But let us not be so picayune about this. The room is to be searched and then we are to depart. With Harry gone, we can return at our leisure.

Derry, it's not petty to have concerns, and if there is a concern, they should not just be brushed aside by others as unimportant.

The answer was a simple error, so it turned out there was no larger issue to worry about.
But not knowing that, and at one point being told that was not the case, it left me wondering if I had misunderstood the rules on missile into melee, or if there was an issue with the movement in general, or if my post was invalidated by something, or there was something else that was not adding up or possibly mistaken on my part.

So, yes, we are searching and departing. That does not prevent asking for clarifications, and I am happy to have received one.

I didn't intend to be dismissive. Maybe a better response would have been to suggest having those sort of exchanges via PM and then present the conclusion in the OOC.

670gp, 95cp/4 =
167 GP, 5sp, 24 CP each

DM, should Harry have added one to his NPC reaction roll, owing to Derry's charisma bonus? I would think that applies equally to intimidation and charm.

I don't think we have yet been told the amount of coins recovered from Harry's?
It was said to be silver and gold.

How much can the silver rods be sold for?
I assume the tools and such are worthless, since there was no mention on them before.

For the coins, does that work out to about 300gp, 233sp, 31cp each (for 3 people)?
How much is Preston? Wyndham'll chip in for his wages.

That's 670 GP and 95 CP.
/3=223 GP and 3 SP and about 31 CP

In reply to Derry the Dwarf (msg # 927):
Thank you

Yes, thank you! I had missed that sum in message #338.
I think that 670 GP and 95 CP divided by 3 would be 223gp, 6sp, and 5cp exactly though.

We will need to figure out the rods though- am I correct that we are not going to pay to have detect magic cast on them? (Kara does not have enough gold to add detect magic to her book yet.)
This message was last edited by the player at 08:35, Mon 07 Mar 2022.

The 700 silver pieces are 700 silver pieces, you need to include this in your division of treasure not change them into gold. If you wish to swap them for gold pieces you will need to take them to a money lender.

Yes, this is correct and how NPC reaction rolls work.

Fine.
212gp, 116sp, and 5cp  each to Derry and Wyndham.

Kara took the same amount but with more silver (and copper) and less gold, then spends the silver (and copper) at the store buying equipment, and paying expenses, such as lodging, food, Preston’s fee, etc.
This message was last edited by the player at 11:09, Mon 07 Mar 2022.

Yes spend the silver first :-)

The copper actually went on the counter first! ^_^

I updated our map of the basement and fixed the size issue.

Looks like luck's a Kara tonight.

I'll hold off on believing that until we are back in town.

So I can prepare what's the plan for the next delve?

A return to Modnar's Tower and its three skeletons.

No exp for Kara and Devin for the 100 GP bounty?

No, the gold wasn't brought back from dungeon.

If a valuable book is brought back from the dungeon and then sold for gold in town, is that worth xp? If so, would not the head be a similar case?

The split:
There were two parts to this bounty- killing Harry, and then bringing him back.
Kara was there for both parts, the others for one part each.

I see four ways of doing the split:

One share to everyone for each part they had.
That would be 40 to Kara (28 after she pays Preston from her share), 20 each to Wyndham, Derry, and Devin.
This would be the fairest way, since it takes into account who was actually there.

Ignore who was present or not present and just divide it 4 ways for 25 gold each.
The most equitable, but also the least fair, since Kara was present for both halves, but winds up with the least amount (13 gold), since she is paying Preston from her share.

Ignore who killed Harry earlier and base it solely on who brought the treasure out. That would be 50 gold each to Devin and Kara.
Not technically unfair, since we had not thought about the head earlier and this was a new delve. But I don't care for it, since it does not take into account Wyndham and Derry's earlier contribution, and seems too mercenary to cut them out.

Split the difference- Pay Preston his fee for the second trip out of the gold first, and divide the rest. That gives Preston his twelve gold, and 22 gold to Kara, Devin, Derry, and Wyndham.
That was the one Kara used, but if anyone has an issue with this, or has a better idea, we can certainly change it.
This message was last edited by the player at 15:49, Tue 15 Mar 2022.

The distinction for me is that a valuable book can be sold at any town whereas Harry's head can only be sold to Athalgrim otherwise it has no value. To award XP for completion of a task such as this leads to  awards for a story or a quest, which then puts the focus of the game on the DM rather than the players as the DM decides what deserves XP so players will naturally follow this and soon be railroaded down the DMs story. This to me is neither fun nor interesting.

DM, I don't think this problem, as you describe it, warrants the solution you've chosen. Or, perhaps to be more precise, I don't think this has developed into a problem or is likely to. We've been blundering about, mostly on our own, since 11/2020, and we're not about to start checking out the Dead or Alive posters. I do think Kara and Devin should be rewarded for their risky undertaking, and should we ever become too dependent on quest leads, we deal with it then.
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 15:40, Tue 15 Mar 2022.

They were rewarded, in gold pieces and perhaps garnered some favour with Athalgrim.