Out of Character

You can keep what you did last turn, but this ruling will be from this point forward.

ok. sounds good. will keep in mind

I want to share an experience:
When I started DMing I had a desire to question PC ability to throw fireball at 150 feet distance and precisely choose it's location to reach an enemy but hurt not ally who is only 5 feet away from enemy. Not to mention PC only had 6 seconds to choose among a dozen spells.
A friend of mine told me: Gray, I understand your desire to question PC ability implement players' tactical decision. But look at it from player's perspective: you just discouraged players to use their tactical thinking during a combat? This is not a 1st person video game, Gray - this is a role-playing-game where we are telling a story, preferably an epic one

Years later I don't try to "improve" 5e to added reality. Not any more. But I totally understand desire to

I'm allowing the idea. I just forget how tactical D&D can be as my friends don't think that much about what they do but people I don't know online tend to remind me about how "that you can see" is not in the language.

I have an instinct to try to protect fights from being "anticlimactic". One of the ways I worry about that is if something circumvents a monster's core thing to the point that the fight probably went from hard to medium at best, but it is also how the game is designed so I have to tell myself it is fine. I tend to be more protective of bosses, as expectations are higher and bosses tend to suffer from action economy issues already.

Sorry for the late reply. Preparing for category 4 hurricane Beryl. To avoid any conflict, Omeros will step back from the fog and avert his eyes.
I may be incommunicado for a while, not sure about how bad Beryl will treat my island. NPC Omeros as necessary.

I will admit, you are the first person I have seen since I started playing D&D 5e since 2018 to actually cast hunger of hadar. I completely missed that it was difficult terrain. This makes things a bit awkward. I could rethink the enemy's movement, but if that messes up any of the turns i just saw posted then I will have to ask them all to repost. I don't want to invalidate anyone's spell, though.

I didn't cast it but I do know the spell because I have PC that is a Fathomless Warlock and Hungar of Hadar is my go to spell

Ok, I'll probably have them move like this instead of the way I did then. I'll notify everyone of the change in case it alters what they did for those that posted already. It will take some time to do it, though, so if you are about to post give me 10 or so minutes. I enjoy otfbm but it is slower to update than a VTT

Blind sight in a fog with war caster is crazy

Gotta love it, eh? Lol

At this point there isn't really isn't anything else before the throne room with the final boss.

@Basil,@MaJunior,@GreyWord,@valdattaMadun,@annex please declare anything you do before entering the boss room, as well as if you would like to do something other than go through the big double doors you passed earlier. If you are ready, please comment "ready" here

totally forgot about that. hey I rolled a 9 so that was a pretty good roll at that

Ready!

Ready

Annex has the hurricane to worry about, so i'm just waiting on a confirmation from MaJunior.

My island was fortunately spared the worst of hurricane Beryl, and things are getting back to normal for most people.
I'll be able to catch up later today.

Glad your okay m8!

I'll be traveling today, so unless I do some posting before I hit the road or after I get back tonight, I probably won't be posting much today. We'll see. I might post in other games, but this one requires a lot of map updates and that is easier at my laptop. Should be good tomorrow.

Use this time to finalize anything else you do before things get exciting. Anything you haven't done by tomorrow will have to wait until after what happens.

Edit: also, if you have any effects active, please confirm they are on the battle information thread. If anything is missing, please inform me. I will use that as reference and not look in the chapter thread history.