[5e] Dread Metrol, The Mourning After. (Horror) (OOC)

[Hades#2]

I will attempt to post tonight. Tuesday was my online D&D game and yesterday I ended up working late.

 

[Neurotic]

I'm on a sports/business trip until Sunday.

 

[JustinCase]

So are we waiting for someone? I think we all posted our actions for this round, right?

 

[Leatherhead]

Ah I missed the edit. I will get on it soon.

 

[MetaVoid]

Sorry, dropped the ball on the games, busy pre-season.

 

[Leatherhead]

I can see why @FitzTheRuke prefers to ignore initiative roles in favor of post order now.

 

[Neurotic]

Generally, intiative count is important in the first round (who goes before the monsters) since in PbP I think every DM runs all monsters at once

There may be occasional edge case where death save might come before healing, but that's it

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I kinda use an "aggro" thing: You attack a monster, it generally gets a chance to attack back. That's not to say that I don't allow for focus-fire to drop a monsters before it gets a turn (I feel that I'm pretty generous about that - partly because it means that I can save the time by not having to roll a turn for that creature!) but generally, I "activate" my monsters when the PCs interact with them, and do everyone else at the end. (Usually, I make NPCs act last).

It can get a little weird sometimes for people trying to follow along, especially when I do things like resolve all movement before I resolve all actions (something I tend to prefer in my head, because it keeps the action flowing closer to simultaneously). Also, I play fast-and-loose with timing when I write my descriptions (or in other words, my "fluff" doesn't always match exactly what happened mechanically, at least not when it comes to order-of-events). But I do that just to make it easier to write, not to mess with the game.

It's not perfect, but whatcanyado?

 

[MetaVoid]

@Leatherhead
Why did Ozzar take damage with a roll of 16 vs DC 10? Was that a complication (I rolled natural 1) - and I just realized the text doesn't say that (copy / paste error) - corrected

 

[Leatherhead]

That was my mistake, I was reading the second number instead of the first for some reason.