DreamLyrics™ Play-by-Post Forums Fantasy SKT: The Storm King's Thunder OOC thread

Definitely take the time to decide if you want to risk having two heads.

Also why isn’t anyone going to go see Tamalin Zoar while sitting around? That letter of recommendation will be worth far more to you than anything a half crazy witch makes guy provide.

I don't read long posts on the phone.. just saying give more time so people can respond

Yeah. I understand the problem that velociposters cause. I came here the other day to find a dozen posts. I can fall into that trap. It takes some restraint for the DM to resist replying in quasi-real time

To be fair if it's mostly conversation, it's not unlike two people talking to each other while you struggle to get a word in edgewise.

Aqua that wasn't merely conversation from the little I managed to read. There is a reason the majority of my posting is done early morning. I don't have time to post during the day. So get ready for back posting

I tend to post once a day even to my games, unless it is a quick answer to keep the narrative going. I actually watch for others to have a chance to post so that I never cause this kind of an issue, not that I am very fast, but it is the principle. I also can wait for others to post into a scene when I feel like their input is necessary rather than just moving on. But this is my personal preference, and every GM has their own.

In reference to a two headed Sindar or bard, FABULOUS! I could so play that!

I tend to have different cycles. Some days I can be a velociposter and respond to posts within minutes of it being posted, and if the other party replies quickly I can continue to reply. I try to only post once per DM post, though, unless I am in conversation with another pc. At other times I may post once per day or once for several days. Depends on RL.

I'm on call this week and may not have time for either velociposting or turtleposting. Which is why I was trying to knock things out yesterday.

The witch was mostly intended much earlier (but y'all are unpredictable) and honestly doesn't have much beyond entertainment value. Like two-headed bards.

For Pavel, Attunment is described in the basic rules, see https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/basic-rules-2014/magic-items#Attunement

Full time spellcasters probaly are well aware of it, as a multiclass it could be something you haven't yet learned but the party can probably help you with.

(It's kind of weird trying to describe OOC game mechanics IC, but whatever.)

Sindar could harmonise with himself!

Sorry I've been slacker than usual with family here for 3 weeks. I'll try to do better. FWIW I usually post during my morning when I expect many of you are asleep.. so I am usually more of a victim of veliposting rather than a perpetrator.

Hmm, so Bern is both talking to Tamalin and the witch at the same time. Clearly one of them is the doppelganger.

Totally possible. Tamalin meeting and Witch meeting are at the same time. Bern just needs to ask if Tamalin knows where to find a Troll bladder for sale. Would indicate he dropped in during the time he left for it.

I thought he was dissected the dead troll for it <shrug>

For reference, the PHB quotes these prices for regular run-of-the-mill healing potions:

I haven't quoted you the exact dice for the troll regeneration potions but it's potentially 1d6x6 + 60 total hp (~81 avg). Compared to the 45 average hp for a potion of supreme healing at 1350 gp, the quoted 2000 (discounted by half) is a fair bargain.

If you accept the risk, also not quoted yet but at least described.

OOC: Bern could ask Tamalin where the troll bodies were. I assume, however, that they were burned since without burning them, trolls regenerate.

OK, so this got lost in the velociposting, but since this whole scene started just as the market was shutting down, I noted that Bern could find the healers at the market and, for a little extra coin, convince them to open up and sell him troll parts. Because it's silly for me to make you wait until tomorrow.

Also at the end of the troll battle scene, I had noted that there were healers ready to harvest the troll bodies for components as well, but were waiting to give the party "first dibs" on it.

Because as alluded to, the whole witch visit was originally intended to come before you killed the trolls. Yay for spontaneity.

Doppelganger jokes aside, Bern did already post something about returning with the bladder. Maybe he's running back and forth? It's not that big a deal here, the problem with running simultaneous threads.

[[ OK, so this got lost in the velociposting, but since this whole scene started just as the market was shutting down, I noted that Bern could find the healers at the market and, for a little extra coin, convince them to open up and sell him troll parts. Because it's silly for me to make you wait until tomorrow. ]]

Weeeell ... I thought that we had killed at least =one= troll in 'town' and could 'gain our bladder' there <shrug>

I think it is funny that I started Sindar's post before Zhu did her figuring out what Tamlin was upset about. I thought about trying to change what I was going to write, because it seems like I was using OOC knowledge, but ultimately decided against it. I just went with my gut feeling and moved on. Sindar wasn't talking about more coin, he was hoping for more information.

Yes, funny. I did not read the post as asking for more coin. I read it as asking her for the letter she'd promised. I was surprised by the response from Tamalin.

Hi!! Who are you guys?? <chuckle>

Considering that Zhu wasn't with Tamalin it was actually Zindra that realized it. None-the-less, every argument I get into with my wife seems to be because she misinterprets (or doesn't hear correctly) something I said. Zindra's insight was to see if she was upset. I don't think it matters what Sindar said, exactly, that ticked her off. What matters is how he (of great charisma) uses his charm to smooth things out.

Nep, not to correct you, but... in the husband's bylaws, you are just wrong. It isn't about misinterpretation, and it is about that base fact.

I was surprised that the party was avoiding answering the basic questions laid out in the quest, to wit:

Your task was to "uncover who or what is orchestrating" the troll attacks.

Her direct question prior to the pushback for compensation was very specifically focused on whether the giants were orchestrating them:

If you want a really cool reward, you have to complete the quest.

Wow.. whiny DM making us do things by rules and follow the plot....