The Harbinger of Ferocity

D&D 5e - Hoard of the Dragon Queen

So long as we are all on the same sort of length that we are actively all trying to give the prisoner a chance to repent. If the Governor wants her to stand trial, there's no qualms there from Brannor - it isn't his business and that's more merciful than she deserves. If it gets left up to us, and she's even the slightest bit untrustworthy, my vote is for giving her a clean death lest she had the chance to betray Greenest and or inform the enemy by means of escaping.

D&D 5e - Hoard of the Dragon Queen

Thus far she's been treated with compassion and mercy, far more than she deserves so Brannor has no objections despite his distaste for her, but if she's still unrepentant and unwilling to accept forgiveness and act on it - perhaps having to earn her freedom through the people of Greenest by indentured service - there's no real option but to give her a speedy, fair death. I supposed Governor Nighthill could choose on his own, given she's now their prisoner, not so much ours, but she's a dangerous fanatic from the look of it, @Ryonara.

I am honestly surprised they put the classic "prisoner dilemma" of Dungeons and Dragons in the first chapter of one of their first modules.

D&D 5e - Hoard of the Dragon Queen

I admit Brannor will not honor that promise of "she might yet live to see them again" if Parum wishes to pursue it, @Ryonara. There's too much wickedness done here tonight and that yet to come based off of how Torus framed the narrative and the insanity the hunter views her to be possessed of. A threat better handled now than later.

As an addition, I did come to mind with something that might be reasonable if an impasse is created. That and it leaves it up to Governor Nighthill rather than us, something Greenest would need deal with on their morality.

Beginner's DnD 5e Game - Group 2

Once more the air filled with static charge like that of a tremendous gathering storm and the discharge of crackling energy sent lightning cascading out in wild directions, all of which Arthera was careful to guide nowhere near her allies or those uninvolved, instead sending it coursing through the behemoth of a man that wielded his axe like some crude plaything. With no point of origin, it vanished as quickly as it appeared and left little more than standing hairs, ionized atmosphere and ozone in its wake.

This was getting tiresome, all in ways she was not prepared for. This woman was clearly more trouble than she was worth and had it not been for her willingness to see Talionis back to his feet with a spell, the primalist would have dealt with her just as violently as this had turned out when they survived - if they all did. It bought the newcomer patience and time with a woman who had notably little of either to spare, especially now that the drifter had done something to their resident occultist. What was wrong with this city? Was General Cavanaugh not thinning these scum and their herds? Were they really so short on the mages, the same which they displayed parading through the city with frivolous magic, to police this?

That was a question for another day, because the feline woman had, in one of the most bizarre displays she had ever seen, reduced the filthy rat-thing to a still heap on the ground. She hoped, rather wished, the damned thing dead, but there was no certainty with anything now, because the dumb brute had absorbed yet another strike of deadly lightning without much injury to show for it. There was a need to change tactics, perhaps assaulting his mind, but they were running out of expedient options; her psionic reserve was needed, what was left that is, in dire straights that might still come...

As they seemed to with one of the drifters approaching her. Defiantly, adamant that she would kill him here and now if she could, she stepped back to better block the bottleneck behind her that their group had come from in the first place, speaking in thought to the warlock with gifted tongue, "Daisy, mind the drifter."

Effects

Arthera manifests Hungry Lightning as an action, spending 3 psi points of her 9 to do so.

The goliath is her target and must make a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw at disadvantage due to his worn armor. If he fails, he takes 11 lightning damage or 5 if he succeeds. Oddly, he seems to be significantly less effected by this jolt than the last.

She then moves 5 feet southwest to help create a funnel that might better prevent the Eonic Drifter's potential escape. If lucky, that might grant Ceria, herself and Daisy opportunity attacks if he tried to move through them. She warns the party's tiefling with her Telepathy as a free action.

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- @The Harbinger of Ferocity

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

@Bishop, there was another user by the name of "The Harbinger" who perhaps you have mistaken me for. At no point ever have I typed that way unironically or other than in sample, let alone in any of the chatrooms on the Roleplayer Guild or elsewhere.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

I have to view this issue with similar complaint.

If you are going to be writing a post, at least in the high casual to advance tiers, I sort of assume you have a basic grasp of spellcheck and at least the respect to correctly write the names of the other characters in the roleplay. If you have repeatedly, several times over no less, failed to do this then it is nothing short of neglect. It speaks to a level of incompetence and disregard that irks me personally. Why? Because it is one thing to just have terrible grammar or be verbose - two things I am guilty of, namely because I never actually learned how to write in English - but it is another to utterly fail at the most basic levels, to include respect and effort for others.

Yes, I accept typing on a phone almost universally erodes post quality for a myriad of reasons, but if you are still incapable of spelling every few words correctly and always getting a character's name wrong in it, you are either doing it on purpose to spite the other members or you just do not care. If it is the former, you brought that on yourself. If it is the latter, why are you in a roleplay you do not care about? See yourself out so that we are not constantly berating you for your laziness in posting and inability to spell the same character's name every post. As another note I might add, it is not even my character that is subject to this; I have no personal stake or bone to pick.

Terribly frustrating, also the same individual who posts every four days, which is the story's maximum limit, and never poses a solution to the problems I bring up out-of-character about how portions of the game are being run mechanically. Perhaps I just have ongoing misfortune in this category, but I have never seen more careless roleplayers.