OOC Megathread

No worries Arjen, I'm going to be in Ann Arbor until Sunday (as of tomorrow morning) so the main plot won't go anywhere without you :)

Can you remind me what happens at level 2? Something with hit dice?

You just roll your class' hit die, and add your CON modifier to calculate your total hit points.

Confusingly, you will also have 2 Hit Dice (same as your class' hit die) for use during short rests for healing. Otherwise the rogue just adds the 'Cunning Action' class feature.

Oi! Hit Dice! The most confusing mechanic in 5e... luckily I already explained it in this post: http://gamersplane.com/forums/thread/617/?p=12090#p12090. Let me know if you're still confused after reading that.

EDIT: All things considered, they could have just borrow language from 4e (instead of pretending it didn't exist at all) and called the damned things Healing Surges and no one would be confused anymore. (instead of being inspired by 2e and making things confusing for confusions sake).

Some days I think about running a 2E game, and then I flip through the rule books and just laugh and laugh and laugh
Also, second level hit points, hooray!

Hey all! Sorry for the lack of posts. Y'all have been blowing up my phone and I feel so bad for not responding. I've been working third shift for the past week and I'm all screwed up. I'm off tomorrow though all I hope to catch up with everything. (Ya leveling up!)
Just wanna say again how much I'm enjoying this.
Thank you! :-)

I never played 2e. I played red box then never gain until picking up 5e last summer. I missed quite a bit it seems!

Sorry about the third shift UE! That sounds rough.

Candi, what is your say on new spells for my wizard? Can he pick a new one for gaining a level?

I will take 4 + CON = 6 for my hit points. Up to 14 now.

Will pick my arcane focus when you rule on my spell question.

I'm still not 100% sure on what I'm supposed to do with hit dice...

Moffsalot, you just need to note that you now have two hit dice to use during short rest healing. Its a separate mechanic from rolling your hit dice to add up your new hit points.

Ok, for my HP I roll a 1d8 (got a 2) and add that to my CON modifier, and then add that to my current HP?

yup, you got it

High five for crappy HP rolls Moofs! ^5

Candi, your ruling?

Oh right. I forgot to reply to that question:

Yea, Wizards that don't get new spells aren't as fun as ones that do. Each level you can add 1 spell that you can cast to your spell book. You, of course, can also add spells to your spell books by transcribing scrolls you find (or, should the opportunity arise, the spells from another wizard's spell book). But, each level, you get a free one (that will represent the product of learning and experimentation and the fruits of self-discovery).

Wizards and their "self-discovery"...

Speaking of which, Arjen, I was going to start laying on a bit thickly about Corban trying to learn things about magic from you, so that when(*if) he gets to level 3, the transition to Eldritch Knight won't be as big of a conceptual leap. Does that sound ok to you? And Candi for that matter?

that sounds amazing to me. have i said how much of a pleasure it is to gm for you folks?

I'm fairly certain Kaiakas is going with Order of Vengeance at level 3.

^5 'dro!

You guys are just gonna have to keep me alive long enough to single-handedly kill all our enemies!

Yes, Grendel! I think that will be a nice direction to take them.

Okay, I'll read through the spells tonight and pick an arcane tradition and get my downtime post up sometime tomorrow.

Agreed Candi, this has been a great experience thus far. I'm truly excited about this one going the distance, a rarity for PbP!