Kip's Lost Mine of Phandelver

Game Master Kip84

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Happy Halloween everyone. We're off trick or treating at a local school tonight :)

Here's two of my five kids ready to go :)

Nice. Happy Halloween. Sorry I didn't get a photo of my girls dressed up- Witch and Vampire- but I might be able to share after their school Halloween Disco

This is me with two of my three last night.

Cute bubs!!

Sorry about all the Ooc text in the gameplay thread : /

Eh, it happens. :) Felicia has been (so far) pretty fun. Granted, long range bombardment of goblins is always fun. :)

Busy morning at work... Game play post is coming!

I am loving finding out more about Felicia's personality as things happen. The taint of the Great Old One is strong, apparently.

Hey GM Kip
1. Just to note that I killed Goblin 5 last and he doesn't have a cross
2. Loving the game thank you

Thanks Iago, I was in a rush this morning when I updated the map.

The caves were feeling a little cluttered with goblin corpses. So I've deleted the tokens off the map. Had a bit of an accident and must have had some of your tokens selected too because they got deleted. I've tried to put everyone back in the right spot...

Hey DM you appear to have turned my light off on roll20- the only light source is the fire behind Klarg. Mind switching it back on please?

Ah, sorry about that. Must have happened when I was clearing away goblin corpses. I must have deleted your token from the map accidentally and then replaced you, but your token isn't set up to emit light by default and I hadn't reset the light.

General Question: How do you find the dynamic lighting. I like it for my home game but it might not be ideal for a pbp?

How has it been so far? Frustrating? Ok? Good?

The good thing is that you can move your tokens and see (basically) what your character sees. It's a bit tough for Roth and Ràghnall though, who don't have darkvision and aren't carrying a light source at the moment.

I like it for this purpose. I just kind of assume that what I can see, I can see. I think I actually find it a bit better for PBP than I do in the actual F2F game I play in Roll20 where active movement is a thing. Hitting a wall isn't nearly as painful here. :D

Thanks DM!

The dynamic lighting is great- it sets a much spookier feel than without. It's working well here and I echo Felicia- it's great in PBP- Ràghnall and Roth just need to Stand by Me

I'm surprised at how much fun Awakened Mind actually is. Semi-intelligent enemies make it so much more interesting.

Splitting loot (OOC Discussion)

I figured it makes more sense for us to have the OOC discussion of loot distribution over here rather than in OOC tags in the game thread. :)

Personally, I don't mind doing a R/P/S kind of distribution (or even a roll the bones, highest roll takes it) when the sum total is under 100 gold. If it's more than 100 gold and has no useful properties (so it's not a magic mace of greater face whackery), adding it to a pool of goods to be sold off and subsequent coinage split up from there.

I think that good of group needs to be a consideration when/if we hit magical items of some sort.

ETA:
Additionally, if we want, I can set up a Google sheet to track our acquired stuff.

Okay I've changed my mind regarding the jade frog. Let's pool sell and split the proceeds. I also echo good of group when it comes to magic items and when the path is not clear I like the 'roll the bones' highest wins approach

I'm fine with selling the treasure and splitting the coins.

I'll post an attempt at brokering a deal as soon as I'm in front of a proper keyboard here in about 90 minutes or so. I posts from my phone are painful.

Everyone please level up your characters to Level 2. Take the static value for Hp as listed in your class.

Summary of changes:
+8 HP (d'oh, forgot to include CON initially. Rookie.)
Extra spell slot
New Warlock Spell learned - Tasha's Hideous Laughter
Eldritch Invocations (2) - Agonizing Blast (add CHA mod to eldritch blast damage), Eldritch Sight (can cast Detect Magic at will without consuming a slot).

+8 (6+2CON) HP
Fighting Style: Archery (+2 ranged attack rolls)
Spells: Goodberry, Hunter's Mark

+6HP (5+1CON)
Channel Divinity (sounds like a perfume commercial) Turn Undead or...
Preserve Life (10hp to distribute amongst creatures within 30' but can't raise them to more than half their total)
1 extra prepped 1st lvl spell/day

A question for the GM... Do we regain spent spell slots with the level increase?

I will level Roth up shortly!

A question for the GM... Do we regain spent spell slots with the level increase?

No, but if you gain new slots you have those immediately. So Iago would have 1/3 slots available.

Thanks Kip!

If you don't have time to level up right now, that's ok. After Thanksgiving should be ok.

New post coming in probably 12 hours. Sorry for the delay I've had a very busy work week with heaps of overtime and now a very busy weekend.

Thanks for letting us know. Hope everything calms down soon

Happy Holidays everyone.

It's Christmas Eve here, we've all got our new Christmas Pjs on, watching The Santa Clause and listening to the thunder storm :)

Happy Holidays and thanks for your work on the game Kip. Really enjoying it

We had a tropical cyclone coming but it's now been downgraded. Still windy and expecting a lot of rain though. Wondering whether I should have gone Tempest Domain with all this weather about

Just about to start on the stuffing for tomorrow

Have a great time all

Happy new year everyone!

Is everyone ready to continue on?

Happy New Year!

Standing by

Busy work day, I'll update as soon as I'm able.

I'll be back in full swing in a day or 2. Stupid business trip.

EXP!!

Everyone gains 300 exp for the battle with King Grol and his minions (including the drow, because she basically was defeated.)

EXP: 600/900

Hey folks, I'm just waiting for 1-2 more characters to weigh into the debate about whether or not to push on with the marching into the night before I go with the majority

You could theoretically travel slower and attempt to cover your tracks with a survival roll but you'd each need to roll 1 more con save.

To be clear: No one has had to roll any con saves at the point in time that Gundren awakes and this discussion would take place.

So

Iago votes for a short rest and then to push on

Felicia votes for a long rest, making camp and setting watches in case the goblins find them.

Arvhil votes for a long rest

Ràghnall agrees with a long rest?

Ràghnall thinks we should do a rest, regardless of short or long, and is willing to push on after a short rest.

I vote for short rest and move on.

Awarding inspiration

Hey folks, just having some thoughts on awarding inspiration. I'd like to open it up so you can award each other inspiration. I know there are probably times I've missed a good reason to give it out.

So if you want to award inspiration to someone please post here in the discussion thread with a simple one sentence reason and I'll add it into the 'inspiration spoiler'

These are the reasons I'll be handing out inspiration:

• Flavourful combat posts
  
• Consistent 'in character' habits (e.g. Iago's battle cry, or Felicia's scary telepathy.)
  
• Playing to your Traits, Ideals, Bonds, Flaws. (Sometimes I could miss this because I probably can't memorise them all, if you feel that I have please PM me or post here.
  
• Being hit with a Crit
  
• Making me laugh, either in character or an ooc comment about the game.

Also I know it might be a pain but when rolling with Advantage (or Disadvantage) could I get everyone to format it like this:
Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12
Adv: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5
I almost missed that Felicia had used her inspiration in her last post.

Similarly (but perhaps less critical) I'd prefer only one die roll per line of text when rolling attack and damage etc. it just makes it clearer for me to read.

I hope everyone is still enjoying the game, I know the trip back to Phandalin has dragged on in real world time and I'm sorry about that!

Really enjoying the game thanks Kip. I agree- GMs need all the help they can get so inter character inspiration is a good idea

Busy day at work. I'll post asap.

Everyone gained 100 exp for the Hobgoblin battle.

Total Exp: 700/900

Sorry for the delay guys I won't be able to post today, I'll make sure I get a post up as soon as I can tomorrow!

Work continues to be unreasonably busy! Why do people need their forklifts working anyway... don't they know there's gaming to be done!

I hope everyone is still enjoying the game, this part gets a little sandboxy, there are plenty of adventure hooks about the town.

I've enjoyed your approach to the adventure so far. Storming the Cragmaw Castle and rescuing Gundren at your level was quite a feat!

Hey folks, unfortunately we had a blackout tonight (and I don't get Mobile phone reception at my house). The powers just come in but it's really late so I'm not gonna get a post out tonight.

Sorry!

Anyone else going to chime in in the Gameplay thread or should I just move on with Iago's plan?

Hi All. I'm going to be without internet from the 13th to the 18th April. If Iago is needed during that time Kip please feel free to bot him, especially if someone needs healing

I'll be back and posting just as soon as I'm able