Out of Character

Thougts on swimmin in armor... full plate comes to mind....

RAW it has no impact. Since this is a 1 shot and you all are champions of the gods, let's say no penalty

Being underwater should make spells with vocal components difficult -- you can't hold your breath AND yell magic words.

It's not explicit in the rules, but it would be reasonable to say if you cast a spell with a verbal component while underwater, you are no longer holding your breath (which I assume someone is doing if suddenly dragged underwater)

Though I guess if you can breathe underwater, vocal components would be just normal?

There's nothing I know of in the rules saying otherwise.

For now, since this is a one shot and we haven't played together much, i'm going to stick to RAW and not simulation and say "the rules don't cover that so it isn't an issue". there are rules for holding your breath but they don't bring up verbal components of spells and neither do verbal components of spell explicitly state that they would cause issues underwater, so we'll ignore, especially since this fight isn't long from over.

Do I know how many of those strikes hit? I only have to declare my smites on hit technically so if only 1 hit I mark less spell slots than if 2 hut

You killed it with the first hit. the water elemental got it to nearly dead

Waiting on Kadmos

Just a heads up: my default rule is if I say it is someone's turn, they have roughly 48 hours to post, and the weekend does not count towards that time. As I posted for Kadmos on the 17th, the player has until the 21st to post or I will assume they do something simple (in this case, since the beast is underwater and I would never assume the player would jump in the water, they would take the dodge action. I might assume a basic attack action or cantrip in other circumstances, but nothing more than that).

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Just like this @Ironmonger42

thank you for the healing...I might need to spend quite a few of those hit dice lol

Was that in character? this thread is always out of character talk

wrong thread! Sorry!

Basil is a method actor. Even in play by post, he keeps his character from post 1 until campaign end.

His family thinks he is weird because of this. Who does he think he is Daniel Day Lewis?

Ha! Work time distracting me from game time!

crying in hyper specialized build

Because of the skill challenge or because of skipping the rocky coast?