GM Badblood's The Dragon's Demand

Game Master Lance K

Sorry, it just barely missed. Skellies have a little bit of Dexterity going for them and you guys have been getting some rather bad luck from the random number generator during this fight.

Thanks. That's what I thought but figured I should be sure.

Hi! I'm so sorry for disappearing. Had a rough last month or so. Mom was in a pretty bad ski accident, so spent quite a bit of time with her. Then got a bad case of COVID and had no energy to post. Finally back and ready to post again!

Great. :-)

My character is really useless after her spells are cast. Sorry for that!!

Yeah, this scenario has a lot of long dungeon crawls that can be rough for a spellcaster; especially when you haven't had the resources to purchase a lot of expendable items. Luckily you guys are getting near the end.

You are totally right. Still am enjoying the action very much!! ;-)

Would help if Falcon could hit the broadside of a barn

Yeah you really have had bad luck! :-(

Hey Suizal, welcome back! It sounds like you have had a terrible month but I'm glad to see you're back. I hope your mother is doing better!

I'm thinking that I need some splash weapons! Everything saved against my daze spell, and I can't remember the last time I hit anything with a melee attack!

Once the party returns back to the Baroness, this part of the adventure will be concluded. Everyone can also level their characters up to level 3.

Yippie!!! :-)

Everyone can level their characters up to level 3.

And Suizal are you still with us? If you are not able to continue going further, you do qualify for at least one, maybe two chronicle sheets that I could get to you. Let me know.

I’ll level up latest by Monday.

Thanks for the campaign GM! Really am enjoying the details!! :-D

I got my level up. Took the Life Link hex so I won't be so close to the front line....

Leveled up!!

It looks like that treasure document hasn't been updated in awhile. Since I did modify some of the encounters and some of the given treasure I'll need to go back and look through posts in order to put it down. If anyone wants to help with that it would be appreciated and might be a good idea just to make sure its all in order. And it might take me a bit of time.

If we don't get a response from Suizal soon, we might have to move on without them. Her character should still get her share of all the gold and items found in the dungeon, but then going forward I probably won't be modifying encounters very often if at all, as we will be down to the four players it is designed for.

The biggest thing I did in this was to replace some of the kobold warriors with tougher ones from the Monster Codex. That also helped make sure you were getting a little extra treasure. But I think it did also slow fights down. Kobolds have pretty decent ACs, as they also get a +1 natural armor bonus on top of their small size and good DEX, so they were kind of hard to hit!

Okay, I updated Andwise's treasure spreadsheet. I left off some of the low value items, like crossbow bolts and spears. You guys can figure out how to divide up treasure and what you want to try and sell.

Thanks for everything GM!! Much appropriated!!

Falcon is all updated other than maybe claiming some gear

I'm going to give Suizal another day or so to reply, but then I think we have to move on to the next part without her. She'll take her fifth of the gold, and some of those scrolls with her when she goes. But hopefully we'll get an update.

Hate losing people, especially with no word and with the mention of COVID in last discussion post. Also posted from GM account more recent had a case of pink eye.

Just got a PM. Suizal is still with us and plans to post tonight.

That's good to hear! I don't want to pressure anyone to post if they are really busy, but you worry if people are okay when you haven't heard from them in awhile.

Okay, I updated Andwise's treasure spreadsheet. I left off some of the low value items, like crossbow bolts and spears. You guys can figure out how to divide up treasure and what you want to try and sell.

Thank you GM

Link:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MEia4txGXZD8at9TVxN67j6bjOIXin-l94t F7VQ8-gY/edit#gid=0

Total value (sell + reward) = 9056 gold

If we sell everything and do a 6 way split its: 1509
If we buy a wand of healing, and then 6 way split: 1384.

My vote is we buy a party CLW wand, and then even split the rest.

There are items that we will all buy anyway as PCs and where the pc taking it should pay full price, e.g. Cloak of resistance. Ilvaria would take the cloak and pay the 1000 gp.

There are other items which we should not sell as the group can benefit from them. I put “Group “ in the respective column.

What do you think?

I do agree that you should probably keep some of the found items. Both magical cloaks are functionally cloaks of resistance +1, but the cloak of fangs also lets you make an extra bite attack as a swift action up to 5 times per day. Sir Falcon could probably get some good use out of that.

I thought you guys did get a wand of CLW already. Along with Irlana having the healing hex and channels the party has a quite a bit of healing power. The only issue is that unless somebody can UMD the wand, all your healing eggs are in on halfling sized basket.

Also, the town does have a 1000 gp limit on what you can buy; with a 75% chance to find something at that price or less. But I'll assume most mundane gear, along with potions of cure light wounds are always available.

Finally, a few of the vendors have some unique items.

House of Abadar +1 light crossbow, +2 longsword, scroll
of restoration (3), wand of cure moderate wounds
(39 charges)
Shrine of the Seven Roses deep red sphere ioun stone,
goggles of minute seeing, wand of lesser restoration
(43 charges)
Sensina Hides +1 studded leather armor
Delbin’s Devices +1 frost short sword, golembane scarab,
ring of minor acid resistance
Chance Smithy +1 bashing heavy steel shield

Also, there will be a point where the party will be able to buy items outside that spending limit. It's just takes awhile to get there.

Yeah Falcon will happily take that Cloak of Fangs as his cut.

Updated the document with Nowruz suggestions.

Total Sell Value: 10413.5
1/6th Share 1735.6

Party CLW + 1/6 share = 1610

That keeps the "group things" within the group, and accounts for the sale of the Cloaks at full price into the party funds.

I still think there is value having another party CLW, since we really don't have a strong healing presence- but I am happy to split it even and take 1735 each.

Gear Sheet

Thanks so much.

May I just make 1 suggestion: Sir Falcon won’t be able to pay the full 2800 for the cloak from his share 1735.6 and the cloak with the extra bite is a benefit to all of us so if we could just leave that at 50%/1400 gp resell price then Sir Falcon could also buy it from his gold.

Thanks so much.

May I just make 1 suggestion: Sir Falcon won’t be able to pay the full 2800 for the cloak from his share 1735.6 and the cloak with the extra bite is a benefit to all of us so if we could just leave that at 50%/1400 gp resell price then Sir Falcon could also buy it from his gold.

Updated

9013 gold
Even split: 1502

Perfect!

So Ilvaria takes that cloak for 1000 that we found and still has 502 gp that she saves up!

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@GM: As Elberion is obviously not coming back and the relationship between Melenthe and Ilvaria is still undefined, can we assume that Melenthe is in a coma or something but stable? And that her sickness requires large funds so that she can be healed?

Otherwise it would be hard to justify Ilvaria’s actions so far.

Ok so Sir Falcon wins up netting a sweet cloak, a courtiers outfit and about 50 gold. Score.

@Ilvaria Yeah, I think that would make sense. She could have received a message through animal message or dream (which are both pretty good ways to deliver news magically). Perhaps a powerful curse was laid down upon the first born child by a vengeful spellcaster, and her family needs help raising the money for a break enchantment spell?

Sounds great!! Thanks

Purchases:
Masterwork Thieves tools
Cloak of Resistance +1

If Suizal does come back, the way she left means she could just be plane shifted back in. But for now, I think we just need to move forward without them.

Hi guys, I created two slides at the back of the slide set for the game with the information from the town.

Please feel free to just make adjustments and add as you see fit.

I am going to be out for the next week or so. I will have sometimes phone access- but not a computer. Please don't let the game lag waiting for me to post.

My botting information in my bio is up to date!

Hey team, we don’t have any buffs so should we all do a take 20 search of the whole floor just to be sure we didn’t miss anything?

The party has the time to do it, but I would point out that taking 20 to search every 5 ft square on this floor would take about 8 hours. A little less I guess, if we take out the room that the party hasn't tried to enter yet.

That’s not bad! ;)

I’m in favor of spending the time. We need to be thorough!!

That's fine if you want to spend the time. So I just want to let you all know I'll be traveling this weekend, but I should be able to still post

Have fun!!

Anyone objecting to spending the time??

I am good with taking out time- in game, I think that would be the approach most people hired to do this job would do.

We probably don't need to take 20 on every 5 foot square. Just walls, doors, and desks, etc.

I agree. We're not facing a deadline where the monsters are going to kill somebody, invade, etc. (That we know of) We should "do a good job".

And maybe Irlana should continue documenting each room's contents?

It sounds like Suizal may be jumping back into the game soon! Just wanted to let everyone know.

With the exploration, we can assume that the party is documenting all the valuable items that they find. I wanted to see if someone remembered and Irlana did, so we can assume that you're taking care of that, even if you forget to mention it in a post.

When it comes to traps and secret doors, my policy is that I am going to automatically give the person(s) leading a Perception check most of the time. Generally, I give the first two players a check, as I assume the people in the lead are looking out for danger. Of course, there are exceptions, such as combat or any situation where there is a time crunch. I do it this way because, one, I don't like to "gotcha" players and two; I don't want players doing Perception checks for every five foot square in a dungeon.