VNut, I sent you a private message but you replied with this instead of reading it. Now you get a more severe public reprimand.
I don't know how serious you are, but no. Do not start shit with your fellow players. This raises a huge red flag for me which goes with other small not actually red flags you've already raised.
I'm getting the impression that you're viewing this game as a serious competition between the players and I, and that you need to pull out all the stops to make sure that I don't curb stop everyone. What you've said makes me feel like you think that any mistake will end in player death.
If you threaten to take away another player's agency and fun you will be removed from this game. I'm not going to put up with it, period.
...To be fair, I literally did not notice the message. On account of said things being shown solely as a barely-bolded number next to My Messages, which is on a bar that's of no interest to me outside the rare cases I
do get a PM.
And it's that I have
no clue what the overall numbers breakdown of 5e actually is, so I can't reliably judge what kind of lethality can be expected from a Warlock charging into melee without readied backup is. This is my first time doing any actual playing of 5e, and my first time doing a Play by Post, so I'm kinda going off of what seems reasonable for treatment of spontaneous combat without much understanding of the details. Namely, avoid at all costs.
Also, Command only lasts one round. At best, it delays two or three rounds on a failed save, which will have almost no chance of getting past 50% by more than one or two points of DC. It's not that huge of a fun-killer, more a mood-killer because it basically takes what
should be a low-preparation fight and delays it a round or two for forced preparation. Even just a single use of Bless can shift the resultant fight quite a bit(bless actually seems like an absurdly good 1st level buff, seeing as how it's +1d4 to all attack rolls and saves for a minute in a game that assumes 5-round fights), which isn't exactly doable if a person just runs in on account of the 30 ft. range limit of Bless.
My sheet should be ready now that I have a weightless stone block as my mysterious trinket of plot.
Weightless? Does that mean it only slows down from air resistance if thrown? Does it just sit in midair if you let go of it, drifting in the wind? HOW DOES THIS INTERACT WITH PHYSICS!? And before you pull gravity as spacetime curvature and thus ignoring mass,
weightless means it's unaffected by gravity, because weight is the measurement of the downwards force exerted by an object due to gravity, so zero weight means it is unaffected by gravity.
...I really do need a background, then I'm set to go. Having located a wiki that helpfully sources backgrounds, There's literally a Pirate background that's a variant on the Sailor background, but I don't think a Lawful Cleric of a goddess of Mercy would fit in with them... Charlatan has a listed personality trait that'd be hilarious for a Cleric to have, but sadly that falls under Trickery domain far better.
I'll just go with Sage and have fun being a moderately beefy nerd-priest.