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

Ohhh ... then why not just tell us what happened ... you tease!! <weg>

Nah.

I've added video to the Discord channel. Now I have to put on clothes to play!

Modifiers, Nep. Do you add conditional modifiers to an attack when you roll the attack? So frex, Arus gets +2 damage when wielding a one-handed weapon from Duelling.

Also, we never did get around to magic item allocation. I think Arus's non-magical kit is pretty good anyway, but in case we encounter damage resistance or need healing potions, etc.. I'm thinking back to that damn flaming skull in LMP.

Roll20 should take care of it. We'll tweak in game.

BTW, we've started to meet in Discord and log into Roll20 already

It's working, we are in session!

And here are some links from the chat.

Shadow of the Demon Lord - One of 5th Ed's writers does his own personal version of how it should be
https://schwalbentertainment.com/shadow-of-the-demon-lord/

Black Bottle - Blend of Islays only
https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/429/black-bottle

IT was fun today! I posted something in the Our Community forum (where I was peak obnoxious), but for record keeping, here's the screen shot I took today...

The game looks really interesting. I noted that many of the writers of modules are old WOTC and even TSR writers - some of the best.

As for the scotch, I wish I was there with you Neil to share a glass. I'm not a big drinker, but I love myself some single-malt scotch from the Islay. Sometimes the peat is too much, so that one looks intriguing.

History in the making. It only took us 20 years.

Nep, are you starting a new thread for the session write-ups?

I have Shadow of the Demon Lord. It is definitely a crunchy old school style. However, it has tons of flavor and is a neat, if very dark style world.

So cool! Loved last night! Thank you Neptune.

Yeah, Gypsy. I just noticed that I had not expressed a similar sentiment <wink>

Thanks Nep!! Looking forward to the next one ... I think <weg>

Yes, that looked like it was some hard work, Neptune, thank you very much. I thoroughly enjoyed myself even before the scotch. Hopefully the indefatigable Kriv Norixius can waylay the fire giants long for us to overrun them, without getting himself Urlamed.

Well ... if there are enough 'aficionados' of 'good Scotch' in the group ... maybe we should get together and pick a good single malt (preferably Isley <g>) as the 'sponsored beverage' in enough time before the next meet up to allow time for 'those interested' to 'grab a bottle' <weg>

I used to be a member of the Scotch Whisky society for years. You could buy bottles from them that were not diluted down to the Excise requirement of 40% vol. Nice!

You're all welcome. I was nervous before running - more about tech issues than anything else (the kind that MikeD ran into). Yesterday wasn't the time or place to troubleshoot. Mike was a trooper and hung in there. I'm glad you all enjoyed it.

Neil, it is a lot of work but it's easier than you think once you know how to use some tools. I have a "Pro" subscription to Roll20 which gives me access to lots of cool tools that simplify things. I'll help out folks that want to run games there.

MikeD, The best that I'm rocking is some Chivas and while it says it's 12 years old on the bottle, I'll wager it aged a few in my liquor cabinet But I'll pour some for our get-together. I drink it neat, like I should. When COVID-19 disappears, I'll get bottle of single-malt Islay.

Zeim, thanks for helping. I know that you were blindsided by my "please help MikeD out request (I saw that grimace LOL). Your "let's roll real dice" suggestion was aces!

It wasn't a problem, really. Just a little annoying to share a screen as every time I made any changes on Roll20 it appeared as if I had to click back in Discord to update the screen share.

I felt bad rolling for MikeD. I wanted him to be more engaged, even with the technical issue, so the idea of "what the heck did we used to do before technology? Roll the damn dice by hand!" just sort of popped into my head.

My favorite scotch is Balvenie 12 Year Old DoubleWood, Speyside Single Malt. They age the single malt in Sherry Casks. Very smooth.

The dangerous thing about Black Bottle is that it's cheap, yet still tastes like a decent, peaty Islay. If your aim is moderation I do not recommend Black Bottle.

I really enjoyed seeing what everyone's characters were capable of too, via Roll20 giving us a summary of the spell/ability being used. Usually we only see the outcome here, and if it's just damage without a kill it looks just like an ordinary attack mechanically. Like Chaos Bolt, most of the time it just looks like a few points of fire or thunder damage, etc. You don't see its true potential unless it fulfils its true potential.

Btw, what browser/OS combo, GPU and broadband were you guys using?

I was using Firefox 75 with Windows 10 1909, an nVidia GTX 1070 Ti, and 70 Mbps FTTC connection.

Nep, the age ... if stated on the label ... is how long it was aged in a barrel ... not the bottle <g> In theory, the time spent in the bottle does not affect the whiskey at all ... assuming the cap is on <g>

FWIW, I am a fan of the Islays as well! Just can't afford them often.

I was using Windows 10, 18363, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx, 2000 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s) It is a Dell Inspiron 5775 that I upgraded to a nvme SSD, and swapped the hd to additional storage.
Chrome, a 100 MB connection wired, which usually runs about 85 or so because of shares in the house.

Windows 10. Chrome. 100MB connection. An old HP machine (10 years old) so old video chip.

Well!!! If ya wanna talk 'systems' ... I am running Win 7 on a 15 year old HP laptop <weg> And I got as few 'add ons' and 'apps' as I can manage <wink>

Pretty gnarly, MikeD! What browser and connection do you use?

I might have to try my Toshiba laptop, it's old but has a new lease of life from Linux Mint! I think they have a Discord distro.

My browser is Pale Moon and my connection is <sigh> verizon.

That explains it!

Me? My setup is below.

My primary machine is a Lenovo T570 (8GP 64-bit i5-6300U CPU @ 2.40 GHz), Windows 10, Chrome, 100MB connection with 2 extra monitors. But that's just my main system. This is most of my setup. Everything on the Network. There's a 2nd Lenovo T570 (major HW problem), my old Lenovo work desktop running Windows 10, an old Dell Latitude Pentium III laptop and a Gateway 2000 Pentium II both of which started with Windows 98 and now run Windows XP. Lots of these are file servers now.

Hell ... and I thought =I= was 'extravagant' with my =two= displays. Guess it sux being an old fart (with limited 'means') <sigh>

FWIW, I still remember when I had to take my rotary dial phone, dial a number and shove the hand-set into the 300 baud acoustical modem <chuckle> And it was 110 before that <wink>