OOC Chat Thread

The important question here is whether that bird is also a lion.

Post up. Should be more responsive from tomorrow on hopefully.

No trouble, LoM. But thanks for making the push to get a post up.

I think this is probably just the normal circumstance of the beginning of play. Everybody is jazzed for the new thing to start, and so the posts may come hot n heavy for a bit.

But soon enough we'll fall into a more normal "cadence".

Yeah that's fair. I can sometime eek out small posts at work from phone , but not something like an intro post.

Sorry, Gene and Scrol, trying to get to your entry as quickly as possible.

Not long now, hopefully...

happens when it happens..

No worries. ;)

Thanks for your understanding.

I hope the observing is at least a little enjoyable for now :P

Sure thing. I'm excited to find out what's behind this wedding gone wrong

Oh don't you worry, I think there will be :)

https://5thsrd.org/rules/advantage_and_disadvantage/

Cool. Save time on counting stacking up.. LOL.

Yea, it keeps Advantage/Disadvantage simple, which was what the mechanic was created for in the first place. Simplicity of situational modifiers.

And, fun fact, I replied to that post at almost 1AM local time for me last night, because I killed a PC for the first time in 5E last night during my IRL game and I lost sleep over it :P

First time I had killed a PC in any system really, in years...

First PC death in years? I’m starting to think I’m the DM equivalent of a murder hobo. I sometimes wonder what the attack roll/death save ratio is for my players.

As I said, don’t be afraid to wail* whale on Marabi. It’s not like there’s a shortage of fresh character sheets.

* TIL

Heh, yea, the streak began I think in maybe 2012 when I had a player basically rage-quit a Pathfinder game after they got coup de graced while paralyzed/Held (at Lvl 5 or so...?).

Part of it is probably also that I haven't ran many games IRL over these past few years. Started having kids, and so was mainly just play(er)ing until a couple years ago...

But in general, I do also prefer that character death come about as a result of ("bad" or knowing/willfully risky) player choices and pivotal story points (BBEGs), rather than bad luck/rolls in the middle of an adventure. And this was a bad luck roll in a tower-defense scenario in the middle of an adventure (granted against a nasty baddy).

Oooo no. I like blaming the dice when one of my PCs dies. I certainly don’t want the blame.

Dice are EVIL critters.

Yea, I certainly had that deniability last night...

We are still playing online, and I roll everything "in the open". And rolled REALLY well on a Lightning Bolt... immediate overflow death.

Did the math, because I was trying to figure out if I was crazy/really misjudged putting a bone naga up against them.

97% percent chance that the PC would have either succeeded at the save, and/or not received enough damage for insta-death.

Straight up bad luck.