General Discussion

General discussion thread. OOC talk, rules questions, or general shenanigans are welcome.

Haha, brilliant.

Goddamn Mecha-Hitler.

At least he killed the regular Hitler.

Hahaha that's true!

Also, just as a note, when you roll for an attack that has a to hit roll, and damage rolls, just roll them both in the same post. Saves time and space and if you don't hit, the damage roll is just forgotten, no harm no foul. But if you do hit I can go ahead and RP up the results instead of having to ask for a separate damage roll.

Sounds good!

Qrallog:
Which drone did you want to target. One is pretty damaged, the one chasing after the other truck. There is another drone that has started to follow behind your truck now too. The other of the new pair split off to the other truck as well.

I'll go for the damaged one chasing the other truck.

For the future I guess I just won't hide any part of my rolls. It should have still shown the result, just not the dice or numbers rolled. Meh. You just get to know what kind of damage and bonuses they get I guess.

Hey everyone, quick update. Just waiting for themightykobold to take his turn. I sent a PM to them already, if by tomorrow night they haven't taken a turn I may just have to bring in a new player instead. We will see. Sorry again for the delay.

Sorry. Drove cross country this weekend into last night.

No worries. I figured something came up so I figured wait a day or so.

Just waiting on initiative from Garrthon.

Qralloq is up first.

Sorry for delay in posts. Was out sick. I should have something up tonight or tomorrow.

Given that it seems two people have gone AWOL in the game, how about I drop them out and open the spot up for two more?

Sounds good to me.

Okay, will do.

Sorry, didnt think to check this forum too. Yup, I am good with that, though I did like the rat swarm idea of a character, so I will miss that.

Yeah, unfortunately he has also gone AWOL. I have one new person joining in and I'm seeking out a second. If you know anyone wanting to join up to the site feel free to invite.

Ah, totally missed that. Thanks for the heads up!

Sorry weekends been crazy. Delay of post. I'll have something up tonight.

My streak of incredibly bad rolls on GP continues! ARGH!

I'm so sorry, blade1981m!

A Guide to General Mothra's expressions:

Homicidally Furious:



Serenely composed:



Mildly amused, and slightly hungry for a snack (maybe some chips):



Trying to act like he is in on the joke, but secretly worrying that everyone is laughing at him and he'll never get a date to prom:

Oddly enough, when Psibocorn said his line, the last image was actually the expression you got. Also that list of images earns the entire team inspiration. If you don't have an inspiration point, you get one!

I keep forgetting to use the inspiration I have, in each of the D&D5 games I'm playing. Oof!

Anyone seen or heard from PhantomNimbus recently? I get the sense that December is difficult for many of us, in terms of maintaining time for gaming.

Yeah. Posted in the other game too. Dropping the ball hard here. I may hiatus the game till after xmas, if I can I'll try and get something before then.

Alright, hope everyone had a good holiday break. The craziness is over here so I'm back on it. Let's get into the final leg of this journey.

Is it possible we can try to work together to figure out this console? My guess is that operating it is at least a moderately difficult task (DC 15), but all of us on our own are rolling crap right now.

If someone is being assisted they can roll with advantage. Roll 2d20 and take the higher roll.

I think I'm rolling 1d2 instead of 1d20 haha

o.O Death checks!

That was my bad, numbers fumble. None of you are dead yet. :)

Been there, done that, heh.

It looks like Psibocorn should be adding INT modifier to the attack roll, as well as proficiency bonus, which is probably 2 right now. So it should be d20+6. I have a feeling that will make quite a difference.

I think his attack roll was 1d20+6. It was his damage he was wondering about. I can't say for sure. Obviously since theses are fan made rules they may not have been checked for balance.

I looked to the spells in the PHB though, because basically that's what this power is. From my research spells do not get the ability modifier all the time. Eldritch Blast, a cantrip for the Warlock does not get an ability modifier until at least level 3 and only if the player character chooses Agonizing Blast as one of their Invocations. At level 5 there is an extra ray that adds another die to the damage but requires an attack roll along with that extra die. Dissonant Whispers also increases damage if cast at higher levels and does not get ability mod damage. Looking at a few other Cantrips from other classes I see the same trend. Occasionally an ability mod gets added, but not often.

It makes me want to ask a developer about that. A fireball spell rolls 8d6 out of the gate, giving it a range of 8-48, average 24. A fighter with greatsword and a 16 Str (the 5th ed. version of high stat) has a damge range of 4 -14, average 7(but usually has multiple actions by 5th level when fireball can be cast). In the past editions spells usually had ability mod damage bonus, but there have always been complaints about casters overshadowing the fighters as levels got higher.

I guess they decided the way to balance that better was to lower the damage output of spells some. Plus the eye ray is an at will doing 2d6. 2-12, average 6. My character's weapon choice was a simple ranged meaning I do 1d8+3, range of 4-11, average 7.

So I guess in the end I think that no, no ability modifier added to damage, but that's OK because it is balanced against all the other characters.

This is true, normally spells don't add additional damage like standard weapons, they usually tell you exactly what dice to roll for damage.

Yes, that's the direction I was leaning. But I thought I'd ask.

OK, another question: my psychic shield ability reads that it activates every time I would be hit by an attack. I assume that means that it can activate multiple times in a turn? That could potentially be VERY powerful...except that Psibocorn's CHR is so low that he only gets the minimum bonus of 1 HP every time it activates.

Yes, you would be bumped 1 HP every attack. The language doesn't call it a reaction, so I believe it works every hit.

Here is a secret, after this battle I'm bumping everyone two levels. This is a one shot after all. Might as well boost the numbers a bit.

I'm going to wait to see how the other two roll to narrate what happens. :)

Sorry for not posting. Got busy with a lot of stuff.

No worries. Figured you were just busy. Welcome back. :)

Alright, it would seem this game has come to a halt for some time. Since it was a one-shot and nearly over I'm just going to call it and retire the game. I hope you had fun with what you did all play. See you in more games soon.

Thanks PhantomNimbus, it was great fun!