OOC Chat

can I ask what brought you to D&D in this technological age? I think it's really cool. But if I didn't play as a kid, I don't know what would draw me to it as an adult

I’ve always wanted to play. Never had anyone to play with. So this has worked a treat

cool.
I'm trying out play-by-post as Covid has dried up all the in person play. But getting everyone together in one place is never easy, so I'm hoping this becomes my new normal

I've been playing for the last 42 years. I began with the Holmes boxed set and never looked back. I've played every edition of D&D/AD&D and many, many more besides. This is just the most convenient medium right now.

Got into it in College. pretty good way to meet people irl. Adopted a lifesyle that involved constant mobility which meant i was never able to attend an in person game. Got into PBP as a way to scratch the itch.

LOOT: any one have a preference to how to handle loot. Equal shares is, of course, the right thing to do. But fighting over stuff can be fun...

I've been in games where loot is assigned randomly, by dice roll, to members of the party. Trading and bargaining amongst the party usually follows, which can make down time interesting.

I'm good with splitting evenly. Kar'i'nas happened to be the one with the gemstone atm, but he has not compunction against giving each their due.

I find discussing the items that interest characters helps, without the added arbitration of a die roll.

As a rogue, Skip believes evenly splitting is fine, as long as it’s a weighted even split in his favour. Or you don’t tie your purse strings too tight

I however don’t mind. I’ll follow the party consensus on this

Lunora is less interested in money (just wanting enough to survive and resupply), but takes an interest in easily portable monies and magical items.

even split. Just leads to drama that i am not interested in if people start getting greedy. I agree with galdr about discussing interesting items in character. Maybe a good rule of thumb would be to let everyone who wants to interact with such items have the opportunity.

Even split, the party can discuss the interesting items.

Are vampires a commonly known about subject? I don’t want to run the risk of meta gaming by assuming Skip knows all about them

Are vampires a commonly known about subject? I don’t want to run the risk of meta gaming by assuming Skip knows all about them

I think vampire legends are pretty ubiquitous. And they were in medieval times too. I don't know how many "facts" about vampires are true in D&D, I've never actually met a vampire in D&D before. I'm assuming Skallagrim knows about garlic, and stakes, and turning into a bat etc. but I don't know if anything he knows is actually true.

I think this is a good question to get out of the way early. I too would like to know how much knowledge we have regarding vampires

Aside from the vampire question, I just made two really awful rolls 😂

Sorry, weekends tend to be really busy for me. Let’s keep it interesting and you guys can roll me a nature check each to see how much you know about vampires.

one nature check:

Nature

Nature is what I'm good at