The Red Tavern(OOC thread)

Here is where general OOC chat will be.

Thanks! I am excited to join in, too!

Hello again. I recognize people here.

Soooo... Is this going to be a pirate game? Because I joined the original game for one reason and one reason only; to ride dinosaurs. Nothing against pirate games (which is what this seems to be, correct me if I'm wrong), but I'm already in a pirate game. I'll stay, but I really don't want to spend all of my time, or even most of my time on the ship.

Alright, I'll keep this in mind. I'll see what I can do to lead up to you riding a dinosaur.

I'm sorry, I think I'm going to have to bow out. I'm just not finding the motivation to post here and that's not fair to you guys. Sorry.

Dinsaurs and the culture of Ixalan are two things that make this setting different from the usual game. That is also what I signed up for. But I understand the ship has to land first before we see any of that. Also, some of the PC's aren't even on the ship! So I'm more than happy to wait.

Well there is Nezahal

Alright, I figured the connection between Grim and Veza is that they were from The Legion, and that they wish to escape their association from it. Veza is trying to intergrate with Sun Empire society, while Grim is looking for a cure to undo vampirism.

I was hoping to be already installed in the Empire, having defected some time ago. Maybe they'd pair Veza up with Hurkor to make sure he's not actually a double agent. I imagine if Grim saw Veza (whether or not they know each other from before) he would make contact, hoping to also be granted asylum.

This was what I had in mind, but am also open to RoAries' idea, or if KirinOfDarkness has other thoughts.

I'm fine with either

It really all depends on whether you are okay with Veza having defected a significant time ago and already established in the Empire or not. If this is okay then he would definitely not be on the ship, and I am perfectly content to wait.

Okay, Veza is officially a part of the Sun Empire. But due to his race, he is not trusted by strangers who are part of the Empire.

That makes perfect sense. That's the problem when you switch allegiances: everyone on either side mistrusts you.

Oh I was counting on BiffRosencrantz / Hurkor Niggletoor being here. Didn't know he'd dropped out.

Oh damn, I can't believe the Dissenters thread slipped under my radar for three whole days! Will post in a few.

Hello jesterjeff! Do share your idea of what you want to play as in the character creation thread!

Welcome, jesterjeff!

Anybody heard from Grim/kirinofdarkness? Don't leave me/Veza hanging, bro! :-D

Have the players of Aglao and Grim gone?

I'm going to move on and count them as posibly left. Will post by my tonight.

Yo, GeneCortess, are you there?

Ah alright. I forgot that it's holiday season for the West.

Welcome, FunzoSuruali!

Hello!

Welcome!

Hi all, I just want to get some feedback. Do you think that the fight is taking too long, or is it reasonable for one that involves a sea-Dino that wants to wreck your ship?

Also, Jabes, how do you think that I best proceed with KirinOfDarkness not playing? Should I just control Grim temporarily and lead that to you joining the others?

I'm okay with whatever you decide. Bot Grim, or strike our scene from the record and start over, or whatever. I don't even mind a later entry into the story. Whatever will give you the least headache.

I think I'll go with reseting or giving a brief fleeting introduction when I have the idea. But before that, I'll see if I can meet up the new player's character with yours.

I'm thinking about doing a homebrew mechanic.
When a creature's HP is reduced to 1/4th or less of their starting HP, their survival instincts kick in. They will either attempt to flee, or fight harder. If they chose to continue to fight, they gain an extra attack, but suffers a -3 to their attacks. (That means if they have an attack that is multiple attacks, they just only gain one more.) They also lose their ability to perform reactions.

If the players wish to have a similar ability, they can have it with a slight difference. When they reduce their health to 1/3rd of their max, they can choose to get to do another attack action. However, the attacks are with disadvantage and they lose reaction until their next turn.

The mechanic for monsters sounds interesting, but I don't know if the player one is useful enough to be an option that people would take often. Disadvantage is a pretty hefty penalty.

Yeah, I'm trying to balance it. The chance of 2 attack actions, but they becomes hard to hit. The monster one is made to make things a bit more interesting.

Is Chee-hu's player also not around already?

Thanks for the invite. I was planning on maybe testing the Oathbreaker but you seem to have quite a number of vampires already! I'll take a look at some other concepts instead.

Hi Bleak, have you have an idea of what you'll play yet?

Also, hello Squilon!

Been looking through the races again, and think I might be joining the vampire crew after all. In which case, possibly a paladin. However, haven't totally decided anything yet.

It's cool, you can be whatever you want. If the player composition leans more on vampires, then the plot will lean on vampires more.

Hi all! First of all, thanks to RoAries for letting me join. I'm a fan of the MtG lore and played Standard during the Ixalan era, so I'm pumped to be able to play this game. I'm almost a complete noob to 5E, so I hope that won't be a problem here!

I'll take a look at the existing characters and choose what I'll be playing.

BTW, Squilon mentioned to me that he/she is too busy to join in.

Hello new guys. Please let me know what idea of character you wanted to play as. Don't worry about balance and what not. The game and narrative is able to adapt to whatever composition it gets.

Though do give me a character sheet, even if it's incomplete, atleast by next week, 8th of January. Otherwise I would have to remove you for lack of participation.

Hi all, I'll admit that I'm now making myself a bit too busy, and so considers trying to find another GM to rope in/replace me. Let me know what you think. But I'll make a thread of it first.

Reminder that jesterjeff, archAhazi, IacomustheBadger, and Steven Deeds will be removed if no attempt at submitting a character sheet is made by the 8th.

@RoAries, Where should we let you know about what type of character we would like to play? Should I just create one and submit it? Thanks for the invite! Hope all is well.

Hi everyone, just an FYI:

My family will be out of the country, so I will be unavailable from 1/12/2019 through 1/20/2019.

@A_True_Believer, yeah. You could share your idea in the character creation thread, or as direct message is also fine. But do submit a sheet in time, even if not complete.

Will do ASAP. Thanks.

Sorry, but I'll be slow to post nowadays

Hi, all! Sorry, I was away from GP over the entire holidays because of my workload. Then, as soon as that started to slacken, we had the Taal Volcano eruption. I am prepared to play but I see that RoAries is looking for a replacement? So what's the current status of this game?

It is still on going, as I don't want to disappoint you guys by dropping. But I'm thinking of reducing my responsibilities on this site, so I'm looking for someone who would be nice to take over for me.

Okay as stated in the general request thread -- my style is running heroes and in my personal opinion evil characters are not heroic and TNs are often more CN than TN (and on the balance scale CN is an evil alignment) --- I would have no trouble picking this game up otherwise -- but that has to be a decision freely made by the perspective players. Again its just a personal preference and nothing more.

Welcome, DeJoker!

It seems that this is the way things are going, so it's unfortunate it's not your preference. But it's understandable, as normally adventurers are heroic.
However, this game/the previous GM has allowed for the PCs to have greedy or noble motivations, and fit the story around that, so I'll continue with that style.

Okay thanks @RoAries but my question was more poised towards the player actually playing the Evil alignment and somewhat towards the NN one -- as they may be okay with making a slight adjustment to their characters -- but if no I can respect that and I will leave it be

Okay @GeneCortess am I to assume this is the evil character in the party or the NN? Also LN might not have any regards for Laws made by others depending on what their code is and while they might not pursue killing due to their personal code, they may be just fine with killing when it was needed --- yes playing a pirate does require certain traits but just remember -- the only difference between a pirate captain and normal captain is whose side they are working for or against

I state this because I have worked with other players before to tweak a concept to make it non-evil without changing its base concept too much and depending on the player/character I can probably do it here as well -- just need to know if the player would be willing to make the minor adjustment if not I am okay with that as well -- as I fully understand -- I am just trying to help out if I can

I done my best to give you a description to work with. If that doesn't appeal then it is good choice not to join.

Okay then I hope you have a good one then as I can see this is not my cup of tea.

Just to let you all know, if you ever find that I have not updated with a post for quite awhile, do give me a poke with a message. Though of course, I'll avoid suddenly being absent, but sometimes, I'm actually waiting for you to make a post instead.

I plan on definitely dropping this soon. I have made myself to handle this in a very inefficient and unfun way for me, and so it would be best for this to be one of the games I'll stop. Sorry about this guys. If you want, you can seek out someone else to GM or be a GM yourself. Whatever it is, thanks for understanding.

I'll finish up this encounter first.

Sorry to see this end.

Me too!

Question: what denotes the end of the "dinosaur release" encounter?

Its now ended. Thank you all for joining my game. And I'm sorry that it has to end. But one game has to go to the chopping block, and this one is it.

Was a nice run. Was hard to get you RoAries to try to GM and I have a feeling it might be harder yet find another.

Thank you for your time, RoAries! Even though I didn't get far in this game because I joined late, I appreciated your willingness to work with me on my character. See you around the forum!

Before you go, can you tell me what the three items I stole were? lol.

Alright they are Circlet of Blasting(you can cast fireballs), Eyes of the Eagle(you can see very well) , and Pearl of Power(you can gain back spell slots).

I have found a person that looks willing to be the DM. But, we will see how it goes...

Well I do hope to hear from that soon. I may have on and off access problems the next couple weeks.

Hey new guy, this game is actually over and stuff, but I’m letting you in just to not make you wait, and peek around.

Ha Ha! Thanks! I run a Magical Maztica game originally based mostly on Ixalan, so I was very curious about the game. See you around in another alternative realty.