OOC Conversation

I think we're going to need more players.

Umbraldragon! You were a fierce warrior as Aislynn and I bid you farewell. Thank you for being you!

See ya round the Plane Umbral!

Sorry to see you go, Aislynn. This is my first time running DCC and I'm just running the modules as written. If there's not enough treasure being handed out, I'm happy to increase it to keep you all where you need to be. Looking through the equipment chapter, though, there doesn' seem like there's a whole lot to spend money on once you've upgraded your starting gear since there doesn't seem to be a magic item economy like in some other games.

I'll open up recruitment later to see if we can get one or two other players. However, I'm going on a long vacation from June 17th through the 30th, so I won't start the next module until after I return.

Submitted my character, kind reminder about this bit tho:
Sorry to see you go @umbraldragon , was a joy to read Aislynn's posts, especially when she'd do the unexpected. If I may chip in, I get Dmbrainiac's POV about running premade adventures and DCC not having a magic item economy, but also get yours about zero loot which makes sense. Your decision is yours of course, but if a middle ground can be found by assuming some money is made between adventures in order to make up for this gap and allow a gear upgrade, it'd be nice to solve things this was. But that's none of my business ;)

Enjoy your long vacation @Dmbrainiac

Sorry, I missed the earlier questions. You can roll for your familiar before the next module starts, and for your patron bond as well. Choose your patron and roll for the bond and I'll tell you what you get from it. :)

I'm fine with everybody getting a stipend between modules to make up for lack of loot. Not sure how much it should be but open to suggestions. :D

I'd say the table for making characters of higher levels is a good guideline?

Since I did roll an elf for my 0 level base character, let's go with the King of Elfland for patron.

Edit:
Patron Bond - The caster makes contact with their patron and is considered a useful pawn. The caster receives a prominent mark of the patron on their hand or face. The caster learns the spell invoke patron as it relates to their patron and may cast it once per day. Each time they cast invoke patron, the caster is indebted to their patron, who will call in the debt at some point.

Familar - Guardian, Tarantula (melee attacks deal poison; DC 14 Fort or temporary loss of 1 Agility), Normally mellow but becomes inexplicably animated when discussing leather armor, 9hp

I'm cool with waiting until after your vacation, Dmbrainiac. :)

I admit that I haven't delved too deep into the DCC system beyond character creation and wizard spells. What does one do with the loot if there's no magic item economy (not that I'm complaining)? Do they want characters to build castles or buy armies to sack castles? Or is all that beside the point?

Personally, I prefer you not pad the modules with unwritten loot, I feel like poverty is something DCC does well and uses to it's intended effect, i.e. it keeps the challenges challenging by making something like plate mail a great achievement.

Are we waiting on something in particular for the Honey/Hyde suicide pact thing?

Here’s what I think is happening, but I also think that I may be confusing things with the suicide magics.

-Honey, by winning initiative, completed the blood ritual causing only nominal damage to the palms of each
-Honey rolled well enough to invoke patron and was planning on beseeching the Lady in Blue to restore Hyde to full hp
-in casting the spell by using the dark artifacts, Honey falls subject to its cursed effects
-Hyde then sees the crazed eyes take effect and saves Honey from further injury by disarming her.
-We await Brainiac for the invoke patron results/exchange.

I will be on vacation from 6/17-6/30! I won't be posting until I get back to work on Monday, 7/1, after which I'm sure I'll have a lot of catching up to do. 🙂

I'll see if I have time to figure out the patron stuff before I go, but it may not be till after I return.

Thanks for being in communication! I’m cool with that. This is extraneous gameplay.
Have a great trip!

Enjoy the time off, Dmbrainiac!

That's how I read it too Darkstar. Happy vacation Braniac!

I'm back now, give me another day or two to catch up and get back into posting.

Welcome back! Hope everyone is still up for it

I am, but it looks like we might need another recruit or two as there are only four of us.

I've just had another player express interest in joining so I've extended them an invitation. Later today I'll look through the level 3 modules I have access to and begin to decide which one to run next.