General conversation/OOC commentary

Every level you can choose to take the "default" (half HD+1+CON mod+other bonuses), or roll. It's up to you!

An aside: when I'm a player, I usually alternate methods each level: I'll take the default for odd levels, and roll for even ones.

From a narrative standpoint Vengeance Paladin would fit Adran currently, but neither STR or CHA is high enough, so it isn't happening.

The beauty of that is that Elysia is canonically her alias, anyway, so she could change it to whatever she likes and still be consistent with the character: she can either tell everyone that "this is my real name" or she can tell them an alias and say "this is the secret name I share with my friends." Since no one else in the party really knows her "real" name, she could say that it's whatever she wants and no one would be the wiser.

Does Morik get full HP from the long rest? Aside from that, I think I've finished leveling up Morik. Please let me know if the sheet looks good to you.

Yes. It probably got lost in all the other activity, but everyone got the full benefits of a long rest. That means that everyone should have full HP, restored expended resources/spell slots/abilities, and have regained half of their total Hit Dice. Then you each should just add the new HP, spell slots, etc from gaining a level on top of that.
I'd appreciate it if everyone would post in the Character Advancement thread two things:
- whether your character is taking the "default" HP or rolling
- which ability score improvements your character is taking

Sorry for the long wait, everyone. My family has been sick the last few days, so I haven't posted this as quickly as I should have. Here's an update on where we are and what I'm doing:
- I will be posting Ishi's vignette to the [rul=https://gamersplane.com/forums/thread/35461/]vignettes thread[/url], which will set up his departure from the party and divvy up treasure from the Abbey to each PC. Anyone and everyone else can post a vignette involving your character, too.
- I will post to the Games Tavern to see if we have a reliable volunteer who'd like to join us as a sixth party member.
- I've been waiting to see a character submission from our newest player, but I will start chapter four shortly, with me running Elysia as a silent companion until such time as idylliceffie takes over control with the new, 4th-level version of the character. How does Wednesday sound?

Sounds fantastic!

I'm currently debating what to do for my vignette. That said, even if my vignette doesn't involve the Morlocks I feel like we should get them to settle in the old cathedral -- it seems like a better home than where they're at currently.

There were several people who'd expressed interest in playing in this campaign previously; all but two of them have vanished from the site in the interim. So I'm starting by asking them if they'd like to join. If I don't get a response in the next 24 hours, I will do an open call for an interested player.

So sorry for my radio silence. These in-office days are brutal. Fortunately, after this week I only have to go in on Tue/Wed. But I’ve basically had 14 hour days from waking up until getting home and by the time I get back, I’m too tired to do anything but get ready for bed and pass out.

Zin took +1 INT and +1 CHA in lieu of the feat that I hadn’t realized was out of the selected options. I will be updating her character sheet just as soon as I am able. The new job transition has been hectic.

I know sorry only goes so far after so many, but I truly am.

These resumes under the campaign tracking is really helpful, and I would just like to say that I appreciate the effort that our GM is putting into them.
It must make it really for the new players to get a sense of the story so fare
How are they doing by the way?
@idylliceffie
@Eyes

Eyes' character Woody is about to be introduced with the start of Chapter Four.
I expect that a revised Elysia will appear soon, but I am planning to start Chapter Four today.
@idylliceffie - feel free to jump in for the role-playing at any time. You don't need to wait until you've submitted a new character sheet (though of course that's our target). Elysia's character sheet is public, so you can use that until such time as you've finished your revision and submitted it to the game. If anything needs to be edited, I can do that for you in the meantime.

For everyone: Woody is a wood elf urchin who was run out of the high elf city of Shshil on a trumped-up robbery charge due to his association with known thieves. He made his way to Mara where he survived by foraging in the wilds outside the city for a time. Eventually he discovered that there was money to be made in illicit fighting. He became a street fighter for a time, and that calling has led him to Grayhaven. It's in that world of semi-legal entertainment in Inns and taverns throughout the city that he finds himself as the Queen's Fair has begun. @Eyes can say more about which PCs he's thinking Woody has established relationships. He also can be thinking about what circumstances will drive him to join the group now.

@Eyes - we can play this one of two ways. I can choose an introduction to bring Woody into an encounter with the party, or you can follow along in the Chapter Four thread and decide when Woody would make his appearance. It's up to you how you'd like your character to appear.

Personally, I love it. And honestly, she probably would too, lol

I really need to update Morik's sheet and get rid of that Moonie moniker. It was an idea that never took hold lol. In any case, Morik is very helpful, and he would've definitely helped you. A goodberry costs practically nothing, and it'd give you nourishment for a whole day. He loves stories, and he would've appreciated hearing tales, be it from personal experience or made up tales or anything in between!

Haha! That's a fun bit of roleplaying, that anyone would be so young that they'd think of Morik as old! It's the beard, isn't it? A good beard adds at least a century to one's appearance...

Everyone knows Druids age funny though. They look 20 but are actually like 200 years old. Either that or they look 70 but are 18. Plus who can tell with a Dwarf.

Alright! Two nights. Lol

On another note, I saw an interesting house rule of sorts. While I am not asking for it to be adopted and implemented, I thought is might be interesting to hear other peoples' thoughts -- and since our game is not using feats, it actually seems like the best place to bring it up for discussion.

The houserule was this:
Run a game without using feats. Then, at character level 10, let each character choose 1 feat.

But the person went on to say you don't tell players they'll get that feat... as far as they know, it's just no feats. The reasoning was that most games don't make it very far into the teens. The concept was that using a feat as a sort of "mini-epic boon" would be more useful and more meaningful than capstones and epic boons that will realistically never happen. And by only allowing one, towards what is likely the end of the game, it still keeps the power scale under control.

Thoughts?