Session 0

I have a Bag of Holding if needed.
Also I have 400gp still to spend.
Trying to figure out what to use it on.

I have a load of gold too. Sorcerers don't need a lot of expensive stuff.

Jealous! If I buy a tent will you stuff it in there?

5e damage types do come to play but thunder is literally the 2nd least resisted damage type.

Vulnerabilities are rare.

We are good. We could if you want work on smjoining some backstory elements like I am the viking barbarian warrior to your viking skald/godi from the same tribe\group.

Tempest cleric with giant barbarian escort feels appropriate

Ball bearings....lots of ball bearings

You two can be Móði and Magni.

I've submitted Ixion Vanth IX: human hexblade!

Are magic items available for gold? I did not get that impression from the character creation post.

*grumble*
Have I misapprehended? :(

I was going to ask but I took max recommended price for an uncommon magic item to be safe (1d6x100).

600gp of the 750 seems fair

I can recommend using https://www.dndbeyond.com/equipment for purchasable equipment list.
I don't anticipate any magic item purchase as part of session 0 activity

Thanks everyone for quick building PCs, approved all and opening game thread. I will be reviewing PCs through next week and may ask you some updates later (for example would like to have list of languages somewhere I can easily find them to not ask every time)

@Smiley can you please share with me an avatar or token that feature your PC face only (optionally torso) to not stand out of other PC tokens, thanks. @Annex I may probably have similar request for you, but will see what can I do with the one you have there

With that I made a change...honestly it is probably more optimal this way so not complaining.


What type of encounter per rest situation are we looking at? Like 3-4 combats per long rest? Since we are starting mid module, I am assuming some of the kid gloves on learning DM style for this would naturally be taken off so just sort of getting my head around resource expenditure. I have a lot of "per long rest" abilities haha

I saw mention of a Bag of Holding, and I thought I'd missed something. :P
Edits and revisions to come, and here's a smaller head shot.

I took levels in Artificer.
For one of my infusion I took Bag of Holding.

Now I get it, thanks. ;)

Good question! Actually two of them
1. As a DM I try not to decide/impact when party takes LR and SR. If party want to do LR after each fight - they have all the rights in the world to do that. Besides - most scenario will have built triggers/events/ticking time/what not to prevent that. I believe: it's the scenario not DM that must dictate rests.

2. ToA has 4 chapters. Each chapter has it's own peace. There were a chapter where we rarely had two and never three encounters per day. There was a chapter that forced players to finish whole chapter with not a single LR.
You are now at the start of new chapter and have no idea what is going to happen in the Tomb you are searching. Will it prevent you from sleeping whatsoever? Will it have beasts, demons and undead randomly jumping on you ever time you try to take short rest? Will you be able to find safe place to rests? You have no idea I'm afraid.

P.S.
For a lvl 9 party I will not be counting rations and water. There are plenty of magic ways to overcome that.

P.P.S. You can always have your PC die and create new PC who is better suited for the chapter , LOL

That is a good answer for me. I don't think I will run into issue but if I do, that is the game.

In general I like those ideas, especially as I wanted to keep Zean "pirate" background as I found it interesting as "not the first thing that comes to mind when I see word: cleric" :) So connecting it with piracy is interesting.

So let's go with it, but I would prefer that we have met on the sea - not coming from the same tribe/villige. As I like to think that Zean wasn't 100% sure about "this piracy thing" - but hay! Someone have to tend to warriors wounds too! ;) And supporting them with some thunder powers are also very in place. So still thinking why Zean become the pirate, but lets go with that we meat on one of the ships, ok? Maybe there was some duel between our PCs for some reason - and even though your PC is the strong one, my proved to be an equal opponent when he drew on the divine powers with which he was endowed? So opponents first, and form that day friends ?

Ok here is my thought. I am a Giant Foundling, human who was taken in by Giants and raised as their own. Maybe you and your pirate group would be the first Humans that Throgin ever meets. Maybe (almost Pocahantas-y) Throgin and Zean met, battled then became friends before the Giants and the pirates meet.

Zean wielding the power of the storms and Throgin, who harnesses some primal energy of giants that allows him to do something similar. Maybe Zean finds the source of Throgin's power to be interesting and a blessing from his god. While Throgin is more on a journey to learn about his prior origins and see the world after being sheltered by more solitary giants.

At this point they have been traveling with each other for a long time and see each other as "sworn brothers". Each relying on each other for various things, Zean being a more calm collected Cleric is the Eye of the Storm and Throgin the more head strong Barbarian is the Storm itself. (More of a Hurricane analogy than a Thunderstorm but totally works). Zean keeps Throgin focused, while Throgin keeps Zean more grounded.