Out of the Abyss (Inactive)

Game Master caster4life

Phone might crap out, so posting may be limited.

Thanks for the heads up, Eddrikk. Hopefully you'll be back to running along with us soon.

All: Certain levels take longer to advance between than others. Advancing from 3 to 4 is one of the slow ones in 5e, in terms of the number of level-appropriate encounters needed to advance. The theory is that certain levels provide more gains in class features and thus you need a little more time getting used to them before advancing. This is reasonable to me as at level 3 people gain archetypes and often 2nd-level spells. So just note that, while it might feel like it's taking forever, you're getting there and there's a reason for the level pacing.

Cheers for the overview Caster. And Eddrick for the heads up.

Yeah I just checked our XP, I was pleasantly surprised to find we're about halfway from third to fourth. No stress here :)

Started running the wife and two friends through OotA tonight. They've basically just dared and gambled Jimjar into managing most things for them! XD

Nice!

Go on, Jimjar!

Happy thanksgiving, all! I don't expect many of us will be posting today.

Omn nom nom.

Sorry about the my slowness this Thanksgiving week. It was harder to make time to post than I expected. Some friends unexpectedly spent 30 hours hanging out with us this past weekend.

I'll call that a good thing.

Yes it was fun! But it was also a lot... But fun...

Just a heads up folks, inside the last two weeks till my thesis is due, so stuff's a bit crazy on my end till that's all done. I'll do my best to keep up, but feel free to bot me at any point!

Hey folks, sorry for the extended absence, just dropping by to say that while I'm currently in an academic hell of my own making, the damn thing is due Monday, so boom or bust I'll be fully back on board then. Apologies again.

Double post.

Then no post.

Then one of each. WTF paizo.

Go get 'em, Kanzen!

Yeah, ikr?

This part of the book is kind of confusing because you are unknowingly completing 1-3 quests that are all focused down here in the tunnels. But push through and we'll sort it out, plus loot and XP!

Good to know!

Also, remember Irdril that bwrds can't inspire themselves without a special abilty.

Okay, I'm all done with uni, starting the catch-up process now :) Sorry again for the absence.

Hooray! Good to have you back, Kanzen. You've been missed. Thesis went well?

Inching pretty close to level 4, guys! One or two more encounters (not necessarily fights) and you'll be there.

Huzzah, the wood elf lives!

Sorry folks, on holidays already and hit some unexpected turbulence. I should have popped in for a quick heads up. Thanks for the botting GM.

Busy with wife's birthday and probably won't update until tomorrow. Hard to provide the next maps in short snatches of phone time.

It's all good. Tonight is my daughter's birthday, so I'll be busy as well.

I was at a work party yesterday, which ate my evening. Fun though!

All the best for the birthdays.

Still can't get to a computer but should be able to really update tomorrow.

Will be away from the internet the 28th and 29th for an anniversary trip. I'll be back to playing on the 30th.

Hi folks, sorry for the lack of posting on my part, it's been a hectic time for me with lots of travel and work over the silly season. Over the next couple of days things will be largely returning to normal, so I'll be back on board from now on.

Hmmm.... realizing that I let Galenus keep a melee attack roll instead of rerolling when he switched it to throwing an axe so I should have let Kanzen do the same when switching from a sword to a bow. My mistake. These things slip my mind, especially since there were action-packed holiday days in between. Sorry Hewy! I'll retcon that as your shot hitting. Damage to the spectator has been updated in my records.

No worries, I thought re-rolling was a fair call too - I'm a DM more often than a player, I feel ya :)

I personally don't feel the need to re-roll attacks like that. Not when it's a simple mistake of not being able to attack something in melee..

I think it's a toss-up to rule it either way but I wanted to rule it consistently so Kanzen's attack counts.

Just to prevent any frustration, I realize that the three targeted by lighting bolt are not all in the same row. However, that doesn't prevent me from drawing a slightly diagonal line through them. There's nothing in the spell that says the line has to fall along the arbitrary grid of the battlemap. You guys are welcome to do this to my monsters as well.

I know I'm not one of the two that just got downed by that bolt, but yes, I totally agree with what you've done there... you nasty son of a gun! Well played.

I'm fine with that ruling. It make sense and is consistent.

I'll add xp tomorrow but off the top of my head I'm pretty sure Irdril just leveled and everyone else is really close behind.

She will be taking Bard 2 and putting +2 into Cha. I will get her updated tm.

Unfortunately the fourth level ability score increase comes from four levels in a single class. It's a class feature, not a built in feature.

I didn't realize that. Oh well I suppose.

Petition for a house rule since multiple of us our multiclassed?

Does it change your mind about multiclassing or does it still work fine for you?

To me experience is experience regardless of if it's the same class or different ones, so I would ask for a house rule for myself and Kanzen on the subject. If you decide no that's fine and she will just be behind the curve on ability bumps.

Yeah I'm going to say no. It's definitely RAI that the ability score increase comes with 4 levels of a given class. Generally, the asi is the only feature a class gets at level 4. So a level 4 MC character who got an ASI would have one more level's worth of features.

Some classes get ASI faster than every four levels. Fighters and rogues, in particular. Part of the cost of multiclassing and getting all those extra cool abilities is that you don't get as many ASI.

I could live with either way, but I'm inclined towards leaving it as it is, given that some classes do get ASIs faster.

190 xp to Galenus for his investigations of the obelisk and 190 xp to Irdril for interrogating the corpse and getting some useful info. Galenus bumps up to level 4 as well.

All: Remember that being proactive and helping advance the party's goals gets you XP! It adds up over time. No one is going to fall behind longterm but you might be a level behind for one fight and then catch up after the fight.

Good idea, I approve!

Level 4.

+7 HP. I forget if we roll for HP. If we do, ignore this value and use the following:

HP: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9

+1 Cantrip. Fire Bolt (flavored as a vial of alchemist fire)
+1 2nd level spell slot.
+2 Spell Known. Unseen Servant. Locate Object.
+1 Spells Memorized
+1 Feat.

Unsure on feat. Torn between the following: Dungeon Deliver, Linguist, Observant, Warcaster.

Warcaster is good because I'm more of a melee wizard, but I barely have any combat spells. Dungeon Deliver and Observant fit my character well, but we already have so many rangers to keep an eye out for everything. Linguist may help us all in the long run and make me more bookish.

Other ideas are welcome. Looking for less combat optimization and more on things that fit the character.

Not considering bumping Int?