OOC Thread

How many prisoners are up there? A feather fall may make them come down safely if we're in a hurry.

If you're cool with burning a spell slot you could ready feather fall on our halfling friend in the case of an over throw or something

There are 5 cages, but hard to tell if they are all occupied, or if their occupants are even alive.

For HypCo and McDunno, in case you are coming back from an extended break and not sure where to start:

There are two scenes going on, Kit & Ryvid's is one and the rest of the players are in another. I've split time a little bit because the others were waiting for your to go forward. So, the other players' scene is unfolding in the thread alongside yours, but yours happened first chronologically, by about 10 minutes or so.

If you two are still busy, the Kit & Ryvid scene can be put on hold. We an always reconvene in media res, where we arbitrate what has transpired to a certain point and jump into the situation in the middle. Perhaps the middle of the drinking contest or something.

Let me know when you guys are going to be back in the game and we then we can figure out where to enter the scene. Worst case scenario, if you guys are going to be out for awhile, we might end up skipping the scene and hand-waving it like we did with the Torden & Kit escape out of the Lonely Tower scene.

Ryvid is waiting on Kit, unfortunately it seems McDunno has poofed. If the drinking party lags too hard, I'm fine with skipping to the drinking contest.

Kit has been waiting on Ryvid. I figured that this was Ryvid's plan and that Kit's there to act as a credible prisoner and to back up Ryvid's account of things.

Haha. My thinking was Kit was going to lead the way because what prisoner follows behind. The reason he was no non-sense overtly bossy here. Also it helps that Kit is leading because Ryvid doesn't know this town.

Ah, the joy of PbP.

No worries, I'll set up a scene that advances things a little bit. RPing the guard to buy into the plan wasn't going to be the highlight anyway, so we'll assume that was a success and jump into the scene as Ryvid is being brought before the Night Lord. I'll set something up for you in the game threat in a bit.

Naatkinson, I'll let you pick which plan is going to happen for scaling the wall. Jabes sounded cool with using the Gust of Wind spell slot, so you pick: Get hurled by Sulprax or get blown by Torden. I'm not sure if I made that second option way more or way less appealing by the way I worded that.

HypCo I've always meant to ask - what is your avatar?

So, before I post it, the plan is to fastball special to get someone on top of where the cages are so that we can then try to pick the locks to get them out?

Thanks for asking for clarification Starrbeardo. I think the idea is to get on top of the wall. The cages are all hanging off the wall, like this only less fancy:



I'm assuming Ander will bring a rope to help everyone climb up, and then you can deal with the cages. Haul them up? Climb down to pick the lock? Lower them down to the ground? Not sure but you will have more information to decide that once you get to the top.

I made it back in high school. It's a calling card of sorts.

For the ascent, I think we'll stick with the rope trick and some help from Guidance.

@Naat: I might be being really dense right now, but which is the rope trick? If it's one of the options we discussed earlier, feel free to roll it out in the game thread, including the guidance die.

The one where they just throw me by rope :) I'll let Sulprax roll that strength check when he has a minute

Hey, anybody interested in trying D&D Beyond? I've recently bought into the service with the full subscription, which allows me to share the digital books I've purchased with my players (Currently PHB and Xanathar's Guide). All you have to do is make a free twitch account and log into dndbeyond.com, you can connect to my account and read those books online, legally, for free.

Once you have your own account, use this link to hook up to my account

One of the most exciting features is the built-in character builder. Because I have the PHB and XGtE, you can make any kind of character that use those rules. The free accounts allow you to store up to 6 characters. Full disclosure, I think I can snoop in all of your character sheets.

I'm not planning on integrating this into our game at the moment. This is mostly just me sharing this thing so you guys can try it out if you're interested. In the future, I think I might use the dndbeyond character sheets for a GP game; they are super slick! Very easy to keep track of what items you're currently using, calculate encumbrance, keeping track of how many uses of an ability you have left, or spell slots. And it calculates everything. So, say you have dual wielder feat and you choose to wield two short swords - your AC automatically goes up by 1.

I heard an interview with one of the head guys on the project and it sounds legit. They are true D&D fans and seem to have full support from WoTC. There are many new features that are promised to be added in, and the price (they say) is not going to increase.

The price of buying all the books AGAIN in a digital format is pretty steep. I am able to do this because if you install the dndbeyond app on an iPad you can use iTunes GC's to buy D&D books, and I have hundreds of dollars of iTunes GCs because I taught a student whose parents worked for apple and every Christmas he gave me a huge iTunes GC. So, while I don't know if the pricing is worth it or not, it was basically free for me, so whatever. I'm only paying the master subscription with my own cash. I will likely be buying the rest of the core books, Volo's Guide, the SCAG, and maybe even the Tortle Package to use in D&D Beyond. After that, I might start buying new products digitally rather than pay for the hardcover books, since they're like 40% of the physical book price. So, you'll get access to that stuff too. Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, I'm looking at you!

Just a heads up that at some point I might close up access to this to make room for some future game I run if I run out of space for them. In the meantime, enjoy!

I'm down l will get that taken care of in a bit

It sounds interesting, I'll probably look into it tonight

Thought I might spellcaster but if wind conditions aren't optimal then I'm just keeping a lookout. I suggested Ander and Pageflap handle the cages thinking that Sulprax and I could engage the guards if needed, but I realize now that if the alarm is raised then ranged attacks would probably be better. So up to you guys if Sulprax wants to take Ander's place.

That was my thought as well, but it doesn't matter to me. For all Ander knows, you guys have some trump card to pull it things go wrong and that's why he didn't argue.