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btw, please do not check the reroll aces box when rolling. you do not benefit from the lucky feat.

A monsters stats indicate the immunities and resistances and vulnerability of that monster. It’s mechanic. Interpretation is way out.

On a separate note, I make up the stats. See rule #1. The stats on the internet are merely guidelines. See rule #2. Looking up monster stats at the table is poor form. I guess I should add back the hit points that I lowered on the the monster lol. If you want to investigation or insight on a monster, you should roll skill checks for it. Just sayin.

Ah... Sorry, I'm a real noob at this sort of thing, so I don't know anything about that sort of stuff. I'm realizing that the RPGs I played before are more... action style, not narrative style. I feel like I'm at a bit of a disadvantage versus people who would be able to recognize the signs of particular monsters (such as the trident getting stuck).

I wasn't really looking for stats per se, but just trying to figure out if the monster was at all attackable. I didn't know that I could "roll" skills on stuff like that. So... I'm sorry! I didn't mean to be a bad player. :(

Maybe I need to find a "crash course" in playing D&D specifically, so I don't miss obvious things like this. Cause... man, investigating was exactly what I wanted to do... I just never thought that I could do it as the character.

Again, I'm probably over-explaining. I just feel bad for displaying such bad form at the table. Chalk it up to ignorance, if you will, and I'll move on. And I'll just try to ask more questions about what I can and can't do.

For one thing, I wasn't sure whether or not you would scale the stats of monsters relative to my characters level, or if I ran the risk of dying cause I didn't know enough about a monster to know that I should run instead of fight, etc. I worry too much. I would just hate to get my character killed off before "meeting up" with the party.

Now I'm rambling. Sorry again!

amusing, so long as I don't die, lol. All good. I was just worried that I had offended you by my bad etiquette. I'm really enjoying playing.

to answer you, I clicked on your character that you posted by and see your Co sea tee sheet. In insight you have no wisdom mod but you do have a +2 for being proficient. The sheet calculates that, similarly On investigation you have a +2 on intelligence but you are NOT proficient in that so no proficiency bonus. You are equally adept at insight and intelligence just because you trained on your weak ability and became proficient. Yes?

you gain the proficiency from classes or races or feats etc. remember waaay back to character creation? That’s the bad part about dndbeyond. It didn’t force you to do the math yourself.

Note to Self: Make friends with a necromancer as soon as possible. hahaha

Just checking, cause a lot of conversation happened in there, but did Maggie try to flame or claw the mimic?

Wheeeeeeee!!!!! Just feel free to correct anything I do that is bad etiquette. Also, sorry if it sounded like I was nagging, I just wasn't sure if it was "my turn." Feel free to give me post-epic-fail tips on this crash course. :) And one last question... when the mimic was changing forms, did the trident fall to the ground due to it not being sticky at that point? No rush on that, just a learning lesson.