General conversation/OOC commentary

Here's a thread for the talk that isn't in character but might be a longer conversation than something would work in an "ooc" tag: snarky asides, long tangents, etc.

OMG. I love it. A bush Pixie!

A little note: Typically, I run owlbears as the original monsters from AD&D, with the characteristic flat heads, long bushy tails, and narrow snouts lined with large teeth. They were called owlbears not because they were some mad wizard's experiment that combined mundane beasts, but because they vaguely reminded people of owls and bears while being neither.

But as I'm running this adventure, and it has plenty of unique stuff already, I'm going to run it as written. This means that sometimes there will be off-the-wall custom creatures, but sometimes you'll have something like the encounter the caravan is having, which draws on the more modern WotC take on the owlbear being a literal combination of an owl and a bear.

I took it that Princess doesn't know what that creature is.

How do you do attack and damage on a single roll like this?

notice the comma between the die roll and the damage roll?

This is my attack roller (custom charactersheet)

[table="rolls d20 dnd5e"]
Weapon | Attack , Damage | note
Rapier| 1d20+[_$=(dex+prof)], 1d8+[_$=dex] | 
Booming blade if moved | 1d8
Longbow| 1d20+[_$=(dex+prof)], 1d8+[_$=dex] | range: 150/600
Toll the dead DC[_spell_dc$=8+prof+wis]|1d20+0, 1d8 |
Toll the dead DC[_spell_dc$=8+prof+wis]|1d20+0, 1d12 | if damaged
[/table]
Arrows [_=5/5].[_=5/5].[_=5/5].[_=5/5]
(recover ½)

This is very helpful, thank you so much!

I'm going to be absent for a few days. Catch up during the weekend

OK, thanks!

I think what I'll do in runekyndig's absence is roll initiative for Elowin, and then I can narrate the outcomes of our first round (and continue with Elowin loosing arrows each round as necessary).

What happened to the wagon? Why is it on fire all of the sudden?

Whose turn is it?

Dugal apparently had a torch and dropped it inside his wagon.
Morik’s up, but I’m thinking we just post as we can.

Yes, I think it works best if you post when you can and then I will resolve the actions in initiative order, rather than waiting to see what the character before you does.

As to the fire, it was described in this post that Dugal was burning the webs and then recoiled when the spiders appeared, and that movement flung some burning pitch back into his wagon. Then round one began.

Bigger post tomorrow, with the outcomes of any conversations/answers to questions PCs may have, and the start of the next encounter.

I'm going to start a new thread to cover the journey's end. We can continue posting to this thread for a couple of days, in case there's any actions that you still want to resolve before Day 17. Then I'll close this thread.

I suspect that a bunch of people may be celebrating the New Year and, for those in the USA, some may be deep in Super Bowl celebrations. So I'll post the round one results tomorrow. But I will point out that I still need:
- initiative rolls for Adran, Gunter, Princess, and Morik
- declared round one actions (possibly prepared actions?) for Elowin, Gunter, and Morik

Roll initiativ for them

@spaceseeker19 how was your trip?

Sorry for the long delay, everyone.

The convention was good overall; My daughter and I registered for a game of Descent (the RPG-adjacent boardgame), but the GM never showed up and so we got priority registration slips as a consolation. I played in a good pickup game of Edge of the Empire with 5 players and a great registered game inspired by Ars Magica (but using the Kapow! rules) with 9 players. We visited with friends who came from other states and countries, including one we'd never met in person. We played a bunch of Warhammer-adjacent games (because one of our friends is crazy into Warhammer 40,000) and a few games of Zombicide: Black Plague (which I still think is the best iteration of Zombicide). We got a bunch of free stuff, including the Traveller card game, a starter module for Mecha vs. Kaiju, a prize for winning a D&D trivia contest, and a bunch of minis (the convention has a "minis painting room" which is a huge draw: they provide free minis and paint, and you get to pick minis, paint them, and take them home with you).

That is so cool! Cons are a ton of fun, but they also make for very long days. I also feel like most (many?) cons have gotten so big a single day won't let you do everything. When I was young, cons were big but... cons today are a whole different level.

I'd go to my local one more often, but their time of year is terrible for me financially speaking. I have property taxes and birthdays that are more important.