Gonna be hard to teach without those textbooks!
And, yeah, looks like both Avendryl and Mellaina are gone. I dunno how Greycastle is going to feel about adding someone new mid-adventure, but maybe we need to reassess soon anyway.
My hope is that things will get back to a better flow now that summer is over, but maybe I only think that bc I work in education.
Ya especially since it is a bilingual school and materials have to be translated into Spanish as well.
Hope all is well!
I hope everything is okay.
I've been called away on a family emergency. Probably out of touch till Saturday so feel free to move things along.
No worries. Hope everything is ok.
I hope we level after this fight, lol.
I hope we level after this fight, lol.
Yeah. You’ll level. This is very close to the end of the adventure. There may be some wrap up at the end but not much more after this fight. There could have been more but my current availability has dictate me trying to wrap this up sooner.
Being the GM of this adventure, I definitely control the pace with my low posting rate, not sure if anyone wants to or is willing to take it up from here and move forward and maybe speed things up from what I’m doing now. As long as Gideon sticks around, the group comp is fine if thing continue after Sunblight, so moving forward is not out of the realm of possibilities. I just won’t be able to run it.
So think it over and let me know what you guys want to do.
I would be happy to run things again.
Maybe I should set up a Google poll, but some of the things that come to mind are:
1) Do people want to continue or is everyone burnt out? (as mentioned previously, this is kind of my only D&D outlet, so I'd like to keep going)
2) Do we want to keep going with Sunblight, or switch to something else? (the last time I DMed here, we did a little side-venture involving giants, but I'm happy with whatever)
3) Do we want to change the rate of posting? (I know that everyone is busy, but we're at about 1 post/week or 10 days, and I'd like to try to get back to once every two days or so. But I also realize I'm probably the only one obsessively clicking refresh five times / day)
4) Is anyone else interested in DMing? It would be great to have two DMs, if possible, so we could keep switching back and forth.
5) Do we need to recruit more players?
I'm okay with continuing this adventure. I feel like a round every few days is nicer, I get into the groove of checking daily. We could recruit a couple more folks or just roll with what we got.
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Gideon is surely up for continuing and increased posting is something I'd be interested in. Since I started Gideon at Level 6 it's been a challenge getting to know the character since I've barely scratched the surface of his personality and abilities.
I'm fine with whatever on the adventure make-up as Gideon isn't really all that invested in the adventure / setting at the moment.
I am having fun but too many dwarves for the eladrin's tastes, lol.
Yeah the current posting rate is for sure my fault. I need to get better. My goal has always been every day to two days and it’s gotten very bad. This was never the intent.
I think we've all been busy, so don't worry about it too much.
I mainly want to check in to see if people are okay with an increased rate.
We are all fatigued... If I wasn't so burnt on 5e, I would consider picking it back up again...
I’m still able to keep playing. Just not a good choice to run it with my current posting rate.
I’m fine with moving forward with these characters or even starting something new. I think it’s a good idea to get everyone’s opinion to make sure everyone is on board.
It might be fun to play the bunny people.
For sone reason I am javing trouble getting on frpm my desktop, been having trouble since TH. I am on my phone and will check if my laptop will let me on.
Looks like I needed to update Edge. For some reason Paizo and my Chrome accounts haven't meshed in years.
Grappling is an Attack Action, so imo Sanctuary is a good solution.
If they fail their save correct?
yeah, if Baldrick (or anyone else) fails a WIS save vs. Sanctuary, they wouldn't be able to target Gideon with a Grapple (or other Attack Action). They'd be able to make that save every round, though.
(otoh, B's WIS save is trash, which is why he failed the Suggestion in the first place)
@Baldrick honestly its the only reason this fight became a challenge. you guys had the king before he got lucky with that last ditch suggestion
@Gideon a sanctuary could solve at least the annoying dwarf issue
Is this the place where we are going to either continue or start anew?
I am happy to keep things going, with these same characters if that's what we want.
We will have to have a short hiatus, though -- I will be away for the next two weeks and won't have time to prep or get a new adventure started. Otherwise, no problem.
@Greycastle: Should I switch to Storm King's Thunder again and you can pick up Rime if/when you DM next?
Would we level these characters? Is Storm King meant to be started at 1st lvl?
Pretty sure Greycastle said that we would level after this adventure.
Storm King starts at level 1, but we already did a piece from the middle (the last time I DMed, when you fought the giants). If that's the direction we go, I'll just keep picking level-appropriate adventures from that book -- we don't have to start over.
That said, I know Rodalas has talked about starting over with new characters. I could be up for something like that too -- I have the Humblewood books and would like to run that book one day.
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Okay, I just set up a survey -- let me know ]What's Next?
what is H7mblewood?
I linked it above -- basically, you play as woodland creatures: there are 5 birds (corvids, domestic fowl, pigeon, raptor, owl) and 5 mammals (deer, hedgehog, mice, raccoon, fox). And then make standard D&D characters based on those races er... lineages (whatev -- I don't have up-to-date D&D books...).
I could send out the character creation portion of the guide, so you wouldn't have to purchase anything.
Anyway, just a thought -- no pressure either way.
If the group does decide to start over with new characters, is there an adventure module that people are interested in trying?
(I'll have to pick up something, regardless, as I doubt I'll have time to write my own)
Something less dwarf centric, lol.
lol -- that's gonna depend on the players more than the adventure, I think
Lets stop the Dragpn Queen lpl.
kk I'll give it a good think (possibly while staring at books at my FLGS). I've heard Avernus is good too.
As mentioned, I'll be away for the next two weeks. I'm probably going to bring my computer with me, so I can check in, but I doubt I will have an opportunity to get started on something new.
So far we have 4 responses to the survey (I haven't responded as I assumed I would be a tie-breaker). Right now, things are split between continuing with these characters and starting over.
Personally, I would like to keep playing Baldrick because he's on the cusp of some new abilities (we're about to level up, which opens up his Primal Path abilities). But since I'm taking over DMing for a bit, I won't be able to play him anyway, so it sort of doesn't matter if we drop this for now.
I'd like to hear from Greycastle, though -- I'm not sure if he wants me to move Rime along, if he's planning to come back to it eventually, or wants to drop it entirely. I'm going to lend a bit more weight to that opinion, since that's why this group was started. If the consensus is to start over, I'll start a new thread so we don't mix the new adventure with this one.
Ok. I’ll wrap up the current run and put the characters back in Ten Towns. That way we can figure out where to go from there.
Just a note. I’d like to apologize for the posting rate of this last run. It’s been terrible and I’m honestly surprised the group stayed together for the most part. I appreciate all of you and let’s see where this goes when Baldrick gets back.
Sometimes we get busy with life. It happens.
Don't I know it... I am slammed too. My other games are suffering for it. Thankfully, I am only running one of them!
I got approval late last week for my MTS thesis so I have been writing the draft in my spare time, what little I have. We have a week off for Thanksgiving and 2 weeks off for Christmas so I will be spending more time writing then, but the more I can get done now, the better.
Ok. I’ll wrap up the current run and put the characters back in Ten Towns. That way we can figure out where to go from there.
Just a note. I’d like to apologize for the posting rate of this last run. It’s been terrible and I’m honestly surprised the group stayed together for the most part. I appreciate all of you and let’s see where this goes when Baldrick gets back.
Thanks, Greycastle. No worries about the posting rate -- as others have said, we've all been busy. I'll try to encourage a faster pace, but I don't want to push people away either.
Please let us know:
1) Are we levelling up? (I'm pretty sure you said yes, but I just want to confirm)
2) Any preference to where we take things from here?
How did the survey play out?
How did the survey play out?
I am also interested in the results.
Survey results:
Start over with new characters: 2
Continue with current characters (Frostmaiden): 1
Continue with current characters (Storm King): 1
Start over, play Humblewood: 0
So, basically, 50 / 50 (start over / keep going). I haven't voted (and there are 6 of us -- I'm guessing the last person is Greycastle, but I dunno for sure).
Yeah I missed the survey link lol.
Yes. Leveling was the plan.
I could go either way with my vote, but lean toward starting something with new characters. That being said, if you (Baldrick) have the preference of Storm Kings, I say we do that. The DM should have a heavy vote since they have to run the game. Lol.
No worries!
I'm happy to start something new -- hopefully Greycastle or Turq can come back to this game at some point so that Baldrick can continue to wrestle with the his past and the unknown magical force that sometimes possesses him -- I'm sure that 10 rounds of wild magic was annoying for some, but I had a blast!
I'll settle on an adventure and start laying the groundwork for a new game once I get back from vacation (next weekend). My FLGS has the revamped Castle Amber for 5e, so I might go old-school ;)
I also have a friend who is interested in joining us, so that'll help with the loss of Avendryl.
Stay tuned!
Can I play the bunny folk?
So, I think I've said before that I don't have D&D Beyond nor many of the books -- this is partly bc I can't afford it and partly bc I'm annoyed with WotC. I particularly do not appreciate the lack of balance that they maintained -- it really seems like in order to keep up, to stay on equal footing with other players, you have to keep buying the newest products.
/rant
Anyway, that's my beef with them, not with you. It's okay with me if you want to play Harengon.
I do like the AL rule of PHB + 1 book, but maybe that no longer makes sense either. I dunno. Let me know what your plans are -- I can always make the encounters more difficult :P
Not entirely sure I will continue on. I am in the same boat where WotC kinda lost me with the OGL debacle, but also lost me on their bloat without carrying new mechanics backwards that make sense for older feats/class abilities. I had hoped for something to fix that with the new updates, but it seems to be more of the same. Let me know what your final decision is and I will make the final decision there...