In case it wasn't obvious, Vythrantra is your mother's name.  She passed on the Vy- part of her name down to you.

Also, I rolled a 14 for init.  If you beat it go ahead and react + take your action in your post.  If you get lower, just react and I'll go first

Aw, that's a sweet touch!

COOK THE FISHY! COOK THE FISHY!

Dang, I saw that chomp in the roller. Grumpy bitey fish, doesn't want to get cooked. >=(

I'm glad you enjoyed the fight.  And now Vydirexi has her own little hoard to start building from.

Also, my last post of the night.  Goodnight.

Good night! I've enjoyed the whole thing; thank you for making so many posts today and for guiding this experience for us. ^_^

Yeah almiraj are classified as small creatures.  So that's the same category as halflings and large dogs.  Probably on the smaller side of small, but still pretty chunky.

Yeah, I saw their horn is a foot long and it's clearly not that large relative to their bodies, so... Big ol' bunbun. ^_^

Hi! How's the day?

Maybe that size?

My day went pretty well, I just got off work, so I have time to make a few posts. How about yourself?


Also, your current situation is rather secure at the moment.  Vythrantra had scared away the large majority of bigger creatures and predators from her domain, so there aren't any threats remaining in your immediate vicinity (for now).  So if you want, you can make your next post like a week long montage of her getting more accustomed to flying / hunting / searching the ruins for treasure / etc.  And then we can get you on to your first little bit of growth, and go from there.

Since we are going to cover 1,000+ years of your life, these little skips are going to be important to actually have the story move forward.  They also serve to let you tell me what sort of advancements you want for Vydirexi.  For example if you spend a year studying magic, you'll unlock more magic based advancements.  If you instead spend a year reading about the history of the world, you could unlock History proficiency and language options.

GIGABUN! I love him.

I'm glad you had a nice day! Mine was good, too. It's really snowy here, so I went on a little run for essentials and finished a slow-cooker recipe I've never done before, which was yummy.

That works great! I assumed time-skips would be inevitable, and I figured you would tell me how you'd like to tackle that when it came up. Here we are!

I expect they'll make me more and more emotional as Vydi grows up and becomes more social, too. I'm imagining a lot of moments where she's sitting in human form at the bedside of a gray haired mortal who she became friends with a century prior, her eyes welling with angry tears that she can't stop the wheel of time from turning.

Hrm... go ahead and give me a percentile roll, looking for high.  Let's see if you were lucky enough to find anything worthwhile in your looting.

31! I find some seaweed and find out that saltwater in your nose hurts like hell, I suspect.

Heh.  Not quite so bad as that.

Also 100+ posts in, and we got our first CR up.  Woot!

Woot woot, indeed! And it only took the weekend, we're absolutely smoking! It's been a delight so far. =)

Also! Should I roll my HD? Do you want me to take average? Take max? Alternate between the two?

I think we are going to stay with average, just for my sanity's sake.  All your HD are going to increase in size every time you get to a new age category, so rolling would be too awkward.

Oh, true, that's a pretty big factor of improvement and complication, alike. and that's not including the Constitution increases!

Additional question: Does the cantrip function as if she were a spellcaster, able to cast it as much as she likes, or is it 1/day?

Because it is a cantrip, it will be at will.  Spells with actual spell levels will be 1/day unless you spend other advancements to improve them.

Cool, thank you! I would like to put my ability increase in Con, because she's been training endurance a great deal and her body is toughening up. Then I'd like to select the Bonfire cantrip and Survival proficiency, please!

5d8 (22.5), Con +3 (15), puts her new HP at 37, I believe! That's a juicy bump.

Huh, that brings another question to mind, now that I think of it! Is the power of a spell she casts based on her Challenge or her HD? If the latter, her Bonfire is already up to a very impressive 2d8!

Good question.  Dragon's HD scaling is so weird.  They get lots of HD early on, then slow down later.

For now, we'll say that it can scale off your HD.

I actually went digging online in case there was wisdom on the subject (I can be a little bit of a busybody in that way, hope you don't mind too much), and found a firm answer for us if you'd like to use it!

For Innate Spellcasting, which I assume this counts as, either use a spellcaster level that's specifically given for the ability or go by CR.

I'm happy with my choice whichever way you rule, but I'd feel like a cheater if I didn't tell you about the semi-official way that would be less powerful.

Just stay with HD for cantrips.  That will keep them at least mildly relevant as you scale.

1/day spells will be cast at max level based on 1/3 CR.  So a CR 6 dragon would cast all known spells at 2nd level.

Okay, works for me! Cantrips are the only ones that care about character level over spell level, I suppose, so it all works out nicely.

Gotta find someone to teach me Green Flame Blade and then the world is doomed.

I can also handle editing my sheet if it would be a bit less work for you. =)

Usually I do just hand over full management of character sheets to players.  But this situation is a little strange.

Let's be honest here, I am slightly flying by the seat of my pants on this.  There isn't any precise reference or guidelines for advancement.  So me telling you what abilities to add where, instead of me just adding them myself could lead to some confusion or miscomunication.

I have no problem opening up the sheet for you if you want to track things like HP, treasure, and resource expenditure.

Also, go ahead and post what options you selected in Draconic Advancement. That way we will have a running record of your advancement we can both reference.


PS, I added a simple game map that outlines your path, and known world at the moment.