General Discussions and Shenanigans Thread #03:

I do have 2 player slots open in the 5E: "Lost Mines of Phandelver" module.&nbsp; It's held on Saturday Mornings at 10 AM ET - 7 AM PT. Invite Link is Here:&nbsp; <a href="https://app.roll20.net/join/5291567/iEwpTQ" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/join/5291567/iEwpTQ</a> I can let you in and "DM" you to see how it's set up, if you just want to do that and just have a quick look. I have enhanced the module with content I have been able to find on the internet, as really, it's half-assed and half complete. The village of Conyberry, was hard to find and I did find 3 maps. Two of them with the town in ruins and one of a normal village, which I enhanced with dungeonographer and will use as the module indicates the village is inhabited and has over a dozen buildings. Heh, every time I see "Flavor Text", it makes me cringe, which also sometimes tells the players things they don't see or shouldn't know just yet. Would rather it was titled, "Area/Room/Scene description / 'read aloud' " instead. Having taken like 3 weeks now of prep time, when I though this complete official product would only need 1 night of prep. I guess i'll get the Essentials kit next, run the short modules in this then go into Storm King's Thunder. Right now, it seems, the Insight / Perception roll is an over used thing and it comes across as a psionic ESP ability that everyone in the 5E world has, instead of a regular search roll or wisdom check. Now to see how the over powered nature of the 5E characters are in their own 5E setting.

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The Saturday 5E game is full now, anyone else coming over is just having a look.

"The Knight Before Christmas" about a knight that travels to the present day will be on Netflix. Some brief scenes in the Christmas movies teaser here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3skj6lm7G8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3skj6lm7G8</a>

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Weekly Game Session Reminder - Sunday, November 3rd, 2019 - 8:00 pm EDT - Isle of Dread 4: I1: Dwellers of the Forbidden City Just&nbsp; a Note to remind you all that there is a Live Adventure Gaming Session Tonight starting at 8pm ET - 5pm PT - 1am BT! Looks like Christopher G, GreyWolfVT, Freeman3294, Roxxifarius, and Shadowfox, will be there! We have not yet heard from AnotherTexan0, Devin M, Fictionaut, and Gary H!

Chris G did say he would be there. I will admit since the Patriots game is starting shortly after game time here I will potentially be distracted by the football game.

There is a whole thread in the Forum about the missing rolls bug here: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/7830821/not-all-rolls-are-showing" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/7830821/not-all-rolls-are-showing</a>

Ok, if AnotherTexan0, The Fictionaut, Gary H, and Ejen Nailo, are ever going to play: AnotherTexan0: Ra'ziel's sheet needs finished filling out and necromancer spells picked. The Fictionaut:&nbsp; Doña Phicenta Thragiella De Thrul, sheet needs finished filling out and I need go over spells and see what needs converted. Gary H: Closest to a paladin I have available and ready to go is Ubet the Cavalier knight. Freeman had him before but wants to make a new character coming back to the game, so he needs to get one done as well. Please let me know which former party member or new character that's sitting the the 'Former party Members' or 'New Character sheets' folder or any of the pre-mades in the pre-gen thread or in that new pre-gen booklet from dark wizard you want to use. Ejen Nailo: Your fighter,&nbsp; Rokas of Strip Claws, needs finished filling out. If I don't hear from any of you by midnight tomorrow Eastern Time, I may have to boot you out, besides only Freeman showed up, and the rest of you did not and did not even bother to post in the attendance thread your status, so you are basically all considered just ghosting / trolling the game. If you tell me, you just wish to read the game then ok, but at least lets be responsive to posts here, otherwise you just may get booted so the adventure isn't spoiled for you on top of it all. Please let me know when you can come into the game &amp; I can try to come in and help you with things. Let's get this all done Prior to the next gaming session please.

Just a reminder to AnotherTexan0, The Fictionaut, Gary H &amp; Ejen Nailo, that if I do not hear from any of you tonight by midnight eastern time (Pittsburgh, Pa. time), you will likely get booted from the game so that other people that want to play can join!!!!

Ok, I think I am going to use the following information for when engaging in melee combat which has your movement halved, (typically 60 ft). In 5E it's 30 ft or less (depending on encumbrance), and the 60 ft here is obviously super nerfed. I think I simply picked it up from a player that used to be in the game. So here we go: For When Engaged in Melee Combat: Mode: Unencumbered&nbsp; / Armored or Encumbered&nbsp; /&nbsp; Armored and Encumbered Combat 12 ft&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;/&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;9 ft&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;/&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;6 ft&nbsp; (Note: Combat will likely be rounded to 10ft / 7.5ft / 5ft for ease of use on Roll20 Maps or hold Alt button down to fine tune placement if you want to.) Combat's movement (engaged in melee), is by the segment (6 seconds = 1 round of Combat turn orders in this game). So you would move a total of 120 ft if unencumbered, 75 ft armored or encumbered,&nbsp; or 50 ft, if armored and encumbered, in 1 Minute of combat, for an example.&nbsp; =============== Rest of Movement Speed Multipliers: The rest are by the regular 1 minute round, (i.e. Exploring, Walking, Running). Mode: Unencumbered&nbsp; / Armored or Encumbered&nbsp; /&nbsp; Armored and Encumbered Exploring 120ft&nbsp; /&nbsp; 90ft&nbsp; /&nbsp; 60ft Walking 240ft&nbsp; /&nbsp; 180ft&nbsp; /&nbsp; 120ft Running 360ft&nbsp; /&nbsp; 270ft&nbsp; /&nbsp; &nbsp;-- Some of those numbers above will be different depending on the type of armor worn and or if encumbered.

I should point out that the 12 ft / 9 ft / 6 ft for combat movement is a base for if you normally move a 120 ft exploring speed So, if your base exploring speed is 60 ft due to plate mail armor your combat speed is: 6 ft / 5 ft / 3 ft 6 ft - 33% = 4.02 rounded up to 5 ft: 4.02 ft - 33% = 2.6934 rounded up to 3 ft (I read somewhere in the DMG that fractions are always rounded up)

Hear ye! Hear ye!

For the spellcasters: Would you prefer one folder for cleric and one for magic-user spells with level sub-folders in each one or do you want to keep it the current way with Character specific spell folders? (They each would still have their own spell tracking handout sheets. Doing it the first way eliminates duplicate handouts which take up computer memory if roll20 pre-loads it all in. Another way to reduce the memory load and thus the time it takes for the game to load in, is to do what I see is called mooking the henchmen/minions of the baddies. But, Doing this on my end, seems to cause roll20 to get glitchy the most and also more confusing for everyone. It's when you take a goblin and make duplicate tokens then unlink them from the original sheet. Thus you used just one sheet to create 10 goblin tokens.

I am still awaiting on AnotherTexan0 to pick spells and fill in other blank information, for the necromancer deathslayer Ra'Ziel, so we can get the sheet ready for play, before the game Sunday Evening! It's been about 5 days since AnotherTexan0 posted anything.

Still no word from AnotherTexan0 yet, so maybe I will open up a slot for a new player.

Ok, I still have not heard from AnotherTexan0, so a player slot has opened up!

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Weekly Game Session Reminder - Sunday, November 10th, 2019 - 8:00 pm EDT - Isle of Dread 4: I1: Dwellers of the Forbidden City Just&nbsp; a Note to remind you all that there is a Live Adventure Gaming Session Tonight starting at 8pm ET - 5pm PT - 1am BT! Looks like Christopher G, GreyWolfVT, Fictionaut, Roxxifarius, and Shadowfox, will be there! We have not yet heard from Devin M, Freeman3294 and Eduard G!

I'm going to be late.

My internet randomly stopped working on the laptop I was playing on at about 9:30 &amp; I haven't managed to get it working again.

Just a reminder for Eduard G, to get the Character Sheet Filled out Please!

I don't think anyone is using a garrote right now but here is the new macro for it.&nbsp; Name: TH-Garrote &amp;{template:2Edefault}{{name= @{selected|token_name} the @{selected|class}, Attacks with the GARROTE (24") at @{target|token_name} enemy!}}{{desc= Strike Hits an AC of [[ @{selected|ThAC0} - ( 1d20 @{selected|strengthhit}) ]] For [[1d4&nbsp; @{selected|strengthdmg}]] S/M or [[1d6&nbsp; @{selected|strengthdmg}]] L HP Damage!&nbsp; If victim is equal in size or smaller than attacker, it is considered grappled and begins to Choke for [[1 @{target|conadj}]] rounds. After which suffocation begins, victim drops to zero hit points and is dying and can't regain HP or be stabilized until breathing again!}}

Garrote nope never used that with any character ever a bit of an obscure weapon.

Which is why I bet, the player that wanted it for Altomi the bard when he picked it up wanted it! He was probably trolling to see if I would even let him have it. So, anyways, it's out there for use and improved thanks to additional information from 5th edition.

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A Bard using a garrote now that has serial killer written all over it.

I had an Assassin in a game use it a few times try to anyways

I can certainly see an Assassin or thief, use it as a back stab weapon, however I did not add the plusses due to the victim seeing the leather strap/wire come over his/her head, so I left it as a regular To Hit to account for the possibility of getting a hand in there to prevent it.

Yes an assassin certainly thief maybe depends on their "alignment" or perhaps views on taking out someone. I think I might go with the sap knock em out rather than a garrote.&nbsp;

Hey Ricky, are you also running a 5E game? Just curious, because I am thinking I may try to play 5E, see how it goes. For now though I am not REALLY looking, just interested.

Hey Shadowfax He does have indeed have a 5e game thats having some trouble going starts around 9 am Central 10 am Eastern 7 am Pacific goes for about 3 hours

I have someone named Frank that is supposed to join the 5E game to fill in the last spot, however he hasn't joined yet. The latest Trolling trend is to post that you want to join but then never show up, especially worst with the 5E game. But anyways here is the link, in case Frank does not join the game: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/join/5291567/hdR4DA" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/join/5291567/hdR4DA</a>

That said someone named&nbsp; John B. , is supposed to fill in the last spot for this game but has not joined yet.

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Ok, have a look at this screen shot, it appears that a lot of these new players are actually Bots!

Interestingly, Kaiden just joined the game and is actually filling out a sheet saying he used a mythweaver template as well. Now to see if he actually shows up in the morning!

I popped in there earlier today but it kept kicking me out. Was just checking it out. Dont know if it does that automatically or if it was just an issue with Roll20 at the time.

I would guess a Roll20 issue. Looks like you can even play the 5E game now, as a player left.

Weekly Game Session Reminder - Sunday, November 17th, 2019 - 8:00 pm EDT - Isle of Dread 4: I1: Dwellers of the Forbidden City Just&nbsp; a Note to remind you all that there is a Live Adventure Gaming Session Tonight starting at 8pm ET - 5pm PT - 1am BT! Looks like GreyWolfVT and Roxxifarius will be there! We have not yet heard from anybody else!

I'm going to be late.

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Weekly Game Session Reminder - Sunday, November 24th, 2019 - 8:00 pm EDT - Isle of Dread 4: I1: Dwellers of the Forbidden City Just&nbsp; a Note to remind you all that there is a Live Adventure Gaming Session Tonight starting at 8pm ET - 5pm PT - 1am BT! Looks like GreyWolfVT, Roxxifarius and Shadowfox will be there! We have not yet heard from anybody else!

Not entirely sure why Roll20 in game is acting like i am in Pan Mode when trying to navigate my token around but it has become very frustrating. I left the game due to not being able to get to where the rest of the group was i kept trying to move my token and was getting further away from where i was trying to get. I said as much in chat but felt like i was being ignored. So I just left the session. I'm not getting this when i go into other games today so it is really odd.

I had some issues with moving tokens as well! You weren't ignored, just that no one could do anything, other than try moving the token for you, which i did.

Weekly Game Session Reminder - Sunday, December 1st, 2019 - 8:00 pm EDT - Isle of Dread 4: I1: Dwellers of the Forbidden City Just&nbsp; a Note to remind you all that there is a Live Adventure Gaming Session Tonight starting at 8pm ET - 5pm PT - 1am BT! Looks like Christopher, GreyWolfVT, Roxxifarius and Shadowfox will be there! We have not yet heard from anybody else!

The WiFi stopped on the laptop I'm using, So I'm telling you on my phone.

Weekly Game Session Reminder - Sunday, December 8th, 2019 - 8:00 pm EDT - Isle of Dread 4: I1: Dwellers of the Forbidden City Just&nbsp; a Note to remind you all that there is a Live Adventure Gaming Session Tonight starting at 8pm ET - 5pm PT - 1am BT! Looks like Christopher (might be a little late), Roxxifarius and Shadowfox will be there! GreywolfVT, will not be attending tonight. We have not yet heard from anyone else!