[OOC Thread] (Ex?)-Minions of Darkness
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		<h2 id="linktree">Play-By-Post: Light =&gt; Light: Human Small Groups =&gt; Topic started by: Korosa on 14-12-2020, 17:07:59</h2>
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				Title: <strong>[OOC Thread] (Ex?)-Minions of Darkness</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Korosa</strong> on <strong>14-12-2020, 17:07:59</strong>
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				Whoo, we've got a game going! This is the out of character thread. The GM needs to compile information and start working on GM things, but please post comments, concerns, ideas, and of course, character sheets. If anyone needs help character building, please help them out--I think we've got a mix of people who have played before and people who are new to D&amp;D. If anyone likes discord or other IM chat programs, lmk and we can get a discord channel going, probably (feel free to start your own!). I'll post some compiled lore information this afternoon, probably, when I get off work, so people have reference materials to what is known about the world and the Lord so far. <br><br>I think that's all from me right now!<br><br><strong>Edit:</strong> <br>FoxgirlJay asked a lot of good questions about the mechanical side of things, so check the thread for those. I made a campaign for us in DND Beyond: <br><br>https://ddb.ac/campaigns/join/1609966509947507 <br>If people want to create and manage their character through that. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: [OOC Thread] (Ex?)-Minions of Darkness</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>FoxgirlJay</strong> on <strong>14-12-2020, 17:53:53</strong>
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				I know everyone in this group that ya' picked uses Discord, so that's an option for OOC!<br><br>My only question, before getting in to lore, is how you want to manage Character Creation. <br><br>Starting level?<br><br>27 Point Buy, or higher? Standard Array? Rolling?<br><br>How to determine Max HP?<br><br>Amount of starting gold to spend on items or to hoard? <br><br>Are you allowing Variant Race Attributes? The newest customization rule in Tasha's Cauldron, that allows you to take say, a High Elves +2 to DEX, and +1 to INT, and put them somewhere else. Like, +2 CHA and +1 DEX. I don't plan on using the feature myself, but it may help someone else in their own character building. <br><br>The method I've used in my own games, and enjoyed playing with uses a semi-homebrew method. At every 4 levels in a class, instead of having to choose an ASI or a Feat, you get both. I really like this simple change, since Feats are cool, but are sometimes a hard sell compared to making numbers bigger. So when a feat does get picked, it's like, the same 3 feats you see all the time. Magic Initiate, Warcaster and something to die less. I like this method, and figured I'd toss it out there as a suggestion.<br><br>My Character's basically all built, the stats are set for Standard Array, and Max-roll HP but I can easily change those as needed.<br><br>https://ddb.ac/characters/35944902/o7WGBM<br><br><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">non-spicy character pic</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/768736396806324255/788085262336000070/1dadfc_7247875_2.jpg?width=647&amp;height=558)</div></div><br><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">spicy character pic</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/675887214097334283/675890500745691166/1dadfc_7247875.jpg)</div></div>
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				Title: <strong>Re: [OOC Thread] (Ex?)-Minions of Darkness</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Korosa</strong> on <strong>14-12-2020, 19:58:23</strong>
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				Oh, right! <br><br>Starting Level - Level 3 (goal will be to get the characters to level 5 in a few sessions and then stay there for a while)<br>Any attribute generation method is fine by me, though I would suggest standard array. 27 points if you're doing point buy <br>Hit point generation should be using the fixed max method, no rolling<br>Starting gold using the standard rolling rules for your class OR equipment using the standard rules. I might modify that later to give everyone a bit of extra equipment or cool treasure they start with, tho. <br>Variant rules are fine! I'll consider that homebrew, I like the idea, and yes, feats are cool and I wish they hadn't made them a trade off. <br><br>I went ahead and made a campaign for us in DND beyond, if everyone is comfortable using that:&nbsp; https://ddb.ac/campaigns/join/1609966509947507<br><br>I haven't made any modifications to it yet, but it should have content sharing and I have most of the books, so if anyone wants to play around with the options they're there. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: [OOC Thread] (Ex?)-Minions of Darkness</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>John Birch</strong> on <strong>14-12-2020, 20:41:16</strong>
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				ddb.ac/characters/41011790/Ri2fmk<br><br><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">Sorban’s age betrays itself in the lines etched in her face and in the gray of her short, close-cropped hair, but her tall, broad-shouldered physique clearly has yet to part with the enormous strength of her youth. Her dark brown skin is marked here and there with the telltale signs of a life lived at war-- a grisly scar running from the crest of a cheekbone to the corner of her lips, the remnants of a burn wound in the mottled skin of her left hand, a nose that has clearly been broken and rebroken one too many times. She’d look like somebody you don’t want to mess with if not for the fact that she’s usually smiling like an old woman amused by her grandchildren’s antics, or singing some song in a foreign tongue that she picked up somewhere in her travels. Her armor is nearly as battle-scarred as she is, an old set of iron plate armor adorned with a tattered blue-and-orange banner.<br><br>She is not, as a rule, inclined to divulging the minutiae of her personal history-- she likes to say she hasn't led a particularly interesting life, which is pretty rich coming from one of the dark lord's top lieutenants. That she comes from the Spice Isles is pretty easy to guess, if not from her fondness for singing or her ability to gut and cook a fish about a hundred different ways, then from her accent when speaking Common, the languid drawl unique to the Isles. Combine that with her age and martial prowess and it's safe to assume she served during the Isles' ill-fated stand against Eidorian conquest. If asked, however, she won't even confirm those rather obvious things, much less offer anything else about herself. After all, as she's fond of saying... She hasn't led a particularly interesting life.</div></div><br>Included a brief description but if there's a particular character profile you'd like us to use, just let me know. And of course, don't hesitate to tell me if any changes need to be made with the D&amp;D Beyond sheet-- most of it was pretty intuitive but I'm sure I made one or two rookie mistakes.
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				Title: <strong>Re: [OOC Thread] (Ex?)-Minions of Darkness</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Revelation</strong> on <strong>14-12-2020, 20:54:30</strong>
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				I'll start making a character a bit later today. Since I would have to buy Xanathar's guide to everything on D&amp;D Beyond (And I am poor+I already own the book in person), I'll be using myth weavers for my sheet, assuming such is OK. Since I don't own any of the books on beyond it would limit my class selection to just Oath of Devotion.
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				Title: <strong>Re: [OOC Thread] (Ex?)-Minions of Darkness</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Rummy Tum Tum</strong> on <strong>14-12-2020, 21:00:50</strong>
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				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=327872.msg15684800#msg15684800">Quote from: Changingsaint on 14-12-2020, 20:54:30</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I'll start making a character a bit later today. Since I would have to buy Xanathar's guide to everything on D&amp;D Beyond (And I am poor+I already own the book in person), I'll be using myth weavers for my sheet, assuming such is OK. Since I don't own any of the books on beyond it would limit my class selection to just Oath of Devotion.<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>The DM could edit your sheet with items/spells/subclasses etc. from books you don't own, as long as she owns them.<br><br>Also, big yes to Discord
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				Title: <strong>Re: [OOC Thread] (Ex?)-Minions of Darkness</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Revelation</strong> on <strong>14-12-2020, 21:17:08</strong>
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				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=327872.msg15684809#msg15684809">Quote from: Rummy Tum Tum on 14-12-2020, 21:00:50</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">The DM could edit your sheet with items/spells/subclasses etc. from books you don't own, as long as she owns them.<br><br>Also, big yes to Discord<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Oh? That's cool, didn't know that! but that's still dependent on Korosa owning it in D&amp;DB.<br>Also, I can only choose grappler as a feat if I go variant human, that's weird.
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				Title: <strong>Re: [OOC Thread] (Ex?)-Minions of Darkness</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>FoxgirlJay</strong> on <strong>14-12-2020, 21:18:58</strong>
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				There are very few Feats avalible in the base rules. That can also be changed, either by going to the Homebrew Catalogue and Adding it to your collection, or waiting for Korosa to add it in to your sheet for you.<br><br>The Homebrew section will have copies of everything official, lol<br><br>Or, just use Mythweavers.
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				Title: <strong>Re: [OOC Thread] (Ex?)-Minions of Darkness</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Korosa</strong> on <strong>14-12-2020, 21:46:14</strong>
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				<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=327872.msg15684827#msg15684827">Quote from: Changingsaint on 14-12-2020, 21:17:08</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Oh? That's cool, didn't know that! but that's still dependent on Korosa owning it in D&amp;DB.<br>Also, I can only choose grappler as a feat if I go variant human, that's weird.<br></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br>I <em>should</em> have content sharing turned on in that campaign link, so if you make your character under the campaign, it should have access to stuff from all the books I own (which should include Xanathar's). Lmk if that's not working, it should be set up that way. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: [OOC Thread] (Ex?)-Minions of Darkness</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Bibliophilia</strong> on <strong>14-12-2020, 23:02:25</strong>
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				Thanks for letting me squeak in, Korosa!&nbsp; -grins.-
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