OOC Thread

Kudos all around. Honestly, I've been meaning to give out an in-game reward called 'inspiration' to everyone, which is given to players for excellent roleplaying, usually playing to your traits/bonds/flaws. Since you have all done a great job of roleplaying thus far, consider yourselves officially 'inspired' now, which means you can give yourself advantage on any d20 roll one time.

Make sure to use it fairly soon, because I can't award inspiration to you again until you use it.

If you want to read more about Inspriation, check out page 35 of the basic rules.

As far as inspiration is concerned would it have to be declared when initiating a role or can it be used retroactively, such as if a certain dwarf were to continue to have abysmal luck with rolls?

@McDunno: Thanks! I was worried at first that it'd be harder since it was recommended to use the races in the beginner's guide, but I wanted to play a Kenku once I read up on them. I like thinking of ways for Pageflap to communicate and his difficulty speaking gives me a lot of excuses to detail his inner thoughts and sprinkle in some of his personality. Also, it's fun!

@lenpelletier: If yes to Starrbeardo's question, is there a limit to how much inspiration we can share? Like, say, Iman is fighting the Barbarian King and he keeps rolling low on the final blow, would we be able to give him six extra tries if he misses six times in a row?

@Starrbeardo: According to the rules, inspiration is supposed to be declared before the action. In my experience, it is often used retroactively because people forget they have it. I probably wouldn't bat an eyelash if you used retroactively once in awhile, especially if you were in a dire situation. It makes inspiration a more powerful reward.

@Jacketch: So there's a rule that says that advantage (roll 2d20 and take the higher die) doesn't stack. So, if Player A and B gave their inspiration to give Player C advantage, they'd still only get to roll that one extra d20. The same is true if you already have advantage on a roll; using inspiration does nothing in that case.

Interestingly, if you had disadvantage (roll 2d20 and take the lower) but gain advantage at some point, the rules of the game say they cancel out. So, you can use your inspiration to negate disadvantage. Since disadvantages don't stack, a single inspiration die can cancel out all the disadvantages. So if you find yourself blind, poisoned, and at the outer edge of your range weapon's range, you could use your inspiration to cancel out the disadvantage of all three of those things, and shoot like the person was 20 paces in front of you on a clear, sunny day.

Oh, something I was wondering, are you keeping track of our xp for us? I was wondering how leveling would work.

Hey Len, kind of an off beat question. What is the pantheon of deities in our current setting?

Tangentially related Len, Ramen and I have an idea for some RP stuff once our characters have a bit of downtime. What would be the most appropriate avenue to discuss that with you? Here in this thread or through PM or some such thing?

@Jacketch: I'm using Milestone XP, so you will gain levels when you achieve milestones in the story rather than from killing monsters (although the two may coincide).

@Ramen: The patron deity of the Arkasian Empire is Lothian, a human who ascended in the early days of the Arkasian Empire and kept a watchful eye over it. As for other deities, I have some defaults from D&D lore, but I am open to your input.

@Starrbeardo: This thread would be great place to discuss these things :)

Could I suggest a private forum for those discussions? I'd like to be surprised when whatever is being planned happens. I'd rather not see the planning stages so I can enjoy it without spoilers!

@McDunno, I don't know if it's a bit like trying to put toothpaste back into the tube, but I've spoilered the above. Hopefully there's still some surprise there for you.

No worries!

Sorry Ive taken a couple days to respond everyone! For some reason I stopped getting email updates that you were all posting, so this whole time I thought we were still waiting to find out where we could turn the bandits in 🤦🏻‍♂️

I've had that happen to me a couple times. They were getting sent to my spam folder.

Thats exactly what happened to me, I mustve accidentally marked one of them as spam when viewing it on my phone and thus I had no idea things were progressing. But Im catching up and will be posting regularly again!

Going to be afk for most of the day, everyone. It is a holiday in Canada today and I'm out and about with the fam. Might post later? Have a great one either way.

Enjoy your holiday!

And Daykinator, your birthday should be around this time, shouldn't it? You have a Happy Birthday!

It is today, Thank you! haha

Hey Starrbeardo I was wondering, did Barennd get another hollow tattoo before he left Katagia with the party?

Tell me what you gents think please.