Put all your OOC chatter in here as we sit around the fire.

Be sure to claim a character color with your first post here.

Lyra - Brown
Arthur - Green
Qiaryn - Purple
Echo - Dark Blue
Elenar - Lavender
Tarragon - Goldenrod


Main NPCs:

Fayth - Coral
LaCroix - Seagreen
Dorian - (TBD)
Majin - (TBD)
This message was last edited by the GM at 16:10, Wed 15 Mar 2023.

Welcome one and all. As of this moment, I've accepted five players and I'm going to have to spend a little time sending messages to those who applied that I'm unfortunately going to have to turn down. I may add one more character if I see something that would be a really good fit, but this looks like both an interesting and balanced party as it stands.

Feel free to introduce yourselves and share any character information you don't want to keep private. Possibly link backstories, etc., and I'll help you out in terms of how to tailor things into this setting. And don't forget to claim your character color!

Each of you has been added to group 1, which will be used for standard in-game threads (additional numbered groups may be added if there's a need to split the party at any point). You each have been assigned to a different letter group (A-E) where you can create threads for anything private between you and me, rather than forcing me to sort through private messages. [Edit: apparently only I can create threads, so prompt me if needed.]

I'll also be working with each of you individually on your custom magical item. I want to create something that fits your character personally and have it be something that will grow with you as you get stronger, so you'll have incentive to keep it for the entire campaign.
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:25, Mon 27 Feb 2023.

BTW. I don't have a 5e character sheet template - if any of you have one you'd like to share with the group, go for it.

Alright just filling out some final details and then I'll post it.

Here is a blank copy of one that I designed by combining features of others shared on RPOL.

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I gave poor Lyra a devil's bargain to re-roll stats and... well, better luck next time. The dice do seem to have a mind of their own here.

Poor Lyra :(

FYI - I am flying to Europe this weekend and have a packed work schedule all next week. So my postings here won't be as frequent but can still get something in late nights CET.

Ouch that hurts, hopefully it's not a sign of things to come Lyra.
If we're still deciding colours I'll get the ball rolling and say I'll be happy with green or purple unless other people would like those.

Poor Lyra. Oh wait that's me. Ah well. Fate has a way of keeping one humble. I think I'll take Brown as my color of choice.

I raise a glass to the rest of you for your stat rolls! Good luck!

In reply to Qiaryn (msg # 7):

Even with the initial exuberance of everyone getting things ready, we probably won't get rolling too much in game all that quickly. Have a great trip and you'll be fine in terms of posting.
This message was last edited by the GM at 16:13, Fri 24 Feb 2023.

Sure you don't want a re-roll Arthur?

(I'm getting over a cough, the dice shouldn't be making me laugh this hard)

Haha. Actually I think they just look that good because I couldn't figure out how to drop lowest. I felt really cruel for a second there though.

Under Step 2: Roll options you can toggle drop lowest but also have to tell it how many of the lowest die to drop. In this case 1.

Manually dropping after the fact as long as you can see the individual dice works to which I think is the route you went for.

Thanks I'll keep that in mind for the future. A lot more reasonable dice rolls this time. Sorry about all that.

Thanks for warming the dice roller up for me. :)

11:47, Today: Qiaryn rolled 11,11,14,12,17,16,8 using 4d6,4d6,4d6,4d6,4d6,4d6,4d6, dropping the lowest dice only.  Stats.

I don't know about anyone else, but I love it when the dice have a sense of narrative and humor.

My all time favorite was in a 3.5e game where I was playing a big oafish beatstick and for some reason I decided to try consoling someone who was feeling depressed. With my -2 Charisma modifier. So I roll Diplomacy (3.5e's version of Persuade) and get a natural 1, for a net result of MINUS FREAKING ONE.

Gotta love those negative roll results :)

And I'm quite happy to wake up the dice roller for everyone :D You are all very welcome!

Oh, speaking of 3.5e, I originally wrote this for that version, but since it's basically non-mechanical, it can be applied to pretty much any game. I'll let you all decide if you want to use it in this campaign:

https://forums.giantitp.com/sh...ng-but-it-looks-cool

I remember a campaign where the only time in the entire game I rolled a nat twenty was to determine how much I knew about a bug... Not a story relevent bug mind you just a random bug. Apparently my character had a very particular interest in this very specific beetle.

is somehow behind the curve already

Hi everybody!

Hello there.

Howdy and welcome!