[OOC] D&D 5E: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

[Lauder]

That's also a good spell list right there. And my Devil's Sight pairs nicely with the Darkness spell since I can see in both nonmagical and magical darkness. Good synergy is good.

[Vertigo]

I've also got the Darkness spell, and will have Shadow Step in one more level - so synergy all around! Even though I only have regular Darkvision (plus the spell to grant it to others), unfortunately...

Also, is it just me or does Jhimas' sheet link to Aurix?

[Lauder]

@duskshine749@Vertigo

It does seem that the link in that sheet does lead to Aurix, though to be fair, two Aruixes is better than fun. I can already see all the fingers being eaten!

[Ellri]

This might be the first wizard we'll actually play properly, but we may have tinkered with a few dozen characters over the past few years...

Nice to see the spell choices synergize too.

we'll fix inventory later today or so. Unless we get distracted by shiny things. Like mini painting.

[duskshine749]

That was my bad, I liked Vertigo's styling so I just copied it from the raw text then forgot to paste in my character sheet, fixed now

[Lauder]

TFW you have similar health to the tank.

TFW the wizard almost has as much health as the tank and the warlock

[duskshine749]

That's one thing about 5e, I feel like the health numbers feel way too low and all the classes feel too close. I rolled for my health but it's only 1 less than if I just took 6 for all of them

[Lauder]

I personally, don't mind that the health points seems a bit close. It just makes me believe that the classes are more "this is what I am good at" sort of deal and it shows the highlights of what characters can do rather than how a class is arbitrarily 'stronger' by having more health. That's just my personal take on it.

[Ellri]

we've never had much problem with the HP counts, neither as player nor as DM.

[Mae]

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@Cao the Exiled@Lauder@Vertigo@duskshine749@Ellri@DTHar

Right so! I want everyone to come up with one event that happened during a recent adventure that the whole party experienced.

This could be as big as an adventure they did together (e.g. scouting the tomb of a Naga Queen), working for a specific group (e.g when the Regiment of Khan paid them to scout the nearby forest) a specific trap or puzzle they solved - or didn't (e.g that time we all had to run from a giant boulder and Jhimas held up the gate for us to get by), a moral choice they had to make ( do we purify the poisoned well water that prevents disease to stop people becoming partial plant-creatures, thus killing the terminal good-hearted orphans?) some cool magical thing they experienced together (traversing the magic storm and gravity stopped working so we got to swim through the sky) or even just bonding during a campfire moment or attending Carl the Adventurer's retirement do.

No need to overthink it, it's just for fun, grounding the party in the world a bit more and having some things you can reference if you want to.

Then I want each player to come up with an individual interaction with the character directly below them on the rooster.

So for example, Lauder will recall a moment between Aurix and Jhimas, Duskshine will recall a moment between Jhimas and Lauk, and then whoever ends up last on the CS tab will recall a moment with their character and Aurix.

This is just for fun and you don't have to do a full collab or anything like that, just a couple lines even would do. Feel free to discuss ideas if you wish, but this should just be a small exercise to build some rapport.

Also feel free to develop relationships or flesh out how/when you joined the party if you want to. I'm not holding you at gunpoint, and if we go into IC without anything hashed out yet I can come up with a reason you guys are all together without knowing each other that well.

Anyway, sheets are coming together nicely. Thankyou for your patience so far, everyone. Won't be long till we get this show on the road ;D

[Lauder]

Hmmm. I think a fun idea of one of the group's adventures could be stopping a drow raid and eliminating the one who started the attack, like a general or something, in a fight that spanned a portion of the Underdark before the leader and the raiding party was ultimately forced to retreat to a different part of the Underdark and our characters go back to the surface as some minor heroes! It would be a good way to say how my character came along to the party, being a slave from the underdark that escaped.

[DTHar]

likewise.
My char could have very much be there to gather intel on the drow that had slaughtered her family.

[Mae]

I'm getting pretty puuuumped

[Lauder]

Another Aurix pic

[duskshine749]

I like the idea, no clue why Jhimas would be there but he's a lawful good paladin looking to protect those who can't protect themselves, so it's not too hard to get him to be a do gooder. Just throw me a plot hook and I'll take it

Actual photo of Jhimas taking all the DMs plot hooks

[Cao the Exiled]

Don't know if I missed it, but @mae, how long have we as a party known each other? This fact would determine how well we know, and even trust each other.

[Mae]

Don't know if I missed it, but @mae, how long have we as a party known each other? This fact would determine how well we know, and even trust each other.

@Cao the Exiled

Good question! I would probably say up to two years max, since the youngest character is 17. But it's really up to you all.

@Cao the Exiled@Lauder@Vertigo@duskshine749@Ellri@DTHar

What do you guys think? How long has the party been together?

[Cao the Exiled]

My OC is roughly in his mid 30's I believe.

[Cao the Exiled]

Corrected, 45. May drop it though.

[duskshine749]

Ya I think a couple years sounds good. Jhimas is 60 but Tritons are kinda like water elves and live to be about 200 so it's comparable to a human being 30ish