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@krmbm said in How to launch a MU*:

@wizz Just on the flipside of this: Some people (hi!) actively avoid the "sim" games.

This. A lot of people pay for an MMO sub of kind or another. As one who does, I'm definitely not doing tasks in my RPing too. (But this is also because RP fills a specific niche for me in my personal downtime, and the MMO another, and I've zero interest in combining that in any way.)

I guess what I mean is, if a task system is in any way required to advance in the game, you will lose some interest. Though this gets back to the other part of KB's reply: maybe that's what you want, and it's fine if you do. Just know that players who aren't into that will probably avoid the game even if the rest of it (theme, etc) would be their jam.

We've been doing our weekly AL D&D for the last 6 months now virtually, as well as numerous cons. My results thus far:

Roll20 sheet creation is by far the easiest if you have to do it by hand. The site is very bare bones but it gets the job done and was easy to pick up. I'd only been back into D&D for a few months before we had to switch to it, and it went quite smooth. Plenty of character storage for free. All in all there's only a few things about it I don't like and they're minor. There are plugins to hook it into D&D Beyond so you don't even need to put in the sheet.

Fantasy Grounds does some very nice stuff in terms of tracking eg. Bless/Bane/etc. and concentration rolls, all the sorts of things you easily miss in roll20. But frankly I found the UI to be...very unintuitive and not user friendly. Character creation was confusing and complex by-hand but on the plus side you can import XML from eg. D&D Beyond, which by-passes that competetly.

I've only used these in an AL context so I can't speak to XP, but I use D&D Beyond for all my character sheet management in that regard. (We're in a shared campaign and so have most of the books available as a group.) So my recommendation is for roll20, with the warning that FG might be better for some people, I just found out difficult to use, where as roll20 is less polished looking but overall quite obvious in how to use it.

A couple of additional bits re: the 1:1 change:

• There's a calendar blip in which everyone in encouraged to have some fun time-tornado shenanigans. Did you go to sleep and wake up in a totally different house? With a dog you don't remember getting? Also exactly when did you start this new job??
• People coming in from outside town can absolutely use this as an in for why they showed up. 'THIS THING WHERE 12 WEEKS VANISHED, WTF?' is a perfectly good reason to arrive at the seeming locus of this weird.
• The part where the rest of the (mundane) world seems to think this_is_fine.jpg while everyone with in town woke up almost certain they left the stove on or felt an earthquake is a good reason to be Looking For Answers.

Sorry for that small patch of downtime; we're back. Let me know if the portal keeps acting silly.

This is a quick head's up that KB and AM have handed off the game to some new folks to run, among them myself, Grimdarque. Same domain, new IP which should be winding its way through DNS as we speak. So, for future Gray Harbor related stuff, send such things my way. They made a wonderful game for which we can't thank them enough, and we're happy to keep on keepin' on.

@Botulism Let down??? Are you kidding HM was amazing, you didn't let anyone down!! Life happens. ...it's happening to an awful LOT of us atm. -.- I'm just glad you are, in fact, alive, and online posting etc. wb!

HorrorMUX did an 80s segment and it was so, SO fun, I would LOVE a 90s one as well.

@bear_necessities It wasn't me!!

Update since now there is more!

There was much sobbing. People dying in other people's arms, dragging the remaining folks out of a burning building, etc. IT WAS GREAT. \o/

Past
GarouMUSH: Tim (Strider Ragabash), Rhiannon (GW Kin char, later wiz), Maritza (Fang Kin), Cerwin (CoG Kin)
BrightFuture: Danny, Sean
Marvel 1963: Halgrim
HorrorMUX: The Scholar
Empire State Heroes: Halgrim
Savage Skies: Halgrim

Current

Gray Harbor: August

I've been on the game since the start of the current story, and it's been some of the most fun I've had on an MU*; the setting and mechanics are great and the RP has been wonderful. Lots of varied and interesting interactions with all the characters, and the plot's been engaging. Come join us for the good times!