D&D 5E [OOC] A Light Hearted Princes of Elemental Evil Hack and Slash

[CanadienneBacon]

Although, I'd almost no background than some of the (god-freaking-awful) 20-page novellas I've been forced to read.

Know what I mean, jelly bean?

 

[Creamsteak]

A friend who had not played the game in 20+ years wrote up a background that made me slap myself in the head. He apparently specifically states that his character was a level 15 rogue and now is a level 1 rogue because amnesia. I'm sure there are some fun ways to play with that as a GM. I can't say anything about it though because my character in the same game has the background that he's a kobold sorcerer slave that functions as a living lamp.

 

[hafrogman]

Although, I'd almost no background than some of the (god-freaking-awful) 20-page novellas I've been forced to read.

Know what I mean, jelly bean?

I thought it was going to be a dig about some background I submitted you once upon a time, but they seem kind of tame unless I missed another one?

A friend who had not played the game in 20+ years wrote up a background that made me slap myself in the head. He apparently specifically states that his character was a level 15 rogue and now is a level 1 rogue cause amnesia. I can't say anything about it though because my character in the same game has the background that he's a kobold sorcerer slave that functions as a living lamp.

Yeah, my real life games seem to go more towards the "I'll fill this in later". Like the guy who hadn't even written down a character name by the time the game started. We instantly dubbed his character Blanc, and never let him change it.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

I thought it was going to be a dig about some background I submitted you once upon a time, but they seem kind of time unless I missed another one?

First, I can't believe you managed to dig those up that fast. Hat's off to your search-fu. I was just thinking about Rod of Seven Parts the other day. And Pleasure Palace of the B'thuvian Demon Whore (I still have that module!).

Second, no, I'm not digging on anyone here in this game. More just being irreverent about the stereotypical 10,000 word my-character-is-poor-orcs-killed-my-sister/parents/tribe-I'm-on-a-quest-to-save-the-world written masturbation that passes as "background" that I think probably all of us have read a bajillion times in one incarnation or another.

I liked what Egon (I think?) did recently, which was "spare me the agony of your overblown background, and instead just give me traits, flaws, a bond, etc." The latter is way more streamlined, and I can get a better working grasp for a character from that than I can from the former. Probably this is the gamer equivalent of "hey you kids get off my lawn," though. I admit, I'm getting grouchy in my dotage.

 

[hafrogman]

First, I can't believe you managed to dig those up that fast. Hat's off to your search-fu. I was just thinking about Rod of Seven Parts the other day. And Pleasure Palace of the B'thuvian Demon Whore (I still have that module!).

The Google is strong with this one. "site:enworld.org hafrogman CanadienneBacon" will pretty much return all of our interactions. From there, finding the RG threads was pretty easy.

I don't think I played in Pleasure Palace of the B'thuvian Demon Whore. I'll have to look that one up.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

You didn't; rather, it was on my mind because I picked it up off my bookshelf recently and was all, like, "zOMG. I'd forgotten all about this one!" The author is Joe Browning, with whom I went to college.

 

[Creamsteak]

This has been an interesting encounter. Spoiler ahead (which I am totally OK with anyone in the game reading, but don't click the button if you REALLY don't want to know specific details).

[sblock]So the encounter zone is for 5th level characters. The gargoyle encounter was just 2 by the book, but I upped it to 3 for 6 party members. That was rough, and a slog of sorts. This encounter is normally 2 guards and 1 priest. I added 1 priest for the six players which put it still slightly under the expected difficulty of the usual encounter. The exp for encounters in the DMG has a huge gap between 4th and 5th levels for obvious reasons, but I am surprised how much harder that made this. Well, there's also the fact that the dice have definitely favored the enemies... and just having ACs of 17 and 18 makes such a crazy difference in difficulty. So this encounter IS above the deadly encounter limit for a 6 person 4th level party, so I'm not totally surprised by the outcome (given that the enemies rolled better than the party, no contest).

Anyway, from my perspective it looks like you guys will make it through this. I just wanted to comment that I'm not pulling any punches and I'm letting the dice fall where they may. This is definitely on the taxing side. As one of my original goals was learning the system, this has been good for this.[/sblock]

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Good for you. I fully support you doing what you did. That said, I am super relieved no one's character died.

 

[hafrogman]

It seems we've broken combat, but we still have whatever/whoever roared downstairs.
Let me know if Tolan needs to be making death saves.

 

[Creamsteak]

My default assumption is that someone can get Damien and Tolan up with at least two full rounds (really three) to react.