I don't know if courageous is the right word!  Foolhardy and committed for sure though.  Sometimes you just gotta bear your fists and hope for the best.  Plus, dragons have a fair bit of gold with them at all times, right?  Money's important, yo!

Yeah, if it wasn't "in order" I might risk it. Or if we didn't have a party picked for balance and could switch out concepts as the rolls dictated, lol.

hence why I stated choose wisely, it seems sir you heeded the old hermit's warning.

But in all seriousness it is an option for those brave enough to try.

Actually since I have the two of you here Sef and Garret, I was rattling around in my head the idea that your two characters would have met before the party came together perhaps as caravan guards on a caravan from Neverwinter. I think the grizzled old mercenary and plucky young protegee could be a fun dynamic for the two of you. What do you both think?

Feel free to expand on that or scrap or change it, share backgrounds if you like, it was just one of the interpersonal party dynamics I thought would be fun it it were explored.

I will get much more specific with everyone's backgrounds once things begin to coalesce a little.
This message was last edited by the GM at 22:02, Sat 02 May 2020.

That would work for me.  I don't really have a preference for how or why Sef knows anyone and a caravan guard is as good a reason as any for her to be leaving Neverwinter.  I'll figure out a simple synopsis of her background for what she'd have shared with Garret or anyone else that would have gotten to know her in the interim.

Fast check in here. Yes, indeed, rolling straight down the character sheet is the sort of thing I would do if I wasn't trying to fit a particular character. However, since I am, I doubt I will be braving the roller but I will certainly ponder it.

If it was "Hey, try the roller, and if that doesn't work just take the array" then I'd gamble. I think everyone would.

The feat option is fine. I may not be taking it but I am glad to see it there.

Brock likes talking to people who make things. It doesn't really matter what they make! Take the usual 'thing' Dwarves have about Stonework and extend it outwards to makers and you understand. Brock is a guy who likes things to be in their place, so people who look put together as opposed to people who look like they just got out of bed. Brock happily laughs and jokes and stories but sucks at telling them himself.

Man, step away for an hour and this place blows up!

I prefer feats, myself.

Sounds good for a starting place to me. =)

I am a priest of Ilmater, so we should be covered there.

So we have a monk, a cleric, a fighter....not sure what class our dwarf friend is nor Nashford.
This message was last edited by the player at 23:43, Sat 02 May 2020.

What races are everyone? Gregar is human.

Nashford's player is probably asleep right now, but he is a halfling bard.

And Brock is a Rogue.
This message was last edited by the GM at 23:57, Sat 02 May 2020.

Fun Fact: 95% of the submissions were for humans. I had never been able to build an entire human party if I wanted, it blew my mind.

Humans can be fun, variant or normal, but I RTJed for a Half-Elf myself.

Do we still get and roll for a Trinket?



EDIT: Oh, and I'll pick Goldenrod for my speech color.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:26, Sun 03 May 2020.

And here I was expecting we'd have a predominantly magic-wielding party!  I guess I just always expect that but that's a nice change of pace.

I'll go with Aqua for mine.

Having run through this module once before, it can be... unforgiving at lower levels. So I wanted to make sure I had a meat-shield, dps, support, and healing covered. I like to think I succeeded. I opted away from a druid or ranger simply due to the fact that while both are wonderfully useful a straight up fighter can wield a bow and tank better while doing so, and a monk can theoretically hit harder, should flurry of misses ever be an actual flurry of blows while providing more martial flexibility, while a bard will cover any support spell-casting that would be required and be able lend buffs or inspirations which I feel would be more useful.

Though really no matter how I did it I was making some trade offs in party composition, and the module is made for a party of 4 so making a party of six would require me to change too much in the module, while I feel the power curve of the game can support a 5 player run.

That was my thinking anyway when it came to the crunch end of things, but there were soo many druids and rangers I fell in love with, but I had to make some calls. I tried building some parties with them in it but I felt this one had the strongest submissions and strongest survivablity possible.
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:11, Sun 03 May 2020.

In reply to Garret (msg # 23):

Yes you may roll for anything the creation process allows you to.
--------

On a side note, it seems the consensus was that Feats are allowed. So there is that, and I will now be working on some stuff that I will be PMing some of you about to tighten up or tidy up some backgrounds.

--------
Fun Fact of the Day: The character portrait I am using was actually a character I played once, saw him in the portraits and thought, yeah that's what a kobold would look like as a GM.

He was a pregen character I played at Gencon one year in a module called Sewer Dragons of Absalom where you played a bunch of Kobolds trying to trap and defend your home from adventurers sent to clean you out of the sewers.

I’m playing around with stats right now. Obviously wisdom and I want a highish charisma. I can manage a 14 intelligence if I go 8 strength, leaving 12 and 10 for dex and con. I’m guessing I won’t be needed as a front line fighter, but thought I’d put it to the group for commentary.

My advice is that you will at least want to be able to climb a rope, or out of a pit, or swim.

That’s helpful to know. As it stands it’s between 8 and 10, so not much help climbing a rope either way.

By request I have added the character sheet template to your character details pages, please fill it out once you are ready. And I will need a statement from everyone once they are done stating they are done stetting up their backgrounds and working them in with whomever they wish and filling out their crunch.

Out of curiosity, what is our resident bard's instrument of choice?  Trying to decide on one for Sef and no one wants to listen to just one set of bagpipes when they can instead have two!  Joking, but just curious.

I don't know, the pandemic has been causing crazy demand at where he works, and so he is likely at work. I have not tried calling him today since he will likely be too busy to talk until he gets off of work.

Oh no worries!  I don't think you're going to cement me to a pan flute before the game even starts if that's just what I put for now.

I'm just about done with my character sheet at this point and I think Garrett and I don't have much else to share for our backgrounds.  If there's an event that would have happened while it was just us two, you can throw it in the private message thread we were talking in, DM.

No; I think that most of the background stuff for everyone is done except for Nash, which should be getting hammered out today at some point most likely.

As for Brock and Gregar, I don't see much of a way to tie them together in an interesting way other than seeing each other in town once or twice, so I think we are 80% ready, just need everyone's crunch done and updated in their character sheets.

Oh and Sef I need your character sheet updated with the languages you know. I will be using the language scripts the site has, so that when people are talking in different languages, the text appears as some form of foreign language instead of the actual text, to those who do not know the language.