(OOC) Scourge of Daggerford (Full)

[FitzTheRuke]

Expedition Retreat allows you to Dash as a bonus action.

Duh! I forgot you had that spell going. Memory... failing... gack!

 

[gargoyleking]

Ok, I think I was waiting to see if Orc 2 would die before Taking my action. I don't think it will, so Dandin will have to spend his action directing the bear.

Animal Handling: 1d20+4 23

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Ok, I think I was waiting to see if Orc 2 would die before Taking my action. I don't think it will, so Dandin will have to spend his action directing the bear.

Animal Handling: 1d20+4 23

Naw, the bear will probably just keep mauling without him. It's more if you want him to do something fancy or specific that you'll need to roll. (I have a use for that nice high roll, though, but I'll let Dandin do that one as a Reaction.)

 

[FitzTheRuke]

It would be nice to know if orc battlemaster is paralyzed before all this - it makes more sense to attack him if he is than to move.

Yeah, that's one of the drawbacks to side-initiative. I'll try and remember to post saving throws right away. (In this case, I have rolled it, it's just in my notes. OrcBlade passed his save, so he's not Held.) I can see why 4e might have been slightly better for PBP with its static defenses (though it would have had its own problems, I'm sure). We could easily reverse the math and do static defenses but I feel like it's a houserule too far. (Plus it would make for at least 7 defenses!)

(I recognise that there isn't much consistency to what I'm willing to houserule and what I'm not). It is what it is. We'll all just have to put up with two things:

1) Your character's knowledge of what's going on in the fight is based (primarily) on what things are like at the start of the round. Sure, they can look around and see things happening (IE the other player's posts) but if they wait around too long, watching to see how things play out, they won't have time to act. Take your turn with incomplete information.
2) To avoid the more frustrating parts of the above, we'll try to remember (all of us) to roll saves, reactions, and other fiddly-bits ASAP and post them.

(This goes for mistakes as well. We'll fix them as fast as possible, but it's reasonable to assume that the characters sometimes think they saw something happen, and they were wrong. Something else happened instead. Happens all the time.)

 

[gargoyleking]

In that case, I guess Dandin can fire off a Produce Flame.

 

[Neurotic]

This would be a fine example where knowing its will save would enable MetaVoid to roll its save

 

[FitzTheRuke]

This would be a fine example where knowing its will save would enable MetaVoid to roll its save

Right. Unfortunately, there's no "will save" It's wisdom save, so we'd have to start putting down all of each monster's ability score blocks for that to work. It's probably better if we all just roll saves as quick as we can whenever they come up. (That goes for both you all and myself).

 

[Kobold Stew]

OrcEye's crit is cool and all -- Tommi was dodging; does that mean disadvantage? (Maybe it was cancelled)

 

[FitzTheRuke]

@gargoyleking I was working on writing the round when you posted; seeing as Dandin didn't do anything successfully anyway, I'm just going to ignore that post and assume that he thought about doing that, and then just moved over to where he could watch the bear.

Hey, didn't I say this would be an easy fight? This round didn't go too well for you.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

OrcEye's crit is cool and all -- Tommi was dodging; does that mean disadvantage? (Maybe it was cancelled)

Damn. I knew that, and I missed it when I was rolling.