Session 0

Oct 6, 2024 4:36 pm

What is the current party composition? I have a Thri-kreen (still count as humanoid?) druid rogue I can level up or go ranger or bard-lock

Oct 6, 2024 4:47 pm

I'm going to ban Thri-kreen , sorry

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Thri-kreen Traits
Creature Type. You are a Monstrosity.

Oct 6, 2024 5:16 pm

no worries, just noticed party composition listed in recruit thred, sorry for asking again

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Party has and a Cleric, Sorcerer, and Warlock (pact of blades, so isn't shy of melee, but don't strive to be there).
Forgot to mention a PC with with ritual or at will ability to cast detect magic is a priority because we have lost PC capable to and players have found detect magic to be very useful.

Sounds like we need melee combat and a touch of magic. Either a wild Magic Barbarian or an artificer sounds like a good fit then. I've never done an alchemist artificer or wild magic barbarian so I will go with one of those... looking into an interesting race and will post basics when done.

I am working on a shifter (if that is ok?) wild-magic barbarian 5 / Druid 4
If not shifter than Tiefling

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Oct 6, 2024 7:29 pm

We actually lost exactly barb and artificer.
We may seldom regret Int based skill check failures but there are never lot of important ones in 5e.

Shifter teleported from Eberron will work perfectly well.

Oct 7, 2024 12:20 am

Can I take a Strixhaven background? (re-flavored as shaman)
Are common magic items available at creation? (assuming no, just asking)
Are other potions besides healing available at creation? (not sure, asking about common potion)

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Oct 7, 2024 6:53 am

Right, I should have mentioned from beginning. Wil update game description with following info:
You can only buy equipment listed in PHB (2014) as well as any spell ingredients. No magic items, no potions other than health potion costing 50 gp per PHB. Please note that revivify don't work in this scenario - don't spend your money on Diamonds

badbaron

Oct 7, 2024 9:43 pm

Assuming we are coming in together Psybermagi, I posted the basics of my character in the thread. Human former court mistress and famous beauty now aged into a Twilight cleric. Adequate at melee but not likely to use it often, will look to get Detect Magic as a ritual so the group will have that. Are we newly met, old allies . . . if you are a shifter, you probably weren't around 30 years ago when I was in my prime.

Oct 7, 2024 9:52 pm

Grey said Nyx was pulled over from Eberon so he may have been caught up in some sort of trouble with the locals who might have taken hi as a Lycanthrope. Your character could either have helped secure my freedome or I could have simply been a slave for a time and used as a guard then when you left the court and/or became a priestess I somehow became attached to you. Though Nyx came from a barbarian tribe he was educated to be a spiritual leader for his people so we could have bonded over the spiritual nature of life and thic may have been what drew us to become involved in the ToA

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Oct 8, 2024 4:25 am

Ok, Nix is about good to go. Just filling in wild shape and spells.
Will start reading lore dump
Is there anything else I should know before joining the story? Do I need to read all previous posts? what is the planned entrance of new characters into the story?

DM

Oct 8, 2024 7:58 am

@Psybermagi @badbaron I've approved the characters. I don't think you must read anything as your PCs will have no knowledge of party progress. Nevertheless I created new thread hope a player could do a recap for you. If none volunteer soon I will do it myself, but I will be extremely laconic to avoid spoilers.

There is one more task we need to do with new players though: agree on your backstory and how will your PCs be dropped into the story.

Since @Psybermagi PC both race and background are from source books of planes other than Faerûn I suggest his PC has been lured into one of the many dungeons created by Acererak acros the multiverse (looking at your PC I believe he should have believe to be able to survive such a dungeon) but fallen (he is not dead trapped into statis withing the current tomb as one of Acererak's trophies.

@badbaron I can suggest following story for your PC, let me know if you like it or I can work on an alternative: decades before the events of the story your PC arrived to chult as part of treasure hunter party who decided to break into Acererak's dungeon (Tomb of nine gods, where the story takes place). The party were killed, but a clone of your PC later created by someone to gain information of from you but... your PC suffers from amnesia and has scant memory of the captors.

Oct 8, 2024 11:51 am

Works for me

Oct 8, 2024 9:36 pm

Not sure I understand the clone part. Am I the clone, or is there a clone running around, or don't I know? How do I know about the whole cloning thing?

Also, any issue if we tweak the origin to be a little more heroic? ie. Lude went in with a party to rescue the scion of an old court friend whose treasure hunting party had been lost, the rest of the party was killed, etc. etc. rather than being the treasure hunter herself. You can have her know the one she went after is dead, have them show up at some later point, etc.

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Oct 8, 2024 11:14 pm

I assume he means your spirit now inhabits a clonef body after the original body died. To my knowledge you can't clone a soul. The amnesia would be a result of the attempts to recover any knowledge you had. You can play with this and say clear memories include distant path, your purpose for coming and your death. But most of the aspects of your actual adventure to get where you are now god muddled or stripped.

If you still wat to I see no reason why we could not have met each other before joining the other PC. Both somewhat lost we have been scavengind from enemies and other slain adventurers as we try to escape the mess we are in by collecting as much information as possible.

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badbaron

Oct 9, 2024 12:17 am

Up to the master of 9 gods but works for me.

DM

Oct 9, 2024 6:24 am

Clone is just a flavor. No mechanical implications, just the fact that you wouldn't remember anything about lower levels of the dungeon although your PC would walk up from there.

Rescue as goal is not an option in this scenario. The location is secret and months away from civilization. As I mentioned in recruitment you may need to adjust your backstory. Alternatively I can suggest you make Lude a backup character who would be part of another adventurer party with goal to destroy Soulmonger, but that party can only arrive a few days later (time needed to open the entrance to the dungeon). You would need to create another PC who is more into treasure hunting.
If you totally don't want to play PC who is interested in finding magical items of power I can have your party to destroy Soulmonger to arrive weeks before current party. But the choice of where party will find you will be more limited - you may need longer until I can introduce your PC into the story

badbaron

Oct 9, 2024 11:48 am

No worries. I don't want to make the unification process any harder than it already is. Treasure hunting we go.

Oct 10, 2024 2:24 pm

@GreyWord What is the plan/time-frame for getting us newcomers into the story?

DM

Oct 10, 2024 2:39 pm

That's good question @Psybermagi. I want to do it as soon as party will explore a new location but they don't seem to hurry (just joking, you certainly don't want to do anything in a hurry in the dungeon as deadly as this)

My proposal: if the party is still in the same room by end of next week I will railroad them out of that room and force to meet two of you.

Pedrop

Oct 10, 2024 2:51 pm