Welcome/game help/general chat

Hi, you can introduce yourself here if you are new to D&D or GP, want to ask questions about the game, or just want to say hi.

Hi Guys,
I am a long time D&D player, still new to play by post, I haven't done much on GP yet, but really looking forward to giving it a go. So far I am loving 5e and I am keen to see how ToEE shapes up in 5e

Will we be using spell slots or spell points variant (dmg)?

Hello, I'm also a long time (A)D&D player, I've GMed Phandelver face-to-face and am playing four other games on GP, including a 5e game. I've been on GP for 6 weeks, which is my first experience of PbP. While not being a hardcore OSR person, I do enjoy older versions of D&D, and the idea of playing an old school module with 5e rules makes me very happy.

Spell slots. The only optional rule I use is flanking (as well as the other generally accepted ones like feats). And hi to everyone. I'm a new gamer and I certainly welcome old-school players. There's a lot to learn from those old modules as a DM and they are more fun to read especially if you have an evil streak. I'm liking PbP so far

Hi. I've been into D&D since the Red Box. Stuck with BECMI until 5e. Have done PbP on some other sites, but am new to GP. Never played or ran this module before.

Eh, how did you miss ToEE? It's cool to have a bunch of retro gamers onboard. Anyone played this before? I have no idea how it's going to go. Looks heavy after the early stages

Since I stuck with BECMI until recently, I avoided much of the AD&D line from back then. Mostly campaigned in Mystara. Adding those classics to my collection now, but haven't managed to get that one yet.

Are we supposed to get emails when there are posts, or do we have to just remember to check the forums? I had trouble registering even. Never got my activation email. So that's why I'm asking.

Edit: Nevermind. Emails just started coming in.

Subscribe to thread or forum and you will get emails. I turned mine off as I'm in 4 games. I had the same activation problem. Let Keleth know and he will sort it

Hail and well met fellow adventurers. Also an old gamer. Started at the tale end of 2nd ed, but really got into 3rd ed. and on. I have never played through ToEE.

I'm a young gamer, 27, got my start with 1e when I was in high school (never did any modules), transitioned to Pathfinder after about 7 years, and last year moved on to 5e. Very happy with it so far.

Yeah, I have played in ToEE before. Once back in the late 80's with the AD&D group I played with in High School and once in the Mid 90's as a 2nd Ed (2.5 really) game. I have some vague memories of stuff in the module, but nothing specific. I know I had fun both times I played in it. Looking forward to giving it a go in 5e

I had mostly played D&D until 4e came out. I switched to Pathfinder then but also played a bunch of other different games (Savage worlds, World of Darkness, Firefly, Star War, L5R among others). Recently converted back to D&D with 5e, I am loving the new game

When is the game actually gonna start? And what are the rules of play?

Hi, we're just waiting for mrvain to upload his character. I started the game in the main thread earlier, so post as you wish. The beginning is free-form so you can post with your preferred frequency and splitting the party is also a viable option. The people in the village are going about their daily lives and so you can freely look around the village. As soon as I have the remaining 4 avatar's we'll have visuals of the map.

I've run my other game like this: for combat, I will roll initiative for everyone and set the turn order. (of course, if you initiate combat and/or I haven't posted initiative, feel free to roll your own. Players can post their next turn early or wait for their turn to post, and I will execute actions in the initiative order whenever the poster is ready. You can make attack rolls as you see fit, for example editing your post to add in damage rolls or expanding on your actions in your turn etc.

By all means make skill rolls if you think they are relevant.

The game is posted once/day on average. If you're missing for a few days you can leave instructions etc. but otherwise you'll be missing out!

Let me know if there's anything I've missed out or if you have any thoughts

All sounds cool. It's Friday arvo my time. I will post the character and avatar tonight. Is it OK if I just grab a random image of google

Yeah I'm not expecting fresh draws, just something to identify you

Are we using this thread for rules questions?

It seems that my paladin's Divine Sense might be quite useful in the Hommlet part of this campaign, as I am able to:
I'd like to know how to best imagine this feature working. Do I just focus my attention, and then sense, or does it require a more obvious ritual or so on, which would make it something I should be careful about using in public?

If I get to choose, I would like it to be a sort of communion with the forest spirits, which requires a few seconds of concentration, and maybe has some barely perceptible signs of functioning (like my eyes turning leaf-green for a second), but without overt gesticulations etc, so I could for example use it in the Inn without attracting too much attention.

It requires an action, so you'd assume it takes a short bout of obvious concentration, which could be done discreetly, or you can flavour it. It doesn't provide a lot of information or have a powerful effect really. Will think about how to implement it to fit the ancients thing

Ok, thanks. Yes, it's not as useful as good old "Detect Evil", eh? Still not sure what I think about D&D 5e getting rid of alignment from spells etc, but let's see how it plays out.

One other thing - for some reason your embedded pictures aren't displaying in your posts in my browser. I can get them by pasting the link into another tab, but if other people are having the same problem, perhaps we should tell Keleth?

Edit: Oh, and the screenshots are awesome! What tool are you using?

Thanks! I'm using 3Dvirtual tabletop on Android. Screeshot, upload to postimage.org. original maps. Yes, it is odd that you can't read alignments, but perhaps it's gamebreaking in some campaigns.

What browser are you using??

Also, we have a new player as someone left. Say hi!

Hey Burnttoazt, welcome to the game!

I'm using Chromium in Kubuntu (GNU/Linux), so I expect and tolerate random weirdness! It's cool that you can do that stuff on Android - I've got to check that out for the other games I play.

I can't see the images either, tried Chrome, Firefox and Opera

I can't either

I see only one of you cares about me... im glad i can see where my true allies will be

Ha, that's weird, perhaps there are regional restrictions. I think I'll look into it or use another image posting site

Welcome to the game burnttoazt!

Better? ;)

I do not understand why humans always insist on trying to help after the damage is done.

I think we have a newly scarred player - watch out!

My characters name is Darf the dwarf and none of you know me other than Sanora. I am joining this journey in an effort to help an old friend and help rid the world of evil. I was not part of the original crew and i am only in the adventure on Sanora's behalf.

Burnttoazt, don't forget to 'post as' your character (you can edit it in after). It means we can see your character image and I can check your traits/stats etc. easily when I post

Hey guys. I have had a bit on the last week ( kids start new schools etc. ) so i have fallen behind a bit. I will read through the main thread and post tonight. Sorry for the downtime

It's not critical when not in combat anyway :)

This is a test post, it keeps kicking me back to gamersplane.com home page when I try to post on my phone, which is usually how I play

Edit: Hmm, seems to be working on the PC

Same problem!

I contacted GP about it, they know now. I just fixed it - clear the cache in your browser, restart the PC, log in and out - one of those fixed the issue. Apparently it's fixed on the site now as it may have been a new bug.

Second test post, on phone this time

*cross fingers*

Edit: It works, good stuff

I will be camping with my family this weekend, so I may not be very active, I just wanted to apologize in advance. I will get on if I have the opportunity.

I'm going on holiday/vacation for three weeks in an area with patchy Internet access. I will do my best to post daily, but if you don't hear from me for longer than usual, you know why.

In case I go completely off the radar, Anrin's "standing orders are"
* Use his social skills to make people warm to him and the party, or at least divert aggression
* Stand up for the common people against their oppressors
* Fight if necessary, using nonlethal damage against non-evil foes, but killing evil foes outright

Thanks to both of you. Don't feel you have to post as we can resume full speed when you return (or leave it up to the other 3). Enjoy your holidays

OK, sorry for my delay in posting. I broke my phone last week (my primary way to get on the site) and was at Gen-Con. It was fun but it wore me out. Now however I hope to be back on track. I have a new phone so regular posting can resume. Just imagine Sanora was in the back of the group making slightly stuck up but not to offensive comments while the group talked to the locals. She was disappointed at not meeting the dragon slayers, but that can wait, there are bandits to thwomp.

Darf

Did someone leave the game? Seems like it's come to a screeching halt

All the games I've been playing in have slowed significantly since gencon. There have been some site bugs too. I'm trying to keep posting even if it means skipping turns

I sure hope it picks back up, I'm really excited for this game and I'd hate to see it fall apart.

Me too, I'll keep it up as long as there are at least 2 players still interested

Yeah, I thnk Gencon hit things quite hard, plus general summer lethargy. I'm still super keen, though fighting with crappy Internet connection on holiday.

Can anyone not see the battlemap?

I can see it fine

From what burnttoazt posted I don't think he can see it. Just wanted to check as players have had trouble loading it before

Yup I can see it fine now, even on my Android tablet.

Thanks for inviting me as a replacement player! So should I read the thread (Wow, 146 posts) or come in blind?

Read them up, don't miss out!

Welcome to the party!

Good to see you here, Jabes.plays.RPG!

Thank you for the welcome! I'm reading through the game thread right now. When I'm done I'll put together a character with the stats I rolled. Cheers! :-)

Sorry for my absence, a dizzying array of personal and technical issues came up. I hope that is all done and I can post regularly again.

No worries! We'll be out of combat soon

I am tracking HP now. Sanora should have been out in that last fight so but I'm going to put her on 1HP for now!

Man, we can't roll for anything today. Hopefully when we get attacked we can start rolling a little bit better.

Yeah, luck is certainly not on our side right now. Badly failed perception checks can lead to some good comedy though!

Are Sanora and Darf still playing?

Not seen foolsmask in a while. Not sure. Will contact them and find replacements

Which is the south corridor? Left or right? I want to get some mileage out of my hilarious double 1 roll back there...

South is right - the map is currently upright

Am going away for the weekend. Go ahead and NPC Kaxaon if necessary. He'll cover the rear when the group is moving, sticking mostly with Spugnoir and hopefully keeping him quiet. If we meet any opposition he enters rage and charges right in with his spiked chains.

Did we all see this?

Just Anrin and Matthias :)

Ok :-)

There be more rooms to explore, take your pick...or don't!

Kaxaon would not have std behind Spugnoir. He would have positioned himself between Spugnoir and the corridor.

No problem - moved

Awesome! Thanks. :-)

Hey, folks. I'm a long-time D&D player (started Basic Set when I saw a kid looking sort of dejected, rolling dice on a bench during recess back in 1981) who has wanted to play ToEE since before it was one super-module. I played AD&D, AD&D2, a bit of D&D3, a tiny smidgeon of D&D4, and have lately been running my kids in D&D5. But we haven't yet got to ToEE - I'm working them toward N1 Against the Cult of the Reptile God.

So I'm very excited to participate! Today was Labor Day in the US, and I spent all day out with my family...I had to struggle to resist surreptitiously logging in with my phone to finish uploading my character, "Grumble" Danj, human wizard, to this game. Now I have, and I'm re-reading through the game thread to try to see how I'll suddenly insert myself into the action.

Edit: to fix some typos

Glad to have you here, Spaceseeker! Looking forward to meeting Grumble! :-)

Welcome to the game Spaceseeker19!

Kaxaon may be in melee with the snake by that time. I hope I don't get burned to a crisp! I'm just waiting for Harlandski to post Anrin's move before I make mine.

I can't see that being too much of a problem, based on the map you're pretty far away at this point

Taking Biscuitfiend at his word that he has moved Kaxaon's token to be in front of Spugnoir instead of behind him then on my turn a single Dash will bring Kaxaon within melee range of the snake (or nearly). But don't worry about it :-) Kaxaon will be raging by then. He can take a hit.

Yeah, not too worried either way since I did say I would be going for a good angle. Firing through the massive barbarian's back is not a good angle :)

Shouldn't Anrin have had his attack first, as he had higher initiative and had his attack readied? Come to think of it, shouldn't Darf and Kaaxon and Matthias all get to attack before the python, too? :-)

Not sure, but I think you may have taken an attack of opportunity as you backed away.

Kaxaon charges in and moves his full 60ft. I'm probably burning his rage slot needlessly as I'm fairly sure Darf & Matthias will have taken the snake out already but hey that's Kaxaon for you.

AoO, attack reach of 10ft. It's a sneaky part of the snake's statblock. Attack and disengage were both better options!

Man, I need more spells per day, my rolling skills aren't very good lol

Got it. A lesson learned by Anrin and harlandski! :-)

Looks like Foolsmask isn't coming back: http://gamersplane.com/forums/thread/948/

I'm refraining from saying that I will stabilize the halfling, given that I'm already a turn ahead of where we are in the game...but I intend to do so if no one else does by the end of turn 2.

Thanks, I appreciate it! :-)

I believe stabilizing a creature is a DC 10 Wisdom (Medicine) check.

Yep, DC 10, Pg 197 of the phb

That's quite a mental image. :-D Seriously though, I suppose that qualifies as stabilizing him?
I like the more streamlined (as compared to 3rd Edition) grappling rules in 5th Ed, but it's a bummer that the grapple itself can't deal damage. In my opinion, with certain weapons it should deal damage. Certainly if you're armed with a sword and you use your free hand to grab your opponent then maybe it doesn't deal damage but if you use a spiked chain, a flail, or a whip I feel like it should hurt. In fact, in the case of a spiked chain, even a successful escape from the grapple should hurt.

Anyway, Bicuitfiend, I'm not saying this is something you should apply to this game. This is just a general comment on the RAW :-)

I'm finding it a bit laborious to page back through the thread to find the current map every couple of days. What do other people do? Do you save the image locally, or bookmark the thread page that has the image? Would it be helpful and/or possible to create a new thread, just for maps? That way the image wouldn't get buried as easily.

I'll get another image out. It would be good to save the image or bookmark URL. It's more useful for combat than anything as it's a bit dark

Fwiw I like the idea of having a thread for maps. :-)

What a great idea!

The scraping at the door. Currently only Grumble is aware, yes?

Yes - everyone else is otherwise occupied, I believe

Thank you for the maps thread! It's very helpful!

I laughed to see how isolated Grumble is from everyone else...

Ha! All this time I thought Spugnoir and Kaxaon were in the same hallway as Grumble! :-D

Thank you! Are we stacking inspiration, or do we only allowed one at any one time, as per the official rules?

I'm enjoying Anrin's unconsciousness too much :)

Haha same here! :-D
Kaxaon is just too proud to call for a rest but yeah, he has been complaining about dripping blood all over the place, hasn't he?

Brave, brave Anrin is the only healer in the group, isn't he?

Sadly yes, and a pretty poor healer until he reaches 2nd level...

Inspiration cannot be stacked. It is meant to be used regularly (or save it up for when you really need it)

Inspiration can also be handed from player to player IF and when there is a good reason for it (roleplay, doing cool stuff)

Just curious: are there any other repugnant characters like Elmo in the party that Grumble can glom onto as "Champions of good?"

Grumble's not particularly a good judge of character...

Elmo is no champion of good - the others know him to be a drunkard. He is, however, civil and practical where it is required. This could be interpreted as goodness.

The other NPCs seem to have their own reasons for being here. Turuko and Kobort are looking for their supply wagon. Spugnoir for scrolls

Glad I've bern providing amusement whilst Anrin can't do anything else. Apologies to anyone who is annoyed by it (Burnttoazt?) For any who don't know, I'm riffing off of Monty Python's Sir Robin https://youtube.com/watch?v=BZwuTo7zKM8

As I understand the rules, Anrin's going to be unconscious for 1d4 hours unless he gets magical healing. I quite like the verisimilitude of that, but I can see it's frustrating for the party at the moment.

I'd like to pass on my spare inspiration to Matthias, for standing by his unconscious companion.

Sadly I already have inspiration as well lol

Anyone got herbalism kit + proficiency?

Oh.
My.
God.

Awkward! Pass it on?

I will pass the extra inspiration on to Kaxaon!

You need a reason to pass inspiration - if they do something awesome/funny etc. Check in the PHB under backgrounds

I thought it was pretty awesome how he ripped the snake's head apart with his chains :)
If that's good enough I will pass it on, otherwise it goes poof lol

Hi! Sorry, been AFK for the past couple of days. I would tried to help move things along but anyway here we are. :-D

IIRC Kaxaon has not been granted inspiration. If Naatkinson's reason is cool then I'll accept it, and thanks!

Are we officially taking a short rest?

Ok cool, take the point. Personally I liked his bleeding ;)

Yeah I actually like him bleeding all over and not caring, not bothering to rest or heal, but 5hp is cutting it a little to close...I'm still recovering from Arashi's death haha! (fr the benefit of the others, Arashi is a character I played in one of Biscuitfiend's other games). So are we on a short rest and can I take a hit die?

I believe those players have dropped out (can't remember how the PC's were narrated out). Hence our recruitment as replacements.
And I got excited and followed suit! Haha! Sorry about that!

Feel free to roll IN. I do so for convenience

GM-rolled initiative will no doubt be higher than what I rolled anyway! :-D Unless Biscuitfiend makes me use my pathetic roll haha!

Added attack & damage roll to my post.

Hilarious that the people with lowest initiative are in front, blocking the doorway.

Yep, standard procedure lol :)

You can pass through any ally's space, though it will cost double movement (an extra 5ft for each ally if going straight through)

Hey, Kaxaon participated too! Never mind XP, does he at least get lunch too? :-)

Kaxaon: "Watch me pull a rabbit out of this lizard!"
Grumble: "...again?!"
Kaxaon: "Nothing up my sleeve...Presto!"
(something unspeakable greets their eyes)
Kaxaon: "Huh. I gotta get me a new lizard."

Hahaha! The Entertainer background should include Magician on its list of routines! :-D

Have we now explored all of the first floor? That we know of anyway?

Kaxaon never got a turn before combat ended. That's whatcha get for rolling a 1! I think...i guess he deserves the exp. Gain 12exp!

One room left where spugnoir is. And double doors opposite the entrance

I didn't intend to rules lawyer or anything... I was just kidding around! :-)

More like that was inept Insight roll! LOL!!! :-D

Yeah, that was just a terrible roll lol

Why are you all so suspicious of everything?? Goodness me!! Haha

Apologies to all - my other half has been in hospital all week and so I haven't been able to keep up on here - will resume shortly. Thanks

It's alright, life happens. Hope your other half is alright!

Hospital stays are taxing. Hoping for good care and speedy recovery!

Sorry to hear your other half's been ill. Get well soon!

Thanks everyone, looks like I'm up to normal pace. She's recovering now after a (possibly unecessary) appedectomy

Glad to hear that things went well, hoping for a speedy recovery!

Kaxaon could be used as a battering ram but he's downstairs with Spugnoir :-D

Sorted - I think I'll start posting the maps in the game thread too :)

Never fear, Anrin and Matthias are on their way!

Whoops! I guess Grumble forgot to renew the light on his staff!

Since I don't have my lit staff at hand - not sure why I don't - I'm considering casting light on a crossbow bolt and firing it at a half-seen rat. Would that be 1 turn, or 2 turns worth of actions?

2 actions = 2 turns. The arrow may bounce but should fill the room with light

Hey, anybody else with a range weapon want to come up behind Darf and try to shoot? We should keep going in a line all the way back up the stairs, until one of us gets shot in the back!

I kid, I kid. But each arrow whistling past makes Grumble cringe, given his narrow miss of Kaxaon in the first round.

So I suppose Anrin can't directly help till next round? Or indeed see to advise Kaxaon to get out of the way so we can all have a stab :-D

Kaxaon is not going to want to move from the doorway. Moving into the room would be foolish as anyone doing so would get surrounded. Moving back would be pointless unless it's to close the door if that's possible. Looks to me like two people can stand at the doorway to fight.

Kaxaon sees the doorway as a bottleneck and he's the cork preventing the rats from spilling out. He will simply ignore "Get out of the way of my crossbow!" He might oblige if it's "Get out of the way of this fireball!" or a suggestion of "Quick, close the door! There's too many of those vermin!"

Anrin may assist now - he joined combat last round and so is near to the stairs. The door is only 5ft wide - the cellar image exaggerates a bit!

Haha I think that, despite raging, Kaxain will find Anrin's argument compelling! However, he's way at the bottom of the initiative order.

Are we waiting on rats or is it Kaxaon's turn?

My understanding is that it's the rats' turn. At any rate, Kaxaon doesn't go until Matthias has had a go.

Waiting for darf. Many of the rats essentially skip their go!

Ah, my mistake; Matthias' last post was the initiative for this round; presumably Naat wants Matthias to act this round, too (though what he can do with Darf and Grumble blocking the stairs is anybody's guess).

Don't forget that you can pass through a friendly character's space and even attack from it (at disadvantage) although it's better to avoid remaining there afterwards. You could also shoot from the area above without incurring much of a risk of hitting team mates, assuming you are directly above kaxaon

Yeah, Kaxaon is toast! :-D

Level 1 characters are so squishy, I love it

RAW: Thunderwave is not centered on you, you are on one of the faces of the cube, so you could stand in Kaxaon's square without destroying him with the spell.

This is my source, as well as the description of cube spells in the spellcasting rules on Pg 204 of the PHB:
Not sure if that answers your question at all, but I enjoy talking about rules (and helping people with them)

Ah, excellent! By my vision of the scene, there's only two conscious rats on the stairs I'd need to step past. I'll do it.

"Note that the rats who succeeded in their save take 4 points of damage..." he says hopefully.

Yikes! Anrin and Kaxaon are both out? Um...is Darf still conscious, or is it just casters (Matthias and Grumble) and NPCs (Elmo and Spugnoir) now? That is to say: just casters, NPCs, and a giant pack of rats?

Yeah, I think somebody'd better close the door! The problem might be how many dead/dying bodies are blocking the door... Kaxaon, Anrin, and how many rats? Can we make saves or something, to see whether characters fell in or out of the doorway? Also, how many live rats are in the stairwell?

Darf is ok. There are 8 rats left, 3 on stairs (1 sleeping).

I would say closing the door would be strength check at disadvantage, with 2 bodies and many rats scattered about. I'm interested to see how this goes!

This is not a good situation at all, lol

Where is Darf at anyway? Haven't seen him on in a while.

Maybe two or more PC's working together to shut the door will mitigate the disadvantage? :-)

Just 8 rats? Pfft! No problem!

Of course, I have no spell slots left. So it's a choice of trying to use a +1 STR mod with DISADV when trying to close the door, being assisted by someone else (who has to withstand opportunity attacks from two rats to get to the door), or trying my hand with Darf, Elmo, Matthias and Spugnoir at weapon combat! Hm. When you put it that way, the fighting option doesn't seem so bad...except that I'm the vanguard at the moment.

The nice thing is that I have a while - pretty much a full round - left before I need to make that decision. The situation may be decided before I get a turn (such as when another couple of PCs bite the dust). On the other hand, my first D&D5 game had three of the four characters reduced to 0 HP and the last one survived with 1 HP to stabilize the others.

Hope springs eternal!

Question for DM: How much damage would I take (if any) if I dropped down in front of the door and attempted to close it?

Kinda thinking I'll avoid the AoO's if I drop down, since I'm right above it at the moment!

"Jump! I'll catch you!"

Well, Darf being dragged into the room ruined my plans to close the door lol

At least the rats are fed! I'm not sure how many portions a Dwarf makes, though

Well, you did warn us that Gygax was Lawful Evil!

I'm really not sure he had much of a method. Maybe neutral evil? Let's just leave a ton of nasty creatures around and see what happens!

I assumed by the description that Darf was dead before he was fully through the door...it sounded pretty graphic.

He was alive at the time. For all we know he might become rat Tarzan. Either way, he saved the team!

I seriously thought Kaxaon was rat lunch!

There will surely be another chance later. Did anyone gain a level yet?

70 xp away :(

The Welcome Wench is only a couple of hours away right?

Two hours on foot, and Elmo has cleared a path through any areas of dense thicket

Same here with Anrin. Anyway, I'm glad that I stayed true to character concept and survived. I thought you and I would be rolling up new characters, Jabes.

I wouldn't have been that sad to start again, though. All this Anrin-the-paladin-gets-knocked-unconscious stuff has got me thinking...:

We all have flaws, but we also are all playing quirks, which are even more entertaining. When they go hand-in-hand with bad rolls, they're priceless.

I'm enjoying Grumble's fish-out-of-water aspect.
Oh, look! Those guys in yellow, they say hello! They're drawing daggers - this must be how city folk greet one another!

Did Biscuitfiend post anywhere about an absence, or a family emergency? I'm worried, and hope everything's OK with him.

I haven't heard or seen anything posted. I am beginning to worry as well, he has been consistently active up until a short time ago.

Let's wait a bit. Unexpected things can happen, and take people out for a week or two. I too hope all is well with our DM.

Heard from him in another game, he should be back soon

Good news! :-)

So... things are pretty quiet round here. Any more news from Biscuitfiend?

Not since last week :(

Worst case scenario, one of us could continue this game as DM. After all Biscuitfiend was using a published module...

I'd hate to do that, but it's certainly an idea if we have to

He must be busy with real life. That's fine. But I do hope he comes back. I'm also in his Ravenloft game and his LMoP game! :-D

Well, I really hope he comes back, too, and that everything's OK.

I have the Temple of Elemental Evil mega-module, but if I read it, it was way back when I bought it in 1987, and I don't remember it. But if there is no other person to run it, say, by the end of the year, I'll be willing to hand off Grumble to another player and run the rest of the game.

Hi all, apologies for my inactivity. I hope to be back soon as I'm keen to keep my games going but I've just got a few things to deal with at home first. Hopefully I'll be back making posts in no time. If I really need to I'll pass the module to someone else but this is probably my favourite one! Cheers

Yay, glad to hear from you Biscuitfiend. Really enjoying the game and looking forward to getting back to it when you're ready.

I'm glad to be back, I hope the game picks up ok.

To our new players - hi! You might notice that this game is different in that stats must be rolled down the line (like in 1st edition) as I wanted an old-school vibe for character creation. Of course, there are no class restrictions. Go ahead and roll up in the character creation thread.

So far, players have investigated the small hamlet of Hommlet and a nearby ruin on behalf of a local druid. Something is fishy but they haven't quite found out what! The area was a site for a great battle just a decade ago and signs of evil returning has led you, along with other adventurers, to flock here in search of possible fame and fortune.

Does Anrin already have Inspiration? I'd like to pass Kaxaon's inspiration point to him. Harlandski's has been some of the best roleplaying I've seen, and it's been with an unconscious PC!

I'm not sure but according to my records, yes! You can pass it

Ha ha, thanks Jabes :-D

Oh man, these ochre-robed women are SO cultists, but Grumble has no way to detect evil! Argh!

I guess we're going to Nulb to meet Lareth, then...

Hello - sorry I'm snowed under with work this week. I'll be back in the game on Monday 14th.

No problem. Looks like this game is going to be slow for a week.

Hello again - really sorry, work continues to devour me, but I the end is in sight. Hope to be back on board by the weekend.

No problem, I will DMPC Anrin for you if combat breaks out and we can't find you!

I'm going to be absolutely slammed over the weekend working on an epic Star Wars - The Force Awakens birthday cake. Won't be able to post, sorry!

Hi all, I'm away until Saturday at Center Parcs. See you shortly!

Anyone hear from Biscuitfied lately?

Nope. Must be busy.

I don't know if you guys are aware...I've posted about Biscuifiend's absence on a couple of other threads but not here...and I wouldn't presume to speak for him...but he's going through some RL stuff right now and I'm sure you'll all join me in wishing him the best.

I will update this as we go along. Please check for accuracy. Thanks!

XP Tracking

Anrin, Darf, Sanora, Matthias,
130 XP from activities in Hommlet and for reaching the moathouse.
46 XP giant frogs

Anrin, Darf, Kaxaon, Matthias
12 XP giant adder

Darf, Matthias, Grumble. (And Kaxaon!)
12 XP giant lizard

Anrin, Darf, Kaxaon, Matthias, Grumble (and Grumble gains a bonus 10 XP)
30 XP giant rats
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Totals:
Darf: 230 XP
Matthias: 230 XP
Anrin: 218 XP
Sanora: 176 XP
Grumble: 64 XP
Kaxaon: 54 XP

Thanks for keeping track of this, and for notifying us about Biscuitfiend. We wish him well, of course. I know only too well how issues outside of GP can effect how much someone can post - if at all - on the site.

I remain enthusiastic about this game and look forward to resuming when things have settled down and it works for Biscuitfiend.

There was also 130 Xp here

And 46 here

Aha! This was before I joined. Thanks, will put those in. :-)

Going to drop this game for now.

Biscuitfiend, if you come back, please re-invite me :)

Just trying to save space in my list of games

Hi all, sorry to disappoint you all. I've decided to fold all my games because of life I guess! I may be back in the future and I wish you all the best. It was fun playing here with you all :)