What are you working on?

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

I'm workin on a big ol bowl of salty popcorn. Shit's so cash right now.

[Nique]

Did I stumble ass-backwards on a way to lure in lurkers? Cool.

Originally Posted by Mauve Mage

It's basically like the RPs we have here, only with die rolls interspersed when necessary. It's usually written in 3rd person rather than 1st, just like ours, except players write in dice code when they want to attack or make a check. (i.e. "He swung his sword at the goblin, trying to strike it down before it could reach the caravan. [dice=attack]d20+3[/dice] [dice=damage]d8[/dice]" or "She searched the room, looking for any hidden doors or unusual stonework. [dice=perception]d20+5[/dice]) The GM either posts prerequisites beforehand ("Everyone roll a Fortitude check in your next post to resist the poison gas. Failure if below 12.") or handles the results of the die rolls in his/her post ("The Fighter's sword slices through the goblin's armor like it was made of paper. It staggers and falls over.") RPs move much slower in PbP than in-person, but they accommodate most any schedule and better allow you to express your character's thoughts, backstory, etc.

Do we have dice code like that here? Cause I badly need to play test stuff!

[RickZarber]

I have quite a few projects that I spend a lot of time not working on and feeling guilty about not working on.

I've got my read-through of The Hobbit, which is now all recorded but that I'm still painstakingly cleaning up (at an average rate of about 1.5 hours' work per minute of audio). I've been sporadically cleaning Ch 12 for almost a year now. If I'd have known it was in such bad condition, and wasn't so happy with the vocal performance, I probably would have just re-recorded it. But yeah, once I finally finish that, I'll have the remaining seven chapters, and then I'll want to go back and re-clean chapters one through eleven to my current standards. And maybe once all that's finally done, I might start in on The Lord of the Rings.

Then there's that webcomic that I might be doing with my roommate. I've been doing designs and he's been writing and we've been discussing the story quite a lot lately. I don't know if it's any closer to actually happening yet, but we work on it quite a bit.

I've been making custom DVD covers for missing Doctor Who stories. I've done four out of the nineteen so far and plan to do the next soon. But it's hard to get motivated 'cause it's a large time commitment both to watch the reconstructions (which can be tedious) and to make the actual covers.

I've been transferring home movies to my harddrive so I can get them on disc. I've finished with the Betamax tapes, which were the worst, because our old Betacam couldn't white balance properly, so every scene is either badly purple or green-tinted and often fluctuates wildly between the two sometimes dozens of times per scene. So I've been doing my best to try to correct the colors. Example. Then I've done some of the VHS tapes, which is much easier, but now I've got a few dozen hi8 tapes to transfer and nothing to play them. I've been looking into ebay-ing a digital8 cam, because they were backwards compatible with hi8 tapes and have firewire ports, so they can convert the analog signal to digital without me having to run it though my miniDV cam, which is how I've been doing the rest of it all. But I've no money right now, so I'm stuck on that one.

There's a few other long-untouched projects that I still consider to be "on my plate" as it were, but I doubt they count. Then of course there's the biggest guilt-causer: the JAQ book, for which several people already gave me money two years ago and for which I still need to finish several illustrations. At this point I should just commission someone else to do them, but yeah, no money, so...

Which brings us to the non-project subject of I Need A New Job, 'cause I'm too disabled to go back to the retail job I was doing for the last eight years, and I've spent the last ten months on leave of absence, but I was only able to do two months of needed physical therapy, so now I'm two months out from running out of leave and not only am I not any better, I'm worse off and several thousand dollars in debt. So I am working on, not even climbing out of that hole, but groping in the dark for a hand-hold. EDIT: Turns out writing out this whole post has just served to stress me the fuck out about everything, haha whoops

and blah blah blah i'll shut up forever now

[mauve]

Originally Posted by Nique

Do we have dice code like that here? Cause I badly need to play test stuff!

I think the chat has some sort of dice code, but don't quote me on that.

[Overcast]

The chat does have a dice code, we used it a lot during the Exalted games, Shadowrun games, and Anima games. The forum ALSO does, but most dice games are not great to run in a PbP fashion since they can be really slowed down by things like combat or other test intense moments.

Meantothewizzile, mostly just working my way through a big ass deployment, digging through a few videogames, despite what I just said also trying to work with some new acquaintances to play in a game of NWoD, post God Machine Chronicles, Mage the Awakening. Also trying to work a few other freeforms together, and planning to run a couple games of my own when the summer ends.

Roleplaying has become an incredibly central part of my life, I mean it has always had a presence but nowadays it is becoming a hobby that I want to integrate into more and more of my life. I want to attend conventions, run games, play games, listen to podcasts about games, everything.

[tacticslion]

Raising kids.

(It takes a lot of time.)

[Kim]

Working on my relic weapon in FFXIV.

I'm broke as fuck tho so I can't afford the materia I need for this part

[Nique]

Originally Posted by Kim

Working on my relic weapon in FFXIV.

I'm broke as fuck tho so I can't afford the materia I need for this part

Any chance FFXIV is going to go subscription free soon? I'm thinking about playing it eventually.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Speaking of Pathfinder, my friends and I recently got into that ourselves. It's been pretty fun so far, though for most of us it's our first time playing a proper RP. I rolled a neutral evil mercenary ranger for my first character, but at some point I wanna make a planeswalker of some sort, to combine my love of MTG with PF. Not sure how to do it yet though.

Also trying to think up scenarios and settings so I can eventually try my hand at GMing, but I need a much more detailed understanding of the rules and such before I do that. When I do though, I'm gona send my friends on the most excellent adventures in space, time and the multiverse.

We're also looking into playing either Dark Heresy and/or Rogue Trader at some point too.

And on the MTG front, I'm still competing in FNMs on a weekly basis, usually coming top 8 but only rarely winning first (2 actual first places so far, several 2nds and 3rds). Had the most insane 8 hours of Commander last weekend (5 games, mono-blue Thassa deck, won all 5 games, highlights included stealing my opponents Planeswalker the turn before he ultimated and then blowing up all his lands with it, then next game stealing his 15/15 trampler as it came into the field, and basically playing my entire deck in other players endsteps by generating 26 mana a turn whilst everything had instant speed and the top card of my deck is revealed, allowing me to draw cards simply by playing other cards, then untapping to take my actual turn, was nuts). My last opponent basically conceeded due to the sheer card advantage I could create for myself, and the fact that by that point I basically had an answer to anything he tried.

Although whilst that deck is fun I'm now starting to put together a new Animar, Soul of the Elements deck, because massive creatures are fun and the recent Khans block has provided a bunch of great Temur coloured support for an already powerful commander. And next block we're going back to Zendikar, which means new Eldrazi... Massive colourless creatures with powerful abilites, in a deck which supports massively powerful creatures by specifically making them cheaper to cast, yeah, it's a good time to start making an Animar deck.

[Kim]

Originally Posted by Nique

Any chance FFXIV is going to go subscription free soon? I'm thinking about playing it eventually.

I highly doubt it. They seem to be doing really well and they're coming out with an expansion June 23rd