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As mentioned before, I'm no expert in this game system, but I would like to be. This will be me fucking around and finding out as a GM

test die rule

Is this in the site or is this in a button on a character sheet?

I'm not sure what you mean. The test die roll with the colors? That is some die rules that I have configured for the game

What I'm talking about is how the fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons character sheets have a little button that you can push, and it will produce a dice roll with advantage, with disadvantage, or regular.

Have been built into the sheet like that so we just push a little thing on the sheet and it automatically creates a role that has the colours in it.

I think the colors just happen when you have dice in the roll

Test.

Cooooooooool…

test: Nope, still looks the same to me. :D

I'm curious, do they look grey but different shades of grey to you? I used to work with a guy who was colorblind but he could never explain it.

Sort of? At the moment, unless you told me, I'd have a hard time picking them out as coloured at all, but I think that's in part because they're thin and fairly dark. If they were big patches of colour instead, I'd be able to tell that they were colours, not grey, but they often look like the same colour, just different shades of it. Whether I'd describe that colour as green or red (or blue/purple), would probably vary depending on the day.

If the colours were say green and purple could you see that?

I can see that they're not black, and definitely different to each other, and if I had to guess, I'd say they were green and purple (or grey - but it is a fairly light pinky-purple) but then if you'd said it was red and light blue I might have believed that too.

Probably not going to have chance to sort out my character till monday. Will try to get it done before if possible.

Yeah my weekend might be stopper this time. Really last thing I need is a 2nd Experience.

So far i have "Flora Expert" but working on something else that would be good and thematic

also might be stealing one of those images!

I think I'm done ... Go right ahead, if I had a bunch of time I could probably come up with something better but I wanted to see if those kind of fit in with what you had in mind.

Once I kind of know what everyone else is going to be, our other goblin is a Seraph? We could be related or we could be contacts who know one another. As a Wizard I most likely went to school in the big city somewhere and maybe we know each other from there.

As I see it our early concepts are.
Fungril Druid -
Goblin Wizard - Travelborne
Goblin Seraph - Orderborne
Faerie Rogue - Dustborne

I can see where with my traveling merchant caravan I could run easily into our druid and our rogue. Despite our differences in station moving goods around allows for a lot of up and down the caste interactions.

I can see it, especially if there's things you might want/need that wouldn't be available on the open market. Or you have things to sell that might not be approved of by the highers up.

I believe that I have caught up on your questions and have stated to flesh out some of the setting. Please let me know if I have missed a question

saroufall had to drop out and I have invited MaJunior

That guy's nothing but trouble.

Yeah, I've heard that too. Wouldn't have him in my game!

I'm starting my vecation today, I will open the game but for the next 2 weeks I can't ensure stabel postings, but I will do my best

We start with 0 stress correct? What's the check space for after the . in the stress bar.

We all start with 6 stress slots but why the 5 and 1 slots?

I assumed it was just to break them into fives for easier reading.

Yes. And don't assume that you all have the same amount of stress. That is determined by the class and ancestry.
And your stress tracker is filled, you are without stress and you start with 2 Hope

Case in point: I have 7 Stress. (And 7 HP.)

Oh, groups of 5... I see.

I'm going to mostly be AFK for the next few days. I might be able to have a quick check in, but it's likely to be monday before you see more posts from me other than maybe a quick one liner.

Thx for letting us know. Personally I'm also on vacation as advertised and my posting is irregular, bit we will make it work

it might be the brown behind it but that blue sure looks like more a shade of purple to me.

I would have thought pink would be the engine room and blue would be cargo / crew... what's pink?

I am leaving for Hawaii from Sunday until Friday. I will try and post when I can but I apologize if post quality and quantity goes down a bit.

Have updated
This room where megafauna is harvested have to be in the buttom

Sorry. Was planning to make a post last night but the tsunami warning through me for a loop will try tonight

That is fair :)
Be safe

It was kind of a nothing burger here, 1 foot, I mean that's a lot of water moving at once but still. I heard some places got close to 10 feet of water.

They evacuated the bottom 2 floors of the resort i am at in Hawaii. Definitely wasn't really a big deal grand scheme of things but scary when you are on vacation with kids

Did they get anything there?

Does the clock only advance with fear or does it advance no matter what?

I believe the waves got to 9ft on some parts of the Island. Kaui had some flooding in Hilo. But Maui was pretty low impact.

Honestly just being at a place that is prepping for a tsunami is kinda scary haha

At least all the tsunamie evacuation route signs make sense.

The move location clock will advance on each roll, or 20 min has passed. The leave the ruin clock will advance when it move location and with some hidden conditions.
So in short: You can plan and make traps, but the ruin map I just published will only be available for 3 more rolls, unless you chose to attack of corse ;)

The clocks are there to give you a sense of urgency or to illustrate that things happens even if you do nothing

You know:

• There are goats outside the ruin
• There is something inside the big tower, that made a noice in responce to the beasts roar
• The beast is in the old barracks, with a head full of hardware
• It mid day

So did we just pull Torrek away from the tower to meet up?

Just clarifying.

Yes, the tower and the flyby was in aid of finding the beast. It is found, so I gathered the group for ease of communication.
If you want to investigate the tower, you are welcome, but it will be a job for flyers as the ground floor entrance is blocked

What skill would we use to make a trap? And can anybody think of anything other than a tiger pit? Because that's the only place my brain is going right now.

Okay so the "Move Location" is kind of, this is when the beast will get bored and change where it's at, and the "Leave" is when it will just naturally dip off into the woods.

yes
https://gamersplane.com/forums/thread/37924/?p=1916111#p1916111

Let me just be clear: I don't like editing another players posts. I have personally left games in anger where the GM have edited my posts for spelling errors or formatting that wasn't to their liking.

But I have made part of Bullseyepsa post into a private post between the flyers as the walkers and the flyers don't have a line of communication, and the flyers' discovery might affect the walkers' decisions.

@Bullseyepsa if me editing part of your post, offended you, I apologise.

No problem here. GP doesn't really have group visibility tools like some other PbP platforms use, but even those are really clunky if you're frequently splitting and rejoining groups.

I think I got the message listed as private in the IC thread - can bulls and rune confirm they saw mine, and no-one else did?

@Lemming23, its good

Terrok, the only guy with hope in our group.

Well, we all start with hope. But, we don't seem to be able to roll hope to add to our hope. We just keep adding fear to the GM's column.

You all started with 2 hope
I started with 5 fear (one pr player)
I'm also spending fear to spotlight the adversaries.

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What do you think so far? I love that I just have to wait until someone rolls with fear until I can spotlight the adversaries, and if a player is inactive for a while, the game self-balances as they are not taking actions = making rolls = adding fear to the pool = less fear to spend on the active players

I like the initiative system. I think it works well for PbP where people have different posting rates, though it can lead to someone trying to solo a fight.

I'm fine with what we've got, I know daggerheart is different in how it handles initiative. I'd like to finish a couple fights before I weigh in.

Going to be mostly afk for the newxt couple of days again, will try to post tomorrow night.

Thank you for letting us know, luckily we can just keep Guesclinbert the Raven airborne and outside of any combat

So in this scenario, If I don't want to be the one to really make the strength roll because that isn't my best. I can help or assist Torrek by spending a Hope and giving him advantage on the strength roll right?

You could also do a team up spending 2? hope and both rolling to hit choosing the best roll.

I'm at the doctors so this is off the top of my head.

that is right - the Tag Teams rules. I forgot about those

It's a lot of hope but worth it.

and unfortunately not enough Hope to do it. puey reaction roll not generating Hope but meh we will see.

You should have 3 hope unless you spent it.

Before I make my reaction roll, do i have advantage or something because I was hiding in an archway, so under cover already?

@Bullseyepsa good question. I'll say yes, you have advantage (+1d6)
Looking at your defense, making the save is the difference between Major and Severe damage

Ok, so we didn't have Advantage on the reaction roll, right? So I think I failed the roll.

In that case, I can use Get Back Up to reduce it. Can I also mark an armor to reduce it again?

You rolled a 19 pretty sure the reaction was a 14dc so you passed

You only have advantage to hit because of my attack not dodge. Sorry.

Bullseyepsa was hiding under the overhang, the one that you want to trigger to drop on the beast. That is why only he has advantage to the reaction.

All of you have advantage to hit the beast as its glowing from pixels bolt.

Ok, so... 13 is Major Damage for me. If I mark one armor, that drops it to Minor?

Sorry. I can read rules a dozen times and nothing helps me learn them like just doing it.

Yes.

when it is "GM's turn" with failure/fear do you want us to wait for you to post?

I have an idea on my next move but waiting to see if it is still our go

Its a really good question - And I would prefer it, but I also understand if people miss it. I will always go back to my latest Fear counter and move through the posts from there. If I have to slip in a adversary spotlight in the middle of a tread I will do so and let the subsequent players know that they should update their post if its vital to the story or outcome

How much dmg has our fungus friend taken and can his armor absorb some or that reducing it to minor?

He did reduce it, but the mosquitoes have a reaction ability that can add an extra damage and that did him in

This is a f*ck around and find out game. I think its perfect that we get to touch on the death rules. There is a death move where Daedale is sure to survive. Its not free, but he can survive. He can also risk it on a die roll.

Compared to the D&D 5e death rules, where it's almost impossible to die, I like that there is a consequence of messing around in the middle of a battlefield.

I totally didn't build this guy very combat focused...so good bye Daedale :(

But still good to get a feel for it

Go for the random roll!

Ouch...

Knowing how much this dice roller hates me, I would never go for the random roll if I could avoid it.

That's true. I've seen your rolling in my game. :D

And your game isn't even all that bad. Come play D&D with me, it gets so much worse. 😂

That's where you're going wrong, the larger the die, the more chance of getting a much lower roll than you need. Don't go for any games with percentile dice!

Nah, that's not true.

In your game, I need a 6 on a d6. (17%. Ish.)
But in D&D, I often only need to roll an 8 to 10 on a d20. In percentiles, it depends on the percent needed. I actually have better chances to succeed in games like D&D.

Not that it helps.

That's when you're only rolling one die though; when you're rolling 8D6, your chances are 77%, and if you push that roll, 93%. And yet...

*laughs in advantage*

The roll a 6 on a d6 is rough when you only have 1 or 2 dice in a skill.

With MaJunior, it's more of a case of 7-8 dice, repeatedly, without a single 6.

I am nothing if not consistant. 😂

I've done that a few times.

Just to let you know I'm going to be a bit busy again this week (at least the first half). New academic year always brings up new and unexpected challenges.

Like my child? LOL. It's a struggle...

I think I'm levelled up.

I'm going to try to do my level up now, will try to get a proper post in tomorrow when I should have a bit more time.

Problem is I leveled up with the Demiplane thing a week back and forgot what I did but had the results sitting there

Got mine done, but feel free to check to make sure I did everything right.

Would all of you send me a message with your character's biggest fear? What do they have nightmares about

You can use the private tag like this:

[private="runekyndig"]
My character has nightmares about public speaking while naked
[/private]

We are several who are concerned about MaJuniors absence, and luckily Daggerheart is somewhat self-balancing, with fewer players to roll, fewer resources to the GM and so on.
So Torrek Frostwarden will be placed in the back for now. Question to you guys, should we find an extra player?

MaJunior is showing as "inactive for 15 days" on the roster, so hopefully they're OK, but they haven't logged in in two weeks.

I'm going to be out of town this weekend. I'll check in when I can but I won't be chronically online like I usually am.

Thank you for the invite. I'm going to read through the lore thread, then try to catch up on the character creation and maybe some of the current adventure. I want to have an idea about the group and the adventure while I work out character.

Although currently I'm seriously looking at warrior and guardian, but keeping options open.

Welcome aboard!

You'd be sharing a domain either with my character (Seraph, Valour) if you went Guardian, or with the new one (Ranger, Bone) if you went Warrior. I don't know what Falka has in terms of domain cards from Bone, but all of my cards so far have been from Valour, so if you choose Guardian, I'd prefer you'd mostly go with Blade cards for the sake of niche protection, but that's something we could discuss - it just makes sense to me for us all to have a fairly broad selection of abilities rather than double down on a few.

I had not thought that far ahead, but I'll keep it in mind.

I've read over your past adventure. My compliments to @runekyndig - fun and well run encounter. The art for the environment was great. Sorry I missed that one :)

Looks like you guys have 7 out of the 9 domains covered. Blade and Arcana are not. Time to create a blade singer homebrew lol

@Lemming23 - Looks like you didn't take "I am your Shield" from Valor. Is that in your plan? Valor is definitely the more interesting domain for Guardian.

Still kicking around some concepts. Before I read anything I was considering a half giant warrior - then I saw MaJunior was running that very thing :) I've played with him before and we have similar tastes, so I'm not all that surprised. Still, I'd rather not clone him in case he pops back up.

I'm unlikely to take I Am Your Shield; next time I get the chance, I'm probably taking a 3rd level card (Probably Critical Inspiration from Valour, or Second Wind from Splendour).

I am sorry for the low posting. my schedule has been crazy but I think it is finally settling down (I hope)

I'm just going to check in with you guys.
The first chapter was relatively straight forward
This chapter has several mysteries, some might be related, others not. If it's getting too much for you players, please let me know, we are all supposed to have fun.

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And a quick explanation, I'm playing a 1-1 game with Emberskyes, where she is playing Andariel Lunadawn and Kasandra Mistral (Zandors date)
So if it seems that she is engaging with part of the plot you don't feel you have spotted yet, it might be because she is expiring this story from another angle.

I fully expect there'll be plots that I / we don't understand yet, and the fun part for me is slowly finding out what's gong on, so as far as I'm concerned, you're good. :)

I am going to touch on your character nightmares and phobias that you have provided, so if you want to change/update your character's fears, let me know.

I don't think I ever got an answer to how much the Prince that's here looks like the man who fell from the airship. If I did, I missed it.

It would really depend on how he hit and how hard or soft the ground was, whether his fall was through a canopy of trees... etc. At terminal velocity water and concrete are not all the different.

I fought so you wouldn't have to absorb the Fear from my dreadful rolls over there. I think I've accumulated about 8 Fear so far and not a single Hope.

Even if they face isn't recognizably the same, the hair color and basic body shape would be (and even something of the face is probably recognizable if Talin was able to identify specific bruising on a finger.

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. The man that fell from the ship, and the prince could properly be the same person. There is a bit of uncertainty due to the splat effect. But the general build, hairstyle, clothes, and ring all match.

Ok. Is there a way to detect the kind of magic that can do what Talin can do? The only way built into the spell (unlike the Wizard version which doesn't work on people in Melee range, which I assume would have been spotted at the high table) is to force the person into a lot of Actions. I'm sure there are more powerful magics that could do it, but Talin is very familiar with this one.

Sorcerers have a built in "detect magic" but I think it's close range. Lemme look. Yep. I've kind of said it's also dependant on the "power" of the magic. Thus, the engines of the Prince's airship give Andariel a headache from a ways off.

As Embersky says, only the sorcerer can detect magic at range
Besides Uncanny disguise is not really a magical ability.

My read of it was that it is a magical ability (it lists Spell as the type on the card), but if it's not magical that's good for Talin overall, if annoying for his current theory :).

We'll have to tweak his nose and see if it comes off...

Going to be away again this week, will try to post but not too likely. Feel free to NPC me if needed.

@Emberskyes Can I ask that you explicitly call out who is speaking when the characters from the other game are in the scene. "The Dark Elf woman" does distinguish it, but only by elimination (since we don't know those characters particularly) and it would help if we have the name any time they speak or act. I know it may be an intrusion on your writing style but, for me at least, it will make it much easier to read.

Well no one actually did that introductions but I see your point.

Well, let's take care of that :)

I was exhausted yesterday, and today is going to be crazy busy. I hope to continue the story tomorrow

Now this is the game element for me:
I have established major plot points and their corresponding derivatives.
I have two stories/games (this and my 1-1 with Emberskyes) where each plot point takes centre stage, but there is an influence from the other plot point.

What I made each plot, I had no idea how it was going to be solved, that is all your doing. Your questions, your actions, lead to the boarding of the flagship.
Now I know how both adventures will conclude! :D
Unfortunately, this means that I will need a battle map to keep track of sailors and soldiers, syndicate retenue and players on different levels of the ship. This also means that my previous descriptions of the ship and the battle map will not match 100%

Primarily, this blue circle around the ship is not there, but everything else is on the battle map.

This is an elemental circle, as is common in Eberron. I had for a long time been unsure if I was going with the Eberron ship design for my airships or the blimp design previously used. I'm sticking with the blimp design, so the blue circle is not there

Not quite clear what that map in the IC thread is...

Sorry about that. I didn't realize that it was posted. I have deleted it again as it was me making a OTFBM demo for our discord

Just a heads up:
We will end this game once the combat encounter with the spirit is over, and loose ends have been gathered.

I believe that we have fucked-around-and-found-out a lot through our game, but we have also lost several players.

Who's gone? I mean I can guess but it's early.

I'd love to continue, but if not, I'd like to at least wrap up the Syndicate story.

I need a break from GMming. When this games is ended, all questions about the plots will be answered.

But i really like this setting we have made, so by spring time i would probably start something new. There is a lot more to explore here.

Fair enough! Sometimes breaks are needed, burnout is real.

I'd be interested in continuing in this campaign setting too when you're back up for it. No need to reveal secrets till then, as we find them out in play.

I'd be willing to return also :)

When you're ready.

This is where the story ends for now.

I hope that you enjoyed this dive into Daggerheart. I feel that its a fantastic system for pbp as it is really clear on when it is the player's turn and when is it the game master.
And it can incorporate if a player is less active than the other, then there is a self-regulating effect with the fear generation.

I know the ending to the two plot lines was a bit forced, and you were mostly along for the ride in the end, but I'm looking forward to not beating myself up over not having the time/energy to move the story forward.

I believe that I any mysteries have been revealed, but if not, let me know ingame, and we will tie off any loose ends.

I for one thoroughly enjoyed it, so thanks for running it, and when / if you decide to get it going again, I'd definitely be interested in continuing.

Definitely a lot of fun. I agree that the system lends itself to PbP play and the storylines you created were a lot of fun.

It was indeed good and fun.