What makes a good player?

• Be consistant. If you join a board that requires a post per week, post once per week.
• Post. If you don't have anything for your character to do, ask another character about his background--or the weather. Try talking to an non player character. Sharpen your axe or clean your laser pistol. Sing a song.
• Read everyone's posts. I'm surprised how often players only read the admin's post.
• Start conversations with other characters. It really adds to the roleplaying experience when characters have conversations.
• Roleplay. Imagine what it would be like to be a socerer. How would it feel to cast a dozen magic missiles at an orc? What does it feel like to stab your sword through someone's stomach? Would your character break into a house? Would he summons the guard?

Finding a game

On the front page of the site, find those games with an asterisk *. The asterisk is the 'PLAYERS WANTED' flag. Click on these links, read the background, and if it looks like something you'd like, you can request to join.

Creating characters

• Log in and click on the 'CHARACTERS' link.
• In the 'NAME' box, type in the name of your character.
• Click on the 'SAVE' button.

Editing characters

Joining a game

Quiting a game

• Log in and click on the 'CHARACTERS' link.
• Click on the character's 'QUIT' link.
• Next, answer 'OK'.

Groups

Your admin might place you in a group. If he does, you might be restricted from viewing those moves and dice rolls that aren't in your group.

Sending notes

Dice

The on-line die roller is a useful tool, but has a bit of a learning curve attached to it. Hopefully the explaination that follows will clear up many of the questions many new players ask. The die roller option is available when you click 'REPLY' on any game board (excluding notes). First, let us begin with looking at the die roller itself and talk about each box and it's function (some options may not be available to players, they are for Game Admin use only!):

The first two boxes highlit determine the number and type of di(c)e rolled. In this example the user wishes to roll a single die of 20 sides. If multiple dice are rolled at once, each die's result will be displayed followed by a total (eg. roll 3D6; Results would show as 1 + 4 + 3 = 8). The long display is usful for games like Shadowrun® (WZGames® or FASA®) which use multiple rolls of a single type of die at once to determine a number of successes. Damage rolls are another common application of the multi-die feature.

This second section determines the number of rolls you want to do at once. Frequently games will perform entire rounds at once during combat, this option could be good for all of you're strike rolls for example. Other games, Each set of rolls will be displayed on a separate line followed by the respective total.

The third section allows the user to add (or subtract) bonuses and penalties to the rolls automatically. The first box determines the size of the modifier (like your -2 strike modifier from a DEX penalty), the second (drop down box) tells the roller what you want to add the modifier onto. Each die, or the total after the dice have been added. In this example of rolling a 1D20, 1 time, both options would give the same result but if you where rolling multiple strike rolls, of say 3D20, add -2 to Total the result might look like 5 + 16 + 12 + -2 = 31.

This next section allows you to drop the worst dice from your rolls, very useful during character creation where your Game Admin may allow you to roll stats and take the best 3 of 4 dice for each stat (more if they are extremely generous). The results will show the kept dice with an added note after the total to let you know what was dropped (eg. 3D20, rolled once; 11 + 5 + 16 = 32 dropped 2).

The final box on the form is the MEMO, this space allows you to attach a small header to the batch of dice rolls you will do when you press the 'ROLL' button. Often this would describe what you are rolling for, something like "Damage rolls for round 3".

In this final example, the results have been included to show how an actual roll-post will look. (Roll 6D6, five times, subtract one from the total of each rolled set of 6D6, keep all rolls).