[OOC] DnD 5e - Beginner's Game

[The Harbinger of Ferocity]

I am hopeful that this begins at least before week's end.

[Ermine]

-looks over people's sheets, checks some stuffs-

So...established starting location. Check.
I really need to come up with an initiating event. -nodnod, plus some die rolling-

[Landaus Five-One]

@Ermine I am so amp'd I can't wait for the hilarity to ensue. XP

[Ermine]

The hilarity is for the other game and the ridiculously OP goblins that I had to tone down because they could 1-hit kill us.

Also, baby dwagon. That will likely 1-hit kill the whole group instead of just one at a time assuming we stand too close together. Monster balance is kinda hard with the resources at hand. ^//^

[Landaus Five-One]

@Ermine Oh yeah, though there's a different type of hilarity in this one its called Threesomes with a fourth string singer. I guess because Mr. Mercer hasn't created the creatures yet?

[JBRam2002]

@Landaus Five-OneI think the intention with that system is actually NOT to have created enemy templates. I looked through the DM rules, and they're intentionally lax on things like making sure math works right.

[Landaus Five-One]

@JBRam2002 That's nice to know. Thanks.

[The Harbinger of Ferocity]

There is no such thing as a infant dragon, just a smaller dragon with the usual power to summon larger ones. On another note, I can only hope our first adventure is not a plunge into the deep.end for once.

[Ermine]

SO GROUP QUESTIONs:
Since so many know each other, are we already an established group? If so, do we have a name? We have all worked together before, regardless, on our last mission. So here are the important questions! (To answer as a group, however you want to divvy them up. Or collab! This is basically you guys designing our last adventure to give some more recent bonds between everyone.

1) You defeated a dangerous enemy, though they are still out there somewhere, gathering strength or forces. They hate or fear you now, at least to some degree, or at least you've got their attention. Who or what was it?
2) During this event, you destroyed something important, or valuable to us. What was it?
3) You paid a high cost for this victory. What was it?
4) You found signs that this incident was just the start of something bigger. What were the signs?
5) All things considered, you impressed a powerful entity or organization, and they now fund your endeavors. Who was it?
6) Why do you all trust each other? Was there ever any mistrust between members? Why do you remain together?

ALSO, ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL QUESTION:
15) Why do you care about the team? Do you even know all of their names?

(For two of you, I suspect it would be more fun not to know each other's names. Specifically a certain betrothed pair. Because we want to see this drama, I'm sure.)

[JBRam2002]

@Ermine I think it makes sense for us to start, maybe as a newly formed group. The big question for my PC is how we met up with @The Harbinger of Ferocity's. But if someone else knows the kitty, we're probably fine.

As for answers to the questions...

1) I feel like there are a lot of dangerous people that tie into most of our stories. I might suggest a member of our rival House (followers of the fiend) who are not nice people. Both my PC and @Big Dread's would have quite the beef with them. (Actually fought against them in a war).

2) I think this would be an interesting hook to bring in Harb's character and keep him around. Did we destroy a portal to the Feywild? Or perhaps ruined a link between gods and man somehow? Maybe an extremely important magic item?

3) Depends on 2. Obliquely, it might bind Harb's PC to ours, at least until we fix it.

4) same.

5) Oh great, another powerful entity we owe :P I kinda want a game sorta centered on the Raven Queen - perhaps one of their Order?

6) Cuddle parties. But yeah, we've got a veritable love hexagram going on. So I think there's plenty of reasons for trust and distrust to go around.

15) Of course I know everyone's names! Just... don't ask me to recite them all. I care about them because some of them are as close as any family I've ever had. A friend of Harriet's is a friend of mine.

[Big Dread]

1) I think @JBRam2002 nailed it down with the whole rival House being rolled like some real gangsta shit. Not only that but Harriet was also kind of involved in generally fucking with and killing the nobility in the Northern Elven city with @Ms Ravenwinter. There are lots people who can hate us for doing all kinds of things! Harbinger's character fighting with us in the war would also be coo. Maybe we all kind of ended up being a kind of A-Team during the conflict? They do the jobs that are too big and too important to leave to the common soldiers! Insert theme song with shredding guitar here.

2) Team up with the crazy anti-social forest cat man to defend the wild from other world incursions? I think that sounds like a kick ass story and a great way to meet up with @The Harbinger of Ferocity's character. I think JB had a solid idea here.

3) If the portal we closed was something like a Feywild Thinny(Dark Tower talk, sorry) it might have been dangerous and damaging in the grander sense, but, if we closed it, there may have been a lasting effect on the Material Plane. The natural order being thrown off, forests dying, that kind of stuff. Perhaps now we team up with the mega-cat to try to set things right.

4) Fucking Warlocks. I mean, they just can't ever seem to keep their grubby hands off crazy shit. Perhaps this was a binding ritual gone very wrong, or, very right. Something about the portal was not 'normal'. Fabricated, called into being by powerful forces.

5) I agree with JB here as well. The Raven Queen is cool as fuck. Maybe the person who saw what we did, or maybe they were planning on fixing it themselves before we beat them to it. A high ranking member of the clergy or cult or whatever they would call themselves.

6) Plenty of mistrust from time to time. In the end, you can't really trust nobles to not act like nobles, right? You also certainly can't trust Harriet and Harbinger's character to follow the rules of the world at large when they see something wrong with it. Why do we stay together? Man, a band of misfits like us has to. Plus, all the crazy love hexagon. Harriet has strong feelings in general and two of the people in the group are past romantic partners. Harriet doesn't turn her back on the people she loves, ever.

ALSO, ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL QUESTION:
15) "Care 'bout'em? You joshin' me? Scaleass and I go way back. Taught 'im 'ow to get his nails dirty and how to 'ave fun. All 'is sense of 'umor, my doin'. Squeaks an' me are great too! She's a lil' dour from time t'time, but, get 'er riled up and boy'o'boy, watch the sparks fly! Fuzzy's a new one, but, e's good sort. Likes the woods an' animals, not bad on th'eyes either. Hahah! Maddame is nice, lil' too nice I think, but, that's a fixable issue now ain't it? She owns a bunny house, ya know. Now, that's a type t'keep 'round ya. 'Sides, gotta show her where Sparky is ticklish."

[JBRam2002]

@Big DreadExcellent ideas all around! If the order of the fiend were the ones who destroyed the Portal, there might be some devilish or demonic implications as well. Also...

You wouldn't dare show her my ticklish spots!

[Ermine]

Group questions were for the whole group, not each person individually. O_o

(EDIT: That was my reaction before reading the answers)

[Landaus Five-One]

@Ermine Group Questions are so much hilarity. I'll probably agree with the others in the group in terms of the group questions even though my character in particular is afraid of the Swamps to the north of her home.

Individual Question:
15) Why do you care about the team? Do you even know all of their names?

"I care about my team since that's what a noblewoman is supposed to do, which is one of the reasons I was told by my parents, always be kind to others and they will be kind to you. Its not in my favor to act a different way. I only know the name of one of them, Caerziros Drajhan but I haven't met him yet or seen what he looks like but his name is very intriguing to me. The others in the group I will get to know them and learn their names."

@the group questions, I would have no idea since let's see my character before she went on an Adventure, was more or less told to STAY in the Palace at all times since of her certain strange behaviors. And only allowed to visit the people within the castle to tend to their needs aka donate gold. lol

[Ermine]

So we're not going to do the "Oh hey, you're my fiance(e)!" thing?

[JBRam2002]

@ErmineShe knows my character is her fiance, but my character doesn't know. He doesn't even know the name of his fiancee.

[Ms Ravenwinter]

1) Sure, make it a giant ass war. Evyrless wouldn't really care if she's fighting someone else's war, it gives her more xp-- I mean, it gives her more chances to hone her skills.
>.>
<.<
2) I have little knowledge of the feywild (which i should fix, since I'm playing a damned Wood Elf) so I can't really give much input on this. But I think it's a fine idea to use this to anchor Loren into the party.
3) same as above
4) gosh I'm so useful
5) Please make this the Raven Queen, that would make me so happy. Evyrless would be a sort of foreign emissary, which would be awesome, especially since the death clerics in Ainford would work very differently from any local sorts. (over there it's a combination of overbearing/authoritarian Catholicism and death cult) She'd be very interested in seeing how the locals serve their queen because she doesn't like how her people do it.
6) They're a ragtag group of misfits like every proper D&D group, what would you expect?

ALSO, ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL QUESTION:
15) "I don't care about most of them." I'd imagine she'd know both the nobles' names because they'd be the most likely to throw them around when first meeting people. The only one here she knows is Harriet, and everyone here has a small lifespan compared to Elves, so she's likely not to care about anyone else present for a while. To be frank, she's kind of using the group as both a means to get close to Harriet again and to make herself more capable. For now, at least.

Unrelated side-note: I just had the thought that since the Raven Queen, as a mortal, was a sorcerer-queen, a future build I might use for Evyrless should be a Sorceress Drow with divine bloodline (whatever it's called, I think it's in UA and gives Cleric stuffs) that follows after the Raven Queen. Could actually change her build to that now and keep her whole story still >.>

A weird thought but I'll keep it around since I plan on using Evyrless as a recurring character in my rps. Technically you're seeing a really early version of her right now and I'm still trying to develop who she is and why she does stuff.

[Ermine]

@Ms Ravenwinter Favored Soul.

[Landaus Five-One]

@Ermine I'm going to drop that bomb when the party gets started on Mr. Sparky, though my character wouldn't know his nicknames but I do. XP

[Big Dread]

@Landaus Five-One You will know his many kick names soon enough! Okay! Break's over! Back to work like a proper adult!