Out of Character Talk

I would assume everyone's highest priority would be the safety of the king so does anyone have spells that would remove him from this current threat because that is what Bells is planning on doing unless things happen and there looks like a lot of "things" between Xcha and Bells.

I have no spells. The best way to protect the King is to murder everything that threatens him. 😁

Travail can teleport everyone/himself and the king somewhere 'safe' but I doubt there's anywhere safe for this one shot.

@forkbeard you still have until tomorrow to post what you want to do if you don't want to take the dodge action. the dodge action is in case you don't post for 48 hours. I try to use the mention feature when it is someone's turn. I mentioned you in the last post in Scene 1 thread. Whatever you ultimately do, please post in that thread to keep things straight.

I saw a request to know monster AC. Do you guys want to know that? I normally wait a round or 2 for players to kind of figure it out, but I hear some say it makes PbP combat easier. Making a poll

I honestly don't mind one way or the other. Whatever you feel is best/easiest for you.

I've seen either way work fine and don't mind one way or the other, but in PbP I've found that knowing whether you've hit or not so you can do any followups can speed up combat.
If forced, I'd choose after a player rolls close to the AC. It kinda approximates you seeing that you almost hit the bullseye.

bad computer bad bad computer !

Not a requirement, but if you are going to make a lot of attacks, it helps to use 1 line per attack rather than one for attack and one for damage.

For example, instead of one line that says "1d20+x" and one that says "1dy+z", using "1d20+x, 1dy+z" helps it be visually clear in the results that they are together as one attack. I try to do that with my monsters. See examples below.

If your character sheet is set up to have them be separate, you can copy and paste the damage portion on the attack portion, adding a "," between them, and hit the X next to the damage line. Not required, but if there are more than 3 attacks it can be hard to not accidentally think a damage line is "to hit"

when rolling that way will it still pick up successes? for instance when you put AC15 behind the roll description and you make the roll.. will the dice come up green? Thats why I asked for AC. would be easier for DM to spot sucesses.

From my experience as long as a line includes a d20 in it and AC or DC followed by a number (I think there has to be a space between the AC/DC and the number, not sure), it will check if the result matches or exceeds, even if there are multiple with comma separated. See below. If a section comma separated does not use a d20, it doesn't do anything, but if it sees "d20" it will check.

CONPUTER PROBLMS

With forkbeard having technical problems, are we waiting the 48 hours, going with his last action, skipping him for now or doing something else? I would prefer our fighter not miss a round as it already feels like we have plenty to handle but maybe this kind of scenario is what you anticipated and think it falls under what you have already outlined. I am not meaning to push but I am excited about the game and find myself checking in to see if it has advanced so I would like to know what to expect.

Hope you get up and running soon, fb!

The session zero question covered this, and the vote was 3 to 2 to dodge after 48 hours. However, this scenario does have a wrinkle. forkbeard did post his turn early under a misunderstanding. We could say that what he did there will be his turn now, or given the circumstances I can give him a new turn and control his character for him and simply have him take the attack action and end his turn. I'll put a poll up. If any of you see 3 people voted for the same thing, please mention me so It is clear I need to act.

@Ironmonger42 , we are ready to rock and roll

I am out of the house but will use the mistakenly time turn later Tonight

@forkbeard sorry for confusing you, but when you said you were having tech issues I put it to a vote and all 4 other players said to do what happened.

For full transparency, here's what happened:
- You were first in combat, but after 48 hours there was no post in the scene 1 thread, so as per the results of the session 0 thread you took the dodge action
- Later, when your turn was deemed over, you took your turn, but as your turn was over it wasn't valid
- After that, the other players went and it was your turn again, you said you were having computer issues and players wanted to keep the momentum going. I brought up that you had the turn that wasn't valid and put it to a vote if I should just have you use that turn as your next turn just now. As seen above, all 4 other players voted to do that, hence what happened.

I hope this doesn't sour your opinion of this game or me as a DM. I try to stick to earlier agreements, generally.

@CherokeeWind The curator is probably a commoner. Doubt he's proficient.

You can safely assume that the king is either a noble or, at best, a knight, and the curator is either a commoner or noble. the king can probably fight, but this is an overwhelming situation and he thinks dodging is the best path so you have the most time to defeat them. The curator probably isn't a fighter in any way, and if he can fight it is more a sport or hobby like casual fencing.