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1. Atticus is using his telepathic connection to his familiar to scout ahead. He's looking for anything that might either give a clue to the direction of their destination, such as landmarks or signs of people passing in a given direction, or perhaps she can see some kind of pattern in the landscape from above that we can't see from down here. I rolled perception for this, hope that's cool.
2. If the familiar can spot any such landmark or sign of passage, that would at least suggest a direction. If not, they will at least have tried.

Good, it is clear to me now, thanks for writing these details

I guess I finally know where I made a mistake
Did you guys read settings and lore thread?
I assumed that this will help you realize the road you have been following had no evidence of any human travelling that road for years
I should have explicitly stated the road is overgrown and such.

@MacConnell with that above information in mind would you like to try a different action?

@solose just note - I did assume all characters always keep eye open ... do you insist your only keep eyes open when you explicitly say so? Just joking. Bottom line - I have no idea how to turn something suspicious into a help finding path. If you keep insisting on finding something suspicious I can only throw some monsters on your party to fight - is that your goal, I hope not.

…Suspicious if there's something hidden, like hidding road, or as you mention before, monster(s).
So i forgot to tell you, i roll acrobatics so i can cross the landslide properly (idk if you use crit success/failure on skills🤷), and survival is for suspicious thingy. (Or it is perception?🤔)
Edit: after seeing dm's rule about perception, it is obvious survival isn't the right answer, i guess survival is for tracking, so… maybe i remaking krynt's action little more…?

OK got it - maybe someone hid the new road from you :) that would be a DC 20

I specifically asked to pick on skill and roll twice for possible advantage/disadvantage You rolled 8 and I will ignore 1 unless I decide that there is a good reason to apply disadvantage to that roll. And I don't see a reason to
For example I will apply disadvantage to wizard's attempt to explore through animal eyes, because looking at the world through animal eyes is not the same as looking through your own

Dm, i roll perception for something suspicious, do you allow it?
Wait… you telling me to roll twice? I though it was roll 2 skills… I screwed up🤦
Maybe i should rewrote Krynt's action……🤦

Feel free to do new post and new rolls.

perception for something suspicious is good, though i would always just apply passive perception if there were something .

That nice.
Dm, may i climb down the landslide using Acrobatics?
And do you don't mind rolling two double dice for skills? (Acrobatics, perception)
Edit: rolling double perception for now…

I am too unfamiliar with the system that you are using. Your story sounds very interesting. I wish you well with it.

what's do you mean by that?

He means he's quitting because he feels overwhelmed by learning the system.

Ah man, good luck out there mr Connell

Sorry to see him gone. Guess it was a surprise to player how much dnd have changed in 50 years

We will have new player joining now and assume the new PC was always with you.

Make sense👍

Sounds gucci. Good luck to McConnell with finding other games. Shame to see him go, he seems like a great RPer.

@MrSaxon are you still there? Or are you still in job?😟

Apologies, everyone. I'm not really sure what I'm meant to be doing and I think it's a Me thing rather a Game thing. It's been a while since I've played either a D&D game or a PBEM game, and that's probably part of it, but I've re-read the posts here several times and I'm still stumped. As I said, it's obviously a Me thing. Rather than frustrate myself, and frustrate you all as I inevitably get things wrong or simply decline to post because I'm not sure what's expected, I'm going to step out here before the game gets into full swing.

I wish you all well.

Aw shuck. Farewell then, and good luck😟

Maybe, just maybe I know what you are talking about. As a player I have had that feeling in some PbP games where "I don't know what could I possibly do here", but most of the time if I spend a day or two thinking about situation I would eventually come up with an action that even if don't contribute to party success, at least seems fun

And by the way - It is maybe actually partially my fault - I messed up with confusing / incomplete first post, may I ask you to stay and see my next post. And I totally understand if you decide to leave anyway

He leave…😟😞