OOC Chat

About the swimming loadout, I am guessing this is because when you carry too much gear, you start making swim checks with disadvantage? What about Zale, who has a swim speed and so does not need to make swim checks? Not that I intend to buy a lot of stuff...Zale doesn't need much...so question is really just hypothetical.

Whether you encounter difficulties or not, some equipment (firearms, for instance) wouldn't like being submerged in seawater.

You'd be surprised how little it takes to encumber a character. With a Strength score of 10, Zale is encumbered carrying 50lbs. An explorer's pack weighs 59lbs. Think about that.

We will only apply encumbrance penalties while in the water. You needn't worry about it on land.

I have updated the house rule to stipulate this.

Ah.. I just posted about which encumbrance system you are using and I can see it is the Variant Encumbrance system. With the new potion rules.. Nela did purchase 100gp of herbs for making 4 potions of healing with time of her starting cash. She couldn't hope to carry all her possessions.. she has 4 chest that weight 25# each. But being on she ship she has unencumbered load.

That would be great! Yes!

I hope that I have done my equipment correctly. Items without prices came by way of background/class starting packs, I purchased the rest. I am assuming we have foot lockers or similar on board the Kestrel?

SWIM LOADOUT: 10.5lb
-50 feet of silk rope 5lb
-a set of common clothes 3lb
-a lucky charm 
-belt pouch 1lb
-flask 2cp; 1lb
-Potion of Healing 50gp; 0.5lb

NORMAL LOADOUT: 76lb
-all of above, plus:
-explorer's pack 59lb
-10 darts 2.5lb
-jug 2cp; 4lb
-signal whistle 5cp
-flintlock pistol 125gp; 4lb
-lead balls (40) 5 gp; 1lb
-gunpowder (40) 10 gp; 2lb
-money: 10gp, 9sp, 1cp

STAYS ON THE KESTREL:
-shortsword 2lb
-brewer's supplies 20gp
-belaying pin (club) 2lb
-money: 454gp

I haven't spent my extra funds yet....i left my books at work.

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@campeador: Yes, that is perfect. You can absolutely stow gear/money on the ship.

In case you missed it on Discord: Yes, you can buy silvered weapons and ammo with those funds.

PHB 148 on silvered weapons: You can silver a single weapon or ten pieces of ammunition for 100gp.

Quoting from Discord:

Lets see,
"Swim" gear
Lbs| Gear
7 )Greatax
10 )Great club
2 )1 - Javelin
1 )Thieves tools
.5 )Steel mirror (in with thieves tools)
6 )1 set of manicals
1 )1 lock
1 )1 flask of Oil
0 )1 Deck of cards (almost always in his pocket)
10 )10' chain
3 )1 set of common clothes (wearing)
1 )1 flask
Weight: 42.5/80 lbs.

All muh gear
(Starting) Greataxe (7 lbs
(Starting) Great Club (10 lbs
(Starting) Javelin x 4 (2 lbs/per
(Starting) Explorer's Pack (59 lbs
(Background) Set of clothes appropriate to your duties. (2 lbs
Travelers Clothes (2 lbs
Bullseye Lantern (2 lbs
Thieves Tools (1 lbs
Steel Mirror (.5 lbs
Manicals x 3 (6 lbs/ea
Lock x 3 (1 lbs/ea
Flask of Oil x 5 (1 lbs/ea
Playing cards x 2
Blanket (1 lbs
Chain 10' (10 lbs
Common Clothes x 2 (3 lbs/ea
Flask (1 lbs
Insect Repellant (Salve) x 2 (1 lbs/ea
weight 133.5 lbs

Gold remaining 706.99g

Phillips on vacation :D oddly enough i have quite a few bounty hunter things :D i wanted to buy a cage but have no need to currently :D

If only i could find a way to talk you into letting me have some NVG's then i'd be set!

Kitty... :)...but I will not the one to tell it that. I'm taking speak with animals spell regularly,

I'll finally be finishing up my equipment tomorrow probably. For right now, Jack is sleeping off the dino fight in his hammock.

No rush, @dramasailor.

It makes perfect narrative sense, especially in the context of the chain of command on a ship, that Nela has been asking Valrakas' permission to enact her ideas. That's exactly how it's supposed to work (what the hell was Zale thinking?! Is he drunk? Oh right, he's always drunk). BUT it doesn't work in PbP where the DM runs the captain because then I'm excessively influencing your actions. I've considered several ways around it but it's tricky. Unfortunately, Valrakas isn't a lazy captain who will lay all the responsibility of command on Ian. And he's not going to just everybody do their own thing either. You can be sure Zale is looking at some kind of tongue-lashing (at the very least) for that stunt.

I'm toying now with the idea of letting you guys take turns running Valrakas. Any other ideas? You might have seen I've also posed this question on Discord.

Drunken Technique
At 3rd level, whenever you use Flurry of Blows, you gain the benefit of the Disengage action, and your walking speed increases by 10 feet until the end of the current turn.

Does the speed increase also apply to my swimming speed?

Because your swim speed is innate I will say yes. If it had come from a spell or magic item I'd be inclined to say no.

They are clustered around the hostages. From what the woman said, the sharkmen are probably taking them under.

Like I said, if you have a spell in mind, tell me, and we'll see if we can make it work.