OOC

Here on gamersplane we are used to have this OOC thread for anything you want to discuss as a layer not as your character
I encourage you to us this Out-Of-Character thread to ask DM questions when narrative is lackinng details you want to know (are there any bushed to hide, any tree to climb up, any stone to throw. What material are doors made of, etc.

This thread will also usually include

- players discussing party strategy or how they (as players) want story to advance
- DM asking for player decisions
- player asks DM questions like "can I do X", "how would you rule this", etc.
- want to tell everyone you are having a vacation and will not be able to post a few day
- rules questions
- questions about using this sire

The game thread is locked until all players finish their PC, but feel free to read my first post and ask any questions about it here in out of character thread.

I have a question regarding the book our characters found in the abandoned manor. Were they able to decipher the shaky handwriting and understand it?

I went with survival for the first roll, as he's essentially "tracking" signs of passage. Hope that's an okay first post to start us off with!

Yes. It wasn't hard, just time consuming.
What you learned is described in this thread

I love your post. Dice roll not so much - no luck this time, will see what others have to offer.

I basically followed suit with the first post, but I did not have the option to post as my character

@MacConnell you will only be able to do that when I approve your character
and I will only approve your character when you finish the minimal requirements (spell list) I asked you to do for your PC

Spell List should be complete. I am working on Feats.

Approved but I feel like list is too short. Let's discuss tomorrow

We are working in 2 thread, LOL.

I guess I need to work again bit harder to describe a challenge and why i think it will require everyone to work on solving the issue. Will do that with my Sunday post.

Oh well, take your times👍

I guess I can do a post sooner. Will try to make it today, but don't you hurry everyone to do your posts, I will wait everyone

I realize I only mentioned this in passing before we started, but is it chill for us to start with the assumption that I cast Find Familiar as a ritual in the morning? I would like to have my lil owl buddy.

Sure. What a wizard without a familiar? Well until it takes 1 point of damage that is. Just kidding. I guess.
You have your familiar with you right now.

May I please ask everyone to post into this thread (in addition to IC post in game thread):
1. A short overview of the action your PC does
2. (most importantly) how do you think that action would help party to find which way you need to go

Or maybe you find this first challenge too hard or too confusing? Let's also vote what we do about this challenge of my own design :

Well, my character tried to follow @MrSaxon 's character into the foggy fog while keeping an eyes for anything suspicious in this foggy. (Im confuse lol)
Yeah, as i mention, my character's contribution is keeping an eyes on suspicious things.
You know what, im already fun with dm's description (specially the divorced bees😂), im choosing all of them.

Here is my answer:
1. Garren tries to climb over the landslide and look for the continuation of the path.
2. If he gets over the landslide, he might catch sight of the path.

Ocelot is specifically looking for signs of passage of other people, if anyone has transversed the area after the landslide. Secondly, to aid in moving us all along, he will try to determine if there is a manageable path to take to continue in the correct direction.

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…😟😞

That’s a shame to hear. I thought your character made a wise choice. The most important thing isn't making smart decisions, but having fun together.

Yeah im also having fun! Fang Boldly goes into mist is gave me an idea! You are helpful😄, but its sad when you leave😟😞

I think people new to this hobby (or the format) can often feel a lot of pressure to "perform", and I get that. But the whole point of asynchronous PbP is that there isn't so much of a rush to decide and figure things out. There's no shame in being confused. You're not slowing anybody down, everything's okay. If you're still around to see this, I would urge you to reconsider. Your writing is great :)

@GreyWord , may i have a question? So, if im looking for footprint, do i need to roll survival? Or perception?

Most important to me is what an action is. Do you just keep an eye for it while walking or you have everyone to halt and let you search the forest. Systematic searching for tracks would be certainly a survival.

Then, it's survival it is!

This is the type of shit that would be an iconic moment at any table, haha. What are the chances we ALL took Goblin? 😂

@Olof by any chance you using This Goblin Translations?

No 😄

Well, at least it's goblin languages🤷

What time of day is it, by the way?

Lovely posts, inspired me to come up with (did I tell you, I guess I did not, but first part of this game is hind of sandbox/world building - all I have is map picture, every location, npc, event or discovery is my improvisation) will narrate the results in few hours

it is any time of day you want it to be - we will not be measuring time or accounting rations in this oneshot, you can hunt, take time and take your long rests whenever you want ... until I explicitly say otherwise because time is ticking and something bad is going to happen soon

oohh~ foreshadowing~

played in a few games here GP so far. always thought it would be nice to see other party member's char sheet. just happened to click on krynt's char img and saw the char sheet, but didn't work for garran or atticus "No Character Found".

@PbPgameOn It is player's decision if they allow other players to see their charactersheets (though UX for that is counter intuitive - you go to your character list and press icon right of pencil, having tooltip "Add to Library"). And it appears Library is something other players could visit and read

@solose there is a difference between "flowing river" and "river stone", isn't there? I was narrating second not the first, didn't I? I can - if you wish - narrate the herbs are hallucinogens and made your PC see river where there is just a fireplace , or feel free edit your post if that was simply your as a player mistake

Forgive me, this is my mistake, i will fix it.
Edit: Fix it👍

It feels unnecessary of you, GreyWord, to take issue with Solose's post. You wrote "river stones," which brings a river to mind. You don't need to make fun of the situation by mentioning hallucinations.

Im confused, i have bad grammar, idk what did you mean by that? 🤔
It is "flowing river" because its flowing? Or "river stones" because the river has stones?

Now it's my turn to be confused, tell me which item need to clarify:
1. There is no river in the scene, I have never narrated any river
2. When I say "River stones" I mean a naturally smoothed, rounded rocks (most probably picked from river and carried all the way over to here)

Ah, forgive me, my brain instantly turn "River" into actual river scene. I wasn't pay attension at all. Going to fix it.

Thank you for pointing that out, I've made Atty public so you can peek if you feel like it.

I will be a little bit delayed with my reply, as I need to rush to pick up the kids from school; will reply this evening.

i did the same with bart i think, made the book red.

If we waiting for someone return, it would be waste of times.
If we search the road our own, we didn't even knew where to start. Its like puzzle piece without the frames.
The only logical thing is to follow the tract, maybe we even knew who the person we didn't know.
But again, Krynt agree to party's plan, he just suggesting.

There is another problem - you don't know if person
- has the knowledge you seek
- will want to share that knowledge (for free)

My point is - this not the test of your ability to choose the right decision. The only question is - which of 3 you would love me to narrate, which sound more fun, i.e. you are actually choosing amog
1. Just roll some survival for navigating and DM put some insignificant penalty for failed roll, but we continue to next checkoint
2. Run a social encounter that if successful will prevent the navigation roll above, if failed - still do the roll
3. Same as 2 but we roll survival to find tracks before we do 2

Seems to me that the option of tracking this person gives us the most amount of "content" :P

#3 get to track and social

Agree!

BTW, are there any rules or such for post limits within a certain time frame? Like I feel sometimes if certain people are on at the same time, especially with the GM, it could keep going back and forth without others getting to do something. I don't want to happen to make a slip with expectations in this area. Thanks!

I plan to pause for a bit, but had just wanted to do my cleric duties while I thought about them :)

No limits. I will slow down by not posting when I want let everyone react.
So feel free to post any time you have something to say

Okay, sounds good.

Another question. For keeping track of spell slots and HPs and such, is it expected to do this in the character sheet? Or would it be better to include my status at the bottom of each post? Or something else that's usually done?

Usually on your charactersheet only.

Isn't Nature is Int? Are you asking to roll Nature check with Wisdom, or this is an error?

Ok, i understand now. So using wis for nature is legal lol.

You are not using wisdom for nature, you are using your nature skills for wisdom ability check, that's both RAW and RAI
and
But if you are used to think of it upside down, then yes, you are absolutely right - rules allow DM to decide
PC may use Wisdom for nature or Str for Intimidation or
use Wisdom nothing check IF the DM determines that no skill or tool proficiency is relevant
use Intelligence for nothing check IF the DM determines that no skill or tool proficiency is relevant
...

1. Oh, I didn't realize Guidance could be on my own character. I suppose it makes sense as a prayer always said. Thanks for letting me know.

2. Oh sorry, I must have mixed this up with the Wisdom rolls. I'll try to watch this more carefully.