Re: Tavern Talk (OOC)
I thought the fight was good. I think always fighting in Bear from will get pretty old for me personally, but there are other forms to assume, so that will add enough variety. I thought of staying in caster form and using some spells, but being at sea, For the first round, I was prepared to use Entangle to just keep them on the boat and let us have a few rounds of missile fire. I was worried that Entangle would be wasted though (could the deck to substitute for 'the ground' as per the spell writeup?), so I just avoided that issue all together by going straight to Fozzie form.
Now that Ulfgar (IC) has seen Corros, Gronk, Jenna, and Nicolai fight, he'll be much more likely to utilize his spells in combat to buff/debuff, rather than always jumping into bear form. Plus hopefully we'll be on land at some point, which will be better for a lower level druid since he can't assume aquatic shapes just yet.
One of the restrictions for animal forms is that you can't talk, so I think when shifted, I'll probably not initiate too much planning via that mechanism, since there's no IC explanation for it. That said, understanding and following others spoke commands shouldn't be a problem, so I'm happy to go along with whatever is decided there.
I wanted to get more RP stuff in about how much is sucks to lose 13 hps all at once (just because you have 34 HP doesn't mean its not painful to get a beatdown), but since I'm pressed for time these days, I didn't get in as much as I wanted to. Lots of hitpoints and low AC seems to be the downside of most forms and with the character I'm trying to explore the implications of suddenly being a bear, or spider, or whatever.
Alright those are my random Sunday morning ramblings.
TL;DR version great fight, looking forward to where we go from here.
PS: is that 1000 xp each and also, do we have a count of the Slaves (I'm either going to give them all my rations and water, or Goodberry them, because either way, I know they must be hungry/thirsty).