DM Talomyr's The Lost City (Inactive)

Game Master Talomyr

Sounds good to me!

Complete:

feyrial: Myev Hellmark - Half-Orc Fighter
Evriani: Meebo Biddybink - Rock Gnome Artificer
mishima: Utsuri 映り - Aassimar Monk (Way of the Kensai)
Tareth: Tekumbray Forsythe Cobblepot - Forest Gnome Rogue (Phantom)

Base idea in place:
KingHotTrash: Cleric of Lathander

Jereru: PM'ed interest, but has not checked in yet.

If Jereru does not chime-in in the next few days, my inclination is to recruit a 6th player. Thoughts?

Totally your call. I'm fine moving forward with 5, but can wait if you want to pull in a sixth.

Also ok either way, waiting or going with 5. I'd guess that with an adventure spanning 1-7, there will be opportunities for party adjustment in the future (assuming it takes a year or two for completion in other words).

I'm getting the cleric of lathander set up today before my date in the evening and then I'll get dotted in!

Just nailing out the last details like spellcasting and all that.

Okay. I'll reach out to the players in my other game, or if any of you have a suggested player, that's good too to see if we can get a 6th PC. If there is no interest, we'll roll on with 5.

Got a couple of bites on additional players. If both check in, we'll go with 7. The two possible are players from the other game I run.

Hey all popping my head in to say hi and thanks! Will read through and get to brainstorming later tonight.

So if the Tasha's content is in play does that mean a Genie Warlock is a viable options? Kinda goes nicely with the desert theme.

Thinking Half Elf, likely with the Archeologist Background, found a bottle/lamp on a dig, which opening introduced them to their patron (not sure what type of Genie yet). Probably go with Pact of the Chain and flavor the imp as a lesser geniekin.

Joined the caravan to search for lost treasures in the famed desert. (Possibly driven by patron to do so)

Yep. Genie patron is a viable option.

Sorry, been a completely insane day dealing with my wife's Independent Medical Examiners, before the trial for a car accident that left her disabled for the last 5 years.

Will get the character together tonight.

Eek! That doesn't sound like fun at all. Take your time. I intend to make the first in game post either tomorrow or Saturday and we'll go from there.

My hopes are for a pace similar to the Witchlight (i.e. at least one post per day during the week, weekends can be slower but if I have something to react to or that needs my attention I will do so in a timely manner).

Sounds good. Character is almost completely thrown together. Will post later when I'm at the laptop I've been doing it on.

Think budding archeologist, wasn't initially even that great at it, who after finding and literally letting the genie out of the bottle, has made a pact to unearth as much lost magic, and items of legend as possible, gaining power and knowledge if the ancient magic she's becoming almost addicted to.

I present Baheer al-Sah'haar Acheologist Geniebound Warlock, seeking lost magic and treasures within the great desert.

And with that we have our full party.

feyrial: Myev Hellmark - Female Half-Orc Fighter
Evriani: Meebo Biddybink - Female Rock Gnome Artificer
mishima: Utsuri 映り - Male Aassimar Monk (Way of the Kensai)
Tareth: Tekumbray Forsythe Cobblepot - Male Forest Gnome Rogue (Phantom)
KingHotTrash: Silas Asgavan - Male Half-Elf Cleric of Lathander
Mark Thomas 66: Baheera al-Sah'haar - Female Half-Elf Djinn Pact Warlock

@Silas - Please update the quick stat line on your profile to match the correct class and level of your current character.

First in-game post is up. Thanks for choosing to play, I hope we can all have some fun with this one.

Nice, have a few errands to run, will post an introduction in a few hours! :)

As a side note, in previous pbp games I've run, I've taken the liberty of occasionally rolling perception checks and always rolling initiatives at the beginning of a combat just for the sake of not bogging down an already slow game format.

Does anyone have a problem with that?

Like you rolling for us? I don't really mind that. I'm not really a huge fan of putting RNG that impacts me in the hands of another person, but I feel like occasional perception and initiative isn't going to make or break me.

Totally fine with GM and/or group initiative.

For those times when Passive Perception won't work, I usually just spoiler Perception results with DC's so people know to roll it and can share/react as they want based on if they make the DC or not. But I'm okay if you want to roll them instead.

I'm fine with it!

Likewise ok.

Same!

@Silas Asgavan - gameplay thread has started when you get a chance.

Sorry for the quietness on my end. This weekend was very heavy with a possible euthanasia and me being a wreck all weekend. I'll get a post up today and get everything sorted on the character sheet <3

Sorry to hear about the rough weekend.

No big rush on a post, just wanted to make sure you knew that the gameplay thread was active.

Of course there is only one correct answer to "What are you?" and that's "...I'm Batman," said with the voice of 1989 Michael Keaton. Sadly, I'm struggling to find a way to make that work in character. ;D

Getting caught up. Had a few Dr's appts for my wife over past couple days.

I'm down to advance time whenever!

Sorry for the radio silence yesterday. It's been a helluva week at work. I'll update this evening, when I get home.

Hi guys. Sorry for showing interest and then not checking in, I got a PM from the GM but didn't see it because I've been mostly using the forums from the phone (and honestly, it's almost impossible to notice a PM).

I can see you've got more than enough people and are already on your way. But if you ever need someone else, please count on me. I promise I'll check my PMs more often.

Sorry folks, ridiculously busy day. I'll move things along tomorrow.

Okay, so maybe the bandit leader and old Feru weren't in cahoots. Tek mutters under his breath. "Can't win every deal of the deck."

The orc's javelin signaling the end to the talking portion of this life and death struggle, Tek pops up from behind the wagon wall and sends an arrow flying toward the lead bandit.

[dice=Bow Attack]1d20+5
[dice=Bow Advantage]1d20+5
[dice=Damage]1d8+3

Couple thoughts here - If this is a shortbow, the damage die is 1d6. Also, as a rogue, you are not proficient in shortbow, so if this is actually a shortbow, you would not add your proficiency bonus.

You could make this a light crossbow as you are proficient and the damage die is 1d8.

I was going to say he should get sneak for having advantage from Hide.

Also rogues get shortbow but not longbow, shortbow is a simple weapon like light crossbow...but indeed 1d6. Shortbow is part of one of their standard equipment packages, they get all simple weapons. 2d6+3 with Sneak.

Agree on the sneak, but rogue weapon proficiencies are: simple weapons, hand crossbows, longswords, rapiers, shortswords

Edit: Crap. Not used to the shortbow being simple weapon, but I suppose it is these days. I stand corrected.

Oops. Sorry, wrong damage die. Yes, it should be 1d6.

Damage: 1d6 + 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (3) + (6) + 3 = 12

Been offline for Father's Day and super busy yesterday. Back to normal now.

Does anyone know why posts travel through time? Silas' bless reminder occurred 4 minutes after I said 'gosh dangit' in response, according to the log stamp. Does cause and effect mean nothing anymore? XD

Couldn't say definitively, but there seem to be a lot of posting hangups on this system these days.

Are we able to liquidate the loot with the caravan master for half value? If so...

Item Gold
coin 12.6
coin 4.82
jav(x6) 1.5
hide armor(x2) 10
greataxe(x2) 30
scale mail 25
greatsword 25

total 108.92
divided party of 6 18.16 each

Are we able to liquidate the loot with the caravan master for half value? If so...

Item Gold
coin 12.6
coin 4.82
jav(x6) 1.5
hide armor(x2) 10
greataxe(x2) 30
scale mail 25
greatsword 25

total 108.92
divided party of 6 18.16 each

Sure, that seems reasonable. Of course your split above assumes no one wants any of the items above.

Was the healing too late or did it have no effect, like something nearby was taking its energy?

I have a suspicion Tages isn't meant to live and the healing isn't going to touch him due to the severity of the injuries.

Utsuri 映り wrote:

Was the healing too late or did it have no effect, like something nearby was taking its energy?

I have a suspicion Tages isn't meant to live and the healing isn't going to touch him due to the severity of the injuries.

Very much correct...his injuries are worst kind you can have in a RPG - plot related.

Oh, whoops. *plays slide whistle*

My apologies with slowness. My girlfriend's husband's sister-in-law passed away and the stress of that, on top of Roe v.s. Wade being overturned, has made my household very chaotic. I'll have a post up in a bit but definitely tomorrow.

My apologies with slowness. My girlfriend's husband's sister-in-law passed away and the stress of that, on top of Roe v.s. Wade being overturned, has made my household very chaotic. I'll have a post up in a bit but definitely tomorrow.

Yeah, the overturn has hurt my household as well. Life comes first!

My girlfriend's husband...

O_o

Not that odd when you remember polyamorous relationships exist ;) (or any other kind of non-monogamy)

My internet is currently suffering a big outage so I'm stuck on my phone. Bot me as necessary and I'll get back as soon as I can.

Internet is back and so am I. And you are correct! I'm happily part of a open polyamorous, ethically non-monogamous relationship. Which means s%!~ gets complicated :P