D&D 5E 5e CB's Stonefast OOC -- COMPLETE

[Kobold Stew]

I have no complaints (only praise, actually).

 

[tuxgeo]

For the sake of fuller disclosure, I should elaborate: most of any inadequacies of use of Guran's traits are probably my own fault.

I mean, Guran is 3rd level, so his Sneak Attack should be 2d6, and is listed that way in the Rogues' Gallery; but the last time (or two? or three?) that I had him roll SA, I used 1d6 instead. That's simply sloppiness on my part.

If Guran is going to become a better example what a Moradin-worshipping dwarf should look like, he is going to have to work at it.
For future advancement -- are we going to be using Feats? Multiclassing?

If we're using Feats, I could try to make Guran a little more devout by having him converse more with Father Spec, perhaps on the subject of theology, and on what it feels like to be a cleric; then, when Guran gets one more level in the Rogue class, he could take the "Resilience" (WIS) Feat, gaining +1 WIS (raising that score to a 14 instead of a 13), and gaining Proficiency in WIS saving throws.

Does that sound like a way to go? With will and effort, Guran could partly overcome his merely ordinary Intelligence somewhat, and perhaps become a better example for others.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

For the sake of fuller disclosure, I should elaborate: most of any inadequacies of use of Guran's traits are probably my own fault.

I mean, Guran is 3rd level, so his Sneak Attack should be 2d6, and is listed that way in the Rogues' Gallery; but the last time (or two? or three?) that I had him roll SA, I used 1d6 instead. That's simply sloppiness on my part.

If Guran is going to become a better example what a Moradin-worshipping dwarf should look like, he is going to have to work at it.
For future advancement -- are we going to be using Feats? Multiclassing?

If we're using Feats, I could try to make Guran a little more devout by having him converse more with Father Spec, perhaps on the subject of theology, and on what it feels like to be a cleric; then, when Guran gets one more level in the Rogue class, he could take the "Resilience" (WIS) Feat, gaining +1 WIS (raising that score to a 14 instead of a 13), and gaining Proficiency in WIS saving throws.

Does that sound like a way to go? With will and effort, Guran could partly overcome his merely ordinary Intelligence somewhat, and perhaps become a better example for others.

Re: sneak attacking, a two-prong approach will probably nip that in the bud. First, you remember to cite the correct damage dice in your post. Second, I print off a copy of Guran's character sheet and reference it during combat (hopefully triggering me as your failsafe to remember the correct sneak attack dice). I regularly pull up everyone's character sheet during combat, so it's helpful to me if the sheets are kept up to date.

Certainly, you guys can multiclass. And, certainly, you can avail yourself of the feats (or any of the variant rules in the PHB). In fact, as long as I have available to myself the relevant text so that I can adjudicate on the fly, I'm perfectly content letting anyone take pretty much any variant ability/spell/whatevah they want from any 5e sourcebook if it's pleasing to them to do so. Everyone here is a roleplayer par excellence, and I want everyone to be happy with their character. If you want to use a resource to build your character and I don't have said resource, let's talk via PM. I have yet to come across 5e material that I found to be innately broken (I'm sure it exists, I just haven't seen it yet, and that includes the Ranger variant from UA).

Guran's conversations with Spec about divinity interest me, so feel free to have at that as much or as little as you like. I confess I was pretty surprised when I recently took a look at the RG and realized you'd taken the Acolyte background for Guran. Not sure how I missed that, but we've definitely been underplaying that aspect in the IC. Spec's request that a character credit Fharlaghn (that's probably misspelled, oh well, soldiering on) for guidance (or healing?!) ties in nicely to this and could be a wellspring of rp.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

I placed an order for Out of the Abyss. It'll arrive on the 15th. Based on the reviews I've seen, I'll want to read it through before committing one way or the other to running it for you. I invite all of you to seek out and read a review or two and let me know what you think.

If, after reading OotA, I think it's untenable for this game, my next best bet is to start hunting through .pdfs of old 1e and 2e modules from TSR. I have a few titles in mind, but would be likely to heavily modify such a selection, adding my own elements and layers.


EDIT: On another note, I dug out my old homebrew setting the other night and had a peek. It was crap. I cringed. I rolled up the poster map for it I had made and put it away. Damn near burned it in the fire pit out in the yard.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Back when school supplies were on sale, I picked up a couple extra composition books. I've spent some time today re-reading our IC and doing some note-taking on loot, room descriptions, and history tidbits. I'd been concerned things were willy nilly, but to my surprise and delight, I've actually woven a pretty tight tale that is going to serve super really well for the future. In the course of note-taking, I noticed that the Bag of Holding contains the logbook Fulgrim collected from Room 2. Here's a link to the post that has Fulgrim putting the logbook in the BoH. That's a happy circumstance, because it means it didn't go in the drink and is therefore dry.

If I stumble across more tidbits that bear sharing, I'll return to this post and will edit in details. Might take me a couple weekends to finish my notes, though...am only up to pp 15 after a couple hours' worth of culling.

EDITS:
1. Post #297, the genesis of Father Spec and Guran's discourse on divinity, religion, and worship. Seems relevant since you two have just recently picked back up where you left off.

2. Found the default watch order (Spec, Guran, Colden, Roscoe, Fulgrim) and edited into the OP of this thread.

3. Started a houserules list in post #3 of the OOC.

4. We started on Kythorn 19. It is now Flamerule 1. We're using the Calendar of Harptos, if anyone is interested.

 

[Forged Fury]

Good to know, it's been a few months, but that makes sense. Fulgrim will also place the book the party just recovered in the bag of holding as well for safety.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Something Kobold Stew said a while back during the dogleg fight interested me. I forgot to inquire then, but want to discuss it now:

Both Deafness and Silence are on the Cleric 2 spell-list, which [Spec] can cast.

What's ya'll's take on identifying spells? Is this covered by the PHB and I've just missed that section? If so, got a page cite? If it's not in the PHB, should a character be able to automatically identify a spell she encounters if said spell appears on her spell list? What if the character is a wizard but doesn't have the spell scribed in his spellbook? Should he get know what the spell is then?

Let me know what you think. Genuinely curious.

EDIT: When we ran into this issue during combat, I let Spec know the spell in question was silence. It seemed reasonable, given it appears on the cleric spell list, he's a cleric, and we were in the heat of combat rounds and I wanted to keep things flowing.

 

[Forged Fury]

You could easily set up something like an Arcana or Religion check to cover spell identification, depending on who's casting it. Maybe allow auto-identification if it is on your spell list. Not sure if wizards (or worse, Sorcerers and Bards) should be penalized for identification.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

I set Arcana DC 15 after that to ID a different spell.

 

[Kobold Stew]

It's a good question -- I'd say it's a reasonable ting to ask a roll for:

Arcana (Wizard, Sorc, Warlock, Eld Knight, Arc. Trick)
Religion (Cleric, Paladin)
Nature (Druid, Ranger)
History (Bard) --?!

DC 12+spell level?

(oops - scooped).