Hekazu

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@The Harbinger of Ferocity I'm curious now, could you elaborate on what you are exactly doing? I'd like to know how it works!

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@darkandstar They... do? At least I see it on their character sheet. The Dragonborn, correct? Tarhun sure does have that box ticked on my end.

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@EruditeAssassin Yah, Athletics does not apply to attack rolls. Generally no skills affect it as it pretty much is just raw attribute + proficiency.

Say, if you were kicking down a door the athletics would likely kick in. Or scaling a wall. Or swimming across a stream. But not on attacks, those run on the attack roll + damage roll system separate from your usual skill checks, much like saving throws. I hope I helped you understand it :)

EDIT: I'm assuming that you were making it as an attack, given the situation.

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Oh, we have the full initiative tracker in effect. Guess mine is a bit redundant now then. Anyways, given how the two on the top of the list have already done their thing, it'd be your move @EruditeAssassin.

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A quick collection of player initiatives:

• @The Harbinger of Ferocity With the 17
• @EruditeAssassin With a solid 10
• @VKAllen Sporting an 8
• And there's me with a 6

So there's that so we'll remember the supposed order of us. Of course, there's still the blank regarding the guards but I though I could help by putting these in the same place.

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@darkandstar That clause is for improvised weapons that do not resemble an existing weapon, and I'd argue these picks are somewhat related to existing weapons. It's your call though.

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@EruditeAssassin Yup, that is what it says. The thing is, war picks are designed to be wielded as a weapon, mining picks not as much. Probably an improvised weapon (so no proficiencies) but 1d8 in damage? I don't know.

Not that it'd matter in Travok's case simply because he doesn't have that type of proficiency anyway.

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@The Harbinger of Ferocity You don't have to/get to roll twice to knock people prone, if you are using the shove action as discussed on PHB p.195-196 under "Shoving a creature". If your first roll succeeds you can just declare that they fall prone (or alternatively push them for five feet). Doesn't seem like you could combine the effects in RAW form, so it's up to the DM to call on that... Sorry about "rules lawyering", I guess I am just too used to doing it. The shove action replaces (up to?) one attack action, so doing both would kinda give you an extra attack.

@darkandstar Would the pickaxes be improvised weapons or something else? War Picks are a thing that exist but these are for mining, not going to war so it probably won't count as that, correct?

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My initiative is quite low, 6 to be exact.

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So now the elf was coming with them too, huh? They weren't usually the mining folk, the elves, but she probably didn't want to be left alone. That was all the sense Travok could make out of it. The cell would be left empty, but if he had to guess that would've been the case anyway. You don't bind up volunteers like that, no sir.

Before the guards got to binding him with the rest of the people, Travok faked a yawn and slipped the crystal back into his mouth for transport. Hopefully the guards would not be too keen on asking extra questions, but they hadn't given the impression. Travok made sure to get a spot as close to the small human as possible, they seemed to know something he didn't.

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7 for a sleight of hand, in case I've got to check hiding the thing again. Should we just wait for DM to ask for rolls though, instead of rolling on our own?

The beginning of the trip through the dungeon proved him that this was not as small a place as the usual dungeon of a town... they must've transported him quite far. The most impressive piece of stonework there was to be seen was this bridge of theirs... but even that wasn't anything spectacular. Clearly form over function, although why they had had to dig this chasm under it was beyond him.

Finally having made their way to their stop, Travok could've breathed a sigh of relief once the bindings were off if that wouldn't have dropped the focus onto the floor again. He'd really have to check whether there were pockets on these rags, even if it was quite unlikely. He took the offered pickaxe and stayed close to his new acquaintance while taking a look around him. What kind of stone was this, even? He might know a few tricks if they were to have an actual working shift...

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Rolled an 18 with Mason's tools proficiency regarding the type of stone here. In case that's applicable. Stonecunning unfortunately only works on the history of things...