Out of character thread

In 5E Read Magic doesn't exist anymore. Apart from the Identify spell, one can learn a magic item's properties by spending a short rest in contact with it or through experimentation. Generic magical scrolls can be read by anyone who can read, while class-specific scrolls (like a wizard spell scroll) can be read by that class.

I assume A5E is similar? For one, I cannot find a read magic spell there either.

Yeah, a5e is very similar.

Friends, I am very sorry, but I must withdraw. RL has gotten busy for me, and pulling me away from PbP. I hope everyone is well, and I’m sorry for any inconvenience this causes. Take care.

Goodbye. hope things get better soon. You'll always be welcomed back here.

Sorry to hear that.

Not right now, but you can always ready an action for an attack for when the guards catch up to you again.

Come drive the vehicle, just no more crashing. we dont want it to break up. Ugost has some ranged attacks

You mean the ooze monk from the underdark? Whats a horse? I only got the horses because I am up front. No one wants to trade with me :(

The problem is that when you ready an action, you can only ready a single action. What you're attempting is essentially 2 actions: a move to hop on the horse, and then a shove maneuver to push the rider off the horse (and possibly 3 actions with a grab on maneuver as well to remain on the horse if you fail to push off the rider). So yeah, you're trying to do too much here.

I'm all for letting the players have their moment of awesome, but I'm still trying to fit in within the framing of the rules. The problem here is the initiative order: the guards act after you, but your wagon will then move away before you act (I had roughly the same problem with Zariana's idea of using mage hand). 5th edition would have really needed a delay action, but instead they wanted to simplify everything and just went with the ready action.

My best suggestion would be to shove the rider this round using your readied action, and if at a later round, the riderless horse still catches up to your wagon, you could then jump on it (most likely using another readied action).

There is always the option to allow changes to Initiative. Other systems allow you to change you Initiative by delaying everything you do. This doesn't break action economy but does create more stuff to track

It feels weird that the distances between us and the other riders yoyo back and forth depending upon initiative. I'd think that the movement of the mounts in mounted combat would be simultaneous and the actions of the riders would vary.

That is combat mechanics. Chase make it not do bouncy and you only have a distance change base on relative speeds. As this is all on mounts and vehicles then the speeds shouldn't change with an attack action.
So if horses run 120 and wagon moves 80 they should be 40"faster than us

I wasn't sure if it was a skill check or to hit or what. So, I threw an unmarked roll. Yep, she is trying to jump from the wagon to the guy on a horse. When you asked for what she was going to do so I rolled.