[DnD] Let's Cast Magic Missile!

Wvlf of all people I expected you to appreciate an excursion into Legitimate Theatre.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I can't believe you guys are passing up the obviously easy money in favour of a certainly suicidal theatre trip.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Tiros can't be trusted. (S)he is part of a mysterious Project Revenant after all!

Also Pang, since we're far far away from Thunderspire now, how's about you tell us what truly happened to Griffin Company and Murkelmor that day?

I despise unsolved mysteries, tis true.

FELIPE NO

That's the last time I take you into my confidence Acer

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What's that, Pang? =o

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I smell a mystery!

There's nowhere I can't reach.

YOUR POST-DELETING CHANGES NOTHING. IT'S TOO LATE. THEY ALL KNOW.


THEY ALL KNOW ABOUT... US

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I am bamboozled. Confused.

Please explain, oh omnipotent and omniscient narrator. What happened to Murky?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

He choked on a pretzel.

How ya doing, buddy?

The twist was that he was dead the whole time! The voice you heard was just a kobold with unusually strong lungs performing a prank.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Pangalin

The twist was that he was dead the whole time! The voice you heard was just a kobold with unusually strong lungs performing a prank.

I fucking knew it!

I gotta speak up more often about these things. I knew there was no way you'd let us wipe on a final boss like that, but I didn't figure you for such a softie, Pang.

How ya doing, buddy?

It is less that I am a softie and more that I have a rich appreciation for anticlimax.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Not quite, Pang. Let the record show that you have an equal preference!

1 - Dungeon of Doom - Dragon fight (climactic!)
2 - Crusader - HBA confrontation (anticlimactic!)
3 - Haunting of Hargast - Von Versteckt (climactic!)
4 - All in the Same Boat - Warforged fight (anticlimactic!)
5 - Delicious and Moist - Orc thief (climactic!)
6 - Secret Cow Level - Murkelmor the dead (anticlimactic!)

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"Kill a single orc minion, take his stuff" is pretty far from a climactic conclusion.

You could say the same thing about "lol, reaper bails us out again", but it was intended to be a climactic finish so I'll grant you that one.

Furthermore, the negotiations at the HBA are not a climax but merely a denouement; the climax was the nighttime ambush by the doppelganger bandit.

So I would therefore rate the adventures as CCCAAA rather than your judgement of CACACA.

(Not that there is an intentional pattern either way).


Addendum: looks like it's down to whether Acer wants to go on another boat ride or visit the theatre

There's nowhere I can't reach.

However you care to slice the patterns, we're due for a climactic confrontation!

I could've sworn you yourself described the way the HBA negotiations ended as "anticlimactic"

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Pangalin

your judgement of CACACA.

I think this just proves that Zerg is full of caca

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by AcerBandit

He choked on a pretzel.

QUICK ADMINISTER MOUNTAIN DEW

I was speaking idiomatically.

All in the same boat was only an anticlimax because Deni got shuffled out of the party so we had run out of people willing to start on every npc we met, rather than opt for the puzzle solving and discourse option. I'm sure the fight would have been plenty climatic if it had kicked off.

Next time, if it looks like ending in an anticlimax, just set fire to whoever you're talking to or something, that tends to liven up conversations.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Alright Acer, time's up. Nothing personal but if I'm going to throw people out on the basis that they're delaying the game I have to be fair about it. First warning.

With no votes from Acer, the play adventure wins the vote and a new thread should be up sometime later today.

FELIPE NO

Fair enough. To prevent this from happening I'd like to put some motivations of Gordok on the table. Gordok doesn't really care too much about money. He likes the super shiny expensive stuff like jewels and other stuff that can go back to his bugbear family. So I propose that Skills gets control over Gordok's money and can spend it how he deems proper on either Glock or Gordok. I've kind of been hinting at it over the game by having Gordok store his gold pieces in Glock.

I looked over the stores and items but none of them seem very appealing and of course neither do their prices for what you get. I'd rather have Skills use that on whatever misc. junk he needs to make fun stuff than spend 1k just so I can have an additional +1 defense that burns an AP triggered from a rare encounter circumstance. The only thing I could see Gordok using are some health potions that his new hand buddy could give him during desperate situations.

I was going to put most of my points towards the theater so cool I guess.

So yeah sorry about that. I had a busy weekend and I've been trying to figure out this encoding business in preparation for Friday's Drink-On so I put D&D on bottom of priorities. I should have at least told you what points I'd be spending so you could have spent some time writing up a new adventure thread for the play. My bad, Pang.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Ahahahha more work for Skills, Approved

also hey Skills you're evidently waffling on that shield depending on the post-discount price, it's 578 GP after haggling you buyin' or not

How ya doing, buddy?

Nah, I'm good. Pass.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Hm, an adventure title with Lovecraftian overtones.

Note to self: Listen to Shin next time.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Wouldn't "Are we being ambushed?" be a passive skill check, and as such not something you need to roll for yourself, but rather something Pang rolls?

Otherwise you'd want to be making that roll every time you moved location just in case and if you wanted to actively check to see if you're being ambushed, you wouldn't make a skill roll, you'd go and pop your head round the corner and have a look. It's not like searching for treasure or traps where your character has a basic level of searching skills and observational powers that determine whether you succeed, you're rolling on the general awareness which as I always understood it is something that goes on in the background, rather than acting like some kind of focused spider sense (lol). Having an elf in the party grants a bonus to everyone's passive perception, but doesn't help them specifically search for shit, they're two completely different things aren't they?

I could be wrong here, I just always thought that stuff like that was down to the DM, not open to specific requests, otherwise you'd spend twenty minutes rolling dice before every conversation just in case.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

My intent was to prevent from being surprised. But I do see (and acknowledge) where you're going with that slippery slope argument.

Sooo, what say you, Pang?

I was speaking idiomatically.