OOC Discussions

Going to be away for a while, or just want to introduce yourself, post it here.

Hi everyone. I've played a couple in person campaigns, but this is one of my first PbP campaigns, so let me know if there is something I mess up, lol.

No worries, we all started out as newbies at some point. If you have any questions about, well, anything, feel free to post and ask.

somewhere floating around is an "into to pbp" page somewhere :D gives some nice "guidelines" if i find it i'll link it here. But feel free to ask and you shall receive. Everyone does everything a bit differently.

I’m in the EST time zone in the US (GMT-5). I’ll usually be more active in the evenings but am on vacation the next two weeks, so I’ll be active most of the day as well. Once works starts up though I’ll be back to mostly posting after 4 or 5PM my time.

I know weekends on here are historically slow and don’t expect this game to be any different - if there’s activity I’ll post, if not, we’ll let it ride until Monday.

I'm typically on 12-5 PST while at work. Its pretty slow rn so i'm in chilling in the f5 lounge.
This and next week are 3 day weeks so i'll try to slap the webpage while out of the office to see if anything is abuzz.

Hey guys.
I got into D&D at the beginning of this year, unfortunately lockdown meant my first taste of action was cancelled but luckily I found GP. Since then I have played 5 games and started to DM one myself. I'm UK based and mainly active in evenings but have more time over weekends so will keep up to speed.

I am from the Central US time zone and will probably make most of my posts after my kids are in bed (8pm Central). I might make posts some other time as I have time. Because I've got young kids, my IRL groups have been slow, so I heard about PbP on the DM's Block podcast and thought I'd give it a try.

I'm in Hawaii so GMT -10, ill try and post as often as I can.

Oh man I forgot about this thread! You all can call me Sphere, I've played in a few PbP games, but none super long-term (aside from a game I've been in since February, which is nice). I play a lot of 5e in person, and I keep some Call of Cthulhu.

Time-wise, I'm a student at GMT -6. I'm applying for colleges right around this time, so if I'm a little inactive you know why, but I should be able to keep up with 1 post/day.

Since it was asked - feel free to make any rolls you wish to during your posts. I may or may not use them depending on the situation.

I may also make rolls for your characters to save time, the most common occurrence will be when Initiative is being called for so we don’t have to wait on everyone to waste a post just to make an Initiative roll.

Seeing that it's Christmas tomorrow, I don't expect much action with the game until Monday.

Merry Christmas everyone. And if you don't celebrate Christmas I hope you have yourself a very nice weekend!

Just curious how you handle crit damage? I know there are a lot of variations people use.

RAW

If you score a critical hit you can go back and edit your post and add another damage die roll or I can do it when determining the outcome of the hit. Poor Goblin C was killed outright without the need for an extra damage roll for the CH.

I figured that's what it was in this case, so I didn't worry about it, but figured I'd ask.

Merry Christmas everyone. Hope you have all had a good day

Happy New Year!! Let's all hope it's at least a bit better than the last.

I'm back to work (from home) on Monday, so I may not be able to respond as quickly during the day (although I will try to sneak a post in if needed). Now that the holidays are over let's all try to get back into the swing of things on Monday and get a decent pace going.

Swhing!

Hey y'all, sorry I haven't been as active as I should have been. I typically rely on email notifs to push me into checking GP and responding but I, like a fool, forgot to subscribe to our game forums.

oof, i've been there before :(

Sorry I haven't been as active either. I will try to keep up. Switch to a new position this year and not as many opportunities to check here as I would like. I have a decent laptop now, so hopefully I can catch up quicker than I could on my phone

@KirinOfDarkness - you still with us?

HEads up I'll be MIA starting tomorrow (friday 2/12) returning tuesday 2/16 hopefully rested :D

Fair enough - thanks for the heads up!

I haven’t heard anything from KirinOfDarkness and their avatar has all "Zzzz" icon next to it, so we’re down to four players now. Depending on how things go I may recruit another player, but we’ll see how the four left handle the cave. :-)

Fair enough. Its a shame that we were just getting started but in a way it shouldn't affect things too much.

@SphericalSphere1 - you still with us?

Sorry about the period of absence, bad winter storms where I am knocked out my internet.

No worries at all. Hopefully the internet was the only thing that went out.

We didn't have water for a few days, but we had plenty of drinking water stored up so it was all good. My hair just got really greasy from not showering.

As someone with just about waist length hair, the thought of not being able to shower everyday leaves me cringing. :-)

Baby wipe the important areas, field shower. Though the greasy hair is kinda cring

Those retiring for the evening will wake up as level 2 in the morning.

WOOT!

Once everyone has leveled we'll continue on with the next morning.

Complete.
6 hp
+1 spell slot
New Spell Comp. language.
Sorc. points 2/2

Looks like we’re 2 for 4 on the level ups.

Cunning action added and 5 hp.

3/4!!

Still with us @SphericalSphere1?

I’m going to move things along tomorrow afternoon, so if you get a chance please level up Orel before then.

Looks like we're down to three active players. Hopefully Sphere will be able to get back into the swing of things when the opportunity presents itself.

I'm thinking of adding another player to the group, but wanted to run it by everyone before doing so.

Thoughts?

I'm down. Now would be a good time, storywise.

Yeah no issues with me. Go for it.

Im indifferent, i too think that it would be wize to pick up the ally in town before we proceed to the manor/wilderness
but i guess you can plop people in where ever you want. :D

Hello all,

Cheers for having me jump aboard. I see we could do with a healer type and have been looking to play a cleric type if you guys don’t mind.

Going to nut out a character concept

Cheers again
Math

Welcome!
A healer is always welcomed :D Especially for the cowardice that is me XD

Welcome Math!
Great to have you :)

Thanks for the welcome Riot

Happy Easter fellow adventurers

Right back at ya!

Happy Easter all! Hope you had a good weekend

As my daughter said, "Happy Easter day!"

I’ll be moving the story along tomorrow afternoon. Was hoping to get a chance this evening but adulting got in the way.

I've been periodically updating the NPC and PLACES guide in the forum. If it looks like anything is missing please let me know.

Long day, won’t be making a post until tomorrow.

All good, get some rest.

Guys, I'm moving house tomorrow (finally had it confirmed) so wont be able to post until I'm all set up in the new place. I may be able to keep up on my phone but the internet should be on by Tuesday latest. Happy for you to continue to use Kerisha to smash stuff in my absence.

GL With the move, I'll be in that place soon too (moving that is)

HA! IT is funny cause you are so smol!

Hey y'all, I'm really sorry but I think I'm just going to have to drop out of this. I know I've been super inactive for a while for various reasons, and I thought I'd adjust to the increased workload of school and AP exams and finals and all that and I just haven't. I'm working a job tutoring kids over the summer too, and if I haven't gotten used to having more work by now I never will and I'll still only manage to post like once a week or so. You all deserve a player who's able to stay engaged and post as frequently as everybody else.

I probably should've seen the fact that my life was just gonna get busier when I signed up for this, and I didn't, and that's my bad. Hopefully my absence hasn't caused too many problems, and you all have been super accommodating which I appreciate. Orel should be in the character library, so if someone wants to take him over they can feel free to do so.

Thanks for letting us know, it’s certainly appreciated. Hope you can make some time in the future to get in some gaming here at GP!

GL I know how tuff life gets real fast too.

Got to look after RL first, all the best to you.

Take care of yourself mate. Hope to see you on here again soon

I will have an update tomorrow afternoon. First regular day back in the office in over a year and it was a long one.

Thread for the next chapter has been started!

For those curious, XP totals to date...

Oh that's a thing xD I kinda forgot about that since mostly it's milestones lol

OUCH!

Hey guys I am going to be away on Holidays from Tuesday (4th) until Saturday (22nd) January, I will pop in if I can but will be pretty much out during this time.

Feel free to direct Karma as you require.

Happy New Year by the way.

What's our current gold situation? I have Kerisha with 114gp but I'm not sure if that's right or when I last updated it. Is everyone else on similar totals?

Everyone should definitely have more than that.

I have 54 gp, 39 ep and 57 sp. I did buy something last time we were in town that used up all I had last time we were here.

We haven’t really gone treasure hunting at any point, we are more of a extraction team :)

That’s true. There were several places you could have grabbed some valuables but the main task was completed so you moved on.

For our purposes here let’s assume that Sildar and Gundren will finance equipment needed to clear the mines, including armor, weapons, and tools.

Oh well in that case, I need everything xD

Gundren will just take it from your monthly mine payments in installments with 60% interest.

Lol

Oh, that's all? In that case I'll need 4 of everything in triplicate 😂

Yeah I totally agree. We really haven't gone looking for anything, and to be fair, It's not really in our characters...character to be hunting for gold. Belanor excepted of course, he's all about the gold.

All about the sale for the gold. A business man through and through lol

Long work day ahead so I may not get a post in afternoon. If not I’ll definitely get one posted tomorrow.

Not sure if I've explicitly mentioned it, yet, but I am enjoying playing with you all very much. Thanks for running the game, DM, you're doing great and thank you all for playing.

Seconded! Really enjoying this! Thank you all so much!!

It's been fun to have such an awesome group to play with, it's not often that I've had the same group stick together so long in my games. I'm really looking forward to seeing how all of this plays out.

That being said.. my apologies for my slowness this week, work has been brutal! I'm hoping to get something in tonight or tomorrow afternoon.

No rush. All good! Work's been rough for me too lately. Lead in my iron is not good, lol. Hope things ease up on you soon!

I'm having a swell time.

I'm enjoying trying to play a semi-non combat character too, it's rather difficult at time but fun you yous guys

All good mate I am happy to wait :)

More brutal work weeks coming - I apologize for the slowness this last week, but unfortunately expect it to continue for the next month or so.

No worries @szemely. Just take care of yourself. We'll still be here :)

Absolutely LR first, death and mayhem second. :)

Absolutely LR first, death and mayhem second. :)

Hello fellow adventurers,

Just as a heads up I will be away for a week on holiday from 10th to 18th October, will not be posting during this period :)

I'm currently on vacation this week and might not think to post.

ping

Everything OK, boss?

Yep - just busy as hell. I'll get us caught up here shortly. :-)

No worries, just making sure you're not waiting on me or forgot or something.

Just wanted to point out that next week is the 2 year anniversary of the launch of this campaign. Good work everyone!

I wonder if we'll be the first group to ever complete LMoP on here. I know I've been involved with at least three or four LMoP games that never went very far.

Thanks to everyone for sticking with it for so long!

Will it really be 2 years? I was thinking 1 at the most 😱

It has only been 1 year for the Hippy Dwarf, and has been a very fun journey.

Wow 2 years... Its true what they say about time flying when you are having fun!

Happy holidays and a happy new year

Same to you.

Hoping that you all have a nice holiday!

I hope everyone is having a great time over the holidays!

Holiday merriment!