[OOC] D&D 5e - Hoard of the Dragon Queen

[Hekazu]

Here we are with the actual thread for this RP. While I am surprised to see how quickly it gathered interest, it is but a good thing! Now then, on to business!

We are full! You are free to keep an eye out on the game in case of anyone wanting to drop out, but as of now we are taking no applications.

Character creation info

If there is anything past the core rulebooks and Elemental Evil, do throw me a PM about it and we'll work it out. I'm all for personalising and adding flavour to characters! Some other creation guidelines as a reminder:

• Please refrain from making Neutral Evil or Chaotic Evil characters. This was the recommendation of the Adventurer's League for this and I'd like to stick with it.
• Character stats will have to be assigned via Point Buy or Standard Array. I am against rolling them because that has the potential to lead into 1st level characters having way too good modifiers and unbalanced power distribution in the party.
• Feel free to roll your starting money for equipment if you want to, though. The benefits the extra gear may bring are usually temporary enough and your character may get in that one bit of extra flavour by carrying different equipment.

The site onto which we save our characters is at http://www.myth-weavers.com/forumhome.php. Once done with what you'd like, do link the sheet for me. I will not require you to send me a breakdown of your stats and how you got them, but I'd it nonetheless.

Now that the game is online, these are the current "rules" we have set up:

• Players should be ready to post at least once per four days, three if in combat. This is to keep the game rolling smoothly, and the occasional "hey I have this thing to do" request can and will grant you extra time. In general, passing that limit will have me nudge your character gently in the direction of the rest of the party, or act naturally in combat.
• For leveling up, we are using the milestone rule, gaining levels once important points in the story are passed.
• If you think your post could call for a roll to be made, do add said roll in a hider at the end of your post. This site has a perfectly usable Dice feature for that, so no outside services are needed! In combat, you can roll the attack and damage rolls back to back and I'll apply the damage if you hit.

[VitaVitaAR]

Okay, um, let's see, paladin time!

[Lucius Cypher]

'ERE WE GO 'ERE WE GO 'ERE WE GO!

[The Harbinger of Ferocity]

I will be submitting my character shortly enough, @Hekazu, but I do need mention you have my thanks for this endeavor. It means little, I imagine, but it needs bear mention that it shows well of one's character.

[Lucius Cypher]

I too have added my character to the campaign! Also just to inform you, my "Machete" is essentially a longsword. Or a Falchion really. I simply call it a machete because that's how Orchid mainly uses it and how it appears.

[VKAllen]

I will have my character by tonight, I promise it! :)

[VitaVitaAR]

I think my Paladin is done now.

Please tell me if I messed up, I've only done this once before. ^^;

[Hekazu]

Let's take a look here, shall we?

@Lucius Cypher I have always thought of the staff you receive from your background as more of a walking stick/poking implement rather than a weapon (quarterstaff). Would make sense for a Half-Orc to have one a bit sturdier one though. We can say it's a quarterstaff. The longsword being called a machete is fine with me.

@VitaVitaAR You can remove skill proficiencies from your Languages and Proficiencies tab, as those are marked with the checkboxes above. As for the fluffing of the chain mail... while I don't personally think of it as silly looking, I can see that it could bother someone. You have to realize that a plate-armour on the level of chain mail is some really bad plate though. If it leaves the big arteries on her legs visible though (like in the images) it might well be 2 AC worse. The arms don't appear to have the greatest plating either, so we can work with this I'd say. Not to mention the lack of a helmet :P Sure, have it be inferior plate mail.

Haven't seen any problems with characters thus far. We are still waiting for one of the people from the Interest Check and for VKAllen to show me their character, but I'd say we are making good progress in getting this thing running.

[VKAllen]

Let's take a look here, shall we?

@Lucius Cypher I have always thought of the staff you receive from your background as more of a walking stick/poking implement rather than a weapon (quarterstaff). Would make sense for a Half-Orc to have one a bit sturdier one though. We can say it's a quarterstaff. The longsword being called a machete is fine with me.

@VitaVitaAR You can remove skill proficiencies from your Languages and Proficiencies tab, as those are marked with the checkboxes above. As for the fluffing of the chain mail... while I don't personally think of it as silly looking, I can see that it could bother someone. You have to realize that a plate-armour on the level of chain mail is some really bad plate though. If it leaves the big arteries on her legs visible though (like in the images) it might well be 2 AC worse. The arms don't appear to have the greatest plating either, so we can work with this I'd say. Not to mention the lack of a helmet :P Sure, have it be inferior plate mail.

Haven't seen any problems with characters thus far. We are still waiting for one of the people from the Interest Check and for VKAllen to show me their character, but I'd say we are making good progress in getting this thing running.

@Hekazu

Character Created

[Hekazu]

@VKAllen As far as I can see, you are missing out on stats. You current array comes across as follows:

STR - 8 for 0
DEX - 13+2 for 5
CON - 14 for 7
INT - 8 for 0
WIS - 14+1 for 7
CHA - 12 for 4
Resulting in a grand total of 23 points spent, leaving you with 4 extra. Also, what might be your favoured enemy?

[VKAllen]

@VKAllen As far as I can see, you are missing out on stats. You current array comes across as follows:

STR - 8 for 0
DEX - 13+2 for 5
CON - 14 for 7
INT - 8 for 0
WIS - 14+1 for 7
CHA - 12 for 4
Resulting in a grand total of 23 points spent, leaving you with 4 extra. Also, what might be your favoured enemy?

@Hekazu

Ghukliak.

Favoured enemy is the goblin kind.

The array I used was in an app's, so I'll add additional things in.

[Hekazu]

@VKAllen Now your total exceeds the 27 point buy limit by one point if I am counting this correctly.

STR - 8 for 0
DEX - 13+2 for 5
CON - 14 for 7
INT - 10 for 2 (Suggested change: 9 for 1)
WIS - 14+1 for 7
CHA - 14 for 7
Resulting in a grand total of 28 points. If I may suggest an easy way out, as you seem to be looking for low-ish intelligence, if you drop it to 9 your point buy total will become 27 and thus legal.

Oh, and as goblinoids are a subrace of humanoids, you may choose another humanoid subrace as a Favoured Enemy. You may learn one language from the two of them, which you already have, so you cannot learn one from the other. You'll still get the other bonuses, or that's at least what I'm reading from this.

[Hekazu]

I have received a question about character images and I came to the conclusion it could be good if everyone had easy access to pictures of other party members if they'd like. My idea on how to solve this is to post an image or two under the Characters tab of this roleplay. Not at all mandatory, but if you want to do so, feel free to. The top post will still stay a reference material archive, into which I added a short summary of the Aasimar race as we have one by the way.

[VitaVitaAR]

@Hekazu: I kind of wanted to go with something a little more stylistic since it is fantasy and you can generally get away with that, but at the same time finding something that was actually decent for that, looked good to me, and seemed at least somewhat functional. Having a little exposed skin on an awkward place to hit seemed like an okay tradeoff for having something I thought looked pretty decent.

As for why I don't want chain, it's mostly the chain hood that I don't like. It looks a bit goofy to me no matter what. ^^;

I'll tweak the proficiencies.

[Hekazu]

By the way people, does anyone know anything about @Rin? They said they were interested and thus far there has been no message saying otherwise, but given how all of you already have characters ready and all that I'd like to see them pop in as well.

[Rin]

@HekazuBeen working on it slowly. ^^;

[Lucius Cypher]

Aye dunno, but we could spam her to get here.

*Makes a pentagram out of blood on a mirror.*

@Rin@Rin@Rin! I summon thee!

It worked!

[Hekazu]

@Rin Ah, good to know!

[VKAllen]

@VKAllen Now your total exceeds the 27 point buy limit by one point if I am counting this correctly.

STR - 8 for 0
DEX - 13+2 for 5
CON - 14 for 7
INT - 10 for 2 (Suggested change: 9 for 1)
WIS - 14+1 for 7
CHA - 14 for 7
Resulting in a grand total of 28 points. If I may suggest an easy way out, as you seem to be looking for low-ish intelligence, if you drop it to 9 your point buy total will become 27 and thus legal.

Oh, and as goblinoids are a subrace of humanoids, you may choose another humanoid subrace as a Favoured Enemy. You may learn one language from the two of them, which you already have, so you cannot learn one from the other. You'll still get the other bonuses, or that's at least what I'm reading from this.

@Hekazu

I am detecting a few other errors. Will fix later in the afternoon.

[The Harbinger of Ferocity]

I am curious what @Rin decided on.