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Formaroth: Battle for the Throne

ok, good to know.

Formaroth: Battle for the Throne

Any significant differences?

Should I give up on an RP idea if its interest check thread receives little to no replies?

@JohnSolaris the guildfall was an event a few years ago when the entire guild database got deleted. Mahz had to rebuild the site from scratch while the players used a quickly made temporary site on another host.

Thus, everything that is on the site now stems from 2014 or later, while guild history goes back to around 2007 or so. The guildfall resulted in roughly 9 million posts, 210,000 threads and 45000 user accounts being lost. A few pieces here and there were recovered due to users' backups, but this did not amount to more than a fraction of a percent we think.

The best rp moments in your life.

Or they were simply being players, @boomlover.

Players always do stupid things. Stupid things that occasionally spark of genius.

How not to crossgender roleplay

we couldn't care less where a character's "plumbing" is. Outside or inside doesn't matter. There are physical and/or mental traits more commonly found in one gender or the other, but as with so much else, such is not exclusive. The only way we can think of right now to incorrectly portray a gendered character is to have a thin, waiflike female character lift cars with the same ease as she would lift a book without any supernatural or technological aid to explain how. But that's not really specific to a female either, though average strength is quite often a little lower in female characters on account of average body mass being lower.

Two characters can be virtually identical in background, appearance and personality, yet have completely different genders. Or they can have the same gender and virtually nothing else in common. Granted, in a general population, the individuals of one gender who have a majority of the physical traits normally considered to belong to the other are fairly rare.

To support theories of people above, we can also mention that we have come across players who thought they knew better than character authors how a character ought to behave and react to a situation. Suffice to say, the ones owning the characters generally do not agree with the kind of person that "know better". That kind of player generally doesn't accept being told "no" when they try to rectify play style, so we personally lean towards the fault not being on your end, @helenedwards.

The best rp moments in your life.

Well, today we DM'd a small attempt at the D&D adventure Curse of Strahd. Our players, all of them low level _{(three level 2 players, one level 3)} eventually got into a church wherein a vampire spawn had been locked into the cellar. Despite being told that the vampire spawn was down there and being made aware of the fact that it was starved, they decided to enter the cellar. As even a vampire spawn is far beyond the reasonable challenge level for characters of their levels, that in itself is rather foolish.

Then, for some reason, the party's rogue decided to "feed" the vampire by holding his arm over the vampire's mouth and slashing the wrist so it would bleed.

As it turns out, vampires do bite the hands that feed them. In one attack, that character went from full hit points to zero.

A few rounds later and even with the vampire spawn being nerfed somewhat on the spot, first one player died, then soon afterwards a second one. By this time, the third second-level character wisely realized that being upstairs was safer. Naturally, even with the vampire generally rolling poorly and with disadvantage, the third player died. The final player, who had closed the trapdoor to the undercroft with the vampire (and his now-dead friends), fixed the lock magically and ran off.

Not quite a TPK (total party kill) but still close enough. And they would never have been attacked if they had listened to the priest who didn't want them to go down there, or not tried to feed a blood-starved vampire without even considering things like restraining it first.

Lesson the players learned this day? "Don't feed the vampire."

D&D 5e technical stuff

A vampire spawn like the one they faced has a challenge rating of 5 and grants 1800 XP if defeated.
The estimated experience threshold for a "deadly" encounter (the hardest listed in the dungeon master's guide) for a character combination like theirs is 1000 XP.

deadly challenge XP threshold for a second level character is 200
deadly challenge XP threshold for a third level character is 400

Thus their combat would've still been deadly if they had had two extra characters of third level, something they did not.

We of course had no choice about letting them down there, as they rolled a natural 20 on persuasion upon the priest to let them go down there.

Formaroth: Battle for the Throne

We've not quite got it figured out, @TheDuncanMorgan... We've got work for our own RP to set up and we're gonna gm some Tabletop on Sunday. That'll need some preparation, as it's our first time.

But we'll see come next week. If we post we post. Don't hold anything up waiting for us, though. We would not want that.

We're finally getting to the point where catching up on net things is mostly done after we got home net.

Mahz's Dev Journal

He's alive?

RUN FOR THE HILLS!!!!

Formaroth: Battle for the Throne

we'll see later. We've not quite yet gotten home net (hopefully it'll come next week.).

Formaroth: Battle for the Throne

our character wasn't built with much faith in religion.