Roleplaying on Google Wave
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The Burial Site
0438 days
From the Private Annals of the Church of Pelor.
Transcribed by Beltak, Scribe to His Radiant Servant, Tremak the Plush.
The 25th day of Alturiak in the Year of the Sudden Journey.
The town was a hive of activity and hubbub yesterday with many a story told and retold at Rindall’s return. He was alone, without Gilmorril, and quite badly injured and exhausted, but his stubborn dwarven nature would not allow him to rest until after he had reported back to the Town Council about the path to the east.
Fortunately, I was party to the Town Council meeting to keep notes, so I have a first hand account from the paladin, and do not have to rely on the second-hand gossip, mainly from the barkeep Skillet, that is causing such a fuss around the town.
The Light of Pelor
0439 days
From the Private Annals of the Church of Pelor.
Transcribed by Beltak, Scribe to His Radiant Servant, Tremak the Plush.
The 18th day of Alturiak in the Year of the Sudden Journey.
It has been a tenday since Gilmorril and Rindall set out to the east and still there is no word of them. Although the weather has turned for the better, and fresh, clean breezes bring Spring in the air, we are worried for them, regardless of Gilmorril’s expertise in the wilderness.
There have been no further sightings of goblins, kobolds, or other unnatural beasts and life in the town has returned to normal. The mine to the north is starting to produce fine stone and ores, we are hewing timber from the woods, catching fish from the lake, trapping game in the woods, making cheeses and milk and preserving meat from our livestock, gathering wool and leather, and preparing the fields once more for this year’s crop of grain. We have everything we need to survive and yet I feel that without an influx of new blood soon, we may begin to stagnate.
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Extended Rests in Armour
0440 days
In our last scene within our 4E D&D game on Google Wave the player characters had to camp in the wilderness for the first time. We’ve been playing on Wave for nearly nine months now, but for all of us this is still our first foray into 4th edition.
The group managed to find an abandoned hovel in a forest to settle down for the night, and set watch. My intention as DM was always to have an encounter during the night – there were no random factors at play. However, we wanted a modicum of realism in that the party needed to set an appropriate watch and get a good night’s rest for it to class as an Extended Rest to regain healing surges and powers.
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D&D 4E in Google Wave – Combat Encounter Posts
0461 days
In a previous post on in-character waves I showed in general how I deal with player’s actions in a ‘Turn Post’. I’ve seen several ways on how to do this, so thought I’d show in detail how I deal with a character’s turn during combat.
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D&D 4E in Google Wave Setup – In-Character Waves
1489 days
This post describes how we present and format in-character waves for our Dungeons and Dragons 4E world, Blackengorge, on Google Wave. Subsequent posts will contain more detail on some of the out-of-character waves.
The main in-character wave that we use is the scene wave. We have broken down the play and story into chapters and scenes for easier consumption.
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D&D 4E in Google Wave Setup
3492 days
Our group of intrepid roleplayers have now being using Google Wave for six months and both our style of play and the way we use Google Wave has settled down into something that we all feel quite comfortable with.
A lot of the basic structure we first set up came from suggestions within the D&D 4E in a Wave posts and we added a few tweaks of our own.
This post is to present the setup we use which may be of use to others new to Wave or without an established structure. I will follow up this post with others that describe each of these areas in more detail so you can take them into your own game should you so wish.
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D&D 4E Impressions
0627 days
We’ve been using the 4E ruleset for a couple of months now through Google Wave, and although we’re all in a learning process, it’s worthwhile to share my thoughts and impressions of the rules and their implementation.
Our group has a mixture of a couple of players that are very familiar with the Advanced 2nd Edition rules, a couple of complete novices to D&D and tabletop roleplaying games, and a player with bits and pieces of a number of different systems but no real hardcore experience.
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Google Wave First Impressions
3662 days
We’ve been running a small pilot in Google Wave for the past three or four weeks now, initially with two of the players and now eventually expanded to four out of the final five as people have been coming back off holiday.
So far using Google Wave appears to have been a success for us. We’ve managed some good roleplaying and a few combat encounters without any major glitches, and all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.
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25th Anniversary Special!
0706 days
I started this blog at the same time a small group of us were looking at rekindling our tabletop roleplaying past using Google Wave. The group as was have moved off into different areas of the UK over the years, had children, and in the future some of us are moving over the pond to the States. We’ve always kept close as a group, meeting up as often as possible, but with other priorities and time being the enemy, we’ve hardly sat down to roleplay for a long, long time. Google Wave could be the answer for us.
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