I got a neat trinket. And some neat stuff developing with DM. Playing the inventive artificer girl is going to be fun :D  Will work more tomorrow. Back from sister's, time to sleep~!

32 point buy btw

thanks for catching that. Mind and memory have been spotty for the last day or two X_x; so herctic.

I would hate for you to have to readjust everything

I do believe I am done.  I may swap out my Fog spell for Entangling Snare last minute. Still unsure.  Fog reskinned to be a blinding swarm fits my concept better.

Wow, I'm torn on a cantrip selection.

Race: Mending
Magic Initiate: Mind Sliver, ?????
Class: Thorn Whip, Guidance
All-Purpose Tool: 1 cantrip of any class for 8 hours/day.
Trinket: My random trinket gave me Create Bonfire as an Artificer Spell. Neat

My second magic initiate spell was initially going to be minor illusion, but I'm now finding myself considering Control Flame, Toll the Dead, or Shocking Grasp for various reasons. I've got spells among my cantrips that hit AC, Dexterity Save, and Intelligence Save. Control Flame adds some neat functionality and flavor, but it only works with nonmagical fire, such as that spawned by bonfire, not bonfire itself :D  Still, it could be quite good (and using it to put out fires makes sense for a tinkerer, too...)  Toll the Dead offers a high damage Wisdom Save cantrip.  Shocking Grasp gets advantage vs metal-armored targets and can be delivered via her familiar, and broadens her damage types.

Minor Illusion is also *really* good, though. but she's neither sneaky or socially adept enough to make full use of it, I think. input welcome.

Control Flame sounds good if you're planning to use your cannon as a flamethrower. :-)

It does. Plus I still have the 1/day all-purpose tool effect to grab any cantrip and treat it as an artificer cantrip... (the really silly part of that, though... apparently I can grab Vicious Mockery with it :D hehe)

Updated my description :D Working on my sheet, but for now, sleeps ~!

In reply to Claira Liadon (msg # 43):

Yay-congrats!

JAs I have been asked by a couple of people. You can spend your gold on whatever you can afford with it. This includes magical items. I can provide cost for the items that your looking at.

I'll be looking over character sheets for those who have them done soon. Thank you all for baring with me while character creation wraps up. I hope to start the game by end of week.

Clarification on HP: is the minimum result 'half the die size' or 'half the die size +1' (IE, the flat value listed in the book)?
Minor difference on my current HP rolls. (2 hp) but worth confirming.

Woo, hectic week so far. Apartment inspection happened with minimal notice, plus general stuff going on.  Sheet's pretty much worked out, except the finer points of exactly what adventuring gear I have purchased, but I know how much coin I have to work with, and I've got the bag of holding infusion so weight is a minimal object.

Loos like everyone is mostly done with their sheets. I'll try to go over everyone's tomorrow after work. Hopefully it wont be a super long day for me.  If all goes well I'll get the first IC post up this Friday.

Sheets are looking good so far. I've messaged a couple of you on a few things but overall looking good. Have one player yet to start their sheet, but I don't see that causing a delay (other than for them) to the start of the game this Friday. I've also posted up a combat tracker for us to use during combat. I think the use of this well help in keeping track of everything, as well as allowing our healers to see who is in need.

As the one who designed it, if the 'table coding' is a pain, there's no reason you have to use the table format, as long as it's got the essential info there. I only use trackers like that because editing the sheet constantly is annoying (and sometimes a recipe for a mistake)

I've found that tables didn't display properly on character details on the beta rpol site. But that was several months ago. If you do have a problem viewing the character sheet, just remove the tables and it will work.

Thanks for the tracker! I was wondering how we would handle character stats during combat.

Should we each add a tracker to our cast page, or should we have a separate thread where we keep the trackers for everyone? Meaning everyone who wants to use them, of course.

Also, a question about the house rules -- under "Level Advancement", it says we start with 2,250 XP. Just to make sure I understand it correctly: is that 2,250 XP in addition to the 6,500 for 5th level? Also, it says that's half the XP for our level, but in that case shouldn't it be 3,250?

Also, since I'm playing a librarian, a grammar-related question for the DM:

Do you have any preferences about how we should post as our characters? First person or third person, present tense or past tense?

Some games seem to have fixed rules for that, so I just wanted to check.

And are our PCs starting out knowing each other or no?

My understanding is that the GM is somehow using experience for item crafting, though I do not have the details. So far, I've been hoping/expecting to use the Xanathar's guidelines for that, though I know the GM has something in mind for it. I'm all for milestone leveling and not having to fuss with XP at all, but yeah. As for starting knowing each other...

I could see Claira starting with awareness of the following PCs, potentially:

Lady Amarantha is (in one identity) a fellow noble, and (in the other), a figure that I think Claira would find intriguing, depending on what is known about the masked heroine. She does have great Perception and Investigation (passive and otherwise), and it's possible she knows they're one in the same if you're game for that...  If not, I'd still love for her to know you potentially, in one way or another.

Rheanna - As an academic of sorts, I think some interaction is completely viable :D I don't know the details, and would be willing to take ideas for such a thing. It seems like she's maybe facing more difficulties or problems, or has some other main goal than academic pursuits, so we could get into ideas regarding that.

Vehemance - I don't know a ton specifically about Vee, but I just in general love the concept and wouldn't mind tinkering up some past encounter~!

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I think we've all received a separate invitation to come and  hear out Lord Corvan about what he wants to hire us for.

To answer Questions.

Actual Level advancement will be done using Milestone. The experience you receive will be strictly for magical item creation. A process that is different for each person and each item. Thus if you wish to make something you'll be working with me. This mean anyone can make magical items not just the magic users. And yes it should be 3,250 for the exp you start with.

Writing. I'm mostly a fan of 3rd person present tense. Though I'm not super strict on  how well its done. Just do your best. We are here to have fun.


Most of you will have little to no knowledge of each other. Those that do will most likely just be a passing knowledge and nothing too in depth.

Ok First IC thread is up. Lets have fun.

In reply to The Voice (msg # 58):

Woot-lets have a blast!

I've a busy weekend with work, so may not be around as much.