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A few questions:

- What is the premise of our party? Are we a group of House adventurers/special force type of group? Have we been a group for long?

- Subject to suitability to the premise, but would it be possible to create an organization to rival Bregan D'aerthe? Just an idea I’m toying with, since I’ll be playing a rogue.

- I noticed that Corellon Larethian isn’t listed in the Information thread that had info on deities. Are we limited to those 4 listed deities, or is Corellon available?

- Given the slower nature of pbp, will you follow the general guide of having a lot of encounters in a day, or will it be a lot fewer so we can focus on the story as well?

- What does it mean that we can use PHB + DMG + 1 official book? Do we as a group get to decide which extra book we use? Or does each player decide which extra book they want to use for their character?

- Can you elaborate on what you mean that we’re using both 5e and 5.5e? Does it mean that we can use 5e if it hasn’t been updated to 5.5e? Or does it mean that if something is in both versions then we can use whichever one we want?

Well, I asked roughly that and she said mixing and matching the editions was fine. (She was expecting the issues to stem from a 10th level game and not the fact that someone took the Eldritch Adept feat from 2014 to get the Pact of the Blade Invocation from 2024 for example.) My take, based on that, was to use whatever works best.

Ah, yeah I did see that, but I wasn’t clear on it until you gave an example. Makes sense, ok.

You’re members of the family who are powerful enough that the Matron Mother is requesting a meeting with you all. She is forming you into a special group to deal with a powerful threat.
Rogues would be under Lady Emerald and her organization within the family. Emerald’s agents are placed in many of the other Drow houses and spy on them. They also perform any assassinations and other such work. If anyone in the family was even thinking of turning traitor the last thing they would see would be Emerald of one of her agents.
Corellon is available I just didn’t include him because he’s not very powerful in the Underdark.
Focus is on story. Encounters will be quick unless they are against a major npc.
You decide which extra book you want to use for your character.

I'm not that familiar with Yuan-Ti. You intend to have your character be hated on sight, it seems? From all that I've read of drow, I think that could be achieved by any non-drow species :)

Yuan-ti are humanoid so basically just assumed to be a slave or servant of the house. You have enough females in the party that other Drow will assume that the non-Drow in the party are servants to them. Just as long as they keep eyes down and act properly…

That should work. I can still make her Drow if we need it for party role playing reasons but as I'm going with straight 2024 warlock rather than combining it with Sorcerer, Paladin, or whatever, I figure the Yuan-Ti part will make her more survivable as well as less loved. And as a Charisma based character who isn't loved, figured it might make this work to balance the Charisma bonuses.

Seems to be shaping up to be a big party. Out of curiosity, what races/classes have everyone settled on? I went with the Aasimar Bard/Sorcerer.

Hi friends - I’ll be playing Borwald (Bor), a duergar fighter. Was going to multiclass fighter/rogue, but decided for something simpler.

Simple is good.

Yuan-ti Celestial Warlock.

I am assuming even with an arcane focus, for spells with extra expense like Revivify, Scry, Summon Aberration, Greater Restoration, or Summon Celestial, we need to pay the extra expense? That's well over 2000 GP so it matters when I choose spells!

As I recall, yes, the spell focus only covers material components that do not specify a price.

I'm playing a male drow wizard (abjurer).
Edit: named Kalafein Platin

Drow Female Cleric chiming in! Going full Twilight Cleric with this, so she'll be closely attached to the family. I'm thinking of either making her a 5th daughter of the High Matron or the 1st Daughter of the High Priestess. Any suggestions?

My character is gandson to one of the Matron Mother's wives. Not sure how close that makes me to Lady Platin. I suppose that would make your cleric my character's aunt, in a way?

Go ahead and call her Auntie whenever you speak to her. Should spice up the dynamic either with family ties or otherwise.

That is normal but some referees don't require the big ticket costs. Matters a lot because spell choices for Warlocks are a bit limited (the ones for Clerics are a lot more expansive though so I should still be fine no matter what).

Just to clarify something. Quenthel is Matron Mother of House Baenre and not her sister Triel? It's year 1372 or later than that? I understand this isn't strictly canon timeline, but my mid was stuck on how things are at the time of the books, so I just had to correct that line of thinking. I'll not assume anything from now on.

Quenthal was killed by Drizzt in 1358 and resurrected in 1361 her sister Triel ran the house for those years and pretended that Quenthal was still alive. This is 1372 and Lolth has gone silent.

You can purchase any spell components under $1,000. I’ll give the priestesses enough diamonds worth 10k to raise everyone once just in case…