Tragedy at Silvergard OOC Thread

[Amaury]

Question:
- do we know that the Ruins are populated by Undeads or is it just someone's assumption?
- while we rest at the Abeils, can Johen get the opportunity to cast Goodberries? they last for 3 days.


Spells prepared:

L0 (4) DC13 : Light - Detect Magic - Guidance - Cure Minor Wounds
L1 (3) DC14 : Speak with Animals - Entangle - Cure Light Wounds
L2 (2) DC15 : Flaming Sphere - Bull's strength

 

[Helfdan]

isnt each platinum worth 5 gold?

 

[Amaury]

no 10
all conversions are x10

 

[Voda Vosa]

Debate!
Is it me or we are just plodding around blindly and ignorantly?? I don't know for you guys but Johen in particular doesn't understand one thing about what's happening to him. Events happen around him on a scale he cannot understand. The few clues he may have collected do not give any answers.. why has his master been murdered? who are our employers and their motives? why undead plague? why the dragon disease? who is that shadow knight? what were these creatures that attacked us in the night? who's that ghost? and so on and so on..
we seem happy to just leave a potentially very dangerous item with strangers (Abeils) and a guide who we don't know if we can trust her..

in short, i'm feeling blind...

Muzdum do not see anything of these facts. He has eyes only for his brand new armor.

 

[Helfdan]

Ok, you are correct. So for the encounter, its 550 gp
7PC's (Johen, Corath, William, Muzdum, Aohdan, Alaric, Valen) and 2 NPCs (Norali and Aleera)

Each PC: 68 gold, 7 silver, 5 copper
Each NPC: 34 gold, 3 silver, 8 copper

How is that?

 

[Yttermayn]

Yes, we are blind. Just as IRL events that happen beyond our senses, the ones going on in the game world are bigger and farther off than what we can see so far. No single soldier gets the complete picture of the war. I would RP that frustration as Johen's frustration. He really isn't getting any answers, only more questions! I do believe that as we progress through the "modules", we get a better and better idea of events and how they are related. Kinda like that show LOST.

 

[crazy_monkey1956]

Yttermayn is correct. I'm a DM of big plots and grand schemes, most of which shall be revealed as the campaign progresses.

Some of your confoundery stems from the fact that there were, at one time, three campaigns going on in the same time period (including this one) at the same time. Luckily, the other two have ended. But, the Dragon Plague, for example, was the primary focus of another campaign. I put the young dragon suffering from it in because a) I try to have at least one dragon encounter in every adventure and b) as a way of letting the group know that the Dragon Plague was happening (that knowledge will be quite significant later on).

My apologies for the confusion. This campaign's sequel and later installments should, hopefully, be much more character driven and less confusing.

 

[Helfdan]

Debate!
Is it me or we are just plodding around blindly and ignorantly?? I don't know for you guys but Johen in particular doesn't understand one thing about what's happening to him. Events happen around him on a scale he cannot understand. The few clues he may have collected do not give any answers.. why has his master been murdered? who are our employers and their motives? why undead plague? why the dragon disease? who is that shadow knight? what were these creatures that attacked us in the night? who's that ghost? and so on and so on..
we seem happy to just leave a potentially very dangerous item with strangers (Abeils) and a guide who we don't know if we can trust her..

in short, i'm feeling blind...

Those are all great questions. Valen's main worry, actually, is whether he will get to report the events to Johen's (and his) superiors! He is also quite puzzled with the ghost, with what Aleera really is, and... and... wjth how nice his new armor is! I guess Muzdum is a bad influence on the ranger...

 

[Voda Vosa]

Good influence lady, good influence.

 

[crazy_monkey1956]

Forgot to answer this.

Yes, Johen could have cast a few goodberry spells before the group left.