Second Wave

Game Master Mervikoth

The allosaurus is monstrous in size - 9 squares, 3x3. We're all going to die!!!!!!

Yeah, even if we hit it with the caltrops, it can still move faster than you and me...

If the tanglefoot bag works, we have a chance. If not, well, time to create new characters.

If the caltrops hit, then Odie and Ood will be able to stay ahead of it. I think we might be ok. I think this is the first time I’ve gone into a hostile encounter and the plan was not to fight

Can't post tonight.

I added the eggs stealing as a side quest to the Campaign Tracker. GM will need to assign XP to the log for us.

How did we not lose anyone of the party to the allosaurus? Must be an early Christmas present from the GM. I am most grateful.

Also, I'm glad that we didn't take Beloved with us, it could have been bad for Odie and the pig. I hear allosauruses L O V E bacon.

600 for the eggs quest. We will be back to our regularly scheduled updates today now.

And you guys survived the allosaurus by being resourceful and approaching the situation with reasonable solutions to the problem. The question is, why do the halflings need the eggs at all...

Eggs and bacon sound good now.

Happy New Year to each of you and your families. Enjoy your time with them and have a very blessed year.

Thank you. I’m back to work tomorrow so I will be more on my regular schedule.

We'll get back to normal tomorrow. Storm Kindler ruins to the NW it is. I've updated the map and campaign tracker. There are a lot of different directions this part of the campaign can go, so if you feel lost, look at the quest log to get some clear objectives.

Mud's last line is me, the GM, asking what you guys understand or don't. It's been a long time, so I know these clues are probably don't feel as insightful as they appear they should be.

Why, you ask, is Alset warning Stonewall about the teetering roof? Because he (Stony) just rolled a one on a knowledge/engineering check, that's why!

poor rolls all around!

And, you'll notice, I didn't say Mud was with you. Good luck, don't let the building fall on you on the way in!

Yeah...my skills rolls haven not been the greatest so far in this game. remember when I flubbed all my rolls for preparing for the storm?

Weird bones near the altar and we have no way of knowing what they might have been. None of us have Knowledge: Arcana.

That roll was much better, Stonewall. You know everything about caves you could possibly know!

Maybe Mud will invest in Arcana next level.

Mud returns!

Oh ha ha. Copy+Paste problems...

Here's my most recent d20 roll analysis. Alset has rolled a d20 108 times. Splitting the roles into quartiles, here are the results:
1d20 Count
1-5 - 38
6-10 - 25
11-15 - 23
16-20 - 22

As you can see the dice roller has resulted in far more occurrences in the first (worst) quartile. Though the other three quartiles are basically even, the top (best) quartile is still the worst.

Nothing new to see here. Keep moving right along.

Wish I'd started keeping dice roll stats on all of us. But, I don't think I can go back and log an additional 300+ dice rolls (Assuming everyone has rolled similar to Alset in quantity). Too much work.

Stonewall

d20 Breakdown (94)

1-5 - 24
6-10 - 27
11-15 - 20
16-20 - 23

d8 breakdown (17)
1-2 - 5
3-4 - 7
5-6 - 2
7-8 - 3

d6 breakdown (5)
1-2 - 3
3-4 - 1
5-6 - 1

I got curious. Granted my sample size is not huge, but my breakdown for damage (d8 and d6) is not very good.

Interesting! It hovers, like Alset, to favoring the low side (below average) 54.3% of the time. Closer to even than your damage rolls, which are bad.

If this keeps up, we may as the GM for a corrective modifier for our dice rolls once every 3 or 4 rolls. :)

Odie might be balancing you guys out. I feel like I roll really well on this site.

I am shocked none of you fell in. You're growing up. *wipes tear from eye*

So I found a website called Hero Forge. I went a little crazy and made up miniatures for all of our characters...I put screenshots of them in our Google drive folder for your enjoyment or whatever. Its my conceptualization of what our characters look like, not necessarily accurate to exact equipment specifications. Thought you guys might like to check it out. I'm really having to fight the urge to actually buy a couple...

Well, I started too, its not working...Well, I'll try to upload them later.

Should be able to edit now, I think.

Also I remember finding Hero Forge years ago... they've added so much!

I feel this battleground does not favor us.

You forgot the most important member: Mud! (Added)
Also they don't have slings (?) so I gave him a boomerang instead.

oops, my bad. also, 2 more d8 rolls in the 3-4 range...

Also, to Ood, have we had any battle ground that has favored us?

Nice work on the Hero Forge figures. But, Odie isn't ugly enough and has too many clothes on. Perhaps this is his pre-rage state! For his raging state, a Zombie is about the ugliest I could see.

When the battleground does favor you, it's over before the enemy can get a single attack in.

I have added a spreadsheet for dice roll analysis. I'll updated each time I make changes to the party rolls. So far, I have entered the first 200 posts worth of rolls, just over 100 dice rolls. I am current with Alset's rolls. Feel free to have a look and see what we're doing.

Over all the rolls are fairly close to 50/50 on the above and below average. The GM is doing rather well, and, naturally, Alset is doing the worst.

I knew that playing by post instead of in person would add another level of nerdery to our existence, but I never imagined it would go in this particular way.

Can we just add your spreedsheet as an extra tab to the campaign tracker so we can all see it in "real time" and help keep it updated?

Edit: never mind, just realized you said you did just that...

Hear that, we took our nerdery has leveled up!

Wow, just realized how garbled that post was. I’m so sorry.

Alset, I just now fixed your Initiative to +4 instead of +2 in my Notepad. Sorry if you were 2 points behind in a previous fight since your respec into an archer.

I entered another 50 posts of rolls and posted the spreadsheet. The party + GM rolls are very close to average. Of the 157 rolls 76 are below average and 81 are above average. The GM and Ood are above average at 59% and 65% above respectively. The rest of the part are all below average.

Dear GM,
Sorry, I thought that meant you'd rolled for me and rolled a 15 and a 19.

-Alset

Haha, sorry, no. When I put DC in Spoilers, that's to try and save a real life day of posting back and forth of me saying "You can roll X skill." "I rolled a 25." "Okay here's what you learned." Instead I just put that info in the first post and trust you guys to not look at it unless you roll that, or at the very least, until you've posted and it won't affect gameplay. Haha.

I have entered dice rolls for the first 400 posts. There are 239 unique rolls. I ignored 1d2 and 1d3 rolls. I split any 2dX or 3dX or 4dX rolls into individual rolls. Here is the results:
Times below average: 120 - 50.2%
Times above average: 119 - 49.8%

Very even and that is good! The difficulty is in the distribution among the group.

For per person below average rolls (the bane of Alset and Stonewall), here are the results (lower is better and 50% is expected):
Ood - 33%
GM - 39%
Odie - 55%
Stonewall - 60%
Alset - 63%

Sounds like you need to switch deities.

At least ONE of us rolls better than the GM...

Sounds like you need to switch deities.

I am tempted, but Iomedae will not let me be tempted beyond what I can bear. But when you are tempted, she will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. So, I will remain faithful.

I don't see what the problem is, I think these dice work fine...

And yes, the medusa's name means something in ancient Greek. Though, of course, I am utterly ignorant of Greek word construction rules, a likely Herculean task, so her name is likely horribly butchered, but I didn't want to open that Pandora's Box, instead opting to just cut the Gordian knot instead. Who would have thought grammar would be my Achilles' heel?

sounds like Greek to me

I've entered dice rolls for 11 of 22 pages of posts. I'm half-way through.

Of the 422 rolls, 213 are above average and 209 are below average. That is almost exactly 50/50.

Here's the above average roll breakdown by person:

GOOD
Ood: 60.0%
GM: 56.8%
Odie: 52.4%
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BAD
Stony: 41.0%
Alset: 39.8%