House Rules

[Dalinen]

Speech of any kind should be in bold
Thoughts of any kind should be italicized
When I as a DM have an NPC speak in another language I will use different colors to show which language it is in. Feel free to use these as well.
Common will be Black in color
Deep Speech will be Indigo in color
Draconic will be Dark Green in color
Dwarven will be Dark Red in color
Elven will be Sea Green in color
Giant will be Sienna in Color
Goblin will be Olive in color
Primordial will be Teal in color
Supernal will be Orange in color
Abyssal will be Dark Slate Gray in color

The other option for alternate languages is to put it into a 'OCC' dialog box using the {fieldset=elven}...{/fieldset} code (there's a button for it!)
e.g.:

Elven Non-elves are ugly and tossers.

[Dalinen]

Combat

Initiative: When we first start the game as part of your first post in the game I'm going to have you roll initiative. That will be your initiative for the first encounter. From then on after every encounter, when the party takes a short rest, I will ask for a new set of initiative rolls. The reason for this is it allows us to not have to waste a whole round of posts on just initiative rolls.

I will be rolling one initiative roll (averaged modifier) for all the beasties under my control. This saves me from a ton of paperwork and also allows for everyone to post their actions when they can and not have to worry as much about initiative order.

Dice rolls should be made in this thread and linked to your post using the URL tag.

An example of how I as a player, in other games, format my combat posts:

Title: HP: 24/24 AC/Fort/Ref/Will: 20/16/15/13 HS:0 of 10

Flavor text: What the character is doing, saying, or experiencing. The more detail the better in my opinion.

Mechanics: I present my actions using different colors for each power type Daily powers appear in Dim Gray, Encounter powers appear in Red, and At-Will powers appear in Green.

Please put the mechanics info into a spoilerbutton tag: {spoilerbutton=mechanics} ...{/spoilerbutton}

 

Minor Action: Quaff Potion of Healing
Move Action: Move from A4 to A9 (A5, A6, A7, A8, A9)
Standard Action: Reaping Strike against enemy: K1 19 vs AC for 12 damage
Action Point: Steel Serpent Strike against enemy: K1 17 vs AC for 24 damage
Effect:target is slowed and cannot shift until the end of my next turn.
Free Action: Taunt opponent
Saving throw: vs. Blindness unsuccessful.

This is how I'm most comfortable doing my combat posts when I play. It's a little code heavy but I believe it conveys the info to the DM rather nicely. I encourage each player to come up with their own way of posting combat information. The only mandates I as a DM have are as follows:
1. Defenses and HP included in every post. Whether you post this in the title in a fieldset box, or use a spoiler button is up to you.
2. Combat actions presented in the order you take them. However you like posting your actions (in a separate area at the bottom of your post or as part of your narrative) make sure that a clear order can be obtained.
3. Move actions must show the path you take. Since we are all not sitting around a table playing I need to see the path you are taking to determine opportunity actions, trap triggers, and area effects
4. Effects: If your power has extra effects built into it let us know. This is beneficial to both me as a DM and your fellow players (it's really nice to know that the gobbo you've been pounding on is now blind and is taking ongoing fire damage).
Other than that feel free to develop a style that suits you as a player. As long as we can determine what power you are using and whom it is effecting everything will run fine.

Secrets: If you want to do something secretive - either do a skill test, pick someone's pocket, ask me a question, whisper to a fellow player, etc... then use the following code, replacing '{...}' with '[...]' : {secret=Dalinen}...{/secret}