OOC

Welcome, everybody! This thread is for OOC discussions.

Quick question regarding character creation, rules say "Any class from PHB" but are paths from other books like Xanathar's allowed?

If it's from an official book (but not UA), then it's fine.

The main restriction is races - that's the only non-negotiable thing :)

Thank you for having me here! Let's get right down to it! Rolling stats....

Quick question to everybody:

Are you alright with me the DM doing all Initiative rolls and all Saves?

It can be a drag in play-by-post games to wait for everybody roll their Dex saves when encountering a trap or delay until all Initiatives are gathered.

Attack rolls etc. are of course rolled by the players.

Even without the restriction, I'd never think of going non-human for a Darkest Dungeon game :D

Stats
(3, 3, 4, 6 ) = 13
(2, 2, 4, 4 ) = 10
(1, 1, 2, 6 ) = 9
(2, 3, 3, 6 ) = 12
(1, 2, 2, 6 ) = 10
(3, 3, 4, 6 ) = 13

Pretty average stats, I'm fine with any class so I'll let others take a pick, I'm happy to fill in any void in the end.

Short answer: Yes, totally

Exactly :D

Do you think I should allow standard humans (+1 to all atribs.) too?

I don't see a reason why they should be banned, but honestly, I wonder why anyone should bother. Feats are pretty powerful in 5e and considering that +1 proficiency can be spent on firearms (from what I reckon) it's a much more powerful package than +1 to all attributes. Just my $0,02.

Yeah, pretty much.

And yes, the +1 proficiency can be put on firearms.

Speaking of which, would that be Firearms specifically, or Martial Weapons (which they technically fall under)? If it's the latter, I guess classes like the Fighter, Paladin and Ranger then are automatically proficient with Firearms by default?

I suddenly feel the urge to make a Highwayman/Rogue or Bounty Hunter/Ranger with a firearm.

Good question. They ARE listed as "Martial Ranged Weapons", so yes, I'd argue that as the game world includes these weapons, then the classes mentioned are proficient with them.

Yes.

Sounds cool :)

Fine with me

Think I'm going Hellion or Occultist... Warlock it is...

(5, 2, 6 ) = 13
(6, 5, 4 ) = 15
(6, 2, 6) = 14
(3, 3, 4 ) = 10
(4, 2, 1 ) = 7
(3, 4, 2 ) = 9

I’m fine with you handling saves and initiative. Especially with all the extra saves in this variant.

So that array is (17,17,13,12,11,10)

I’m thinking either jester or leper, playing around with how I want that to work...

Sounds great!

So far we have the following tentative classes:
Highwayman/Bounty Hunter (Ranger)
Hellion or Occultist (Warlock)
Jester or Leper

i'm going occultist (warlock)

I've made up my mind, going for Highwayman using the Rogue/Scout build.

@Geninsect I'd go Bard/College of Swords for Jester, with Rogue/Arcane Trickster or even Rogue/Assassin as alternatives. Leper could either be based on Cleric with domains like War and Protection or a greatsword wielding Fighter (Champion or Battle Master) or Paladin (Oath of Devotion, maybe Vengeance)

I’ll commit to jester (bard with a warlock dip)

Another question, character creation rules state "Equipment from Background (sell any unwanted items for half price) + 50 gp" but no mention of the equipment from class. Do we still get to choose one of the packs from there or is it replaced with the 50gp?

Yes, you get the Class equipment too, I'll correct the description. The bonus 50 gp is for the 3rd level start.

All done, looks like I'll start as Grave Robber and upgrade to Highwayman once I can afford a pistol :P

Haha good, sheet approved!

You can definitely do shorter delves, to gather resources and valuables. But more about this when we start out.

Can't wait!

Do we have a target start date? Won't have time to get a sheet together before Saturday.

I'd like to begin on Monday.

I'll get my character fleshed out today

Totally up to you

and uploaded my character feel free to poop on it :)

That's... a lot of spells!

Dwarvish and Elvish don't exist in this setting, so just switch them out with languages from the post above!



Also, for Level 2 and Level 3 roll your Hit Dice or take the Class average, as per the PHB rules.

This applies to Albrecht as well! Or did you all just get maximums on your HD rolls? :)

Pretty sure I read we should take max for the first 3 levels and start rolling once we hit 4. I'll fix it asap.

In other news, is there any other way we might know a language besides Common?

Didn't bother with the contact as I figured roleplay and story would be close to zero, with DD essentially being an extended dungeon crawl. Depending on what you have in mind for those aspects and the pace of character rotation (a.k.a. expected mortality rate) I'll take either that or some other NPC that might evolve into Albrecht's replacement PC

I'll switch up the languages, correct the hit points, is there anything else?

Although I have always wanted to play Darkest Dungeon I have never had to opportunity. Using the warlock that I have submitted, I will attempt to play what imagine the Flagellant is like. Elias the Flagellant will be ready to play as soon as I get spell selection and inventory sorted out.

1. Should I even bother with my Background Feature?

2. Will there ever be occasion to buy things down in the dungeon? I'm wondering about the 50gp you gave us to start with, as well as the option to sell off unwanted items from our class & background equipment packages.

Character submitted, sorry about the delay.

Rolled hp for levels 2 and 3, added Criminal contact, languages and a Negative Quirk. Should be good to go

@evil_scientist: Understood. Elias will not have much use for worldly possessions beyond food and water, so he will probably sell or give it all away. Mortal flesh is weak and impure!

I intend to flavor most, if not all, my spells as involving some form of mortification of the flesh. I have not yet fleshed out what sort of inscrutable entity Elias has made his pact with. What is certain is that it demands this self-flagellation as tribute. How do we do that? Obviously it would be insane to have him actually deal damage to himself!

Chose Impulsive Compulsive (suffers intense need to do specific actions) as my first negative quirk. Initially I was going to have him flog himself as the specific action but I may come up with some other thing. We'll see.

Really excited to begin!

@campeador I love your analysis of the character. Myself, I had to settle for bad stats and no firearms, so I've kinda given up on Albrecht already in hopes of a premature death and better replacement, hence was thinking Death Wish (disadvantage on death saves) as a quirk before settling for Thanatophobia. In a way, it's the character being scared of the player at the helm wanting to kill him xD

under common, foreign languages

Morbid Curiosity

Thanks! You can go ahead and post in-character!

Sorry, Thursdays are my roughest days at work, I'm exhausted, so post coming tomorrow, as early as possible!

no rush man, play by post is usually pretty slow.

Dazed... reeling... about to break!

Good one :D

I have been listening to the entire Darkest Dungeon soundtrack. It is so good!

Since Elias charged in, I guess we gotta roll for initiative now? Do we get a surprise round on the undead?

I'm aware it might be a bit too much to ask for, but is there any chance we might be using a map for combat so we can easily calculate movement, range, everyone's position etc?

Here's my best shot: a spreadsheet:
MAP: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19Qdvq-n1Jg7EVh1U8MdfxyOG6L6p4w14YcJ975HEfUM/edit?usp=sharing

Helps a lot actually, much appreciated

Thanks for the heads up! :-)
Hexblade's Curse only ends early if the target dies, Elias dies, or Elias is incapacitated.

Sharing this hilarious picture :)

Real in-game post coming later today.

And he would have gotten away with it too, if not for those pesky kids

A lot of guys on the site have been using Google Sheets. A little clunky, maybe, but does the job, and is easy to use and share. Should the party start making our own map or do you already have one that you can share with us (after covering unexplored areas with "fog of war" of course!)?

Might be the best thing to come out of the discussion here, but a hand-drawn map is perfectly fine.

Happy new year! Holidays can be like that, hope everyone had fun.

Is this game still going?

Been well past the 2 weeks evil_scientist said he'd be travelling for, good question

seems like all my games are dead :(