative, but the way I develop my narrative is through a series of rolls.

For instance, the result of my 1st roll affects what I roll for next, kinda like a butterfly affect

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 Kharne the Befriender wrote:

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 Kharne the Befriender wrote:
I think instead of being limited to one roll a week we should be limited to one or two posts a week

I personally due 3-6 rolls every week

That's counter intuitive to the narrative. This isn't a game with a narrative, its a narrative with a game.

I understand that, I only do this for the narrative, but the way I develop my narrative is through a series of rolls.

For instance, the result of my 1st roll affects what I roll for next, kinda like a butterfly affect

That's not a narrative, persay. Narrative is the conflicts between characters and the story elements.

 Kharne the Befriender wrote:

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 Kharne the Befriender wrote:

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 Kharne the Befriender wrote:
I think instead of being limited to one roll a week we should be limited to one or two posts a week

I personally due 3-6 rolls every week

That's counter intuitive to the narrative. This isn't a game with a narrative, its a narrative with a game.

I understand that, I only do this for the narrative, but the way I develop my narrative is through a series of rolls.

For instance, the result of my 1st roll affects what I roll for next, kinda like a butterfly affect

That's not a narrative, persay. Narrative is the conflicts between characters and the story elements.

A narrative is, "a spoken or written account of connected events; a story" So yes, it is a narrative

 Kharne the Befriender wrote:
No, I don't think I am, what your saying is that 90% of what I wrote in the first Crusade doesn't count as a narrative.

I don't have to write about me interacting with the other factions every time I write. If I want to write about my faction just exploring or working on an outpost or something it still adds to the story.

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 Kharne the Befriender wrote:
No, I don't think I am, what your saying is that 90% of what I wrote in the first Crusade doesn't count as a narrative.

I don't have to write about me interacting with the other factions every time I write. If I want to write about my faction just exploring or working on an outpost or something it still adds to the story.

I am just saying that a character who's conflict is only external is kind of dull. Its basic character building 101

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
There you are, BC. One sanctioned psyker. I made him off the walls crazy for comedic effect, and a tendency for cryptic references, but he can see through the veil sometimes, so if you don't want to write in riddles and poems, then by all means, have him be actually fully conscious.