OOC Chat Thread

As I did with the Warehouse/Kidnapping Rescue, I do intend to use gridded battle maps periodically.

But most encounters will probably not have grids.

Aside from that, folks haven't really been leveraging the game mechanics to their advantage much in combat, even just special class abilities, so my impression is that Flanking would add more for me than you guys.

Not knowing the nuances of the ruleset very well, I haven't probably used Cirion's abilities much.
The encounter on the boat felt quite clear in terms of relative positions of characters, I never felt I needed a map, if that helps.

Flanking rules: I suspect they would become more relevant as tactical choices against more corporeal opponents?

Hey all, there is a holiday in the US this week, and I have taken vacation for most of the week surrounding it and so probably will be mostly inactive this week.

Have a great vacation

Happy 4th of July! I’ve been busy-ish lately with family visiting and travel, etc. I’ll be more regular starting next week too.

I’ll be on a work trip Sunday-Friday next week, so, I’ll probably be slow to respond. Will do my best!

Hey friends, sorry for the radio silence! I’m back - Will ease my way back in ASAP. Got some reading to catch up on! :D

Hey gang, just wanted to give you all a heads up. I am pretty swamped at work at the moment, in part because I go on another vacation here at the first of August (and so am trying to get a bunch of stuff done in advance).

And/but I am still here, I just don't have much time or mental capacity at the moment to get pbp posts in. (I usually do most of my pbp during windows of downtime at work.)

No worries! I’ll also be on vacation in august (3-10). Hopefully I’ll be posting then, but not as often.

Hey all, and I'm back from 2nd vacation...

Give me a day or two to catch up at work and I'll get this rolling again.

I heard that LOTR 5e book is coming to DND Beyond

I bought a hard copy awhile ago, and have actually allowed my players to use it for character options, in addition to the base AIME stuff, for my irl game. We're only about to have our 4th session tho, so jury's still out on how it's gonna go.

Still not using any of the new DM (Journey, Shadow etc) rules tho, as in just so used to AIME.

Yeah, I’m inclined to follow what I know, and now that’s AIME. But I’m excited for future games to create characters for Middle Earth games in DND Beyond.

Hey friends, I’ll be slow for a few days - helping out with a family emergency. Nothing too bad, I’m just supporting.

Hey @Dr_B, @Stefron, @rpgventurer, @Thunder_Lungz, & @emsquared, I am going to retire from this game.

Happy for you to continue running Seònaid as a "zombie" character to play out the narrative nicely/neatly.

Good luck in the game, and possibly see you all somewhere else in Gamers Plane

See you in another game, @Drakis2

Hey gang, In pbp, continuing to run her as a character would mean months of IRL time of someone pulling double posting duty, until it was convenient with the plot to bow her out. I have no time for that, and wouldn't all any of you to do so, so I/we will just proceed as if she was never here.

I ask that you/ your PCs please act accordingly.

Thank you!

Sounds good!

See you later Drakis!

Just a heads up gang, I am going to be mostly unavailable/in active this week due to the American holiday (Thanksgiving).

Just a heads up. We're upon the holiday season here in the US, and I will be out for probably the most of next week, beginning pretty much tomorrow.

Will check in now and again as able, but ofc understand if others are going to be more absent as well. Just let us know if you can.