Not Revjak's preferred way of handling things. But it's gone that way. And that goblin in other circumstances would not be so friendly...
I have no problem with it.
@Reynwyn with regards to corners and cover, I usually consider them 1/2 cover for targets of melee, 3/4 for ranged.
Perfect, thanks GM!
Note to self: rage earlier in dangerous fights! ;)
Revjak is tanking hits with his chest muscles. Better than most, but that's still going to hurt!
Just don't roll any 1s on your death saving throws and you'll be fine! The second one is already bloodied by your single attack.
Are those perception tests for Carric alone or for all of us? I'm not certain.
Everybody, sorry if that wasn't clear.
No worries. Will post.
Take care Piety.
No worries Piety, thanks for letting us know. I had the flu a couple of months back, it was debilitating. Look after yourself.
Also, this weekend is my partner's birthday, and we're going away, so posting may be a bit less frequent for me, but I'll keep things moving as best I can.
Preparation makes fights so very much easier.
Hey guys, just prepping the larger campaign arc. As mentioned, I was considering adapting some of the dungeons out of Tales of the Yawning Portal, has anyone played any of these before? Don't want to bore anyone with stuff they've already played. I only have one or two in mind, and they're certainly not necessary, I have plenty to work with just from your characters.
I have run Sunless Citadel twice (once in early 3.5, once in 5e), run Forge of Fury (3.5 version, not long after it first came out), played Tomb of Horrors (in 2e, but only 3-4 years ago - think this may have been return to the tomb of horrors, or otherwise expanded version).
I don't think I've played any of the others, but some of my DM's keep it close to their chest when they are running a pre-written adventure.
I do have the book, but mostly only to re-run sunless citadel (and maybe Forge of Fury and for nostalgia's sake).
I don't mind re-running them, though I must admit ToH is a bit old school for my tastes. I'm not a fan of adventures with just rooms and rooms of rediculous traps.
Ah I thought someone had played Forge of Fury. I was considering working it in, but pretty much out of laziness :)
If you want to use it I don't mind, we ran through the first 5 or so of the first batch of adventures early in 3rd days. So it kind of blurs together and was 15-18 years ago. Only ones I can really remember are Sunless Citadel and the Speaker in Dreams
Okay, well if no one else has played it I'll keep it in mind. Not really locking in to anything at this stage, more brainstorming, mind mapping, that kind of thing.
On a side note, I hope you guys are enjoying the game, I know it's just a bit of a bog standard dungeon crawl so far but I'm looking forward to the party getting to Waterdeep and having all the options in the world :)
Never played or DMed Forge of Fury, but I have done both for Sunless Citidel and Tomb of Horrors.
I think we're getting a nice bit of characterisation and interaction going, dungeon crawl or no. :)
In AD&D, afaik it was all homebrew setting.
In 3.x, homebrew scenarios if not setting.
4th ed was a single session, might have been an introductory adventure.
5th ed, I've played the start of Tyranny of Dragons, Out of the Abyss, and Mines of Phandelver.
I have only played through a portion of Against the Giants many years ago in 2E D&D, parts of the frost giants liar. I then began a 3.5 game of Tomb of Horrors and we barely made it into the tomb before the campaign disbanded (online game).
I'm perfectly fine with whatever you would like to do, GM.
Also, I wanted to apologize to everyone for absence the past few days. My personal and professional life really took a big flip just last week and it was difficult to find the time/energy to get in to post to my games. ALl is well now, though, and I'm getting back into the swing.
@Reynwyn, I'm glad to hear that things have picked up for you.
@Reynwyn no stress, hope everything's working out okay.
Hey folks, how are we? I'd really like to keep up at least a post a day from everyone if possible, we started off with a bang, but we've slowed to a crawl. In particular, I'd like to get past this first dungeon crawl and get to Waterdeep, then we can delve into broader storylines, and personal ones. If there's anything I can do to help, just let me know.
Trying to push things forward, but I need others to at least assent to the path that Revjak and me keep choosing.
I'm of a similar mindset to Carric. I want the game not to get bogged down, but it is more than myself and Carric playing.
Sorry, my depression hit bad last week and I lost enthusiasm for much of anything.
I'm back on the up again now, but work has blocked the Paizo site, so no more lunchtime posting (I could look on my phone but it's a pain to type replies, check stats etc).
That's understandable. I hope you aren't as affected now.
Signey, see if you can find the Wayfinder forum app (assuming you have an android phone). It is well worth the 3 bucks I paid for it.
I knew there was an app, I'm pretty sure I used to use it too, but it's a hard thing to search for when you can't remember the name.
Sadly it no longer seems to be in the play store and looks like it's slowly dying as the forums get updates, there are a couple of sites which seem to offer the apk but I might have to pull out my old phone to test it on before I trust apk files from random sites on my live one.
I apologize for my absence! I traveled to Washington D.C. with my department for police memorial week from Saturday to yesterday. I had planned on having much more time at my disposal than I actually did. I had essentially no free time during the past few days; in addition to that, while we were in D.C. one of our officers back home got into a shooting with a suspect (luckily he was not injured), so that just added even more to the hectic schedule. I am home now though and working on getting caught up!
I think we should set up something in regards to the clearing of dungeons. Since Carric and Revjak are our front-liners, I imagine whatever decision they make regarding which way to go would be acquiesced by the rest of the party. That way we don't have to keep waiting for everyone to reply to that sort of thing.
Wow, it makes sense why your time was taken up lately!
And I can get that reasoning. I want to make sure that other people to feel that they can input IC or OOC on decisions if they wish to. I've been in campaigns where my character may as well have not shown up for all the impact they had on the plot, and I'd rather avoid that if possible.
Edited 'can' instead of 'can't'. ;)
Yep just to be clear, I don't want anyone to feel bad if they've been busy or feeling not up to it, or for any reason really. I'm just really excited about this game and all of your PCs, and not having GMed any pbps before for people I don't know I'm probably a bit nervous that people are going to drop out. The last thing I want to do is put stress on anyone over a game. And I also don't want people to feel left out when they can't post very often. I'm sure as a group we'll find a balance, and I'll know better after a while when to bot people if required.
Fear not GM Hewy, you're doing just fine so far. You should, however, accept that we might get dropouts at some point. It's just the nature of PBP, and has nothing to do with the quality of either your game or your GM style.
Thanks Piety, I'll bear that in mind :)
I concur with Piety, there is definitely a certain amount of attrition to PBP that is, sadly, fairly unavoidable. I'm having a fantastic time and looking forward to fleshing out our individual story-lines!
I'm keen to see how this all goes. :)
Sorry for the temporary break in transmission guys, it's been a super hectic weekend for me, on the road for work. Back home now though.
No worries! I've been pretty occupied myself.
Likewise, no worries GM!
Hi folks. I'm considering using alternate rules for resurrection etc, perhaps the ones found here. Let me know what you think.
Personally, I'm not into stress-free resurrection. I'd prefer a sad death and a new character! But the thing I like about the rules in the link is that it can possibly add some narrative impact to resurrection.
Interesting tables!
I wouldn't object to them brought in, but I would ask you to look over the Path of the Zealot and see how they interact with its theme and the Warrior of the Gods ability.
Gotcha.
Warrior of the Gods would definitely have an effect on these rules. I'm thinking that for the initial roll to succeed, the zealot would auto-succeed on its second roll. So that guarantees resurrection, but still with a chance of some kind of Stygian effect. Up for discussion though.
I personally don't resurrect my characters, with the exception of my PFS characters (not that it happens a lot there either).
If Piety dies, I plan on having a new character take his place.
It's been a long time since I've had a character die in a rpg where resurrection was an option. Other characters might not resurrect, but Revjak is one who would want to get back into the fray.
Can you show me a screenshot of current state so I can discern where best to attack?
Comin' right up :)
I like the choices presented, I think it would make for an interesting choice for characters to return to life! I know that Reynwyn would absolutely seek to return, or at least have the option to return.
Piety, as I've only just started with 5e I've never had an unarmed fighter before. It only occurred to me now that you're not dual-wielding. In my mind, I don't see why unarmed strikes shouldn't be able to dual-wield. If no one else has any issue with that, I'm letting you do that whenever you like with your fists. The second one won't use strength bonus of course, but it's a possible extra 1 point of damage. (Also, don't want to tell you what to do, but I just noticed you have second wind there, have you used it yet...?)
I for one have no objection.