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Title: OOC Blather
Post by: veekie on November 18, 2014, 11:17:18 AM
Chatter goes here.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Agita on November 18, 2014, 02:17:23 PM
My first post trolling continues.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on November 18, 2014, 02:18:23 PM
:I Second post trolling commence.  LOOK AT MY NAME. :<
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on November 24, 2014, 11:13:00 AM
I look at nothing!

By the way : :<, what ideas did you have about how we got to know each other prior to game start?
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on November 24, 2014, 01:13:09 PM
I only had very remote ideas for how Boz's character (a criminal/assassin) and Zeni (an evil greedy thing!) would know each other, as Veekie suggested they would be 'on the lam'/hiding out in the starting village after possibly having been identified as perpetrators of a crime in one of the larger cities.  Possibly they worked together on said crime and one of them (probably Zeni) messed up and left some sort of clue, leading to them having to flee.

I can't quite imagine Alyssa being part of that unless say Zeni diplomanced/deceived her into thinking the crime they were committing was vs evil people, which is something she'd very much do and probably will try to do through out this campaign. :>  No idea how they'd meet, though.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Prime32 on December 04, 2014, 04:13:11 PM
Dumping this here.
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd54/Prime32_temp/OotS/Crack%20of%20Dawn/Groupshot_zps8ae53a2f.png)
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on December 05, 2014, 12:05:30 PM
Thanks again for drawing that for us, Prime. :3 I'll incorporate your Zeni into my charsheet next update.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on December 05, 2014, 12:10:13 PM
Add fairy wings and we have Team ALO
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on December 20, 2014, 06:41:32 PM
Sorry guys, power outage and my phone went flat at the worst possible timing too. I'm typing this at McDonalds using their Wifi  :banghead
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on December 20, 2014, 09:42:29 PM
You missed an intense, crazy session. D: Almost a TPK!  And I might have caused it! ;~;
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on December 21, 2014, 07:20:13 AM
You missed an intense, crazy session. D: Almost a TPK!  And I might have caused it! ;~;

Yeah I read the logs, Alyssa finally hit something at least once!
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on December 28, 2014, 12:50:48 PM
Made a post about divvying up loot (http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=15091.0;msg=268369).  Despite roleplaying Zeni as taking as much gold as she can for herself, I will not be letting that affect how much each person actually gets because that's rude and dumb. :<  Unless you guys want it like that for some reason.

I made suggestions about who might be holding what items but if anyone disagrees with any of that (like Zeni having the fire-oil) we can discuss it etccc.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on December 29, 2014, 03:51:46 PM
I'm fine with the arrangement. Find Familiar eh? Interesting...bird or cat...?
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Agita on December 29, 2014, 03:55:14 PM
Strictly speaking, Find Familiar summons a spirit to serve you, but I doubt veekie would mind if you turned one of our animals into a familiar instead, probably.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on December 29, 2014, 03:57:14 PM
Puppycat familiar sounds great. :>
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on December 30, 2014, 11:28:28 AM
Yeah but the utility is limited to scouting. There's probably more value in selling the scroll.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on December 30, 2014, 11:40:16 AM
Up to you!  I'd take the scroll as a hint that we might want to have a scout.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Agita on December 30, 2014, 12:02:28 PM
Actually, I just looked casting from scrolls up, and it turns out you can't cast a spell that's not on your class spell list off a scroll. So since Find Familiar is on neither the Sorcerer nor the Warlock list, that scroll is useless to us anyway. For that matter, Shocking Grasp isn't a Warlock spell, so only Zeni can use the other scroll.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on December 31, 2014, 03:54:39 AM
Scrolls go to Zeni for sale or whatever.

If the honey and spices don't sell, Alyssa takes them to brew up mead and spiced wine.

It sells better than meth.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Bozwevial on December 31, 2014, 01:45:42 PM
I don't know about that, you can drum up repeat business with meth really quickly.

In any case that division looks fine to me.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on January 03, 2015, 07:49:26 PM
Why do I get the feeling that the dragon used to make the weapon is actually a good dragon?
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on January 03, 2015, 11:58:11 PM
Proooobably, yes. :> I'm really impressed with all the flavor Veekie came up with for the randomly generated sword, feels like it could end up being a central plot piece.

Zeni would be really annoyed if her draconic heritage actually came up as a thing, but it'd be a sort of neat connection to the plot if more dragon things are on the horizon.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on January 05, 2015, 09:43:30 AM
Proooobably, yes. :> I'm really impressed with all the flavor Veekie came up with for the randomly generated sword, feels like it could end up being a central plot piece.

Zeni would be really annoyed if her draconic heritage actually came up as a thing, but it'd be a sort of neat connection to the plot if more dragon things are on the horizon.

Could be your ancestor's bone.  :P
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on January 05, 2015, 10:14:52 AM
Good.  She'd be glad if it was. |>
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Agita on January 05, 2015, 02:51:51 PM
Does Zeni not like dragons?

Is it because they make "your mom" jokes at her?
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on January 05, 2015, 03:31:05 PM
Meh, it's just not something she feels fits her 'identity.'  Her family never made mention of it, might not have known of it themselves (unlikely) and it only came up when her mentor figured it out as the source of her magic, etc.  Learning that as a young adult, she didn't think it 'fit' her well, hence trying hard to become a warlock.

Perhaps her dragon blood is why no fiends were taking her offer? Dunnoooo.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Bozwevial on January 06, 2015, 10:59:52 PM
Wonder what she thinks of Ellis' ulterior motives, then.

...come to think of it, does Zeni know what Ellis' deal is yet? I'm not sure we ever hashed that out.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on January 07, 2015, 03:51:26 PM
Meh, it's just not something she feels fits her 'identity.'  Her family never made mention of it, might not have known of it themselves (unlikely) and it only came up when her mentor figured it out as the source of her magic, etc.  Learning that as a young adult, she didn't think it 'fit' her well, hence trying hard to become a warlock.

Perhaps her dragon blood is why no fiends were taking her offer? Dunnoooo.

Is that backstory or are you actually intending to multiclass into Warlock?
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on January 07, 2015, 04:11:30 PM
Backstory and reference to the fact that I originally built her as a warlock, and envisioned her with more warlocky flavor rather than dragony flavor. :<  She was going to have a tail as a sign of her contract!

I'm still considering a 2-3 level warlock dip, many faces is so cool, but I'm pretty sure I'll skip it.  Too many nice things ahead for sorcerererer.  Need level 5 to get the party haste (twinned haste!) and fireball, then level 6 for +cha damage to fire spells, blah blah blah.  Might do that warlock dip at level 8-10, but it's unlikely.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on January 25, 2015, 08:19:44 AM
It was a shit connection day, and a day where our health was shit.

But still, now that I'm off my meds temporarily, here's something that popped up:

1) Tanner, is he a local or a newcomer.
2) If new-comer, are the guards newcomers too?
3) If so, I'm afraid they are likely to be in cahoots.
4) If Tanner is not a newcomer, are the guards newcomers?
5)If so, I'm afraid there's possession magic going on and the guards might be privy to it.

We really got to be careful when we step out of the temple. I'm just worried this temple is compromised too.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Agita on January 25, 2015, 09:34:38 AM
Tanner and the guards seemed well-acquainted, which implies none of them are newcomers. We could ask the Weavers about him, I guess.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on January 30, 2015, 10:12:52 PM
I'm also interested in knowing about the other two faiths in this town apart from the Weaver.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on February 01, 2015, 06:21:38 AM
Ok so it looks like there are no faiths apart from the Beastlord that Alyssa can get entry into right away.

Not that I want Alyssa to start on it so soon either. But I do see a potential of becoming so good a monster hunter that the Golden Knights might extend an honorary invitation to her. Because monsters hunt monsters or some shit like that.

Anyway, Alyssa and Lien will take 20 to source for information about troop movements. And Alyssa will also take 20 to gather information about these faiths safely.

Beyond that she's not doing much apart from resting and ensuring that the horses are taken care of.

And for Alyssa's outfit, she'll just get a regenerative outfit that doesn't stray far from whatever design/color that she's already wearing *refer to character pic*

I might change my character's appearance, get a series of pictures of 1 character is better than 1 unknown with no extra designs.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Agita on February 01, 2015, 06:31:53 AM
Anyway, Alyssa and Lien will take 20 to source for information about troop movements. And Alyssa will also take 20 to gather information about these faiths safely.
No take 20 in 5e for this kind of thing, but Lien's help can give Alyssa advantage on the roll to gather information.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on February 01, 2015, 07:32:23 AM
Anyway, Alyssa and Lien will take 20 to source for information about troop movements. And Alyssa will also take 20 to gather information about these faiths safely.
No take 20 in 5e for this kind of thing, but Lien's help can give Alyssa advantage on the roll to gather information.

Alright.

Investigation roll with advantage

Rolled 1d20+1 : 13 + 1, total 14

Rolled 1d20+1 : 16 + 1, total 17
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on February 01, 2015, 01:05:33 PM
Just as a current tally of wealth, we each have the following:
130g 487s 875c

Broken down:
187g 4s 5c

Note that a large chunk of the 'gold' count is actually held as gems, I just broke those down too, for simplicity.  Actually selling gems doesn't make much sense because of their 1:1 trade ratio, just think of them as very large coins.

The gold lump is un-fixed and unsold and there are 9 gems we got from the sacrifice place haven't even been identified, appraised, or sold.  This makes the 200g self-mending clothes a wildly expensive purchase. xD We can probably individually afford them once those gems are ID'd, but it doesn't make much sense to.

That said, Zeni's purchasing a 25g fire-resistance dress and possibly putting down half the money for a custom-made regenerating one that she'll have to pick up another time, haven't worked that out with veekie yet.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on February 01, 2015, 03:54:07 PM
Just as a current tally of wealth, we each have the following:
130g 487s 875c

Broken down:
187g 4s 5c

Note that a large chunk of the 'gold' count is actually held as gems, I just broke those down too, for simplicity.  Actually selling gems doesn't make much sense because of their 1:1 trade ratio, just think of them as very large coins.

The gold lump is un-fixed and unsold and there are 9 gems we got from the sacrifice place haven't even been identified, appraised, or sold.  This makes the 200g self-mending clothes a wildly expensive purchase. xD We can probably individually afford them once those gems are ID'd, but it doesn't make much sense to.

That said, Zeni's purchasing a 25g fire-resistance dress and possibly putting down half the money for a custom-made regenerating one that she'll have to pick up another time, haven't worked that out with veekie yet.

Or one of us invests in Unseen Servant and have it repair clothes.  :D
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on February 01, 2015, 03:56:12 PM
Be my guest. |> Haha, when Zeni was going to be a warlock, she had unseen servant as a ritual!  But I can't justify getting it on sorcerererer Zeni.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on February 15, 2015, 05:33:50 AM
Veekie gave us the values for the 9 unidentified gems, so the total gold each party member has is as follows:

299 gold, 6 silver, 5 copper
Minus the cost of whatever clothes each person bought, -20g in Zeni's case.
Minus some misc costs, -1g for Lien being too nice to bums, -1g for Zeni for carriage repairs, etc.

Congrats, we're already filthy rich. :V
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on February 22, 2015, 02:09:14 AM
Just making extra sure here, but no one's finding Zeni like, painfully, fun-ruiningly annoying, are they?  I mean she's supposed to be an annoying brat, the most horrible blend of nihilistic and narcissistic, that's her thing!  I like playing her this way, but I can tone it down if that's grating anyone in any way, etc.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on February 22, 2015, 06:45:53 AM
Its fine.  :D
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on March 08, 2015, 06:58:44 AM
Something about the bush bugs me.

It's like, an elephant in the room and we're ignoring it?
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on March 08, 2015, 12:05:05 PM
I was pretty bothered by us ignoring it too. xD  Lien was the only one that could see it and for some reason wasn't pointing it out to the rest of us, I had the feeling Justy had side infos on what it was and was trolling us. :<  If Lien actually saw something dangerous in game, why wouldn't she point it out?  "It's over there, avoid it."  How could we avoid it without knowing where it was?
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Agita on March 08, 2015, 01:10:02 PM
I was pretty bothered by us ignoring it too. xD  Lien was the only one that could see it and for some reason wasn't pointing it out to the rest of us, I had the feeling Justy had side infos on what it was and was trolling us. :<  If Lien actually saw something dangerous in game, why wouldn't she point it out?  "It's over there, avoid it."  How could we avoid it without knowing where it was?
Quote
[06:22:41] <Lien> "Hold. Weird thing." Lien signals for the others to stop.
[...]
[06:25:45] <Lien> "It... It's got a skeleton, but it doesn't look too interested in us? Move on, but keep an eye on it."
The only private information I had was "it doesn't look like it cares about you", which I did communicate. As I see it, it's basically a predator who's just eaten - not hungry, but not to be provoked (and not to be near when it gets hungry again).
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Bozwevial on March 08, 2015, 09:53:49 PM
The only private information I had was "it doesn't look like it cares about you", which I did communicate. As I see it, it's basically a predator who's just eaten - not hungry, but not to be provoked (and not to be near when it gets hungry again).
Pretty much my thoughts. Almost certainly another shambling mound, which we'd rather not get into a fight with right after the gargoyles. Last time we had the good fortune to lock it down and we still nearly lost a party member during the surprise round alone. With all of us a little battered and low on spell slots/ki points/superiority dice, it'd be a much riskier fight the second time around.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on March 08, 2015, 10:00:27 PM
Quote from: OOC Channel, not private
[06:24:30] <Zeni> another shambling mound? ; ;
[06:24:37] <[DM]> smaller
[06:24:46] <[DM]> it apparently looked at you
[06:24:48] <[DM]> went meh
[06:24:53] <[DM]> and continued cuddling it's prize
T_T It's bothering meee!  Tell me your secrets, stupid smaller-than-a-shambling-mound bush!  And Lien totally would've pointed it out.  :<
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Agita on March 09, 2015, 02:29:54 AM
Quote from: OOC Channel, not private
[06:24:30] <Zeni> another shambling mound? ; ;
[06:24:37] <[DM]> smaller
[06:24:46] <[DM]> it apparently looked at you
[06:24:48] <[DM]> went meh
[06:24:53] <[DM]> and continued cuddling it's prize
T_T It's bothering meee!  Tell me your secrets, stupid smaller-than-a-shambling-mound bush!  And Lien totally would've pointed it out.  :<
She openly talked about it to the other party members, which implies that she did. I mean, I guess I didn't explicitly post "Lien points at the thing and tells everyone it's there", but I'd think the two lines constitute a pointing out. That was the intent, in any case.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on March 09, 2015, 06:36:46 PM
Man the power of suggestion.

It would be funny if the party tore itself apart because of a shambling mound who didn't give two shits about us.  :P
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on March 10, 2015, 07:16:15 PM
Veekie's laptop is toast. He's trying to find solutions that don't cost a lot or entirely cost-free.

Stay tuned for updates.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on March 10, 2015, 07:20:34 PM
Mmhmm :< He's got his phone IRC client and Creobot's in the channel already, might be able to make do with that?  DMing from a phone though, poor Veekie.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on March 11, 2015, 09:08:57 AM
It will be hell for him, it's only Wednesday, patience, he might have it sorted out before game time.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on March 12, 2015, 06:28:25 AM
Quote from: http://media.wizards.com/2015/downloads/dnd/EE_PlayersCompanion.pdf
Control Flames
Transmutation cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: S
Duration: Instantaneous or 1 hour (see below)
You choose nonmagical flame that you can see within range and that fits within a 5-foot cube. You affect it in one of the following ways:
• You instantaneously expand the flame 5 feet in one direction, provided that wood or other fuel is present in the new location.
• You instantaneously extinguish the flames within the cube.
• You double or halve the area of bright light and dim light cast by the flame, change its color, or both. The change lasts for 1 hour.
• You cause simple shapes—such as the vague form of a creature, an inanimate object, or a location—to appear within the flames and animate as you like. The shapes last for 1 hour.
If you cast this spell multiple times, you can have up to three of its non-instantaneous effects active at a time, and you can dismiss such an effect as an action.

Can Zeni just have this innately? :3 Pretty pretty please?  In lieu of that, might take it over shocking grasp despite it being kind of useless mechanically compared to it.  Fits her more! .v.

Guuuh, so many cantrips I want, maybe I should've gone for the earlier class dip afterall. :'<
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on March 16, 2015, 08:17:45 AM
Zeni, you might not have noticed this, but once you hit character level 11, your eldritch blast turns into 3 bolts. With Agonizing Blast that means 3 x 1d10 + Cha damage.  :love
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on March 16, 2015, 08:22:48 AM
Oh, yeah, I know, and a sorcerer can twin spells... so 2x agonizing eldritch blasts a turn.  Gets absurd pretty quickly. :>  Going Sorcerer 3 and Warlock 2 enables that combo at level 5, which is nuts, but I'm going the less min-max route of going ~sorcerer 8 then warlock 2, if we get that far.  At level 6 sorcerer, Zeni will add cha to all fire damage, so Scorching Ray will become pretty absurd, but that's far more costly than just EB spam.

Thanks, though!
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on March 16, 2015, 08:27:08 AM
Oh, yeah, I know, and a sorcerer can twin spells... so 2x agonizing eldritch blasts a turn.  Gets absurd pretty quickly. :>  Going Sorcerer 3 and Warlock 2 enables that combo at level 5, which is nuts, but I'm going the less min-max route of going ~sorcerer 8 then warlock 2, if we get that far.  At level 6 sorcerer, Zeni will add cha to all fire damage, so Scorching Ray will become pretty absurd, but that's far more costly than just EB spam.

Thanks, though!

Your scorching ray is costly because it costs slots. So yeah EB will be your bread and butter blast.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on March 16, 2015, 10:37:11 PM
Multiclassing Prerequisites

Class Ability       Score Minimum
Barbarian           Strength 13
Bard                  Charisma 13
Cleric                 Wisdom 13
Druid                 Wisdom 13
Fighter               Strength 13 or Dexterity 13
Monk                 Dexterity 13 and Wisdom 13
Paladin              Strength 13 and Charisma 13
Ranger              Dexterity 13 and Wisdom 13
Rogue               Dexterity 13
Sorcerer            Charisma 13
Warlock             Charisma 13
Wizard              Intelligence 13

Multiclassing Proficiencies

Class Proficiencies Gained
Barbarian                       Shields, simple weapons, martial weapons
Bard                              Light armor, one skill of your choice, one musical instrument of your choice
Cleric                             Light armor, medium armor, shields
Druid                             Light armor, medium armor, shields (druids will not wear armor or use shields made of metal)
Fighter                          Light armor, medium armor, shields, simple weapons, martial weapons
Monk                             Simple weapons, shortswords
Paladin                          Light armor, medium armor, shields, simple weapons, martial weapons
Ranger                          Light armor, medium armor, shields, simple weapons, martial weapons, one skill from the class’s skill list
Rogue                           Light armor, one skill from the class’s skill list, thieves’ tools
Sorcerer                        —
Warlock                         Light armor, simple weapons
Wizard                           —
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on March 16, 2015, 10:40:16 PM
Technically I could dip 1 level in Fighter at level 6 for the Duelist fighting style and proficiencies.

Or take Bard or Rogue for skills. Bard gives me Bardic Inspiration while Rogue gives me 1d6 Sneak Attack.

Trying to ham in the Paladin seems silly now that I had taken a good long look at the PHB.

Story-wise, could fit Ranger in late game.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on March 17, 2015, 12:36:57 AM
I could see Alyssa being a bard, her alcohol brewing and folk-hero-ness really blend well with that, but I'd suggest either going straight warlock or going warlock/rogue.

The main thing I see people doing with warlock/rogue (warlock 5/rogue ?) is taking the Devil's Sight invocation and the Darkness (2nd level) spell.  If Alyssa were to do that, enemies would have to bumble into her darkness and manage to stand next to her to even get a real shot at hitting her, and then they'd do so with disadvantage.  Meanwhile, she'd have advantage on all of her attacks within the darkness, and she'd get sneak attacks.  It's just a tiiiiiny bit cheesy, but the party would greatly benefit from Alyssa being less hesitant to go into melee with her sword of awesomeness.

Downside being that Alyssa's temp hp thing has served her very well, this setup would leave no room for it, and that well, the rest of the party can't see through magical darkness. :v  This could be remedied by Alyssa having her own targets or just moving 15ft in, attacking, then moving 15ft away again, or just moving away if enemies follow into her darkness.

Most other decent blade lock options are strength focused with a Polearm + Polearm Mastery, with dips helping with getting heavy armor.  Overall I think you might have enjoyed just playing a straight Eldritch Knight fighter more, but it's a bit late for that kind of change.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on March 17, 2015, 12:56:05 AM
Alyssa isn't hesitant using Last Blood, just gotta be selective on the targets.

Anyway I can see Alyssa hit Bard 3 and resuming Warlock.

And it depends on the encounter with the Nymphs later on. She might just transition to Ranger.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on March 21, 2015, 09:20:33 PM
Just had a chat with Zeni and figured that Alyssa would use the tentacle rod in conjunction with her tanking.

And with that much money, what we gonna do with it? Take over our hometowns as mayor?

Also, Alyssa carries loads of bottles, should be enough to store all the blood.

Can I roll Arcana to find out what dragons' last blood can be used for?
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on March 22, 2015, 04:31:41 AM
Protip from Veekie. Zeni attunes the tentacle rod and mounts it on Vanilla.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on March 22, 2015, 09:11:00 AM
W-What, is that an actual tip or just a joke? ;~;

Vanilla confirmed for DMPC.  THAT DM.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on March 22, 2015, 06:45:00 PM
W-What, is that an actual tip or just a joke? ;~;

Vanilla confirmed for DMPC.  THAT DM.

Not a joke. It's a suggestion he had. And it makes sense. 15ft of threat.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on March 22, 2015, 06:49:41 PM
15 ft of threat with the intelligence of a puppy.  Nothing is wrong with this plan! :>

I'm up for trying it out though, if Alyssa's passing on the rod.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on March 22, 2015, 10:16:42 PM
I would have let the bird carry it, but it's too heavy for it to fly.

Don't worry about it. It's yours.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Prime32 on March 27, 2015, 10:50:15 PM
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Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on March 27, 2015, 10:52:08 PM
God.  Dammit.

Now that terrible idea is immortalized.  For forever.  Dx

T-Thanks? x3 Hahaha
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on March 29, 2015, 04:49:25 AM
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xRFNBWST25E/SWRV_jREvWI/AAAAAAAACtw/ZZv24lNRP_M/s1600/Dragon%2BMutant%2BVehicle.jpg)

Ok so the cat is not actively using the tentacle rod. Do we want to let Zeni use it directly instead?
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on March 29, 2015, 09:51:02 PM
Dragon carriage is so silly and yet still manages to be mildly tempting.

As for Vani and the tentacle rod, yeah, let's just have Zeni use it I guess. :'3  Bit too silly.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on April 05, 2015, 03:17:11 AM
We'll just let Last Blood run it's course, unless someone else has a magical weapon Alyssa can use instead.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on April 05, 2015, 03:44:47 AM
It's really not a lot to ask that she simply avoid delivering killing blows to things that might possibly be related to Yeenoghu's interests and/or the prophecy. xD  Any one of us could've told you that finishing the paladin with it was a pretty bad idea.

Besides that, you just got a second attack at 5th level (You did take that invocation, right?  Thirsting Blade), so Last Blood is even better than ever.  It's an absurdly good weapon for you considering your level, but we can be on the look out for something else.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Agita on April 05, 2015, 06:38:05 AM
It's really not a lot to ask that she simply avoid delivering killing blows to things that might possibly be related to Yeenoghu's interests and/or the prophecy. xD  Any one of us could've told you that finishing the paladin with it was a pretty bad idea.
I did, as a matter of fact.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on April 05, 2015, 07:00:11 AM
That's fine. Yeenoghu is an alright fella.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on April 12, 2015, 01:27:43 PM
Tiring of the happy-making staff (phrasing) and the damn frolicking animals, Zeni demands a weapon and role swap with Alyssa.  She cuts her twin tails short as a sign of her dedication to her new role!!

(http://i.imgur.com/AFTZ8u8.jpg) (http://i.imgur.com/aGY1Mn9.jpg)

Exceptshewearspanties.  Andisn'tsololi.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on April 13, 2015, 12:32:26 AM
Zeni can't tank worth a damn, so even with a melee weapon Zeni would just get cut down quickly.

But sure, if you think Zeni can do a better job, we'll see *taunttaunt*

Happy-making staff *hurhurhur*
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on April 13, 2015, 12:37:00 AM
Zeni obviously hit her head pretty hard and became a barbarian as a result. :<  And stumbled upon an ogre strength belt. :<  And a con one. :<  Duh.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on April 13, 2015, 12:40:40 AM
That's two belts, if you weren't counting.  Zeni is now sponsored by square enix.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on April 13, 2015, 04:16:52 AM
If you have those two belts, and levels in barbarian..sure go ahead.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on April 13, 2015, 07:27:07 PM
Just note, PC is dead, motherboard fried.

Laptop still working, but very slowly.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on April 13, 2015, 08:02:29 PM
Owwwch... :<  Are you sure its the mobo?  It can often be difficult to narrow things down to being the mobo without spare parts.

Regardless, good luck. T_T  I'm good at hardware stuffs if you need any help!
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on April 13, 2015, 10:18:01 PM
Owwwch... :<  Are you sure its the mobo?  It can often be difficult to narrow things down to being the mobo without spare parts.

Regardless, good luck. T_T  I'm good at hardware stuffs if you need any help!

Here's my diagnostics step by step:

1) Change monitors and keyboard to see if there's an error
2) Remove power to dvd drive and HDDs and boot up
3) Remove RAM and boot up
4) Remove GPU and boot up
5) Conclude that even after all the above steps, no beeping cues from mobo
6) Conclusion = Mobo gone

I've got the tech guys on speed dial...no funds to get a whole new computer.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on April 13, 2015, 10:24:43 PM
Power supplies die with far greater frequency than motherboards and none of your steps ruled that out!  When you attempt to power on, does the PSU fan spin up at all?  Does the diagnostic light (or any light) on the mobo ever come on?  If you're getting NOTHING it's far more likely its the PSU, imo!

If it's just the PSU then that won't take too much money to replace. :3

Oh and most motherboards need at least one stick of ram in to even begin POSTing, the proper way to test ram is to have one in DIMM0 and swap that stick with another till it has failed to boot with each one etc.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on April 13, 2015, 10:39:10 PM
Power supplies die with far greater frequency than motherboards and none of your steps ruled that out!  When you attempt to power on, does the PSU fan spin up at all?  Does the diagnostic light (or any light) on the mobo ever come on?  If you're getting NOTHING it's far more likely its the PSU, imo!

If it's just the PSU then that won't take too much money to replace. :3

Oh and most motherboards need at least one stick of ram in to even begin POSTing, the proper way to test ram is to have one in DIMM0 and swap that stick with another till it has failed to boot with each one etc.

Yeah I forgot to mention I swapped the PSU out. Even with the old one, the mobo lights were all on and the fan spun up.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on April 24, 2015, 08:21:49 AM
Curious about the staffs that uses charges to cast spells, are they cast at your CL or at the base caster level?
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Agita on April 25, 2015, 02:13:24 AM
They use your stats for everything. There's not really such a thing as caster level in 5e.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on April 28, 2015, 01:26:15 AM
Quote from: IRC
[21:51:52] * Alyssa (~Alyssa@94BA2BB7.CB48A196.6339BCF.IP) has joined #CrackOfDawnOOC
[21:51:58] <Alyssa> somebody have the logs?
[21:52:03] <Alyssa> I want to check the last session's logs
[21:59:15] * Alyssa (~Alyssa@94BA2BB7.CB48A196.6339BCF.IP) Quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds)
You've entered IRC and spoken a few times before Nick and I didn't see the message till you were gone. x3  If you want my attention, you have to beep me, say my name or Zeni or... I think even Alveri still beeps me. xD

That aside, sorry about lagging behind with the logs.  :'3  No excuse, just lazy.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on April 28, 2015, 11:04:54 AM
Quote from: IRC
[21:51:52] * Alyssa (~Alyssa@94BA2BB7.CB48A196.6339BCF.IP) has joined #CrackOfDawnOOC
[21:51:58] <Alyssa> somebody have the logs?
[21:52:03] <Alyssa> I want to check the last session's logs
[21:59:15] * Alyssa (~Alyssa@94BA2BB7.CB48A196.6339BCF.IP) Quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds)
You've entered IRC and spoken a few times before Nick and I didn't see the message till you were gone. x3  If you want my attention, you have to beep me, say my name or Zeni or... I think even Alveri still beeps me. xD

That aside, sorry about lagging behind with the logs.  :'3  No excuse, just lazy.

No problems, not something super urgent, I could just leave a message at the chatroom and you'll read it eventually.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: veekie on May 10, 2015, 06:19:13 AM
Alright,  since the sword is causing some undue strife, the following options are available for it(they were always available for the matter just bringing it up):

1) Cast the sword away. Know that the Flametongue/Frostbrand are the most powerful weapons in the available loot tables for raw damage value, and are immensely unlikely to be rolled again. This can be done immediately. However, the sword knows the taste of your blood and will become a complication if another wielder takes it up.

2) Trade the sword. The problem comes with finding someone willing to trade for an evil weapon, who has a non evil weapon available. Fortunately you're in the planes, where such things are possible, with a little luck. Complications are certain, but it won't be personal for the sword(who, after all, got a spanking new wielder).

3) Destroy the sword. It's not actually indestructible. Same issues with finding a replacement, and of course the actual smashing itself would be Interesting. Ensures the undying hatred of Yeenoghu, but what's life without a pissed off god?

4) Return the sword. Give it back to Yeenoghu for some reason.

5) Don't use it for the final blow on the creatures of prophecy. Its not complicated, the sword doesn't do anything unless it scores a kill.

Finally, there's no actual urgent need for a replacement weapon. The Blade Pact warlock is one of the few classes who come with built in magical weapon, so you never need to worry about bypassing DR.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on May 12, 2015, 06:35:55 AM
I'm down for option 2 and 5 and I propose 2 other options.

6) Format Last Blood and rewrite it into another weapon, it is after all only a magical item and not an artifact, and hence it would probably take an arc to accomplish that.
7) Alyssa leaves the party, I have a new character already written up that would be a better addition to the party. Storywise, the easiest would be that Alyssa leaves to lure the "wild hunt" away, and goes on her own adventures.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on May 12, 2015, 08:04:39 AM
You don't like option #3? :< 

1: We wouldn't just throw the sword away and let someone else start messing up with it.
2: We wouldn't just trade the sword away to someone that actually wants an evil sword unless they were like, some kind of paragon of goodness and were very powerful etc.  Demigod tier.
3: We'd totally destroy that shit.
4: Why would we ever do this ever?
5: We've been trying to do this.  It hasn't been working.
6: If Veekie were okay with this?  The planes might be a place where this could actually be accomplished. 
7: The party's not going to just let Alyssa run off with the sword when she has already caused so much trouble with it.

Zeni's current plan is to demand Alyssa unbind and relinquish the sword as soon as they step onto the other side of this gate.  The prophecy is too close to total fruition and with the way Alyssa's been acting its like she's possessed by it and has been out to fulfill the prophecy on purpose.  Being the most evil character in the party and still having such big problems with this, she's relatively certain Lien and Ellis will have her back.  If this results in PVP, then that's simply how the story plays out, but that's not at all the plan. 

Unless Alyssa actually is possessed by the sword (which veekie says she isn't), then she should see reason in being safe and giving it up, at least for now.  From there, the party will be on the lookout for a replacement, and well, Zenievil, even if we had to trick/murder some other good adventurers to get Alyssa a new nice weapon, she's up for that  (DanMachi style!  You'vebeenwatchingthat,right?).  Depending on the adventurers ofc.  If we found someone wanting to trade for the evil sword who didn't meet the above criteria, she'd be up for murdering them too, Lien might even be up for that!  Alyssa can bind any weapon and turn it into any other kind of weapon, so its not like we have to be on the lookout for a rapier or anything.  Any powerful melee weapon will do just fine.

And questions for Veekie:  I know that fire elementals won't like Zeni carrying a staff composed of elemental water into their border region, but would the earth elementals give a damn about it?  Would they like it?  Would stowing it in the bag of holding affect anything?

... Is using fireball to open the gate going to upset the earth elementals right beside us? I don't really imagine so, but just being safe, Zeni's knowledge roll should give her at least a hint on that.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on May 12, 2015, 09:26:37 AM
Any option that removes Last Blood without a replacement (or a rewrite) reduces my combat effectiveness.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on May 12, 2015, 10:11:40 AM
Is Alyssa, the character, going to worry about "oh no my theoretical DPS" or is she going to worry about "oh crap, they're right, those hellhounds were no joke and the (nigh) apocalypse might be on the brink of being unleashed!  My brothers, my family, everyone I know and love might get torn apart by horrid fiends if I mess up one more time!  Better hand this over and see about getting it destroyed, just in case." ?

You know damn well Veekie will try his best to get a new weapon for Alyssa on the next loot table if we get Last Blood away from her.  I mean, he thought up the trade option himself.  Zeni would offer up the tentacle rod if you still want that for some reason.

I'm not trying to attack you, Nick, or anything like that :< It just has made no sense that our party has let this Last Blood thing get as bad as we have.  We should've stopped it before.  Alyssa's lack of concern about it has been really strange.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: veekie on May 12, 2015, 11:05:02 AM
I'm down for option 2 and 5 and I propose 2 other options.

6) Format Last Blood and rewrite it into another weapon, it is after all only a magical item and not an artifact, and hence it would probably take an arc to accomplish that.
This is functionally destroying it/trading it. You won't get the same type of magic item back.
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7) Alyssa leaves the party, I have a new character already written up that would be a better addition to the party. Storywise, the easiest would be that Alyssa leaves to lure the "wild hunt" away, and goes on her own adventures.
The hellhounds are not the Wild Hunt. There are still a few conditions to be fulfilled for that.


And questions for Veekie:  I know that fire elementals won't like Zeni carrying a staff composed of elemental water into their border region, but would the earth elementals give a damn about it?  Would they like it?  Would stowing it in the bag of holding affect anything?
1) Elemental rivalry.
Fire dislikes Water(major) and Earth(minor), likes Air
Air dislikes Fire(minor) and Earth(major), likes Water
Water dislikes Fire(major) and Air(minor), likes Earth
Earth dislikes Air(major) and Water(minor), likes Fire

3) If they can't see it they don't care about it.

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... Is using fireball to open the gate going to upset the earth elementals right beside us? I don't really imagine so, but just being safe, Zeni's knowledge roll should give her at least a hint on that.
See above elemental chart.

As for replacement weapons, they can happen(spoilers, one magic weapon has already been rolled). For DPS, sorry, not happening unless I override the loot tables completely. The Flametongue/Frostbrand have a 0.1% chance of being rolled at this CR. The next best things are +2 and +1 weapons for raw DPS.

There are a lot more useful weapons, but for DPS those two are supreme until you reach the 11-15 loot tables, where you have about a 10% chance of getting  something as good.

Finally....Ellis doesn't even HAVE a magic weapon at all you know.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on May 16, 2015, 07:05:24 PM
Gauntlets!!!!!!!!  :love :love :love :love
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on May 30, 2015, 07:12:10 PM
So if Alyssa didn't break Last Blood we'd be 400xp short?
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on June 07, 2015, 03:23:46 AM
Made this money tracking spreadsheet since we seemed to have lost track:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OBJ2ixUbgyIQJPlWw05of0ZJ1lMiawmOeznz5QrRT9Y/edit#gid=0

We're not as rich as I thought we were. :<  Our dragon tank is 'spensive and that Amulet hurt Zeni's balance a lot, butshedeservesit.

Time to sell the dragon blood!
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on June 07, 2015, 03:29:05 AM
I'm not sure how wealth is measured in 5E, but with each of us carrying at least 3K gold pieces, I'm sure we're carrying the GDP equivalent of a large village, per each of us.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on July 26, 2015, 06:32:08 PM
Alyssa will leave the party, after weighing the risks and finding that she can't get her family back together again if she herself couldn't survive. She's well aware of Yeenoghu's obsession over her and would find ways and means to mitigate the danger, after all a single person could travel and escape more nimbly than a group.

She leaves the crystal soul behind with Lien and whatever she does not need.

Do we take this to RP or can we handle this OOC?
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on July 26, 2015, 07:23:47 PM
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Flaw: I am slow to trust members of other races, tribes, and societies.
Are you sure you want this? xD  Not very conducive for suddenly joining the party out of nowhere.

Other than that, sounds okay.  Maybe let's just OOC summarize how it goes?  Also rip gauntlets. :<
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on July 27, 2015, 09:53:36 AM
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Flaw: I am slow to trust members of other races, tribes, and societies.
Are you sure you want this? xD  Not very conducive for suddenly joining the party out of nowhere.

You're no paragon of exquisite society either  :rolleyes  :lol

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Other than that, sounds okay.  Maybe let's just OOC summarize how it goes?  Also rip gauntlets. :<

Not really a loss.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on July 28, 2015, 06:31:54 PM
I rerolled the flaw and came up with this

"I remember every insult I've received and nurse a silent resentment toward anyone who's ever wronged me."

This isn't good either. I'd rather do the slow to trust, because there's definitely room to grow to trust.

I'll add some more equipment and clean up the sheet and I'll be done.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Agita on July 29, 2015, 06:08:02 AM
Or you could just pick one instead of rolling or come up with one that isn't in the book.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on July 29, 2015, 09:20:57 AM
Or you could just pick one instead of rolling or come up with one that isn't in the book.

What sort of flaw would you recommend then?
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on August 20, 2015, 07:35:28 AM
I am unable to game this week due to work.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: veekie on October 09, 2015, 06:05:38 AM
As Boz is unable to game this week. Session is off.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on October 24, 2015, 11:42:55 AM
Ryla chooses cloak of protection.

Hopefully fur-trimmed or something.

Random Roll for Traits & Stuff

Creator - Fey
History - Heroic
Minor Property - Beacon (wtf...)
Quirk - Blissful (wtf...)
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: veekie on October 28, 2015, 04:22:45 AM
Traits already been rolled after you left the channel:
Origin - Elemental Fire
History - Arcane
Property - Strange Material
Quirk - Frail

It's a cloak of flaming embers which scatter when struck.
There's a strange logo across it.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Bozwevial on October 30, 2015, 11:30:04 PM
Might as well post them for the records. Spending my free item choice on gauntlets of ogre power, then swapping the ring of spell storing for a belt of hill giant strength and while I'm at it, the bracers of archery for an adamantine chain shirt.

[14:50:42] <Moirai> Gauntlets of Ogre Power: Fiend, Bane, Unbreakable, Repulsive
[14:53:29] <Moirai> Belt of Whatever Strength: Giant, Symbol of Power, Guardian, Slothful
[15:02:02] <Moirai> gauntlets are dark steel with  spiky bits, become bloody in the presence of angels, and feels vaguely gross
[15:04:46] <Moirai> the belt is bigass, has a giant gold buckle with a worn castle on it and makes you as sleepy as lien
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: :< on October 31, 2015, 12:15:37 AM
Zeni will take a cloak of protection, which she probably won't use, but hey, free loot for tradiiiing!
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Agita on October 31, 2015, 07:35:40 AM
Luckstone, I guess, just to be nonconformist.
Title: Re: OOC Blather
Post by: Nicklance on November 06, 2015, 09:56:42 PM
I have a colleague coming tonight to observe our game, again he might not show up either.

Either way, yes we have a guest.

Rock on!