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Hi everyone! Super excited to have been selected for this game.
@Blaze Goldenhoof, are you still interested in having known each other prior to the start of the game? I'd be cool with that if you are.
I took a quick look at everyone's skills. I don't think it's necessary for anyone to switch around proficiencies given how high our normal stats are. However for the curious the only skills no one has proficiency in are:
Animal Handling (Redemption of the Azure Flame has +5)
Nature (Both Sven and Shandi have +5)
Performance (Velspira has +5)
Sleight of Hand (Shandi has +3)
Final Adjustments: Originally I felt a bit weird starting out with a 20 in Wisdom, but given that everyone else has a 20 in their primary stat I'm now considering swapping out the two points I put in Strength. Any thoughts?
Hi! Thank you for the selection! It seems a nice and balanced party, I'm sure we're gonna enjoy.
@Malaya: to me, be starting with a 20 is a way of having the way free for picking the feats I want when times due. It depends on whether you plan on taking feats, using attribute increases or even if you have half-feats in mind.
On the other hand, the DM said we were given those extraordinarily high attributes so that combats don't present a lethal threat, so I guess ultra optimization is not really needed. And, on a purely personal opinion, if the cleric you have in mind does not use a special and specific combo, you can do a lot of clerical things without Wisdom being too much of a problem.
Heya folks, Here to be all magical and the what not with a little dark and brooding. Not entirely the most well versed in 5e but should be fine.
Nice to meet you all! Thanks for including me, I'm stoked to finally get to play Strahd.
@Malaya, glad to have known you before. Should we meet in the mist, or have known each other before? Perhaps she travelled through the centaur valley? Perhaps she was there to help with Blaze's brain injury?
Redemption here, looking forward to hitting vampires in the face.
Sadly, Redemption's backstory probably preempts knowing anyone else. Someone might have known him before he 'awakened', or anyone who was kicking around the Fey Wilds for a bit might have encountered him, but beyond that.
The gameplay is up. No rush can post before Tuesday that is fine. M-F one post a day is all I expect.
Hello everybody! I am very glad to be here with you guys!
Redemption of the Azure Flame, are you a warforged from Eberron? If yes, then maybe we are not familiar, but my character's reaction will be appropriate. Or is he from another world and a different design?
Ok )) I corrected the post.
@Blaze: I like that idea. Malaya has been wandering for a while as a traveling healer. I can see her either asking Blaze to come with her after the treatment was finished, (particularly if Blaze seemed restless), or maybe Blaze offered. Either way let's say they were traveling together for a month or two before being transported to Barovia.
I imagine Redemption was from Eberron, and will probably have been the same design, but he's a lot more...wooden, damaged and rusted than a normal Warforged now.
Will be posting soon
Are we encouraged to or asked not to read each other's spoilers?
Are we encouraged to or asked not to read each other's spoilers?
I'm hoping you will talk about your dreams together in character. It's probably better if you don't read the other spoilers and to let others rp that but if I need something to be private I'll just pm.
I'm curious about Redemption's carved wooden mask. What is it carved to look like? Blaze will likely have questions once we're done with the monster.
I'm thinking pretty much a plane, carved plank with eye holes and the wooden antlers.
Got home really late tonight ill post early in morning and again tomorrow night.
I think I looked at intelligence for your initiative Sven. We will just go with it for this combat. I do appreciate the stat line makes it easier to find.
I have the same thing with initiative )
By the way, it would be more comfortable for me if a little more information was received about the tactical situation when we start combat encounter. For example, whether someone is immediately in the enemy's reach (AoO?), and so on.
As much as I love 20 damage on a cantrip, firebolt does 1d10. :)
Whoops XD, thought I did 1d10.
I will try to be more descriptive. In this situation there was no AoO because of Sven's attack that removed its reaction.
I am posting round 2 soon. Internet ate it
5E DM, thanks!
Also,does a spiked gauntlets count as a 'weapon attack'? If so, then it has a disadvantage to attack. Maybe it's not a crit/not a hit ))
If it doesn't count as weapon, then I apologize - I played in 5e much less than in PF1.
Just for clarification: according to the rules, crits in 5e double the number of dice. Static bonuses remain undoubled.
A weapon dealing 1d6+2 would deal 2d6+2 on a crit. Hence why you'll see few crit builds.
I am posting round 2 soon. Internet ate it
I see that the internet found it again. Often when I post it looks like the post disappeared, but if I refresh the page (sometimes 2 or 3 times), it's suddenly there again.
If Blaze takes 16 damage, she's down.
Waiting to post until I find out if Blaze goes down or not.
The spiked gauntlet was flavor just an unarmed attack.
I will reroll the damage, I am a new DM to 5E hence I will make mistakes.
that should make it more reasonable to mitigate
We all make mistakes, don't worry. It's a game, the point is to have fun together.
Ill post tonight late and I will try to post once over the weekend to get caught up sorry I missed last night.
I love how calm and matter-of-fact Redemption is. It makes me want to play up Blaze as being very prone to freaking out and over-reacting. :)
I'm enjoying the game so far, thanks everybody!
It's less 'calm' and more 'oblivious'. His existence has mostly been fleeing since he gained sentience. If we run into the Fey you'll probably see a different reaction.
At this point you all gain a level and the benefits of a long rest as the presence of the children's spirits replenishes the party.
Wow, was not expecting anything good to come of those posessions! A level AND a long rest? Amazing!!
Nice, wondering what spells to get.
The level is more for the milestone of finding the dungeon. This first part of the adventure (Named the "Death House") is kind of an intro to Barovia and a chance to get characters up to level appropriate for the adventure.
Okay, I guess this was an "insta-rest", right? We're not supposed to have time to prepare spells or other features like infusions, etc.
Sure you can do that. We will say that due to the mists time is being perceived differently and you can do what you need
OMG did you catch the D&D direct announcement? SO MUCH COOLNESS!!
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Hey guys! I'm on a weird schedule until about May 12th. There will be days (today) when I can be very active on the PbP, but there will be days when I won't be able to post here. I'm fine, just real life. From May 11-12, I return to my usual daily routine. I should have written about it a week ago, but I hoped that I could post every day anyway - but no )) Sorry for any delays. Feel free to bot me btw.
Ok no problem hasn't been a combat yet, but one will be coming soon that I might have to do that.
Slow post for rainy days
forgot about my magic axe! Thanks, I put it in my statblock now so I remember.
Sorry, crazy week. Looks like the GM already posted for me
Its all good. Where I am at we've had a crazy amount of random fire evacuations so I have been a bit slow also.
Somehow my round 2 got posted before the end of round 1. Not sure how it did that.
Now that Blaze is raging, she only takes half damage from regular attacks. Do the claws count as a regular attack?
You have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage.
Also, sorry about having to be botted; I posted a turn which didn't show, but I didn't pay attention to that fact due to most of my posts not showing straight away until I refresh 3 or 4 times. It seems this time it was eaten for real. I'll need to feed my internet provider better next time.