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Okay, it seems to me that you wanna speed things up, while not everybody has given their opinion. :)

You forget to answer questions and are opening questinnaires on the other hand. But that is just my personal impression, maybe the others see it differently.


EDIT: Find your cool runekyndig. :) Everything looks good. All players are on deck. I had fun so fare and that's the most important part (for me :).

Zankas as a combatant tends to favor being up near his enemies. He blends swordwork and evocation magics to cause pain and do battlefield control type actions, kind of a war-skald kind of feel. That said, he's survived this long by being wary and not being the sole person up in that fight.

That said, he is still a bard and likes to avoid combat if he can. Never tried sweet-talking a dragon before, but he isn't against it necessarily.

For their mission, he is aware they've been asked to recover gold and figure out what's up with the party the Waterdeep officials lost contact with (that we know now got dead down here). Beyond that, he doesn't have a strong opinion of the rightness of it.

Question to @runekyndig Would Zankas know the supposed "legality" of ownership of the gold? By that, the dragon says we aren't allowed to claim it. But we're here on the authority of city leadership. Would Zankas know either way if the gold is rightfully the city's gold or are they trying to illegally gain it? It would change a bit of how he'd approach the dragon.

Please roll hit dies, as it was a short rest

The dragon suspects that TDK is not alone, but is not omnipressent ;) He has only seen TDK

So the gold belongs to Dagult Neverember or the City of Waterdeep, depending on perspective.

Any unanswered questions?

I have question.
Guessing by the battle map and "thirty-foot-high" VS dragon size it should obvious it will not be able to use flying speed. Is that fair assessment? TDK seen the dragon and the room should understand that, or should he rill some dice to figure it out?

Its a good question and if it wasn't in its lair I would agree with you. Some of the smaller pillars are broken, and it knows this area very well. It has its flight speed

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Another thing I must say upfront, before blades are drawn: It has legendary actions, but due to the asynchronous game of play by post, I will take those 3 actions during your turn, as it fit. I should take an action after your characters, but if you all have taken your turn by the time I log in, I will just take the actions one after another.

Well team - good luck. The Dragon will be able to hang there in the air 10 feet above the floor and my PC can't reach it. It is up for you to fight the dragon. I will try to heal you and be around you, but that is basically all I could do.

No, dragons can't hover.

I mean it could fly all around keeping close to ceiling. Well, doesn't matter, will see in action.
In any case TDK is not the one to attack creature for the gold it protects (or probably it doesn't even protect it - we don't know that yet). TDK wanted to look for alternatives to brute force solution, but as he see party bloodthirsty (did I read it right?) he prepares for fight.
Now who will initiate the battle and how?

okey - it will not hover under the ceiling, but It will use its fly speed to get around if needed.

But due to TDK actions in retrieving the bodies, a non-violent solution is a possibility.

If battle begins it is because you guys initiate it. And you can do that in several ways, top of the list is "attack" and "getting caught in stealing gold"

No more questions on my side, thanks for asking.


In the beginning of this thread, grey word told us that he wants to fight. Same for me, I want to try my character concept.

Maybe we close in to the bodies of the fallen and spring our attack than? :)

Yes I still want to fight as a player. As for strategy - let's do in in character. Your PC could just state aloud - so that dragon hears it "I will help you with bodies" or something, but I would like to do that in character.

I like that. :)

Hope what I' ve posted ingame is what you wanted. *s*

Is it only me feeling that lvl 15 against legendary is just too much mess for PBP... ton of reactions, ongoing effects, auras, passive abilities, etc.

Yes, its a mess :D

I like it messy. ;)


There is a lot of editing and remembering each other of powers, spell effects and other things, but hey that's high level DND for you. *g*


Until now I was not so sure, that I like it that runekyndig rolls all our saves and defences himself in his DM posts. It sure helps to keep the pace and move the turns along, with a minimum of waiting for the other players. On the downside, we (as the players) have to be very vigilant, that no bonus/advantage/reaction is forgotten.

By now, I am thinking this is the best way to handle the mechanics of the game and I am good. :)

By the way, Melang has around 4 reaction spells, so be prepared for some editing. *g*

LOL
If you have a feature or ability that changes the "standart" then we'll make some edits. I try to keep this engaging, and fluent, but if you have a suggestion to make it better I'm all ears.