OOC thread

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I made it! I'm headed to bed now but look forward to the game. :)

Would you approve my character?

Whoops! Sorry.

@Khulod - how big is Atgor? Sunosha is by no means tiny (~2.3 or 2.4 meters tall and a good 140 kg).

öh?

*Quick ninja edit of quickness*

Currently they are roughly the same height. But I totally accounted for that in my post. *cough*

Ahaha, sorry I left out the "wizard is a towering goliath" part of her description

I realised that my Annastellar Margaster sorcerer was mechanical speaking very close to another character I just started (Its a bladesinger wizard, but close enough to a hexblade warlock/sorcerer, both going on with sword and spell)
I asked our generous GM to allow me to make another, and I have.

Gale O'Dinn is also a son of a famous adventure, and as such his and Annastellar's initial posts are very identical, once the character is approved, I will update my previous posts.
Annastellar was never there, it was always Gale

So I just realized I made a grave mistake. I thought the armor I've chosen was heavy because my character is only proficient at those. But mistakenly I've chosen a medium armor, which gave me disadvantage on the Stealth roll (I was busy when I posted it so I didn't realize it then). The problem is, my character is a cleric, so I need to be able to cast spells, which is NOT PERMITTED since my stupid head has chosen the wrong armor. Would the GM be so kind as to retcon the story so that Zagreus always wore an heavy armor (I need to find a new armor and write down its cost, actually as a penalty I'll have to add the cost of the new armor, not replace it with the old one) or will I have to spend an entire campaign not being able to cast spells? :/

First of all you can change your armor if you wish. Are you sure you're not proficient in medium armor? It's listed in your proficiencies on D&D Beyond.

Yeah, I see it now. Weird, it wasn’t there when I first checked... Okay, no worries, I can cast spells :D Thanks for your reply.

You’re welcome.

About attacking in a blocky way, if there is a certain order then I agree with Joshua, a creature I attack may already be killed by someone else or there might be other circumstances created by others. However, if we want to speed things up, we can get rid of initiative order whole together and everyone can attack whenever they’re online. Of course, we should rely on our reason, for example I have free time nowadays so I can probably attack first every combat if I want to but I won’t and so will the other players. GM can decide when the enemies attack. What are your opinions on that?

There are pro's and con's to all the different approaches to combat in pbp

There the full theatre of mind where everyone makes their actions, and GM puts it together at the end of a round. (I think its called chaos initiative)
There is full tactical with OnTheFlyBattlemaps counting movement and strict initiative order etc.

I personally prefer it somewhere in between, but I can only advise :) If @JoshuaMabry what some help with the battlemaps I have some experience using those

It also depends on our activity. If we're all sharp going by initiative isn't too bad. If there's 24 hour gaps then initiative blocks might be better suited (with maybe a separate block for the super-initiative guys). Let's see how it goes and adjust if needed.

Chaotic initiative seems interesting but only when players are willing to leave the storytelling part mostly to the GM. It also places too much responsibility to the GM I think. The other extreme is also hard to play on PbP. I agree with Khulod, we’ll see how it goes but in my personal opinion the game is going slower than I expected until now, so blocky initiative is more acceptable to me.

Hey all. It seems like the majority wants initiative handled differently. Here's what I propose. We do block initiative, separating out Scar and Sunosha into their own block. So I'll roll for the two of them as one block with advantage, roll for the rest of the party, and roll for your opponents. That's three blocks. I may sometimes separate out an individual opponent when it makes sense, for example if you're fighting a group of kobolds and a dragon. How does everyone feel about this?

Will the first block be always comprised of Scar and Sunosha or it was because they were the first two in the current fight? I'm okay with three blocks, even two (one for us one for enemies) would be enough but it is good as it is.

The first block is Scar and Sunosha because they both get advantage on initiative rolls, and so I will roll for them separately from the rest of the party. I'll still be rolling initiative, so they may not always go first.

Today the DM learned to space our enemies apart juuuust a little bit. ^^

Always fun to use Area effect spells! Woot.

Just to let everyone know, I have a convention this weekend that I help run (I'm over the gaming hall), so from today until Monday, my responses might be slow, or even non-existent. I will try to check in daily, but I make no promises.

Thanks for the heads up. This combat won’t take long to wrap up. Mind if Kato just shadows the rest of the party? ;-)

Asa (as is the Asian tradition, Kato, her family name, is given first) will happily shadow them.

In which order will we attack now? Again one by one or are we switching to blocky initiatives?

I think unless anyone objects we'll switch to block initiative. The orc in plate just went, so now it's Scar and Sunosha's turn, as they are their own block, then everyone else.

Big man sad.

Hey all. Sorry I didn’t post yesterday. I am not feeling well. I’ll post later today (CST) after I get home from work.

No worries :)

So I wonder your opinions on something. I’m not particularly a fan of in-group conflicts unless they are discussions about what will we do next. I made Zagreus a bit cocky and overly self-confident so that’s why I make him pick on Khulod’s PC (just like Khulod sticks on the character and make him say self-praising comments). I don’t intend to turn this into an outright fight between the characters, it could also be a good story hook (two people not liking each other eventually become good friends etc). However, "my character is like that" is never a good excuse as we the players create those characters and we can change them as much as we like. If you’re uncomfortable with such in-group dynamics please let me know, I will continue it no further.

I agree with you.
Right now, in my eyes, egoes are butting heads as these competent people are figuring eachother out. Playing a stubbon mule is not fun for anyone in the group, but if one is willing to change ones mind, it can be good roleplay.

Gale has a bag of holding platemail

You all need to decide how you're going to divide loot.

With a bag of we-don't-talk-about-encumbrance-no-no-no how about, we have a separate loot tread, where we toss in whatever we find. Then we divide it up as we need to.

Hi everyone. Some things have changed IRL for me and I'm sorry, but I won't be able to keep going with this game. I apologize for letting you all down. If I get the chance to come back to it soon I'll let everyone know.

Such is life. Thank you for the game

Hope everything is okay Joshua. Take care. We can continue any time you're available, or play a new game altogether. Thank you for the game.

It happens. Thank you for not ghosting on us.

Take care of IRL first, for sure Joshua! Hope things settle out for you soon enough :)