The return of the D&D campaign: This time it's potatoes
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I'll be having a go
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Yeah, they look like the best options. Would be a shame to leave you out! I’m quite flexible on when we play, so if there’s a way to work with your schedule then I’m sure we can organise around it.
Good to have Sly and AM on board!
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Yeah, my scheduling is a little easier now, I can pretty much try any night. I am however an absolute beginner when it comes to D&D; I've done tabletop before but on an entirely different system. I think I picked up a little from osmosis when I used to watch my brother play Baldur's Gate, but that's about it.
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Don't worry, I still have to ask what I'm doing before pretty much every rollRaid wrote: ↑Sat Jan 19, 2019 9:04 amYeah, my scheduling is a little easier now, I can pretty much try any night. I am however an absolute beginner when it comes to D&D; I've done tabletop before but on an entirely different system. I think I picked up a little from osmosis when I used to watch my brother play Baldur's Gate, but that's about it.
Happy to fit it around Mantis' schedule so we may not have a set night every week, that's fine. I don't have any regular commitments aside from the kids' bedtime routine.
I think we already said previously, but myself and I think Mantis are going to continue with our previous characters, a half-elf thief/archer and dwarf bard, but hopefully WB will post everything you guys need to create a character.
I don't want to influence any decisions but as an observation while we're sorted for drunkenness and petty larceny, we're pretty light on magic and muscles (except when it comes to clubbing unconscious kobolds to death)... ¬_¬
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I do tend to go for either archers or mages when it comes to computer games, so I'd be happy to fill the spellcaster role if that's a good idea for a newbie.
How seriously do you guys play? Are you going to be annoyed if I try to light a campfire with meteor swarm?
How seriously do you guys play? Are you going to be annoyed if I try to light a campfire with meteor swarm?
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The first thing I did in the last run was pick Mantis' pockets, while he spent most of the campaign drunk and overkilling low-level creatures in hilarious ways.Raid wrote: ↑Sat Jan 19, 2019 9:38 amI do tend to go for either archers or mages when it comes to computer games, so I'd be happy to fill the spellcaster role if that's a good idea for a newbie.
How seriously do you guys play? Are you going to be annoyed if I try to light a campfire with meteor swarm?
Have at it, I say
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*Mr Burns finger pyramid*
Excellent.
Excellent.
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Ellis was a paragon of virtue, everything he did was for the greater good of society.
I am considering rolling a whole new character though.
I am considering rolling a whole new character though.
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Truss Ironshaft shall fulfill all brute force requirements. Truss only lives to see his enemies driven before him and hear the lamentation of their women folk.
Truss may also laugh at your puny god's, punch camels, steal your daughter, get violently drunk and break you...in that order
Truss may also laugh at your puny god's, punch camels, steal your daughter, get violently drunk and break you...in that order
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What kind of campaign are we running, Wrath? Is it in the same world as the previous one or something more custom, and if in the same, are you taking the last campaign into account as a canon event that the last group actually did?
I've decided that I'm in for this, worst case scenario is that sometimes I might drop the odd session here and there. Just trying to decide what would be appropriate to roll and what kind of character backstory would fit in with Wrath's world.
I've decided that I'm in for this, worst case scenario is that sometimes I might drop the odd session here and there. Just trying to decide what would be appropriate to roll and what kind of character backstory would fit in with Wrath's world.
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It’ll be the same world, which is the Forgotten Realms (where BG and Neverwinter Nights take place). The plan was to pick up immediately where we left off so that any returning characters could continue and new characters could be quickly introduced. If you’re rolling a new character (which is fine) then that leaves Slythe as the only one from the original party. So, we have a couple of options:
1) Slythe continues into the fray at level 5 and everyone else rolls a new level 1 character. We pick up where we left off and everyone catches up to level 5 over two or three sessions. I think that would be better than rolling level 5 characters right from the start since Raid and AM are new to it. Slythe will basically be god-tier until everyone catches up.
2) Everyone rolls a new level 1 character, we pick up somewhere roundabouts where we left off, and Slythe et al forge their own separate story into the annals of history.
Either way is fine by me. My plan is to loosely follow the rest of the Phandelver campaign we started, which should be a few sessions, then branch into a more open-ended homebrew campaign. There are events happening in the Realms which you guys can investigate, hinder or ignore as you choose, and the consequences of the story will evolve around that. None of it has a pre-determined outcome. There’s a saying that no DM’s plan survives contact with the players, which was demonstrated by just about everything you guys did.
(That poor drunk bandit Slythe lured into a ravine... )
Oh, and skipping sessions every now and then is no problem at all. On those occasions I can low-key role-play your character in the background.
1) Slythe continues into the fray at level 5 and everyone else rolls a new level 1 character. We pick up where we left off and everyone catches up to level 5 over two or three sessions. I think that would be better than rolling level 5 characters right from the start since Raid and AM are new to it. Slythe will basically be god-tier until everyone catches up.
2) Everyone rolls a new level 1 character, we pick up somewhere roundabouts where we left off, and Slythe et al forge their own separate story into the annals of history.
Either way is fine by me. My plan is to loosely follow the rest of the Phandelver campaign we started, which should be a few sessions, then branch into a more open-ended homebrew campaign. There are events happening in the Realms which you guys can investigate, hinder or ignore as you choose, and the consequences of the story will evolve around that. None of it has a pre-determined outcome. There’s a saying that no DM’s plan survives contact with the players, which was demonstrated by just about everything you guys did.
(That poor drunk bandit Slythe lured into a ravine... )
Oh, and skipping sessions every now and then is no problem at all. On those occasions I can low-key role-play your character in the background.
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Didn't that ravine have some sort of flesh eating insane wizard in it? I recall tying up the big bad for that area, removing all his gear and then leaving him to be eaten by the monster.
We were definitely the good guys.
I won't be rolling a character straight into level 5, I'm most likely going to try a magicky class that I haven't used before so being hit with all those abilities and class features at once would be overwhelming.
We were definitely the good guys.
I won't be rolling a character straight into level 5, I'm most likely going to try a magicky class that I haven't used before so being hit with all those abilities and class features at once would be overwhelming.
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I like the thought of being OP for a few sessions...
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Cool, in that case unless anyone objects we’ll go with option 1.
The ravine monster-wizard was a nothic - a wizard who had delved too deep into the arcane mysteries and become cursed as a horrible cycloptic creature with telepathic powers and a constant hunger for food. It ate well after Bill flopped off the bridge into its lair.
Anyway, shall we pencil in 8pm on Wednesday?
The ravine monster-wizard was a nothic - a wizard who had delved too deep into the arcane mysteries and become cursed as a horrible cycloptic creature with telepathic powers and a constant hunger for food. It ate well after Bill flopped off the bridge into its lair.
Anyway, shall we pencil in 8pm on Wednesday?
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I regret nothing!
And 8pm next Weds works for me
And 8pm next Weds works for me
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