Out of Character and character creation

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If we were to go with 2024 rules, would it be just the free/trial rules, or could we use anything in the '24 PHB?

All 2024 rules.
I'm also open for the UA subclasses that was just released

In case of 2024 we need to look through DMG 2024 for the list of magic items, right?

P.S. The only reason I voted 2014 is my experience of 2024 rules causing extra issues to PBP combat with side initiative. Also grapple as opportunity attack possible in 2024 have affected DM's already published enemy turn in my game. Am I overthinking this?

Maybe. If the DM is ok with the 2024 rules, then those aren't issues for them.

I'm fine with any rules. I'm also fine with public, but since I'm new to the forums, I don't know the repercussions of that, so I'll defer to the group.

As far as characters, I'm happy to go with what the group needs and I'll read/research/build around that. Do people have a preference for character building sites/apps, such as DND Beyond, or do y'all just get a blank sheet and consult the Player's Handbook?

There really aren't any repercussions to leaving the game public, unless your game has objectionable material that a casual reader reads and gets upset by.

As for how we build characters, I think we all do it differently. Some people use D&DB, some people just grab a sheet and the PHB and get to work.

Hey everyone! Glad to be in this game with you all. :D

My choice atm: Goliath, World Tree Barbarian. (Melee Tank) But I've to take a look at the UA material. Playing a bladesinger with a freak'n longsword is something I'm waiting for about 20+ years now. It will feel glorious!

We are going with 2024 rules, and the game will be public.

Make a character sheet with yours character and submit it to the game, then I'll review it and approved it.

Any questions?

Where could I find list of magic items to pick from? DMG 2024 ?

Good question. Go with what any published WotC sources you have access to. Its its a weapon we can add its weapon-master ability to it.

Can I ask what people are looking at for concepts? I have a couple of ideas, but I also don't want to create too much overlap.

After looking at the UA, I am still in love with the Goliath, World Tree Barbarian. (Melee Tank)

Will we have Discord in this group? :)

@GM>
Can we adapt the backgrounds accordingly to our imagination of our character (within the rules of course)? I would like to try the Lucky-Feat this time.

Besides the background my character is pretty finished as far as I know. Still need a picture. openart.ai isn't what I would recommand to anybody.


Edit: Shall we post our items here and roll a d4 and d3 ourselfs? How do you want to handle this. :)

Hey Gang! Little late to the party, but I'm happy to be here!

I'll start on Character creation today - currently I'm think of playing a rogue (keep it simple for my first time PbP)

@DM I'll let you knwo if i have questions!

I see that we are supposed to pick 3 uncommon items - the 4th says "race magic item" - is that supposed to be "Rare" instead?

Yes.

@MaJunior- sounds good, I was momentarily excited about the prospects of dwarf specific magic items xD

My bad, I corrected the spelling error in the recruitment post, but missed it in the game description

Hey, really odd question, but due to the nature of the game will we actually have the chance to level up, or are the characters static between hunts?

No, I'm sorry if this wasn't clear. Take this as a one-shot game. Almost like Adventures League.

Once complete, I will prepare the next hunt, and recruit again for that, and those would be for a different level. If you participated in one hunt, you will carry over the item from that hunt to the new one.

I'm trying for more, but shorter games.

Please answe my questions as well. :)

Do we need a discord? I haven't made one for a game before, but I can if you guys want one.

Yes, customise your 2024 background. I have stolen this this but its good
Items: I would like you to present your wishlist and then I'll make the two rolls

I just wasn't sure if it was going to be progressive one shots or standalone one shots.

Also, I've never used Discord and don't plan to start. Feel free to make one for others though.

What parts of the Guide to Monster Hunting should I read, as a player? I started with the Introduction, but it started referring to me (the reader) as a GM and seemed like it was giving information I didn't know if I should have. I skipped to the Races and read that plus Classes.

I was thinking of rolling a Cyclopean Cleric. Later tonight I was going to play with Roll20 to see how I much I can integrate for that Race/Species and look into the different Domains, including Hunter Domain.

Does that sound like a helpful addition? I figure with a melee/tank and rogue, that made sense. But I also think the Cyclopean's Myopic background makes a lot of sense for Wizard, so let me know any thoughts.

I'm fine with Discord and fine without.

Excited!

Concept
Looks like I'm going with sorcerer. A charismatic acolyte with lot of secrets and ambitions.

P.S. Limiting myself to free rules, so bear with my not optimal for combat, but fun to play PC.

Dont worry, I'll be doing the same xD

@runekyndig Sorry if this is a dumb question, what are the expectations for character creation medium? Like should we use DnDBeyond? Or should we use the gamers plane character builder? How do you want our list of magic items (in the thread or in a PM?)

There is no need to read the Guide to Monster Hunting. There is nothing in that book that we will be using, apart from the adventure and its monsteres. I would actually prefer that you did'nt read it ;)
HgtMh is not on the list of allowed sorce materials. I know it has some sub-classes in it, but they lean heavily into the crafting items from monster parts and we are not going to explore that here.

On of the things that HgtHm is introducing is more unique monsters with different mechanics. For example (from an adventure I will not be running) is oozes that will mutate and their description will change as their damage resistance change. So the ooze in front of the barbarian will turn scaly (resistance to slashing) while the ooze fighting the warlock have purple shards inside itself (resistance to psychic damage).
This is the part I'm exited about :)
I suggest that you make it as you are most comfortable with and then go to this tread and pick up a 5e 2024 character sheet, and fill that in.
Then you submit that character sheet to this game. I will check it over and accept it.
Then you will have everything you need here, character information, integrated die roller ect.

Reguarding items, if you want to keep it privat I suggest that you write a post here and put it into Note brackets

[note="runekyndig"]
1: Rare item 1
2: Uncommon item 1
3: Uncommon item 2
4: Uncommon item 3
[/note]

And I will roll and count from the top. In this case it would be Uncommon item 1 and Uncommon item 2

Character submitted. I believe I copied all important stuff from beyond here, but may need to update some, let me know if you are missing some important stuff there

Item wish list is in character sheet but copied here as well

Looks good GreyWord

Ive submitted my Character as well!

Looks good.

I submitted a character, too. @runekyndig Please let me know if I need to add, edit any of that character sheet.

I had originally started with the Cyclopian Race from Heliana's Monster Guide, but changed to a Halfling. I made the Cyclopian character in Roll20, from scratch. It was honestly much easier to just switch to DND Beyond, though, lol.

P.S. In 2024 Twinned Spell is reworked. I can only use it to make more PCs haste, fly or invisible. Can't aim offensive magic at another enemy. Some call it nerf, but but twinned haste isn't bad at all. Looking forward to use it in this game

It seems like you are missing a tool from your background
And an basic attack option other than dagger

There are still some character tweaks to do, and @MaJunior has'nt submitted his character yet, BUT I have unlocked the game tread and you can make your in-game introduction and ask the druid some questions if you like before he guides you to the shine

@runekyndig: I updated my character sheet, but haven't added the Spell details yet (I'm a web developer, so it's hard for me to not get lost in the markup, lol.) I'll get to that tonight.

Thanks so much!

Hehe no worries

Should have him in by tonight.

Lots of notes to make, but it's submitted.

@runekyndig Whats the protocol for rolling? Do you want to call for rolls? or should we include them if we think it makes sense (like the stealth check i added to sneak ahead)

Good question @tblue1994
I'm strongly against slowing down the game while asking for rolls. If you do something, like stealth, roll for it. If needed we'll use it, if not, we ignore it. I will also roll skills for your character if I feel that it's relevant. IF you have abilities that could influence the rolls, then we will roll back, but it would never, for instance, ask you to roll initiative. When combat begins, I will roll your initiative on your behalf.

I have pass without trace. But I assume my PC were still concentrating on invisibility when party arrived. Can come back to you and do the spell, but I am a bit confused about where we are at mechanically in the story at the moment: was my previous action ignored and I can get my used spell slot back? Did Arten already move before I cast pass without trace?
Does a pass without trace even do anything since we are visible and has nothing to hide behind...

You arrived in the forest where you split the party. Some went to the shrine while other went to the healers tent. The group by the shrine, returned to the healers tent to ask some questions about the orbs of light.
You have now all returned to the shrine after a talk in the healers tent.
You are getting ready to face the creature. I'm letting you get setup and then we will roll initiative

You post haven't been ignored :)
Your Pass without trace spell can include everyone if you like, and I will make a round summarizing once everyone have made their moves or when a suitable time have passed (properly tonight).

So I didn't cast invisibility and did not approach monster alone while waiting for others? Could revert spell wasted, please

no spell wasted

@GreyWord do you cast invisibility on your self or pass without trace on the party?

Invisibility is already narrated. Let's stay with it.

Just a guess. Probably Quercus need to make dex save with advantage since he made
dodge action which grants him benefit of

I did give Quercus advantage on his dex save, mostly for his cover and the fact that he was hidden and not directly targeted

Thanks GreyWord, for looking out for me. Came here to say the same. :)

@Runekyndig> I don't see the adv. in your roll?

Edit: You also forgot to roll with DisAdv. for Arten. But luckily this changes nothing, as Arten missed Quercus anyways.

I rolled this dex save twice

Would I want to use Mass Healing Word as a bonus action already, or should I wait? It heals up to 6 targets, and it's a Level 3, but I also don't know how much health Quercus has lost. Would I know how hurt he would be? (Also, is there a way to see other players' character sheets?)

Sorry Mojo.Bojo. I was too busy the last 30 minutes to read rules and understand features (still got the nagging feeling that I forgot something), so I didn't see your post. :-/

Thanks a lot for the bless - with all the save to come it will proof undoubtedly usefull. :D

Quercus has 45/65 HP atm.

saw it just now. First and Last roll, I pressume. Thanks for remembering. *thumbs up*

I'm glad that you are checking up on me. You especially @GreyWord
This is a complex fight, and while I aim to avoid it, mistakes will happen

Question. Is Flash also blinded? She is more than 30 feet away by end of her turn.

Disregard question. I thought I see blinded next to Flash in table.

damage resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks = I only do half damage against the owl bear?

No you did half damage against the Faerie-o’-Fires. It is at 50% hp

Also @everyone
I suggest that you compair notes about this monster. There are clues to its strengths and weaknesses that I don't think you have picked up on.

Examples of clues that you have discovered by now.
You examined Pyrax.
• Their eyes are milky white; they’ve been blinded.
• Their skin is covered in horrific sunburn; they have suffered severe radiant damage.
• The inside of Pyrax’s hand, which grasped the feather, is entirely unburnt, indicating that the feather was plucked before they suffered the sunburn. However, the feather seems to have been completely unaffected by whatever caused radiant damage to Pyrax

You have been hit by its SunBeam and been subjected to its blinding effect. The artwork here is from when Pyrax was struck with the SunBeam

You were also told that Pyrax had used a fire spell on the owlbear to little effect. That tells you that its resistant to fire damage

Well. Can't say for everyone, but at least I don't always thing the way DM expects me to.
For example made a conclusion that creature is not immune to fire damage, because fire woke it up. So using fire damage isn't too bad an idea

I'm also clueless of weather the clue you dropped me in a private note mean creature is immune to lightning or it is healing rapidly. But since intelligence is lowest score for my PC, she is going to make no conclusions at all.

I totally respect that.
But as I said in the beginning
Yesterday after putting the smackdown on Quercus I was starting to get worried about the outcome of this encounter

Hey gang, I think I agree with @runkyndi - we should probably come up with a bit of a strategy here. Not saying we need to leave the grove and try again, but maybe compare notes here and try and get some cohesion going on.

One thing I noticed is that the grove seemingly tried to teleport the owlbear away (if I read that right) on the first round of combat maybe we don't need to do enough damage to kill it, just have it fail that teleport check?

You think short range teleportation is the silver bullet here? Why? I'm missing the reason.

OK absolutely meta: I have a feeling that DM were trying to hint us that a radiant damage is healing owlbear instead of damaging it. A piece of owlbear in Pyrax's had healed Pyrax's hand.

So what's the Strategy?
Do we try to pluck owlbear and cover ourselves ( or at least Quercus ) in owlbear's feather?

I think we just keep hurting it and make very sure to not do any radiant damage.

GreyWord> Agree with your last sentence a 100% :)

@Runekyndig> What is the difference between my topple power and the trip feature of Anders? Why does one work as intendet and the other one doesn't?

@soises you tried to topple an incorporeal being, a living flame the Faerie-o’-Fires
It had a lot of immunities and resistances


Arten, (its a bugger we have two character beginning with the letter A), tripped the owlbear
It have hp but not as many immunities and resistances. It got something else tho.

I went back and re-read the section - Looks like i was confusing Quercus's Tree feature with something the map was doing!.
Don't know that I agree - but I can't deal Radiant damage, so we should be safe either way XD

I think the issue with Pyrax's hand not being burnt was that his fist was closed, so the sunbeam can only impact surfaces it can see - maybe we need to cover ourselves in a sheet or something to negate that ability?

@runekyndig> ah! Okay. Must have missread. Thought that you mean that the Owlbear is immune. Thanks. :)

Sorry to say, but the map is incorrect. The imp is bound at h25. Quercus has teleported to j25 after the binding.

Oh thx I'll fix

Thanks! 😀
IMP-FIGHT!!! ;-P

I had thought Necrotic energy was the opposite of Radiant, which is why I used Divine Spark to add some Necrotic damage. Unfortunately, even if that's the case, I don't do enough damage for it to make a dent anyways.

How about just continually luring the creature further from the shrine? We're already a decent bit away, but still have half the map to move towards and see if it follows. Thoughts?

If it follows - great! Quercus has one or two more teleports in him. So if you decide to fall back, don't hesitate because of me.

Still no better idea than plugging its feathers atm.

Hadn't noticed the regeneration before. 🤔


@runekyndig>
Could I plug a feather as part of an attack? Or how would this be handled rules wise? Or as my haste action?

Janking feathers would be like janking hair. A unarmed melee attack

Can anybody cast darkness/fog cloud/...?

I'll plug a feather next round (if possible).

Question - should I interpret that "the golden forcefield" is not "magical effect", but a physical object instead? Are the levitating orbs also just a physical objects that are levitating non-magically?

Its fay magic, and not subject to dispell magic as its is not a spell effect.

The orbs is a puzzle

Do we use flanking rules?

What flanking rules? I don't think there is flanking in 5e2024, but I might have missed them

It seems that there are no flanking in 2024. Weapon mastery ability does however provide new tactical options - and it works without a battlemap

Didn't realized that. Thanks for the clarification. :)

By the way: Great job of solving the puzzle mojo.bojo! :D