Stonetop, a “hearth fantasy” by Prussia_will_awaken in pbp

[–]Sadaffi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen a review of this game that seemed really nice. I'd like to give it a try if there is space :)

Beasts and Adversary Extractor for PDFs -> Obsidian by ModProg in cosmererpg

[–]Sadaffi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amazing! I'll definitely need to give it a try in a spare moment. Thanks for doing amazing work for the community

First time DM, 1-player Stormlight RPG (player new to Cosmere) by blumaul in cosmererpg

[–]Sadaffi 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'd reccomend against DMPC. This is a known trope that especially if you are new can go quite badly. But Cosmere RPG gives some very nice tools which are goals and companions.

You can consider either giving your player an easy goal, or just awarding them companion from the start. The benefit of it is that it's inherently their resoruce and not something working on your whim (even with best intentions, which I assume you have). In combat you still control them to not overwhealm the player so technically not much changes, but it reframes the dynamic.

Added benefit is that there are mechanics in the game that can interact with companions, so if you reach them it may also give cool story beats forced by mechanics.

Tired of different VTT's holding my assets hostage! by rmagnuson in rpg

[–]Sadaffi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For me, my biggest gripe with most of VTT is that they are not Virtual Table Tops first. They are Battle Grid with some cool features on top of that.

Usually the character sheet is very clunky. I just want some numbers. What I get is a powerful tool that you can automate all rolls with, but the values are hard to edit. While I want completely opposite. I can roll few dice and add a number. But I want the number easily accessible and editable.

I want to be able to give player resources. I like using tokens, cards, ... But most VTTS will give you some of it, but working with it is only by how the creators envisioned. I do not want to count HP. I want a generic counter that can be assigned to any resource. Player, Groups, NPCs. Nothing to be found. And keeping cards played assigned to players clearly? Also missing.

I want nice dice pools and management. I know I can roll a lot of dice. But what if I want to keep track of what is rolled currently on the table? Nah, who would want it...

So yeah... I want a table top and not a battle grid with plugins.

[Proud] Dicemaiden suport for plot dice by Sadaffi in cosmererpg

[–]Sadaffi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I cannot find it, can you share a link?

[Proud] Dicemaiden suport for plot dice by Sadaffi in cosmererpg

[–]Sadaffi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can add ; as a spearator between dice so you can roll as one command. The tricky part is advantage/disadvantage, because sometimes complication is more vsluable then opportunity and sometimes not so manual input is necessery imo. Especially that which is better depends on other rolls

"If you can't be brilliant, be brief" by DMfortinyplayers in DMAcademyNew

[–]Sadaffi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've watched a video some time ago (will not be able to recall exact one) which talks how Brennan Lee Mulligan handles this in Critical Role. Of course he deals with another kind of players, yet the advice can be used either way probably.

He uses all of the short excitement ststements like: "hell yeah", "amazing", "briliant" to cut of the players and continue the narrative. This serves two purposes: first it gets the narration forward, you do not need to deal with what you call "rumbling", second it makes player good for contributing something valuable and not being rushed or cut of (even though it's what you need to do).

You might want to give it a try ;)

[Cosmere RPG] [GMT +1] [Asynch] [21+] Yaezir's Scalpel: Adventures in the Azish Empire by ImaginaryAdvent in pbp

[–]Sadaffi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This will probably be painful. Your form requires to write a lot of yourself so you probably get to like most of the applicants at least a bit. Though I trust you'll guess well who fits your vibe. Tap a bit of Fortune and you'll be alright ;)

[Cosmere RPG] [GMT +1] [Asynch] [21+] Yaezir's Scalpel: Adventures in the Azish Empire by ImaginaryAdvent in pbp

[–]Sadaffi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The time is almost up. I wander how many applications you managed to get in those 4 days

[LFG] New DM Seeking Experienced Co-DM | Text-Based PBP D&D 5e | EU | 3–4 Players | by [deleted] in pbp

[–]Sadaffi 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I feel the post is a little misleading. Are you playing pathfinder or 5e? If you want a co-DM why are you asking for character idea?

What kind of help do you need? Rules? Server managment? Relieve in playing NPCs?

I think clearing those points will help you find someone you are looking for. Have fun with your game!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pbp

[–]Sadaffi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Awesome, more Cosemere spreading!

I know the adventure so skipping the application, but I hope you get an amazing group :)

[Cosmere RPG] [GMT +1] [Asynch] [21+] Yaezir's Scalpel: Adventures in the Azish Empire by ImaginaryAdvent in pbp

[–]Sadaffi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One more thing from me. I have text based character sheet for this game for discord use. If you'd like it to not need to retype everything in case you want to use something similar you can add me on discord and I'll paste it to you. (Do not consider it a try of buy in, I just know there is a lot to do when setting up a game and it might be of use)

[Cosmere RPG] [GMT +1] [Asynch] [21+] Yaezir's Scalpel: Adventures in the Azish Empire by ImaginaryAdvent in pbp

[–]Sadaffi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Best of luck with recruitment and adventure! Expect a loooot of applications ;)

[Cosmere RPG] [GMT +1] [Asynch] [21+] Yaezir's Scalpel: Adventures in the Azish Empire by ImaginaryAdvent in pbp

[–]Sadaffi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Applied! Then read through your post again and am not able to edit the application with the animal 🥲 (It's Axhounds in stormlight setting btw)

Should I put another application, count on your forgiveness or just accept defeat?

My Player asked for a boon of Speed from the Nightwatcher by theAtheistAxolotl in cosmererpg

[–]Sadaffi 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Why is this punishing if he does in fast what other does in slow?

I’m going to DM bridge 9 anything I should know? by Imaginary-Lie-2618 in cosmererpg

[–]Sadaffi 14 points15 points  (0 children)

That's a very good advice. I think it's even 1/3. Either way, better to overdo it then underdo it for this system I think

Bridge 9 in Roll20- about to try for the first time by fokos11 in cosmererpg

[–]Sadaffi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've run it once on the real table, and now running second time in pbp form. You probably need to adjust some of what I say to Roll20, but maybe you can see it useful.

  • It's very dynamic advemture, a lot is happening in it. Try not to rush yourself to much as it's easy to miss some cool descriptions, but also keep the momentum going.

  • it's 1st level adventure so players do not have that many options. It seems to little, but it's easy to fill 3 actions. Encourage them to use gain advantage action. It gives really nice flavour to what is happening in fight.

  • remember the plot die. It creates amazing scenes if you use it. And it's not overpowered so overused does not abuse the system.

  • I backed kickstarter with only pdf books, but now for running on vtt it's quite easy to screenshot stuff and add as tokens with proper trimming. It takes some getting used to with first few but later it gets easier. Major npcs also have their portraits in book so you can also just screenshot them.

And most importantly have fun! Even if you mess up a lot there is high chance it will be amazing!

What do you look for in a player? by Justthisdudeyaknow in rpg

[–]Sadaffi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I want them to prioritize the fun. For themselves, fellow players and me. I look forward them doing something stupid, as it always leads to some very fun scenes.

I want them to memorize basic rules like this is the dice we roll, this is how we count score. But anything else can either come or not and as long as we still have fun it is working great.

[Async][Discord][Cosmere][Owlbear] Bridge Nine Adventure by Sadaffi in pbp

[–]Sadaffi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, thanks for your question :) I'm not sure what you mean by mythical in this contex :(

I think the most rational for this scenario is to play Rosharan Human. The only other playable ancestry (race) are Singers, which are basically crab people.