Basics: Each turn sheet is 4 pages long. Has the standard stats, equipment and character information areas of course, but also has space for the current (local) terrain map that shows the 3 hexes (each hex 5miles) around your position which you can use to locate where you're at on the big map over on the website.
Along with that you have spaces for standing orders, current orders, notes to the GM and player notes and a space for a map which I'm guessing is where you can plot out your combat move to show what you wish to do to go along with your current orders.
For my first turn I visited the Marketplace to pick up weapons and listen for rumors or job offers and then went to explore the waterfront to do the same.
My results back had a very lengthy reply on what I bought, heard / saw in both of the places and he sent me to the local tavern for lunch where I 'saw' a couple of other players, heard of 1 other and picked up some more information. I ended up with 4 jobs I could explore so pretty good return there. Plus one posted by another player on one of the game forums (wanting to group for one of the jobs I heard about).
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Overall impression: Looking good.
It's in beta so things might change and hopefully he'll evaluate the feedback we give him, but so far it looks like it's going to be a good retro play by (e) mail game of the old school. He is doing it on his own (GM) so you have to wonder where his 'I'm swamped' point will be. Looks like we're up to 20 players now.
Personal impression is he's got some extra boxes on the turn sheets, but maybe they'll come into play down the road. Player/GM Notes and Player/GM messages seem like there's some overlap there.
Right now there's a bit of confusion / lack of use of the various game forums he has on the website, but I just saw a post where he put out what should go where so I think that'll get itself straightened out as time goes by.
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For my character; one of the Temples wants a message delivered to a village south of the Town I'm in AND there's a Noble over on the Waterfront looking for a Bodyguard to go to the same village, so I'm going for a twofer and will try to get the message job, THEN the bodyguard job and have the Noble pay my way south.
Along with that you have spaces for standing orders, current orders, notes to the GM and player notes and a space for a map which I'm guessing is where you can plot out your combat move to show what you wish to do to go along with your current orders.
For my first turn I visited the Marketplace to pick up weapons and listen for rumors or job offers and then went to explore the waterfront to do the same.
My results back had a very lengthy reply on what I bought, heard / saw in both of the places and he sent me to the local tavern for lunch where I 'saw' a couple of other players, heard of 1 other and picked up some more information. I ended up with 4 jobs I could explore so pretty good return there. Plus one posted by another player on one of the game forums (wanting to group for one of the jobs I heard about).
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Overall impression: Looking good.
It's in beta so things might change and hopefully he'll evaluate the feedback we give him, but so far it looks like it's going to be a good retro play by (e) mail game of the old school. He is doing it on his own (GM) so you have to wonder where his 'I'm swamped' point will be. Looks like we're up to 20 players now.
Personal impression is he's got some extra boxes on the turn sheets, but maybe they'll come into play down the road. Player/GM Notes and Player/GM messages seem like there's some overlap there.
Right now there's a bit of confusion / lack of use of the various game forums he has on the website, but I just saw a post where he put out what should go where so I think that'll get itself straightened out as time goes by.
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For my character; one of the Temples wants a message delivered to a village south of the Town I'm in AND there's a Noble over on the Waterfront looking for a Bodyguard to go to the same village, so I'm going for a twofer and will try to get the message job, THEN the bodyguard job and have the Noble pay my way south.