Fane of the Elder Temple

Game Master Grimmy

And so it begins...

uh oh... my dm alias has very familiar looking avatar...

Well, after consulting my planar and arcane lore, it is known that the gods, and by extension, their avatars and other deific entities like Dungeon Masters are known for their mastery of polymorphing...

ruh-roh!

Ah! Bez I would have yielded!

Do you like this one fine? I think it's great.

Howdy folks,

Are any of you keen to stat up your own named NPC’s?

I’d like a few of them to have stat blocks in case it comes up.

Maybe keep them not more than level seven or so?

I'm happy to be a personling and you be a diceling.

Stat up NPCs? Maybe? :D

Only if your inclined. I don’t mind doing it.

I need to make an organized list of the personalities you people supplied.

Yes all impastas' must have personalities

I'm happy to give you a statblock or two, I think.

While we're talking about stuff, is now a fine time to go over posting schedules?

Sure of course.

Anything on your mind you can post away.

I don’t need any formal posting schedules.

Here’s my general mind frame from doing several of these. Many of you have done more.

These things need a burst of strong participation early on to give them legs. At a certain point you can feel it has a life of its own and it’s going to keep going.

I’d say it’s polite if you know ahead of time that you won’t be able to post on a weekday, give us a heads up on discussion thread. On weekends play it by ear, post if you feel like it.

I’ll be shooting for solid gameplay updates daily for sure on the GM side.

In combat I’d say if you don’t post in 24 hours you take dodge action or something like that.

Honestly , that’s what I’m used to but I’m not too worried about it. I think we all want to be here. Let’s keep it low key, I don’t want anyone feeling stressed.

Ok. I typically post in the morning and evening every weekday that it's appropriate for me to post. I occasionally will check at other times, but will often not post except mornings and evenings. I have gotten in the habit of not checking on weekends, even though I can, as some players in the game I run don't. If I'm in combat or need to supply something for things to move forward, I try to post as soon as I see that everyone is waiting on me. I like the idea of keeping things low key and not stressing people. That seems like the right mindset to me.

I also think the burst of participation early on is important, and it's expected to drop off a bit later.

I also like to let people know ahead of time when I can't post, but I've been surprised at how hard it can be to remember to do so.

Yeah I mean just post when you want. It’s all about fun.

I am planning to start gameplay on monday the 26th. Is that cool with everyone?

Works for me.

Sure, I'll be ready

I'll be ready and willing to go. :)

Hey Saendithas can you copy your sheet into your profile? DnDbeyod should output a statblock type format I'm pretty sure.

I don't think it does copy a sheet...or did I do that?

Yeah, DNDBeyond specifically prevents one from outputting a stat block.

Date suits me to start reading the kickoff of your misadventures (until Vex is introduced good and improper ;)

Oh really? Haha. WOTC is crazy.

Well how did the rest of you get your sheets into profile? Manual?

I did manual. WOTC are very good at mismanaging high quality games.

Hey Saendithas can you copy your sheet into your profile? DnDbeyod should output a statblock type format I'm pretty sure.

Won't be able to get to it today, but sure, I planned on retyping it into my profile. :D

Hey no rush .

There are zero "legal" methods for extracting the info, as it's all in fields. Of course, if you use Discord to run the game and Avrae, that's pretty awesome. :)

I have been hearing a lot about that!

I have played a game on Discord but we all had paper sheets. And just kinda rolled physical dice on the honor system :D

My little brother is 18 years younger than me and his group of millenials and zoomers are pretty much only interested in rolling stats and playing more or less like it's 1976.

Oh really? Haha. WOTC is crazy.

Well how did the rest of you get your sheets into profile? Manual?

There is an Export to PDF option, or you can always share a public link.

And hi there, I am now returning from my vacations ;)

Yeah export to PDF,
That is what I was thinking of. You can copy paste from there.

Here's Vex - pretty much done and dusted.

Being a rakehell, coercer and duelist of unscrupulous repute.

Wow fantastic sheet BD. Very easy for me to get to the info I need.

Albion, how was vacation??

To be honest, it was exhausting - went back to my country for 3 weeks, hadn't been there in about a year due to the pandemic. And we were just running around, meeting family etc. Ended up not resting much...

Wow fantastic sheet BD. Very easy for me to get to the info I need.

Thankthee kindly good sir. I'm pretty OCD about my sheets and have spent WAY too much time perfecting layouts/sections/etc.

DMG wrote:

Wow fantastic sheet BD. Very easy for me to get to the info I need.

Thankthee kindly good sir. I'm pretty OCD about my sheets and have spent WAY too much time perfecting layouts/sections/etc.

Were you able to copy paste from PDF? I wasn't able to do so.

Manually written and formatted mate. Old school :)

@DMG: Want us to also note Lifestyle (and expenditure)?

I wasn’t counting on tracking lifestyle and expenditure because I was thinking there will be a bit of travel right a way and straight to some action.

But, anything like this that you note can never hurt. Yeah we might have downtime.

I really like reading these NPC’s you people made. They are much better than the ones in adventure modules.

Out of curiosity - where's everyone geographically. Always find its useful for a DM to know where (and hence when) his party might post.

I'm in Aberdeenshire, Bonnie Scotland, so GMT+1 at the moment.

I am in Denmark.

I'm in USA currently.

So, recapping our group composition - someone help me please as my brain was numbed by vacations and alcohol, and stressing about traveling due to pandemic restrictions and canceled flights, etc :P

I'm in the USA, CST

USA, EST here.

USA Central Time, so GMT -6 for me. I put some NPC details for an NPC in my character profile, under a separate spoiler.

Albion, the party is half scoundrels and half-scholars plus a big ol faerie knight of the woods.

USA, PST :D

I now have the basic crunch for Akkramar!

Link

Oh yeah goin dwarf cleric after all ?

Yessir!

Looking at Vex. :D I think it's interesting that Bez, who so desperately wants to be suave, blows up at the slightest provocation, and despite being good at deception, has a 'tell'. Meanwhile, Vex is calmer...and clearly more evil.

It's reminding me of 'Vampire Diaries' :P

Truly interesting dynamics.

Faerie Knight, who me? No I prefer Fey Knight