Works for us!

-puts in earplugs- not sure everyone heard you. Could you yell louder?

A 3rd shifter like me is going to have a bloody devil of a time keeping up with all this conversing we have going on.

GM: I, too, am curious about the flexibility of backgrounds.

In reply to Risshil (msg # 75):

Its what happens when barbarians meet up, wait til the celebration begins.

Apologies, I've moved the half-orc conversation to private threads to cut down on spam.

I like the idea of all 1/2 orc party.  Could make for some interesting Roleplaying!

Also difficult to keep up for those of us in a different time zone :)

Meriele is another noble, and fairly good at talking to people.

Oooh, another noble. Nice.

I could pick up theif's tools proficiency next level when I go bard. It fits along the archaeologist flavor I want with him. There are always traps in ruins, so one must always be prepared.

So I'm a bit lost on group organizing are we putting ourselves into groups or is the GM going to do it? And if the players are doing it who wants the Monk Forest Gnome with a either Hermit or Sage background (though some combination of the two would be more accurate).

The DM hasn't made any official groups. Someone suggested groups based on covering roles. I think all the half-orcs gravitated together and decided to be a clan. I believe I am the only Dragonborn, but just found out I'm not the only noble, so I definitely am gonna work to make ties there.

AS stated before, Risshil will work best with a group of adventure lovers, those who enjoy traipsing through ruins and unlocking mysteries of ancient cultures. Also ones who don't see violence as the first and only solution to a problem.

Also stated that Miriele and Risshil will probably get along well. The sun elf and wood elf diversity would be interesting to role play as well.
This message was last edited by the player at 06:04, Wed 23 Sept 2015.

As I plan on taking Hai into the Way of the Four Elements tradition I'll probably have him focus on learning/discovering new ideas about combining magic and martial arts. More student of the world especially since his temple home has been destroyed and he is using the tragedy as an opportunity to go out and see a lot of things for the first time. He would probably mesh well with more arcane types and less with wild frenzy killing types.

In reply to Hai Tao (msg # 83):

DM said to make what groupings we wanted.  The half orcs seem to.have done do, and Tarkun seems to want to form a group for the country club set, which makes sense.  I assume the DM  will match up the stragglers on his own, after he sees what's left unmatched.

Seems like Meriele, Risshil, Hai and I would make a good group. At least socially.

Not the most combat efficient group but would make for excellent RP. I'd say adding a straight fighter to balance out the mechanics (who isn't completely prone to violence) and we'd have a group.

Roll for gold, pick gear as per character class. Nothing extra compared to PHB, except as follows...


Run those alterations with me through PMs. I should allow everything as long as you stay out of the realm of ridiculous.

So, for now it seems we have team half-WAAAAAGH formed. The three dwarf brothers could fit together, if they find a fourth. The pansiesnobles could go together as well if they find a meatshield. So that leaves the slowest-posting unfortunates for the fourth group, right?

Remember, you can all mix and match between missions - the groups aren't permanent.

You really gonna call someone who can do infinite d10 damage a pansie? :P

Pansies are defined by habits, not by damage per round. ;)

Hmmm. It seems, fate decided to have Ghere somehow connected to the orky band. Because names are a sign...
This message was last edited by the GM at 07:29, Wed 23 Sept 2015.

I'm not seeing a lot of viable fighter options for our little band. If Caine joined us we could have two monks to dish out punches of death if need be.

Keep in mind that not every encounter/adventure is a fight. If need be, I can trade out Magic Missile for Mage Armor.

Which brings me to something I'm wondering DM. Mage armor says the target gets AC of 13+Dex bonus. What if they have a class feature (like Barbarian) where they add another stat as well? Would that stack? Essentially bumping the base AC to 13?

AFAIK, when some feature sets your AC to a certain level (13+dex bonus), it is cummulative with things that give AC bonus, but not with other things that set your AC to somehthing. So having three features settnig your AC to 13+dex bonus would result in the character having an AC of 13+dex bonus.

(Yeah, that does make Mage Armor kinda useless for you. I don't have my books with me, but perhaps you can have a custom version that gives +1 AC instead. We'll work something out.)
This message was last edited by the GM at 09:08, Wed 23 Sept 2015.

I wasn't concerned for me. If I took it, it would be for the other party members. I just wanted to make sure that it wouldn't overwrite any class feature.

@Tarkun Hey I'm good with it just being the four of us if necessary but sometimes it's better to be safe ya know.