Vita est Ludus

Meta discussion: First, I was hoping Shar was just on the other side of the portal and you all would go and talk to her while I did my new character sheet, which I didn't understand I was supposed to be doing while we debated. :? Next, I hoped you would all come back and we would all go through the ...

-We could rate items we find on a scale of 1 to 10. -10 is an epic item or an item necessary to complete a quest. -1 is a non-magical (mundane) item, such as: a starting weapon, musical instrument, or fine pair of boots. -We rate items as best we can in the first couple days we have them. -We vote o...

If owner of site could delete the Logistics thread? I will start over here in a less complicated manner... Treasure Division Suggestion: 1.) DM enters day's loot list in game table to be posted on Vita. 2.) Veracity picks up lists from post and creates tables (as Brianna used to do) tracking who ha...

Yes, we issued IOUs and we used "cash out values" of spare loot. I'm just concerned that we don't get "enough" gp anymore and don't have any place to "cash out" spare loot anymore. It's possible that in Ravenloft, where we are paying in coin for food and lodging, we cou...

Veracity wrote: --The method should have ways of "appraising" an item even when we can't immediately discern everything about an item. It's not at all clear how this can be done, but I'll reserve judgement until I hear the proposed details. In other words, I do not "agree to the foll...

Please post here = your "new" treasure and gp you have aquired since we started adventuring together. (Skip things you got in starting package at L1) DM = I know this is asking a lot and not really your responsibility, but could you post the party gp loot awards to date, as a one-time favo...

Could Fuma enter the prophecies/rumors/clues he has noted here?

For example:
--Sedon's related visions and communications from his book and his daughter, etc.
--The blind wagon driver's information.
--The prophecy from the underground halfling town.
--The original "chosen ones" legend.

Could the PCs list their "new" stuff here? Meaning anything aquired after coming through the mists.

Also, if anyone is holding anything "for the party," list that here too.

Could Calder enter the proshesies here?

I will list out the key items and places, etc and add that to the information I'm creating to track treasure and gp.

Please no point system. We have gp - let's use gp. Even if items can't be sold at the moment, they have a gp value. Let's use that. If we do adopt this system, then just assign each hoard a value, and divide by the number of characters - as in the past. Assigning a "hoard value" and divid...

Veracity wrote: --The method should NOT require DMs to "plant" items unless it relates to a particular quest. Yes, but what?! This is just a bizarre statement. It's their world. Both DMs commented on not being expected to plant PC-specific items for us to find unless it is essential to a ...

Being aware of the short amount of game time tonight, I've been assertive (and yes provocative) in trying to get us to start coming to a consensus. These are all at the proposal stage until we all weigh in and agree. But that doesn't mean we should debate until Christmas... Come on, guys. Let's star...

Yeah, I'm aware of the short window. That's why I maybe jumped the gun on trying to get us moved along here. If we can continue the talk in the forums I'm happy to NOT talk during about these topics during game nights.

Veracity volunteers to create the tables listing treasure found and assigned. Veracity volunteers to work with 2 or more other players to create a point system for valuing items found. (IMO, ideally, two DMs and at least 2 players should work on this via skype sessions out of game.) Suggestion (to a...

Assuming we have agreed to the following... Let's talk implementation/logistics here. I'll start. Please change/add. Distribute gp and magic values roughly evenly over time : (A) Create tables that list current holdings of party and individuals (B) Create either a gp value system or a point value sy...

Summary = Have we agreed to the following? --We will go with a method that distributes gp and magic values roughly evenly over time. --The method should allow individual choice. --The method should NOT require DMs to "plant" items unless it relates to a particular quest. --The method shoul...

If someone "at the table" will send me nightly lists, I will be happy to track and value. I will undertake to create tables and I will modify my own PCs such that they can each cast Identify. Again, I propose that dividing values, "buying from the party," and issuing IOUs be part...

Brianna,
I have sympathy for your frustrations and apologize for offending you.If feel that the current party in your current world is being underserved in treasure by my presence, I will withdraw.
-Veracity

Still begs the question of assigning values in closed systems and being able to "buy" from the party.

I'm willing to step into the role of tracking loot. But to make that feasible, I need someone "on the other end" who is sitting at the table - to make the nightly lists. My audio breaks up and the folks at the table continue talking and I miss stuff. But creating the tables and such offlin...

Brianna, It was wonderful of you to consider all of us in the treasure you placed. I was very stupid. I was frustrated at not getting gp of my own to pursue plans of my own and was blinded by that. This tread is not intended to beat up on you in any way. I appreciate your efforts very much. I'm sorr...

Mercy, your suggestion is well-intentioned and explains why you behave as you do during our treasure divisions. My problem with that approach is that the goal is "for everyone to get something" after every battle in which there is loot. IMO, the goal should be to make sure everyone has equ...

I'll say that given that I strive to ensure the opportunities for everyone balance out over the medium-short run. So it might not balance by encounter, but it should by episode arc. But there are some limitations based upon what works in the adventure. Seston and Brianna, I believe that you both ha...

My understanding is that: (a) there are communities (though few and far between) where we will be able to buy/barter items (b) we expect to eventually be able to pass through the mist (c) we expect to eventually return the apocalyptic world to "normal" and/or move through portals to other ...

Deed to the Windmill... Caldor I believe Caldor originally picked it up at the haunted house and carried it around without indicating one way or the other that he was claiming it. But since he had it in his possession we started calling it his. And we starting telling the hags he owned the Windmill...

People have their own visions of what their characters want and what they want for their characters. We should be allowed to make our own choices - even if they are dumb choices in the eyes of the DM or other players. There are random treasure generators in the DMG. I have no problem with those bein...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzTwBQniLSc

showing that armor was not as cumbersome as we imagine..

Hurdles in the two worlds we are currently playing: --In M's world, we have been transported to an apocalyptic future, where we don't currently know of anywhere to have items appraised or to buy stuff. --In B's world, we have entered a region surrounded by impenetrable mist, so we are similarly limi...

It is my hope that we will discuss this here - in the forum - as players - before the next game. I do NOT want to have this discussion in game as PCs. As PCs we have an obligation to roll play that we crave gems or weapons or scrolls or want a Lawful Good plan or an NC plan, etc. Then we aren't talk...

Wasn't this the method of treasure division suggested by Brianna that we adopted fairly recently but not universally? It's a good system, but perhaps each party should role play its merits. I believe we did start out with dice rolls for who "got to pick first." And then folks started gett...

I don't think the character discussions work out. And, frankly, I'm very uncomfortable having them. The tendency to look at treasure from current battle only is one of the problems. Some of us aleady have + weapons. Some do not. Some of us have magic items. Some do not. In order to do what you propo...

When I started gaming with the group, and for many many years, we had the following treasure division system: [list=]Put all the loot from that day's melee into a pile Do identifies Estimate values Total the values of all items (at sale value) plus all coins and gems Divide by the number of characte...

-Sedon seems to want to rehabilitate his Green Goddess daughter. (need to ask him about he plans to achieve that) -Mercy thought a cloaked figure was the Wizard who killed her parents, and attacked it and its minions. But the creature turned out to be a Mind-Flayer instead. -The Mind-Flayer killed i...

My other "Laymen's Suggestion" would be to rule that, because Eclipse can wild shape into a Worg and cast V spells as Worg, she can't shift that extra time per day as a Worg. The benefit to the party of her casting V as Worg is really the Healing Word spell. That benefit could be balanced ...

Here' a link to a website where you can sort based on spells V, S, M categories.

http://donjon.bin.sh/5e/spells/

You should not be casting when using wild shape. I should have caught this and paid closer attention. It's allowed at 18th level, but that's too high an ability to give as freebie... Being able to cast in any beast shape is, indeed, very powerful, I agree. Even just casting as a Worg with both V an...

All the tables are fine. You can pick one to be your home table (swamp, I assume) and we can discuss which other forms you've seen while adventuring. Because of her "thing" about Owlbears, I'd say "Forest" would be her origins. But both Tielfling tribes and Worg packs do roam an...

I'm confused about this one. Druid Circle spells are for Circles of the Land isn't Eclipse a Circle of the Moon? Gosh Darn! That's my fault, mis-memory. It's her Tielfling bonus spells not Druid-related. See Players p43 "Infernal legacy." Can she sacrifice those slots to do healing on oth...

Next Session might be dull for Orpheus's player... Hoping we can wrap up this haunted house and get Orpheus to the gypsy lady. See if she can rez him... Kili, we needed you!!!!

Check there aren't any that would NOT be logical for your world.

Please also take a look at the Druid Wild Forms table in the Guide to Everything and let me know if I can use those as published when choosing a wild shape for my current level? It would have a lot of time to be able to use them straight out of the book. But you need to make sure there aren't any th...

believe the halfling wanted just to get to the other side of the Wall of Wailing. Recall that they appear to be the survivors of a battle with zombies - the place where we found dead zombies, a halfling, bugbear, hobgoblins, and the trail of blood leading away. So it appears they were trying to cro...

Did you make note of which planes used to intersect at the stalamite forest?

-In the townhall of a deserted (underground) halfling settlement, we found a special dagger enbedded in a tentacled creature. The creature had one eye (white) and said it had been part of "The One." It begged for death. On the wall was a message about finding and killing The Minions of the...

What is our current XP level?

On another spell topic... Worgs can speak and move around. So I've been playing Eclipse that she can cast in Worg form but can't cast spells with material components because her material components morphed into her worg body. Is that kosher?

Well we are down a lot. But so might be our "opponents." Before next game... Need a ruling... I know that I can't swap out my special Druid Catagory spells slots for ordinary Druid spells. For instance, I can't swap out Darkness for Call Lightning. But when it comes to casting Healing Word...

Re: Notes from 5/15/18 - What evil lurks Yeah, cause these aren't humans.

Yeah, cause these aren't humans.

Maybe the Space Spiders will offer to transport us somewhere new in their Space Ship after we clear the realm for take off.

And en route we can all take turns sitting the Special Chair and become stronger or smarter or more dexterous before we arrive...

What are some of the major differences in 5e vs 3.5e that folks, so far, like/dislike?

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