D&D Subforum / Pen & Paper RPG Discussion Thread

Can people see if they can sign up to Rollz.org, just use your boards name and then join the chat room:
Boards.ie D&D

Whenever I ask for a roll just write a quick description first, so I know what situation it related to, thanks.

This is the address, just in case, I put two lls above!

https://rolz.org/

In the "Join a dice room" section put your nickname and "Boards.ie D&D" for the room name. Cheers.

Banjo I genuinely wouldn't worry, any time you're absent or have a busy day you're character can just be quite etc

Banjo I know you were worried about too many questions, please don't be, the questions often touch on fundamental issues of game design.

Banjo wrote: »

Ta.
Logged on to Rolz. So is everything a roll? I mean, how do you know when to stop talking and let the LabLord tell you if it worked?

Short answer:
You say what you do and there will only be a roll if I ask for it. So basically you don't need to worry about when to roll.

There is an ambiguity here of course, you might describe something like "I jump over the wall and land on the other side", which I might decide needs a roll. In that case I'll just say:

OOC: That wall jump requires a roll against your DEX

People acting ahead of the rolls happens all the time, even in face to face games, so no need to worry.

Banjo wrote: »

Eg. I was going to accidentally elbow someone then realised I was in danger of writing my guy doing something clumsy even though his Dex is high. But then, do I get to decide whether I successfully don't do something oafish? Is that up to the dice?

I'd say you're doing things correctly, roleplaying your character in accordance with their stats. Again, you get to decide it, unless I say otherwise.

To "reveal" my thinking as GM, something like the above is consistent with the character, is of low consequence to the story and there isn't really major ambiguity about it occurring, so I wouldn't ask for a roll.

I asked sKeith for a CON roll because failing would have involved him vomiting onto the table and holding your liquor is more "random" in terms of success, i.e. story consequence and some randomness.

Obviously this is subjectively determined by me and some games try to avoid this by having "when to roll" more directly built into the rules. In my experience this slows down the game for no real benefit and requires the players to remember when to roll which I think is too much of a burden, but others may feel differently.