General Discussion

I just treated it as a surprise round like in the older sense, I'm a follower of the adage of the rules being mere suggestions, and it seemed appropriate for the circumstances at the time. As for acting, go right ahead. I'm not going to expect everyone to be posting regularly this week, given the holiday.

Forewarning, depending on how much you guys investigate the goblins, this story can go into really dark and twisted places. Like Goblin Slayer type territory.

I'm down with a dark story line, doesn't bother me a bit.

My line of questioning in the OOC portion of the post is mostly my own notes to make sure I ask the questions. We can RP it all or we can use it as a basis of questions I want to ask if people wish to move along at a faster clip. I'm down for either. :)

I think this is getting darker than I care to go.

Don’t let me spoil your fun, but I’m not comfortable where this is going.

Peace out.

Anything darker will now go into spoilers.

So if the current material is too dark for anyone else, say so now. SJoyner backed out, and someone else asked to come on in. The bit about goblins is the darkest it should go for a while, but that is the sort of thing that I like doing in my fantasy settings (not exclusively, but my favorite game in the 2000s was Diablo II).

hadn't notice a problem yet.

I think this is fine. I like a dark storyline as long as there is a narrative reasoning for it and it isn't being done willy nilly. If this is as dark as it's going to get, I think we're good to go from my end of things.

There's more material that leans into the darker side of fantasy, but nothing else quite so visceral/violating. There's some lore elements that involve slavery, war crimes, and the twisted path of vengeance, but this is the last I currently have planned that deals with rape.

It didn't really come off as rape, not to me. I have a pretty hard line at rape but this felt like they're just using the kids as hosts, which one hundred and one different creatures in D&D and popculture do. If it was a legit rape, like we walked in on one, I would nope out pretty fast because that's just not what I want out of my D&D but dark themes like vengeance, war crimes and all of that are fine with me if they are used appropriately and well. Which I think, in fairness, you are doing.

With the last fight being more challenging than I had originally planned (damn RNG) everyone is now level 3.

I'm good, I like dark fantasy as long as people are on the same level, don't want anything that might end up on r/rpgnightmares. Also, sorry for my slow responses, holidays + holiday crud = blech. Now to see if Jahred is jumpy, or justified in his actions...

Completely unrelated to anything on the thread, but has anyone ever had jambalaya? I heard about it last night and upon seeing that I had all of the stuff for it figured I'd make a big batch for lunch/dinners this week.

I love jumbo and jambalaya.

Jambalaya is delicious. I prefer it without shrimp myself but it is very good.

So just wondering if anyone has any guesses about Creak's "Mistress". I won't be confirming or denying any guesses, but I am curious what ideas you guys have.

I'm not sure, we just don't have enough information to go off of yet, I don't think.

How would we like to do loot? Group loot, I assume, and piling gold into a group coffer? It's simper than trying to dole out shares to everyone but I know that some people have stronger feelings than I do.

New portent rolls, 'cause we long rested.

Suggestions as to what to inquire about?