General Discussions and Shenanigans Thread #04:

Game Day Session Reminder - Saturday, April 11th, 2020 - 10:00 am EDT - 5E: Lost Mines of Phandelver Just  a Note to remind you all that there is a Live Adventure Gaming Session Today starting at 10am ET - 7am PT - 3pm BT! Buddy, Christian, and Roxxifarius, will be there. Rahfen, will probably be there. We have not heard from David, Hermit Legend and Malik, as of yet! Warning that if you don't post your availability for the game you are likely getting booted, same for if you don't show up Saturday and have not posted why you can not make it! 

Since we haven't heard from David H. and Malik N. and they didn't attend today's gaming session I am giving them both until midnight eastern time today to respond or they will likely get booted from the game. So if either of you are still intending to play, please post something, or I will be sending you both a boot note, though I will let you return if you want to, of course.

Ok, who would like Ravoprax's Talon Longsword? I will just say he gives it to the character since he decided not to do any more adventuring. Even, Vixxy's New Character can have the long sword. Talon Long Sword Description: A Longsword in a silver-chased scabbard. The sword is inscribed with the name “Talon,” and its hilt is worked in the shape of a bird of prey with outspread wings. It once belonged to a great knight named Aldith Tresendar, known as the Black Hawk. I am working on the "Ravenloft: Prey of the Black Wolf" play test, now that I can copy / paste from the PDF. So, it is now possible we can start it this coming weekend. It may take 6 sessions to go through and after that back to the current two adventure modules.

As an added note, if no one claims it Roqar will have the hilt removed and put on one of her short swords :D  So if you want a Legendary sword step up and claim it 

I would totality take it. but plan on being a pole arm master. if i took it it would be a secondary weapon.if someone needs as mane weapon they should take it. but if not id be happy to add it to my fighters arsenal 

other question. if we do the Ravenloft story which i'm totally down. would these characters be transported to Ravenloft by its infamous mists ? Or would it be fresh Characters as a brake from the mains?

It would be new Characters just for Ravenloft

Sounds good, i'm down regular stuff or are there restrictions for Ravenloft?

Yes, New Characters for the Ravenloft Play Test here: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/join/6736698/cWjD6g" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/join/6736698/cWjD6g</a> There are pre-gens but they are all level 2 and geared specifically for the module. I want to go with random and start at level 1. You will see a Player's Questionnaire that gets filled out. Also, I will create a Thread for each week's session so everyone can talk about how the play testing went. I'll make the game public so the creator can read the comments.

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Ok, I noticed that the Experience Points disappeared on some of the sheets in both games. I will not put in the total until it reaches level 4 now. I am to thinking it is still going to screw up the sheets thinking you need to run through leveling up all four levels. Eimong and Rheylina should be ok, however.

Just a Reminder to try and get your Ravenloft Play Test Character sheet made, if possible for you, before game time tomorrow! Buddy, Hermit Legend, Rahfen and Vixxy need characters made for the playtest. Here is the game's Link: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/join/6736698/cWjD6g" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/join/6736698/cWjD6g</a> Christian is a Vistani Paladin knight and Roxxifarius is a Bard.

Blank Character sheets are provided for Akshay, Christian, Jaster and Ullek inside the game in the Player Characters (PCs) folder. Work on them here and I will transfer them over to Dragon of Icespire Peak.

Ok, I see that Christian has Xar'Tharkas and his Time Echo. So that leaves Akshay, Jaster and Ullek that need to make characters. You could of course have the Ravenloft play test characters moved to this game unless someone wants to make a fresh new one. Remember to try and get the characters made by Thursday of this week for me!

I would like to join this grp Sat. 10am est. are they pre-gen characters to look at.

No, pre-gens but there are old characters, some used and some never used, in two different folders.

As a reminder: We will be starting in the Dragon of IceSpire Peak module when we resume our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow! We Left off with three party members talking to an Orc tribe inside the ruins of the Shrine of Savras.

Just a reminder that Akshay, Jaster and Ullek need to get characters made or transfered over into this game! It would be nice to have them done tonight so there is no fussing with them during game time tomorrow! I will send out a note to Akshay, as he has not yet joined the game even!

Ok, Roll20 has been down for a while, and is now back up but a bit slow yet! Roxxifarius (Rogar) and Christian (Rahfen) are in the IcePeak Module room right now. We can try for an 11am Eastern Time start. If not then, i'll try starting at 11:30 then Noon to play at least an hour. So if you see this check in and see whom is still aroun

ok see you there brother

The link to the official version of "Ravenloft: Prey of the Black Wolf" is now up on DMSGuild: <a href="https://www.dmsguild.com/product/314883/Ravenloft-Prey-of-the-Black-Wolf" rel="nofollow">https://www.dmsguild.com/product/314883/Ravenloft-Prey-of-the-Black-Wolf</a>

Game Day Session Reminder - Saturday, May 30th, 2020 - 10:00 am EDT - 5E: Lost Mines of Phandelver / Dragon of Icespire Peak Just&nbsp; a Note to remind you all that there is a Live Adventure Gaming Session Today starting at 10am ET - 7am PT - 3pm BT! Roxxifarius &amp; Ullek will be there. Rahfen, will probably be there. We have not heard from Buddy, Christian, and Jaster as of yet! Warning that if you don't post your availability for the game you are likely getting booted, same for if you don't show up Saturday and have not posted why you can not make it!&nbsp;

Ok, Buddy's, Willie Belson and Rahfen's, Prayn Vigim are showing to be 4th level when everyone is at 3rd level with 1,488 experience points! Those sheets will need to be fixed!

With the current encounter at Old Owl Well, I know that if I were to run it again for another group, I am having some of them roam the perimeter, (Miner's spotted them roaming the place), and will have at least two of them as guards outside the tent! The ones in the tower would be excavating the place. I just went with what the module said! Also, the map for this encounter had to be bought as an accessory as it wasn't even included in the original module!

Game Day Session Reminder - Saturday, June 6th, 2020 - 10:00 am EDT - 5E: Lost Mines of Phandelver / Dragon of Icespire Peak Just&nbsp; a Note to remind you all that there is a Live Adventure Gaming Session Today starting at 10am ET - 7am PT - 3pm BT! Roxxifarius, will be there. Rahfen, might be there. We have not heard from Buddy, Christian, Jaster and Ullek as of yet! Warning that if you don't post your availability for the game you are likely getting booted, same for if you don't show up Saturday and have not posted why you can not make it!&nbsp;

Ok, Today's session ran about 45 minutes, and finished at 11:00 am eastern time, as Roxxi had something to attend to and Buddy and Rahfen finished off the Old Owl Well encounter. So now, when we resume next week, it is off to Wyvern Tor to find where orcs are living. The party receives 800 XP for the Old Owl Well encounter and had an Unseen Servant pull out a chest that was starting to smolder from the burning tent. Inside the chest was found the following items: Clothing, a bone scroll tube, a vial, a jeweled box worth 25 gp, of which stored a ring band with runes upon it. In a leather bag in the chest were:&nbsp;35 silver pieces, 20 electrum pieces, 20 gold pieces and one 100 gp valued large pearl (great for identify spell!). I need to hear from Jaster now, as it's been at least 3 weeks now without a word and will likely get booted from the game after Midnight tonight eastern time, unless I hear something back!

Ah, I'm sorry for the past sessions, I forgot to remind you guys that I'm having my finals this month so I wouldn't be free. You can kick me out, I don't mind caz, my finals are gonna be a little long and I still have to prepare for further exams for my extra classes, I'm so sorry about this late response &gt;n&lt;

And I will be there sorry had a broken com last week but I should be there i think i have it sorted now&nbsp;

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Game Day Session Reminder - Saturday, June 13th, 2020 - 10:00 am EDT - 5E: Lost Mines of Phandelver / Dragon of Icespire Peak Just&nbsp; a Note to remind you all that there is a Live Adventure Gaming Session Today starting at 10am ET - 7am PT - 3pm BT! Roxxifarius and Ullek will be there. We have not heard from Buddy, Christian, Jaster and Rahfen as of yet! Warning that if you don't post your availability for the game you are likely getting booted, same for if you don't show up Saturday and have not posted why you can not make it!&nbsp;

Game Day Session Reminder - Saturday, June 20th, 2020 - 10:00 am EDT - 5E: Lost Mines of Phandelver / Dragon of Icespire Peak Just&nbsp; a Note to remind you all that there is a Live Adventure Gaming Session Today starting at 10am ET - 7am PT - 3pm BT! Roxxifarius, will be there, Rahfen will probably be there and Ullek will try to make it after the fundraiser. We have not heard from Buddy, Christian, or Jaster as of yet! Warning that if you don't post your availability for the game you are likely getting booted, same for if you don't show up Saturday and have not posted why you can not make it!&nbsp;

With just Rahfen and Roxxifarius today, we finished off the Wyvern Tor, Many Arrows Orc Tribe encounter. This group had a much easier time with better rolls even, than the previous party, as Eimong whom only used his fists, pounded away at Gog the Ogre! The encounter earned 1,250 XP and 750 cp, 180 sp, 62 ep, 30 gp, and three vials of perfume (10 gp each), plus I think 100 gp to be paid by Harbin Wester back in Phandalin. The group will be heading back to Conyberry when we start next week's session!

Game Day Session Reminder - Saturday, June 27th, 2020 - 10:00 am EDT - 5E: Lost Mines of Phandelver / Dragon of Icespire Peak Just&nbsp; a Note to remind you all that there is a Live Adventure Gaming Session Today starting at 10am ET - 7am PT - 3pm BT! Buddy and Roxxifarius, will be there! We have not heard from Christian, Jaster, Rahfen and Ullek as of yet! Warning that if you don't post your availability for the game you are likely getting booted, same for if you don't show up Saturday and have not posted why you can not make it!&nbsp;

Ok, in order to encourage more and better player participation in the game here are the following things that will be done: * You have 20 seconds (I found 30 seconds to be too long), to respond when it is your turn in combat or your turn to give input on some sort of party or character decisions and or&nbsp; actions. In the case of Party/Character decisions and or actions, you would still incur the penalties mentioned below for the first roll for your player and his/her opponent, if no sort of input is given. If you don't know what to say or add, simply say so during the discussion, then you won't incur the penalty. &nbsp; Also, you will need to at least mention you need more time to think it through or if you need to be away from the keyboard to notify the gamers that you will BrB or AFK for a few. * If there is no response from the player and the DM or another player needs to make the rolls, there will be a -2 penalty on To Hits and -2 penalty on Saving Throws for that character, while the opponent gets +2 To Hit and +2 to Saving Throws. * Players whom are absent from the game will not incur the penalties for their character(s), especially if they notified the group in the attendance thread that they can't make the game session. * We will rotate the party Leader / Caller each week going in alphabetical order.

Game Day Session Reminder - Saturday, July 4th, 2020 - 10:00 am EDT - 5E: Lost Mines of Phandelver / Dragon of Icespire Peak Just&nbsp; a Note to remind you all that there is a Live Adventure Gaming Session Today starting at 10am ET - 7am PT - 3pm BT! Buddy and Roxxifarius, will be there! Rahfen might show up! We have not heard from Christian, Jaster, and Ullek as of yet! Warning that if you don't post your availability for the game you are likely getting booted, same for if you don't show up Saturday and have not posted why you can not make it!

Ok, even though Buddy and Roxxifarius were able to make it to the game session today, we called it off after a half hour of chatting. So thus, we try again next Saturday the 11th when we resume with a fight with a group of Cragmaw goblins, before getting to the haunted manor, of which I forgot to mention in last week's summary! I also need to post up the chat archive from last week! Happy 4th of July folks!

It would help if players would be more communicative about attending the game sessions each week! We had two show up with Rahfen being a maybe, and waited a half hour for anyone that may not have posted to show up. We know it's hard for Christian to post but the rest of you should be able to take a moment to let the group know each week! Here are the Player Guidelines I had pieced together for the players. It mentions about being responsive within 24 of a post or you could get booted because we are not sure if you are even still around or alive for that matter! <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/7827575/adventure-house-rules-and-other-miscellaneous-information/?pageforid=7827595#post-7827595" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/7827575/adventure-house-rules-and-other-miscellaneous-information/?pageforid=7827595#post-7827595</a>

Game Day Session Reminder - Saturday, July 11th, 2020 - 10:00 am EDT - 5E: Lost Mines of Phandelver / Dragon of Icespire Peak Just&nbsp; a Note to remind you all that there is a Live Adventure Gaming Session Today starting at 10am ET - 7am PT - 3pm BT! Buddy, Rahfen and Roxxifarius, are here! We have not heard from Christian, Jaster, and Ullek as of yet! Warning that if you don't post your availability for the game you are likely getting booted, same for if you don't show up Saturday and have not posted why you can not make it!

Looks like I am going to open the game to two new players, whom hopefully can regularly attend the game sessions as attendance has been down around 2 sometimes 3 players a week. I have no Idea when Hermit Legend is able to come back nor what happened to Jaster.&nbsp; Remember now, that if you don't respond to posts within 24 hours, your character will be accessed a -2 penalty on rolls while the opponents get a +2! I didn't do that today though, and Jaster and Ullek would have had the penalty applied for example. Another thing is that after learning the 5E mechanics, I may stop this game and simply convert and unnerf, all other 5E adventure modules to 1st/2nd edition AD&amp;D Games for the Sunday evening game. Another reason, being the clusterfuck happening at WotC, that it's like what happened with TSR with the Lorraines taking it over and screwing the game up and the new evil being applied to the game, sigh.

Well for what its worth, I would rather have the games stay 5e cause playing that version helps me in my other 5e game which is pretty irregular this game happens almost every week, Maybe just go by the rules in the books that you have instead of whatever WOTC decides I have been going with my copy of the 5e PHB not going to change just because WOTC says These are the new rules

I am going to open the game to 2 new players in order to try and boost up game attendance and participation.

I like the 5e setting rules very simple, just use the 5e books we got now, and forget the FUBAR coming out of WoTC for now.

Today's game was called off! Only Roxxifarius and Ullek were able to make it and we just decided to try again next week. Hopefully we get two new players by then bringing up the total Active Players to 6 for the LMoP/DoIP 5E game thus hopefully upping the attendance so we can play!

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I just got up and the power is out here! I will let you all know when I can get online!

Ok, the power is back on! So the game can start on time now!

Cool! Roll20 upgraded the Map Interface in the game, it is like a drop down menu now, so we shall see how it goes! I will also need to scale down any new maps so that they are no more than 100 x 100 though one map that was 140 x 100 still loaded in fine.

If it makes it easier for the DM Its a good thing, us Players will just worry about whether or not it works during game time :)

The past few weeks have been pretty chaotic for me because I'm in the process of moving. I think it will be like that for one more week before I could get back to my normal schedule. I feel bad for suddenly leaving last time. :(