Nice!
I'm back to my normal routine post-holidays. Hopefully others will have more time on their hands now as well. You guys have a bunch of decisions to make as to where to move obstacles too, what monsters you want to have in cages, and where to put them.
I hadn't realised I had left this much of a gap. Been busy and distracted. Hopefully back to normal now.
Hopefully Gram and Halgrin will check back in soon.
I'm still in. Just had a busy week. Beginning of the year at my job is always super annoying.
Admittedly, I'm also at a loss on what to do. So I guess I also got hit with some analysis paralysis. I'll put up a post now.
Sure you want to be strategic but don't overthink it too much. Pick some monsters, throw down some hazards, and roll with it. I will put some limitations on monster choices as there are OP combos I have in mind but I'll deal with those as they come up. I don't want to give you ideas by mentioning them. Also, some don't make story sense, like a quadrone.
I did a quick look through of the Monster Manual for some classic D&D monsters. If I understood correctly, we can have a total CR of 5 of monsters.
I tried to keep the list to monsters that are valuable enough that it makes story sense that a group of bandits might have tried to capture them.
Of the combinations below, I like the Griffin and Owlbear. But 5 Hippogriffs could really do some damage. What are everybody's thoughts?
• Hippogriff CR 1, AC 11, HP 19
• Griffin CR 2, AC 12, HP 59
• Manticore CR 3, AC 14, HP 68
• Mimic CR 2, AC 12, HP 58
• Minotaur CR 3, AC 14, HP 76
• Owlbear CR 3, AC 13, HP 59
Those are all reasonable choices.
Owlbear and mimic for it's cage.
Just sayin'
Oooh! I like these ideas. I'm not as familiar with the 5e monster manual(s).
Gram? You there?
You guys should go ahead and tell me your monster choices and get things in position. Let me know when you're ready. If it starts to drag too much, I'll give you guys an IRL deadline of a few days or something like that to help the momentum.
I stand by my choices.
I'm fine with those suggested above.
By rule of two, that's one owlbear enclosed in a mimic! XD I'll rule that, for some reason, they don't attack each other. Place the large cage (representing the combo) where you want it on the map, remembering you can only move it laterally or down, not up in elevation. Then scatter the rest of your hazards, objects, etc and let's kick this baby into gear.
Alright guys, I'm not sure how much planning/placing is going on. That's kind of the point of the "reverse dungeon crawl" which I've made pretty short since it's our first time doing it. The bad guys are going to come in on Monday morning, eastern USA time. I'll give you the weekend to set your traps, positions, obstacles, etc. Sound fair?
Where is the secret entrance again? I don't see it on the map.
Just added a label.
Cheers. I'll rearrange some of the cages. If anyone else has a different preference, they have my blessing to alter them further. But I don't want us caught by everyone forgetting to actually make the changes.
Yep. Better a plan that gets changed than a few ideas that never become a plan, imo.
I am posting this to all of my games, so apologies if you see this multiple times:
Unfortunately, I have some bad news.
A combination of work-related stuff has lead to me having to take some time off from the forums. I am, in all honesty, going to need to be gone for several months, as I am going to be travelling for extended periods of time (weeks or more) and I'll likely not have good access to the internet.
As I am not someone who would want to have you all sit and wait for me here, I am going to be withdrawing/closing all of my open forum games.
I want to thank everyone who I have had the pleasure to game with over the last couple of years here, as I have immensely enjoyed my time on the forums, and hopefully, once my work stabilizes, I will be able to rejoin the community.
Thank you again for your time and energy, and I am sorry that I won't be able to keep things moving forward in any of the games that I am running.
Sorry to hear that, Katra! I hope things go well soon.
Well Halgrin and Horat, it seems only the Hs have survived. Gram seems gone as well. Should we recruit two more who were left from our recruitment?
I agree that's a good idea.
I have some bites in a new thread. Hopefully we'll be back into action in a couple days.
Good to hear!
We have pretty solid submissions from an artificer/rogue and a divine soul sorcerer/warlock. There's potentially a druid/cleric being made as well but that person mentioned a strong focus on necromancy so that might not work so well.
Having looked at the thread, I'm happy with the two ready. I'm not opposed to a fifth character per se, but as you pointed out in the thread, undead minions are something we're more likely to oppose than tolerate.
I'm still around. I've been keeping up with the thread, but unable to post for a bit due to work stuff that is now done with. Sorry to hear about the loss to the team, but am more than willing to see new players join the ranks.
Good to see you back Halgrin!
The other's are joining us right now. You guys have the obstacles in position as you want them? Do you want to move some of the medium-sized obstacles to the first chamber? Did you want to place caltrops, beartraps, etc on the map?
Sorry for the delay, folks. As some of you might know I was the one who was meant to join up with you guys 6 weeks or so ago, but unfortunately, it ended up being a bad time.
Sheet has been updated to third, and I'll work on adding to the history later.
Hello all! I'm the sorcerer/warlock. Finally finished basic formating my character sheet/tweaking it. Ended up swapping out Cure Wounds for Healing Word and Aid for Guiding Bolt as the cleric has both those spells and the rogue could probably benefit from advantage.
Feeling a little sick for some reason, so I'll leave posting in gameplay to tomorrow and instead head to bed now.
Hello all! Just in time to help us fend us likely many enemies. :D
Welcome new players!!!
Thank you. Although I wasn't intending for Enizver to win the 'most likely to die in a totally friendly fire accident' award quite so fast, it's been fun so far.
Holy smokes! You kids were busy over the weekend. Catching up now. Should have a post up soonish.
That's what happens when you get 3 new players over the weekend. ;-)
Hehe. :)
I may be unable to post regularly over the next two days. So bot Horat if needs be!
I'm at a weekend getaway with my wife celebrating our anniversary. So I'll only be able to post from my phone. I should be able to post though.
Enjoy!
I'll give Halgrin until this afternoon (eastern US time) to post since that will be around the 24 hr mark then I'll bot him.
Sorry about slowing things down so much. This week has really sucked for me. And I haven't had much of a chance to post.
Sorry to hear that, Halgrin. I hope things go well for you!
Don't worry about getting bored, folks. This battle is going to put the "cult" in difficult. There are plenty more baddies to come. If you survive, you'll get a LOT of xp from this...
Apologies for the delay, I've had a tiring week too.
And all we have to do is shake down those cultists for xp? Huzzah! :D
Busy weekend here. Might not be able to update combat since I'm operating on short stints of phone access. Will try to tomorrow. Otherwise, it'll be Monday.
Duly noted!
Congratulations! This is your second gestalt boss. You, no doubt, now know what his combo is.
For the new players, the first cult leader was sorc/pally.
Man this entangle spell is killing us. If anyone can spare a shot on the druid so he'll fail concentration that would be great.
I'll post when I get home tonight.
Me and Enizver have been trying, but the dice keep hating us. ;_;
Winril, are you able to either cast a more powerful attack spell on the boss or heal Horat this round? My options are either to do another Healing Word on Horat and Eldritch Blast on the boss or to cast a Guiding Bolt on the boss, hope that hits, and have it automatically trigger sneak attack (and advantage) for Enizver.
Edit: Oh actually! I just looked at your character sheet. Maybe the best plan would be for you to magic missile the boss; they automatically hit and since it's 3 different attacks, he'd have to make 3 separate concentration checks to keep the entangle up. That seems more likely to work than hoping Guiding Bolt hits and Enizver does more than 20 damage (which is the only way for us to make the concentration DC higher than 10).
Magic missile certainly sounds like a good plan!
And a busy weekend. I *think* I should be back to a more normal posting schedule this week. As always, feel free to bot Horat if that turns out not to be the case.