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Thanks, Quickleaf. Again, sorry about my own delays, folks. Very sorry to lose CanadienneBacon (really, you're welcome back any time if your situation changes), but such is gaming. Queenie, your turn is next. :)

I'm very sorry to hear it, and sorry for whatever effect my own slowdown has has on your decision. I'll be sure and let you know if we have any openings, and please, jump back in any time if your own schedule opens up, no questions asked.

I'll be sure to edit any house rules into the first post, most definitely. At this point, however, I haven't reached any decision, other than to probably make some changes to monsters as we go along. Which is the kind of thing I'd do anyway, and will come up/be discovered by the party in play...

Will do CanadienneBacon :) #1) hp 2/29, grants advantage on next attack #2) DEAD #3) hp 7/29 #4) DEAD #5) hp 15/29 #6) hp 15/29, web #7) hp 15/29, web If I read that correctly, Shandrizar Quickleaf, you passed your turn to Shard, is that right? Or was that more like holding an action? Shard...

Not to worry, CanadienneBacon, it's appreciated. :)

Strings of gossamer ripple over the burning courtyard, dropping gently in sheets on the heads of the half-formed fiends as the fire licks up from underneath them. They squirm and mewl piteously, scuttling one atop the other in a mad scramble to escape. Skeroloths - DC 14 Dexterity saving throw...

The party is meant to be a little off-balance at this point, being, in large part, a bunch of clueless primes who just arrived on the planes. This won't stay the case forever, but right now, not knowing is part of the encounter. DCs might seem a tad high right now, yes, but my take is that the...

Nice choices. :) Sorry for the lateness of this reply-- obviously things are not clearing up the way I hoped they would. I would still really love to run this game, but it may be a month or more before I'm in a position to do so. :( I really wish that weren't the case, as I like the characters...

I don't think that magic resistance is a bad rule, per se. Along the lines of what Shayuri was saying a few posts ago, player spell DCs scale; monster saving throws and advantage do not. Magic resistance should tend to obsolete itself as the players level. As a gentle hack, maybe all...

I don't think frequent in-character discussion of such things is out of the question when it comes to the factions, buuut the rules of the game will generally remain stable. Once we decide what they are, that is. ;) I don't think the rule itself is poorly conceived, but a little light rules...

It *could* just be a matter of where the effects of the spell end and mundane reality begins anew. The magical fire is real enough to ignite dry tinder, but the magical resistance of a creature in some way corrodes the effects of the spell around them before it can reach them. Likewise, if the...

5e tends to take a blanket approach to its rules. There's not really much left to interpretation: That's it, the whole rule. It doesn't even get its own paragraph entry at the beginning of the book like regular damage resistance or darkvision. The thing is, bounded accuracy does tend to make...

Question to the group, and before I roll: by the rules as written, pretty much all spells that grant a saving throw are subject to magic resistance; spells that require an attack roll, on the other hand, are not. This makes things roughly even, but seems a little weird in terms of what exactly...

Graydon (@Pembinasa), you said you wanted to cast a spell as soon as the door opened? This might be a pretty short combat, depending on what that is.

That's still to come, actually-- just over a month away. I've just been putting in extra time at work leading up to taking a month off to move, go to weddings, visit family and friends I haven't seen in a couple of years... But I expect that to be fairly restful. By comparison.

Yugoloths: DC 15 Dexterity saving throw with advantage (Magic Resistance) vs Shard's Fireball Yugoloth (1) - [roll0], [roll1]. Yugoloth (2) - [roll2], [roll3]. Yugoloth (3) - [roll4], [roll5]. Yugoloth (4) - [roll6], [roll7]. Yugoloth (5) - [roll8], [roll9]. Yugoloth (6) - [roll10], [roll11]...

Even though Bix doesn't seem to touch the door, it creaks open, with the beholder sheltering behind its upper corner. The courtyard is a crowded square, full of waist-high dead grass and overlooked by high rooftops. Hook-like crescents jut from the eaves, like the claws of some colossal bird of...

No problem. I'll probably be around intermittently through both days, but I'll definitely answer what I can. Reading the Culture books in publishing order isn't necessarily the entry to the series I'd recommend for everyone. What else have you been reading?

Alright, let me try and get this back on track. Sorry for my spotty attendance. Things should be calming down. Entering the calm of the storm, here, in a way.

Bix looked practically nauseous with fear. He gulped, again forcing you to wonder about the exact mechanics of exactly where he could be swallowing to. "Through here, on the other side of the courtyard, straight across, between the two wooden fences, at the back of the skinniest of the row...