Also, I forgot to put it in my gameplay post, but the cairn is dark. Who is carrying light?
Definitely bot me as needed.
Cerise has Dancing Lights memorized. So there's a mobile light source.
How about I "attach" the dancing lights to someone who's burly and not too concerned with stealth?
Someone had light memorized, I assume they just cast it on my glaive or my helmet or something like that.
I'll put the light on Percival then! (It's not as if he really has a choice in the matter lol)
Meaning on Roll20, Percival's token actually has a light that moves with him. You guys are welcome to move your tokens around on the tabletop if you want. I've blocked off the next area so you won't be able to spoil anything.
Also remember that Kael and Chaetris have Darkvision 60' and Percival and Chaetris have low-light vision.
I totally forgot about that trait! I'll get that updated.
I did have Kael's darkvision and Chaetris' low-light already.
Suddenly I'm glad I'm playing a magical nanny, because someone seems to need one. :)
Since you guys are talking about traps, my plan is to roll for you in any obvious trap locations (doors/cooridors), especially if I move you forward to advance the scene.
But I want you guys to roll on any objects or features you interact with if you intend to search them.
An exception; if you guys are rushing through doors to chase enemies or trying to conserve buff duration between fights etc, I won't roll for you on anything. You'll need to declare your perception in those cases.
Does that seem reasonable?
I think even if we're trying to preserve a buff, we probably shouldn't have to declare all of our perceptions. I'm not really sure, to be honest, I'd love to get other's input.
I'm good with assuming all doors if you're good with taking the action to search at each door, even with buffs running.
I want to wait for Percival and Kael before responding to your knowledge checks.
No rush though. I can't do too much thorough posting until later tonight.
I'll be bored at my in-laws all day on thanksgiving, so I'm free to post as much as needed. Are you guys planning to post much tomorrow?
It's fine with me if you need to skip a day for the holiday.
I'll be available to post. My family does thanksgiving on saturday.
I have a lot of family obligations (plus I'm cooking) tomorrow. Family is in town through the weekend. I'm probably going to be posting less often for the next few days. But I intend to maintain at least one post per day.
I'll probably be around for a while after an early dinner.
Also, I'm still working on Kael's sigil, but that's a rough idea.
I'm Canadian. We had Thanksgiving a month and a half ago. So I'm available for posting as per a normal weekday. Early morning, and late evening.
Enjoy your holidays, you guys.
You guys all did pretty well on perception. No surprise. Let's try this combat thing out!
Can we get the roll20 link added to the campaign info or the otehr GM links?
It has been done!
It is telling me I am not authorized.
I sent you a PM with the join link.
I put down a cone template for your spell so it's easier to see.
Funny story, actually, before I was even finished writing the backstory for this character, I was contacted by a GM with a take it or leave it opportunity to join another campaign. I haven't gone to sleep yet.
So my plans for thanksgiving are 1) sleep, 2) head out to my grandparents, who have amazingly bad wifi 3) sleep and 4) post.
I can't remember what the rules are for determining if I can AoO through allies. I'm pretty sure the alpha doesn't have cover since reach weapons use ranged attack rules and I can pick the corner of my square whence the lines originate, which is the one between Cerise and Kael.
So, the DC to cast defensively is 17 for first level spells :/ (15 + double spell level)
Sorry!
It's a risky endeavor at level 1. I avoid it on my characters.
It's usually better to just take the opportunity attack at low levels as the DC is 10 + damage dealt + spell level, and there's a good chance enemies will miss you. Even if it hits, it does at most 3 damage.
If you want, I'll let you switch your action to that instead since we're new to these characters.
Hopefully it's OK the way I pushed that. As always, let me know if there's something I should do differently!
That was absolutely good pushing, and pretty much the perfect time for it. Good job!
I agree.
Percival is a bad decision maker, especially at this point in his career. Air elementals? Monsters? Whatever, it's not like his life is worth much back home anyway.
Me, I'd like to think I'm a better decision maker. I'd like to have some sort of plan in case we do encounter air elementals. I'm not sure what we might know about them, but we should try to figure out the best tactics to use.
You guys are welcome to do strategizing here if you want.
The only comment I will offer is that if you feel like a fight is going to go badly, it's absolutely reasonable to flee, though I recommend a little discussion here just so everyone is on the same page about it.
How do people feel about other people moving around tokens on Roll20?
For myself, I encourage you to move Percival when out of combat as you see fit, and in combat based on my descriptions if you think there's a discrepancy.
^ I agree. Permission granted to move Cerise whenever it helps move things along.
Yeah, I gave everyone permission to move all tokens so that you could help each other out with that if needed.
I was going to have a decent amount of oil, but I figured as someone with darkvision, the rest of the group could provide that ;)
Figures lol... You can always take a trip back to town if you want.
Also, climbing seems like a good idea with your armor off since you can safely take 10. I want to give Chaetris a chance to post before I push too far ahead though.
We'll assume Pythia is just around. She can post her interactions when she gets back if she wants.
Unless you think I should just keep pushing on?
Someone can cast guidance, right? Guidance, take ten, and a strength score of 18 gets up the rope safely. Then the person lets down a rope and helps haul the others up if it looks like we need to get there.
I've got 1 litre of oil, which is enough to burn for six hours. If we divide that seven ways, that's 51 3/7ths minutes. Of course, we can't measure precisely, so we'll probably end up with about 45 minutes on the shortest one. If this, like, opens up a portal or something, I'd rather not get stuck.
Edit: I would push the climbing, since we've got rule of two there. Pushing is super good basically always.
Sounds good to me. There are certain sections where I'll want everyone involved, but those should be relatively rare during exploration. It seems easy to narrate characters actions over a period of time in order to explore multiple things to get caught up etc.
My first reaction upon seeing an arrow shaped piece of stone in the middle of a room? I'm genre savvy enough to guess we'll be rotating it. But then it's trapped, good job DnD, for averting a trope.
Wait a second...
My first reaction upon seeing an arrow shaped piece of stone in the middle of a room? I'm genre savvy enough to guess we'll be rotating it. But then it's trapped, good job DnD, for averting a trope.
Wait a second...
My understanding was that moving the sarcophagus won't trigger the trap. So I imagine we'll need to light the lamps, then either go in a certain order (if it can be moved bi-directionally) or rotate it in ROYGBIV order otherwise.
Why wouldn't an ancient sarcophagus be trapped?
From my understanding it's DC 15 to climb a chain or rope dangling in free space with nothing to brace against. And it's DC 5 to climb a rope that is close enough to a wall to brace against (Adam West Batman style) or a knotted rope. And a DC 0 check to climb a knotted rope close enough to a wall to brace against.
Yes, that's exactly it.
I see, that makes more sense.
Is our rope knotted then?
No, it's DC 5 to climb it. It's a short enough distance that you could probably come up with enough rope to knot it but I don't think it's necessary.
Just waiting on at least 2 people to agree on the same direction to go or for a character at least declare he/she's doing something with the sarcophagus/climbing the rope.
I have a short day tomorrow so I should be able to post fairly actively in the afternoon. I'm also up for another hour or so tonight.
Edit: Chaetris, I'm gonna let the info I gave you about the armband lie since you didn't score particularly high on the appraise check. Maybe someone in the group could take a second look?
No time for a proper post at the second, but I think "search for traps" is in order.
Probably smart since you have that option.
Last group I ran didn't have a trapfinder. They came up with a hairbrained scheme to put most of the party at the bottom of the drop holding a cloak between them while the barbarian searched with his face.
I still have no idea why.
It's a bad idea to pound a spike into a tough stone floor and hope that it'll be secure. You'd want a drill for that.
A piton is designed to be stuck into cracks in rocks. Slashes on the walls are probably much too shallow and not shaped right to provide proper grip.
I'm so glad you made that alias... yesterday. Lol
It's a bad idea to pound a spike into a tough stone floor and hope that it'll be secure. You'd want a drill for that.
A piton is designed to be stuck into cracks in rocks. Slashes on the walls are probably much too shallow and not shaped right to provide proper grip.
Yeah, that's kinda why I suggested rigging something up through the chain that's already secure.
I kind of feel like this is a fantasy setting and we can let pitons work on stone floors. lol
Also, it's not described in detail, but this whole place is built from stone, but probably not all one piece. There are very likely seams you could knock a piton into.