Session 0 and character creation

Hi everyone. This is out Session 0 and Character creation thread.

Welcome!
First of all please take a look at my tutorial tread by this link.
Then say hi here and roll your character ability scores.

Character creation
For your convenience - copy ofSo please
1. Roll your ability scores
2. Decide and post here your decision if you stay with rolled or fall back to standard array (anyone need standard array explained/defined?)

After choosing your class you can roll your HP, but I don't recommend that.
HP at level 2 and 3 as per PHB: you can either use average or you can roll - your choice, but there is no reroll or fallback, so I recommend taking average (rounded up per rules).

Your character sheet and your responsibilities
I allow either custom or 5e charactersheet and all I need to see on you character sheet are actually only these:
- Your AC
- Your current HP
- Your passive perception (or just perception modifier)You will have to keep track of your used spell slots, hit dice and other limiter use resources. You will also need to keep your current HP.


What else you should know?
Let me try to remember, so
- I play RAW, when rules ask DM to decide or unclear, I try to make it how is better for party/players
- Only exception may be Initiative order as we will probably run some combats in "side mode" to be explained later, but seasoned gamerspane players would know what that is
- Probably something more i forgot and add later

Alright, rolling:

That looks great, sticking with those. I'll play a Wizard, and I'll take average for HP. I'll assign my stats and get back to you when I get that done 👍

I made a character with everything labeled as "Dunno." I have not yet submitted it, because I do not know if I can change everything, including the name, as I figure oyt what I am doing. I am old and rather technologically inept.

Hello Guys! I still don't Decided How am i to play, so lets the Dice Decided My Character....

Damn, those are nice.

Yeah, let me think what's my class though🤔

Wow!

Here is my attempt at rolling dice.

I'll keep those numbers and make a Fighter. His name will be Garran Veyr.

I'll put his form in a Google Doc, and then fill in the most important ones in the GP character form.

Here's a link to his form on Google Docs:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18MuUZHI0K76J_7yNCijpUDN1RS5BfYZ8aeYGUOwpdAU/edit?usp=sharing

@Olof i can't see your document you sent.
Make Sure you make the Doc Into "Anyone with the link" on General Access.

Thanks for the notice. Perhaps this link will work: Link

Based on your's Character Sheet, I think Garran is a solid frontliner👍 the Trip Attack from Battle Master is going to be Helpful in Combat.

(Also, i think Garran's Alignment is True Neutral, but to me its like Chaotic Good. But its your choice, not mine😅)

I agree, I will change his alignment. Thanks!

Thanks for accepting me. I'll do my rolls and character creation shortly.

Nice, A New member👍

I found a official site to allow me to make a free character, but I am stuck on background. There were only 4 options and they are all terrible and unrelated to a Druid. On the 5e rules, I found an option for "folk hero" which seemed fitting but I do not know if it is acceptable. I also do not know if I am seeing all available options.

Ah, the SRD dilemma, there's nothing i can do about it to help you... You using Beyond? You only get "D&D Beyond Basic Rules", which isn't much, because you didn't even get PHB, i don't like beyond anyway.
Maybe This D&D Wiki can help you? This wiki is saving my times for feats & traits description.

That link looks like the 3.5 PHB that I have, where a background is not part of the character creation. That's fine. I did not like those, anyway. I will work on it. I will probably be slow.

Take Your Times👍

That @solose for helping out. I won't be able to help with that Menwhile I've started creating new threads. Please focus on your character creation now, I will explain you the other threads and their use when we will be done with character creation.

Just talking to dm

Good job @solose we have one more PC ready.

Yay, thanks dm :]

Here's a weird thing. I'm having trouble clicking the Submit button to submit my character. Is this a bug? My character is there and I click the button but nothing happens.

ETA: Weirdly, my character has been submitted it seems. Well, I don't know how that worked itself out but I'm glad that it did!

Character stat rolls

I'm happy with these. I'll work out where I'm putting them and then decide on my class.

I believe you must wait until dm aproved your pc.
This Guide maybe help with that.

Thanks, I must have missed that.

No Problem👍
Anyway, i looked at your stats, that must be a typo! You type 4d6😅 not 4d6h3😅
Even with that your stats is:
11, 15, 9, 11, 17, 14
Which this is too much Odd Numbers😅

Thanks. I've adjusted my stats. I'm going with a Monk.

ETA: Ignore the dice roll. I don't know how to remove it.

@MrSaxon i really need to see your AC an Max HP on your character sheet to approve it.

Also feel free to test dice rolling in this thread

Okay, let me just figure those out (it's been a while since I played D&D!)

ETA: Okay, done.

I was adding information to my character but stopped. I have no idea if the information is in the correct location. Following everything that I can find, nothing is indicated as skill or feat, etc. and no ability check is listed in correspondence to any of these things.

@MacConnell could you help me understand the problem you are facing?
Do you have PC done but just can't put it into gamersplane charactersheet?
Or do you struggle to build character using a particular tool?
Or else?

@GreyWord Is my sheet okay now? I think I just need to fill in his background but I was going to ask if there's a way to do that so only you can see some of it? I noticed there was a spoiler function but I assume spoilers can be revealed away? I just would prefer that the entirety of his background isn't visible to everyone.

Alright, I'm reasonably certain I've gotten everything filled in. I went with average hp and accounted for starting gear + the 100gp worth of extra equipment you mentioned, plus the leftover cash from my background equipment.

The AC I have listed on the sheet is my base AC without Mage Armor, but I'm planning on having Mage Armor up essentially all the time.

Afaik, your character sheet is only visible to you and the DM.

Ah, good to know! Thanks!

Fixing my character sheet.

Afaik, maybe if you activated book mark on character sheet, it shown your pc to us to see. Like mine did.

@MrSaxon approved. But I suggest you double check your ability scores. I feel like you forgot to increase them based on your background (as it is done per PHB 2024, but you could also refer to the free basic rules). If you want your back be be mystery, just don't write it down - that's fine for a one shot. I would suggest though you choose your spells granted for your character as Acolyte and note them either into Notes section or add to "Spells" list.

@MrSaxon @MacConnell please follow this link to my little tutorial where I can help you with your charactersheet and share my as gamersplane player experience using them.

@GreyWord Thanks for pointing this out. I missed that Acolyte had stat affects under the 2024 version!

If this is your first experience with 2024 I recommend to re-read whole character on character creation to prevent missing other important aspects. There are major changes to character creation (and minimal to gameplay rules).

Bumping this in case you missed it, DM :) How's my sheet looking?

@Thorstmixx looks good, please note AC with Mage Armor - will help me deciding if enemy hit you and if I need to ask you if you cast shield.
Thanks for pointing me that I missed to react.

@GreyWord Alright, I changed the value on my sheet to reflect my AC with Mage Armor. Casting Mage Armor, as well as Find Familiar (as a ritual) is the standard morning routine anyway, haha

Status:
1. I guess Fang Featherwhite has wrong AC, should be 16 not 15 (now as your wisdom increased), but otherwise good enough for me to start game, player could finalize PC later
2. Garran Veyr, Krynt Keppler, Atticus Harrow looks good, you could also finalize anything if you want
3. Ocelot - @MacConnell your PC still missing avatar image, and more details, please let me know if you would like me to delay game start and give you more time to work on your character details

Meanwhile let's talk the important
Session 0 topics
1. I encourage you to write anything that's on your mind, but please choose what message belong to which of the threads. Do split you message among different channels if that makes sense. The main reason is to keep game thread as focused on game story as osible, becuase both me and you may want to scroll through that thread and recall what happened earlier

2. Outside of combat I will be waiting for everyone to post between two of my in game posts. Please don't be shy and don't expect one or two PCs to lead. Every post will include a either a challenge (issue/struggle) or opportunity (opportunity to learn lore, find loot, etc.). Here on PbP I will only allow each PC will have a single attempt at doing things, so be wise try to attempt something others did not.

3. Skill checks. Or the proper name per rules are "Ability Checks". At the table DM calls for ability checks, but here in gamersplane it is common practice for players to try to guess which skill DM will require to roll and post that as part of your post. Let's do that in this game - when you do out of combat post (see 2 above) feel free to add a skill check roll if you think you describe action that is not mundane.

4. Advantage, Disadvantage and Help outside combat
First of all - you don't need announce help outside combat, please focus on your own actions instead. I assume you are helping each other out of combat by default - whenever it is posible.
This is something I'm going to invent a new in this game. I would like to ask you - every time you roll a skill check add your second roll, because I may as DM decide you are doing that ability check with advantage or disadvantage. If there is another PC in the party proficient in the skill and I could think of a logical way to help you - you will get advantage. If I think your background give you advantage - I will give you advantage. If however there are lore/environment or other impediments to your success you may or may not be aware of - I may decide to choose the worst of your rolls. Fingers crossed this will not happen, but who knows

5. Be and bold. Be creative. Improvise. And invent environment objects!
We are telling an adventuring story, not a reality show :). Do "wall run", walk glowing coals, jump from one build root to another...
More over we are telling this story together. Don't ask me "are there tree tall enough to..." or "are there anything written on these doors"
Do tell me your character is climbing a tree that happen to be there or read the warning on the doors and add a skill check - if you roll badly - that warning was written as a joke.

I will remind you of that in the game

Posting rate and when we start?
Once I feel like we are all ready to start game I will create a game thread and do my first narrative about party travel. Most probably end of this week. And it will include the first challenge already.
Starting there I will be waiting for everyone to post their PC actions before I will do narrative of those actions and post next challenge.

P.S. I would love to see your character visual description as part of your first in game post, or if you are eager to you can post it here in this thread already.


Questions?
Anyone have any questions ? Any. Please don't hesitate. We have time to discuss

I need to add table rolls for my spells for my finishing touch🤷

…Aaaannd im finish my table rolls for my spells🎉

Thanks for noticing about my AC. I've updated it.

@GreyWord i have a questions:

1. Where do we post our backstory and details? Or keep it as secrets (for now)?
2. About Combat; do we move in grid battle map? Or Theater-In-Mind?
3. How initiative work for this game? In-group? Or each pc roll initiative?

That's the questions in my head for now.
Sorry if poor grammar :)

In this one-shot backstory will not matter for the story (I am going to ignore it). It is your decision where and if you publish your backstory. Here in this thread or in a charactersheed you allow everyone see are the two options I could suggest.

Combat and initiative - we will vote when get there, but grid is my preference and I would like to run initiative RAW, but to speed up I am considering using this rule

Actually, let's run the first combat the standard way: grid and roll initiative and act in initiative and if we feel like this is too slow or something could fix it.

I think I'm finally happy with my character sheet.

I do not think that I will ever be able to complete a D&D character. I am going to back away. Hopefully you can pick up another player with some experience. Thanks for the time.

Oh no! 😔

@MacConnell why don't you pick any of many available pregens? I played pregens for quite some games and had fun.

@MacConnell is it a DnD problem or problem with gamerslane charactersheet ? If it is the first I can suggest you a few alternatives, please come back as soon as possible with your final decision:
1. You go to https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/builder and use premade option (or quick build)
2. You pick the druid I just created as premade just change name if you want - click the link to download charactersheet
3. You go to https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/builder use quick build and ask any questions you get in the process
4. You just give up and leave the game

I absolutely love the premise for your scenario, and I can adapt to the data of the provided sheet. I am having an excessive amount of difficulty trying to gather the necessary D&D information. I love these kind of games, so I would like to play, but I do not want to impede progress. I will try the links you just provided to see about a premade druid and simply use the scores that I rolled on this site. Thanks for your patience.

Sad to hear. Making a character for D&D can be time-consuming. That's why I chose to create my character using AI - took me a few minutes. If you want, I can help you create a druid using AI?

Thanks, I am not computer savvy. Gray/Grey is still trying to help me, rather than pushing me aside, so let me see how he responds to the above post.

Actually, i like creating character! I like it manually! Even though i admit i use ai, but its just for character's image and nothing more!

@MacConnell I'm not exactly sure what do you mean "how to download it" depending on your browser there will be an icon for save or download. Tell me what are you running on windows or mac, is it mobile, tablet or desktop and what browser you are using and I may goodle for you how to do that.

Now for building your own character I am also confused. Do you see this?


You will need to do exactly that

Also - when you choose background do you see this? There is no Folk Hero, not supposed to be.
Folk Hero background is not officially printed in the 2024 Player's Handbook. You are doing a 5.0 character instead of 5.5 and I just don't know how you manage to do that

If there is - please tell me how you get that

If you are creating your character based on basic rules there will be only 4 Backgrounds available to you.

How well do we know each other before the start of the game? Have we been adventuring together for a while? If so, how long? If not, how did we meet? The answer will help me determine how much of Atty's backstory I reveal to the party. If they've been adventuring together for weeks, his background and stuff will have come up, but if they just met yesterday, probably not.

Good question. I insist you were on at least one adventure all together, but it could have been 2, 3 or even 5 adventures/quests (which is I guess about max adventuring experience you could have as lvl 3). I don't mind if two of you want to know each other before adventuring career, but I would like to see as general rule - you first met doing adventuring a week or a few weeks ago and other PCs know about your PC as much as he or she would be willing to tell at a campfire by the night.

Ooh😮 i now understand why im gloom stalker ranger, which gave me a backstory idea💡
(Edit a tiny little bit change on my character sheet🤏)

Maybe we should write a little bit about our RPs in a forum thread, so we get to know them, and can bounce ideas off how they know each other?

This is just a one-shot. If we run a full story I would see fit longer intro. My preference for a oneshot is this: focus on the one shot. Skip anything that happened before: we assume you did killed some snakes, goblins, zombies, skeletons, but as a matter of fact your adventure were boring. Your PCs don't want to talk about it in this story.

Now that's my reference, But if you wish otherwise - feel free to use this thread to do whatever you wish. Talk your talking. Share how you were traveling to other planes of existence, stealing gold from dragons, doing quests for leach kings. :-) But keep it out of our game story

OK?!

Oh yeah this is one shot😅 i get the dm's meaning😅

Sounds great, thank you.

Aye aye, Cap'n!

Everyone. I suggest we get started and allow @MacConnell to take time and catch up even if player would miss first post or two in the game

So I've unlocked game thread and my plan at least for first week is following:
- I will be waiting for your posts in game thread till Sunday morning in EU and will make next post sometime Sunday
- I will then wait and do my next posts Tuesday and Thursday evening EU time.
- That's the 3 per week which was minimum I announced in recruitment. We will see how/if we can speed up after we have played one week
- If you want ask clarification question or any other feedback from me sooner than these scheduled posts - use OOC thread, I will try to always answer within 8 hours in OOC.

I think that I can get started since you made a prefab that I am copying. So I do not have to create an account on another site, something us old folks are loathe to do, I am manually copying the data from the character that you made to my character record here. I think I have enough pertinent information transferred to be able to get going.

@MacConnell could you please do two things as priority 1:
- Set your character avatar (Change Avatar->Upload picture->save
- Decide what sells your character have prepared this morning and list them on charactersheet.
That's about all for now - everything else could be done during next week

Avatar has been set. Working on spells.

@MacConnell once you have spell list ready I can approve your character then you can post in game thread
oh I see you posted already... that's fine - once I approve you character either me or you can edit your post to make in in character. I still do insist you do your "homework" let me know if you need any assistance as spells preparing may be strange.
You have
- Two spells as Circle of the Land Spells - (you need to choose one type of land: arid, polar, temperate, or tropical.)
- Longstrider for Wood Elf
- 6 spells of your choice from druid spells available in PHB

I listed only the spells that are currently "memorized." I was not sure about the information for "longstride." I guess it is a free spell instead of a free feat. The chart I found was showing 2, 1st, and 1, 2nd. My INT gives +1, +1. I copied the cantrips from your sheet.[ooc] It makes sense to go with 'temperate' land type. I did not remember seeing anything about that. I will try to find it.

I may be adding important notes on my DMing (especially in this game) when I realize I missed to share that. Here is one - related to repeated skill checks. When a dice decided against you and DM have to narrate failure - it is not uncommon for players to want to repeat that roll. Why do we roll if we know we can re-roll bad rolls - some players may ask
I have an opinion on this one and quite detailed - you could read my opinion below , but could just ask me each time in game - can I roll this again

My detailed opinion - it depends!

There are different skill checks and different situations. If you try to climb a tree fail skill check, fall, take falling damage and then want to try again - I will welcome that and even reduce DC by 1 each time as you learn from your past mistakes.
If you do an investigation check or survival check and dice decides you fail - I will not narrate failure happen due to inability of a particular character. I will narrate that the situation/environment is unfavorable. I can't narrate environment suddenly changes when you or another PC rolls better number.

For example: when PC with +8 in survival rolls 1 on D20 scoring 9 to discover footprints of an animal I will not narrate this particular PC simply don't know how to do survival I will narrate it was either the heavy rain for footprints in dirt or a strong wind for footprints in the sands to disappear. And that is the reason I will ignore repeated skill checks you make for the same reason.

Positive example: PC makes a history check trying to remember something. Now I could narrate failure is because he was ill when topic were discussed at school, he didn't have the book to read or something. I will not allow the same PC to roll again, but will allow another PC to roll for the same goal.

Very reasonable.

Ok, i understand now

Cool.

Sounds good to me!

Technical Question:
Choosing a species and certain features of the Druid class granted various spells. Are all of these spells plus the ones that I am suppose to choose only the ones that are known or are they all memorized?

If only known, are the memorized number of spells limited by the number on the Druid data table plus the Wisdom bonus?

Most features that grant you spells will say how they interact with your preexisting spellcasting feature. All non-cantrip spells, for instance, which are granted by racial features, are always prepared (that is to say, they get prepared for free, they don't take up one of your preparation slots), give you a free casting once per day, and can thereafter be cast normally using a spell slot of the appropriate level or higher, the same way the rest of your spells work.

In your case, Elf gives you a feature that says:Since you are level 3, you know the cantrip and 1st level spell from this feature. I'm not sure which subspecies of Elf you chose, but assuming you went with Wood Elf, that means you know the Druidcraft cantrip as well as the first level spell Longstrider. Druidcraft, like other cantrips, is just always available and you can spam it as much as you like. You can cast Longstrider once per day without spending a spell slot, and after that you can use your spell slots on it as normal.

As for your druid features, I'm not sure what you took, but I guess you're referring to the Circle spells. That feature also tells you:Again, I don't know what you picked, but assuming you went with Temperate, that means you know the Shocking Grasp cantrip, as well as the first-level spells Misty Step and Sleep. Specific spells granted by features like this are all always prepared. This is also confirmed in your druid spellcasting feature, which says:Druids, unlike Wizards, do not need to "learn" their spells. They have access to the full spell list for their level, but can only prepare a certain number at a time. In your case, you're level 3, so according to the druid table, that gives you 6 prepared spells PLUS the afforementioned bonus spells granted to you by your species features (and possibly Primal Order: Magician if you took that from your druid features, or Magic Initiate if your background gave you that). This number is not affected by your wisdom modifier at all, that is a legacy rule from the 2014 edition.

Note that at 3rd level, we full spellcasters get access to 2nd level spell slots; you have 2 of those, plus 4 1st level ones. Just because you have 2 2nd level slots, that does not mean that 2 of your prepared spells must be 2nd level spells. You are free to choose 6 spells of either 1st or 2nd level in any combination. Most 1st level spells can be upcast, so your 2nd level slots would not be totally wasted. You could even prepare 6 2nd level spells, but you would only be able to cast 2 of them, or 1 of them twice.

I hope this helps; I get that it's a lot to take in, but we're here to help.

@Thorstmixx cover that perfectly well.
Just let me update - You have Magic Initiate from sage background indeed.

Read it here

Yes spell casters are always complicated to handle no matter which system. Though 5.5 add more compared to 5.0 and more means more to learn.
I strongly suggest creating your dndbeyond account or finding alternative tool to handle that complexity for you.

One more session 0 comment. I have a strong opinion about Stealth, Perception and Investigation skill checks and you will need to bear with me
- I will ignore any of your Stealth checks you are rolling without knowing whom you are hiding from. Or I will narrate you hide from your own party.
- We roll perception checks to spot something that has been hidden on purpose of being hidden. This skill reflect your subconscious ability of your mind to pick up something that does not look natural something odd, something suspicious - even if you cant logically explain why it looks suspicious. Perception does not measure how far you can see
- I prefer Investigation rolled when your PC has gathered lot of information or have means to gather that information, but we don't want player to analyze that information - we want to see how PC does that analysis

My rule of thumb for picking the right skill is:
1. You decide if you want your PC to rely on instinct/subconscious mind and make decision logically not being able to explain that decision. i.e. your PC would say "we need to go that direction because I believe so" Or do you want your PC to make conscious decision based on observation, i.e. "I see a high tree over there, we can climb it and see further"
Do you follow? This will be Wisdom Ability Check in first instance and Intelligence Ability Check in the second

2. Can you see any of your skills you are proficient in to contribute to your success? It don't necessarily need to be skill usually associated with the ability, let's take crazy example - you are proficient in athletics (which is used in climbing) and you apply that to an Intelligence ability check trying to guess which way enemy could have climbed the mountain

Example
That is obviously Intelligence check and it best map to Nature for me, but I won't oppose player picking Investigation assuming that PC is spending lot of time looking for that

Far be it from me to argue with a DM ruling- this is your game, and you will run it however you like. But I would like to posit that "moving stealthily forward" without necessarily being aware of the location of potential spotters should be possible.
That's a totally fine interpretation; in defense of my own interpretation, I feel that Perception is perfectly applicable to "scanning the landscape", the way one would scan a page in "Where's Waldo". There's a lot of information, and you're looking to spot some specific detail. Investigation would also be fine for this, I feel. But again, your game, your rules.
My interpretation of the Nature skill is that it is an Intelligence-based ability used to recall academic knowledge and factual lore about the natural world. Stuff like recognizing poisonous berries, recalling facts about natural monsters, beasts, and monstrosities (such as knowing what an owlbear eats).

In this case, following your interpretation of Perception, I would like to put forward an argument to use Investigation instead of Nature. But of course, we go with what you think is best.

The Rules As Written (RAW) definition for a Dexterity (Stealth) check in D&D 5e is a skill check you make when you attempt to conceal yourself from enemies, slink past guards, slip away without being noticed, or sneak up on someone without being seen or heard.

Do you realize that in an absence of enemy i am unable to narrate this skill?

But if hear one more player objection I will recall the above statement. Even if player roll stealth+perception with literally every post they make.

Sure, you can't narrate it if you don't have any enemies planned, but if the characters have a vague idea that there are enemies somewhere in the area, it would make sense for them to try to move stealthily, and it would be perfectly reasonable to ask for a stealth check imo. This is something that 5e doesn't have rules for, but if I were writing a system, I might include a mechanic similar to passive perception, but for stealth. That way, the players wouldn't need to roll.

here we go with the rolls

sweet an 18, 17, 15, 13, 9 and 7.

🤩17 and 18 - that's something
@PbPgameOn welcome. If you can have at least draft PC charactersheet ready by Tuesday/Wednesday I would like to pull you into the game after my next in game post, but please take your time


Regarding my previous post - I was a bit too dramatic on the weekend, instead of "I will ignore any " I should have said "I may" and I encourage everyone to be creative with what ability checks you are rolling, I will try to award you with advantage for creativity

Wow, even better that mine lol😂

For reference, my character is Ranger, while olof is fighter, idk about other…

there is also a monk and a wizard in the party, so for the classic composition you are missing a Cha-based character (don't be fooled by game hook, social pillar has it's balanced presence in this one-shot ) , but please don't feel obligated to fill that gap - depending on arty play-style and decisions this one shot could be run with no cha rolls at all

here's my halfling paladin: https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/171077614/NIlOOe

This is the most funniest pc picture i ever see😂😂
Bro look like Human guy with Wife & 2 kids 😂🤣

Joke aside, Being paladin is perfect to! Paladin is use Cha as spellcasting, and can heal, + being frontliner. This is actually good ngl👍

Edit: your dnd beyond link i think is invalid, can you tried again?

Going to put that in his backstory, under flaws, has wife and 2 kids, ha.

Maybe this link will work: Bartholomew

Don't forget for your Weapon Mastery too!

👍 thanks forgot about that.

@PbPgameOn approved your character, feel free to add more details from beyond to here, but I only need list Languages you know on top of what you have got there already and drop a link to beyond character into notes just in case I need some details

Actually, please edit your AC to be "18 (20)" for me to not forget how it change when you case shield of faith, thanks

I suggest to take time to read setting and my first game post. I would invite you to post after my next in game post, but if you feel like ready and willing to - feel free to post already, assuming your PC has been with the party all of this time, we just never mentioned him in the story yet

Doing this more for myself, but sharing just in case anyone finds it helpful and please do correct me if I'm wrong about your character

* Bartholomew just joined game - my first impression of a casual person and - not sure if it was on purpose, but got impression of the "mister obvious"

Erm… i just want to point out that Krynt ask alot of question, that's all.

Good point. Though i see many of them are either rethoricall or request rather that question. I will call him "i am wise and i know it" in my head ;) unless i hear you say i misunderstood

This is new to me.
So questioning basic things don't need a roll. But questioning that npc don't want to need a roll, correct?

this is new to me as well, in 2014 there were no social actions, I like how it makes things simpler and more orderly for me as DM

I guess at a table it would go like this:
Player: I ask barkeep "where do I find mafia boss"
DM: Barkeep say he don't think he knows that
Player: Decides to take Influence action and rolls good
DM: Barkeep say wait, you know I start to remember

Now here on PBP it is common practice to make forward roll, ie Player: I ask barkeep "where do I find mafia boss" and just in case it will be require here is my influence action roll

Just in general for PbP, it's a good idea to just roll if you think you are doing literally anything that might requre a roll as per the rules. The worst that can happen is that you didn't need to roll and the DM just ignores it. If you DON'T roll, but you need a roll, that slows the whole game down. So it's best to roll one too many times than one time too few.

I've like to add some examples to better explain how I would like to play this game, but they will contain some minor spoilers about current NPC If you don't want spoilers - don't read them before after the scene is druid is over

do we show the old guy the map? who has the map anyways?

I believed Atticus has it?

Usually I try to make role play opportunities symmetric for all players, thus let's assume each PC has their own copies of original map

@solose first of all thank posting, we are only waiting @Thorstmixx to post now. I would like to clarify though (ignore if this was clear already) unless NPC explicitly bans you from conversation you are welcome to keep contributing to that conversation, just as in combat after rolling nat1 you keep fighting and only after you drop to 0 HP you stop

Apologies for the delay, gents. It's been a very chaotic weekend with the kiddos. I'll post as soon as I find the time today.

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@GreyWord Thank you for the invitation. I haven't played PHB 2024. I'm just familiar with D&D in general from years ago. But I'm going through it and should be able to pick up enough along the way. I also started going through the tutorials. I wasn't sure about how the creation works, if it is done within this thread? I'll test things out to see.

Rolling ability scores

I'll keep these rolls. I'm working on a cleric, though I won't necessarily optimize all the stats.

nice stats kyvern, 18!

Yeah, definitely happy for that one. I submitted my character for review.

Hey @Kyvern , can you make your character sheet public with making the book on the right turn red? This will help us alot!

@Kyvern I guess this would be a great moment to say that Kaelynn who were lagging behind the rest of the party for one reason or another finally reach the bridge and hear Atticus suggesting to ... abandon the quest - or at least that's how she hear/understand that from the distance

Please post your PC reaction and action - just an idea - maybe your cleric would have sufficient self-confidence, or perhaps she has consulted with her deity and believe that crossing the bridge right now is just a test of your willpower: whichever the reason I am begging you to lead the party over the bridge to prevent story from hanging

Okay, I clicked the book that says Add to Library. Hopefully that's the correct one

Okay, I'll be updating myself better on the happenings and should be able to post later this afternoon.

Yes, i finally can see your character sheet. Thanks you.