Eltab
Lord of the Hidden Layer
My group just started playing. "You all meet at a tavern." It's a cliché but we found out how difficult that can be when nobody will 'go first' (read: stir up trouble).
Half of us stood back to watch the arm-wrestler. We did not get involved together until the Yawning Portal spit out a troll - probably because we all concluded 'beat this monster and get a free room for the night'.
We just finished LMNOP, and in the second-to-last session my character was sucked dry by a flock of Stirges (bless you Revivify). I described him as looking rather pale scrawny and sickly, after that. When a few Stirges showed up in Waterdeep, I must have turned pale IRL: somebody noticed and the group spent the fight pulling my leg about 'hanging back in the rear' for the remainder of that combat. I was wielding a yklaw (polearm); I had a good reason to let the others get in front !
Half of us stood back to watch the arm-wrestler. We did not get involved together until the Yawning Portal spit out a troll - probably because we all concluded 'beat this monster and get a free room for the night'.
We just finished LMNOP, and in the second-to-last session my character was sucked dry by a flock of Stirges (bless you Revivify). I described him as looking rather pale scrawny and sickly, after that. When a few Stirges showed up in Waterdeep, I must have turned pale IRL: somebody noticed and the group spent the fight pulling my leg about 'hanging back in the rear' for the remainder of that combat. I was wielding a yklaw (polearm); I had a good reason to let the others get in front !