Hey!  Welcome to the game Vydirexi!  Looking forward to building a good story together.
This message was last edited by the GM at 00:55, Sat 22 Jan 2022.

Hellooooo! I sent you a PM, because it totally slipped my mind that this is a solo and I can use the OoC for all our chatting. XD

Yeah, this is my first solo game as well, so it may take some getting use to for the both of us.

As far your char sheet goes, a new hatchling's abilities are pretty set in stone, as you haven't had any time to learn or train in anything yet.  If you have any questions, you can go ahead and ask. However, if you want to move a few points around in your stats, I would be down with that.

Here are a few points to keep in mind when thinking about a dragon's stats:
-A dragon's AC is natural armor, so isn't influenced by Dex.
-Breath Weapon DC is set by Con.
-Any spells learned in the future would use Cha as your spellcasting stat.

Oh, I'm actually super experienced at solo games, I just haven't played one on RPoL in a while. Usually I end up running them on Discord.

All makes sense to me! Fortunately, the essentials of dragons haven't changed much since 3rd Edition.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:19, Sat 22 Jan 2022.

Well I'm glad you have some good experience with solo games. I'm mostly an irl DM myself.  Covid having forced me to make some adjustments and start doing more online games to help keep up my fix.

Well, unless you have any more questions, I figured we could get the ball rolling.  I'll be using your application sample as the starting point for us to dive into.

EDIT:
PS Oh yeah, to give you some basic idea of the setting, it should be fairly standard fantasy.  Think Forgotten Realms or Golarion.  I probably would have used an official setting, but the idea of trying to square massive time skips with a premade setting just sounded headache inducing.
This message was last edited by the GM at 02:57, Sat 22 Jan 2022.

Yeah, kind of the same for me, actually. My IRL group has slowly moved away over the years, and the local pickup group I played with stopped meeting when Covid started. I still play with my old friends when they're in town or sometimes on Roll20 video chat, but mostly it's me and my two best buds on Discord doing PbP like this for our fixes. And since there's only the three of us, many solo games when someone can't keep up with things because of work or what-have-you.

You'll get the hang of it, though. It's not much different than running a game normally, and we both know as DMs that there's always a way to keep moving things forward. ^_^

Sounds great! Please tell me if there's anything I can do or help with.

Oh hey, if you'd be comfortable saying so, what time zone are you in? Figure it'd be good to know roughly what times of day I should keep an eye on RPoL to post!

I'm GMT -5, a little after 1am at the time I'm writing this.

Nice. I am in the same time zone.  However, be aware that I mostly work second shift.  So on days I'm working, I can mostly post like once in the morning, and a few times late night.  I can possibly do a small post or update on my break.


As far as my last post goes, Vydirexi effectively has access to her mother's lair action one time.  This lair action lets her telekinetically control all of the hoard as she wishes.  Have fun with it.  As usual just describe what you want it to do, and I'll adjudicate what happens.
If you have any questions, feel free.

Yay! And no worries; if you don't have time some days, you don't have time.

Hmm. Are the treasure mounds tall enough to cause a landslide effect on the adventurers or something like that? Bury some of them, knock others off-balance, get them hip-deep in stone and metal so they can't chase her quickly? Or could I literally control all of it at once and just smash them? XD

You pretty much have complete power over it.  So literally controlling it all at once and just smashing them is a valid option. XD.  However, OOC, you are a newborn wyrmling channeling the power of an ancient red.  There will be some (non-permanent) backlash.  How crazy you go with the power will effect that backlash to an extent.  Also, the duration of your control is only one round, so think 6-10 seconds.

Gotcha, okay. The backlash is an important element.

Random swerve, can Vydi eventually learn to polymorph into a humanoid so as to experience mortal culture? It just occurred to me that it's usually something only Metallic Dragons learn to do, although she could maybe become a powerful enough spellcaster to do it that way.

That is definitely an option.  Most options that any dragon has can be acquired as you level up.  However, only Red Dragon stuff will be automatically available- other require effort to get.  For example, you will have pretty much all fire spells available to learn as you level (Fire Bolt to Wall of Fire to Meteor Swarm), because you inherently know Fire.

But if you study the basics the Arcane, you could unlock things like Detect Magic or Counterspell.  If you spend a lot of time sneaking around, maybe you learn to cast Invisibility.

If you want to Shape Change, you could possibly learn it by studying other shifters, or learning how to enhance your own powers with transmutation and slowly increasing that power.