OOC discussion

[Gelatinous Q]

A place to shoot the shite.

[Alethan]

I'm still working on my char background stuff. Couldn't for the life of me find my old Greyhawk stuff. No worries; picked up the unboxed books off eBay for just a few bucks yesterday. Should be in-hand shortly.

[Gelatinous Q]

That's cool. I've fallen a little behind on the game prep so we probably aren't starting until the end of next week. Some new PCs should be arriving shortly though ...

[Nuke66]

I am working on it too. I have some questions though.

there are 2 items on the char sheet,
Magic Attack Adjustment:
Defensive Adjustment:

what do I put there?

the PHB give lots of languages to 1/2 elves....list them all?

in the same vein, are we going to use any type of non-weapon proficiency system?

[Gelatinous Q]

there are 2 items on the char sheet,
Magic Attack Adjustment:
Defensive Adjustment:

what do I put there?

See WISDOM TABLE I and DEXTERITY TABLE I, PHB pg. 11.

the PHB give lots of languages to 1/2 elves....list them all?

Yes.

in the same vein, are we going to use any type of non-weapon proficiency system?

Nope, not using NWPs.

[Alethan]

Updated background story.

Question: Are we going to be doing our own rolls (attacks, damage, saves, etc.) using the Unseen Servant dice? If not, no big deal. But if so, then I'll start building my OCD macros.

[Gelatinous Q]

Yes, set up macros for to hit, damage & save rolls at unseenservant.com. There may be some instances where I roll for you (some thief's skill rolls, for instance), but I'll try to call those out as they arise.

[Alethan]

Height: 5 feet, 11 and 13/16 inches

lol

[Gelatinous Q]

Height: 5 feet, 11 and 13/16 inches

lol

Indeed.

By the way, if any of you have yet to download the beta version of Dungeon Crawl Classics' upcoming RPG, do yourself a favor and do so. It looks extremely cool — worth it for the artwork alone.
http://www.goodman-games.com/DCCRPGbeta.html

[Alethan]

So we have six players now and but 1/2 a cleric.

Ummm... since we've not really yet started, and if GQ is willing to allow a dwarven cleric, I'd be happy to either switch to straight cleric (after adjusting my stats, naturally) or multi-class a fighter cleric (again, after making one or two stat changes). With an 18 WIS, I could start off being able to cast several healing spells per day, which could be quite useful.

Possible, Gelatinous Q?

Thoughts, everyone else? Would we rather have the straight fighter in the front ranks? Or a dedicated healer who could still do pretty well in combat?

(Character generation is loads of fun for me, so I wouldn't at all mind making the change. Plus, it's been a while since I've played a cleric. But I am kind of tied to being a dwarf at this point, I think, so if GQ doesn't want a dwarven cleric, then I'll just stick to being a fighter.)

[Gelatinous Q]

That's a generous offer, Alethan. I'm not necessarily against it (though it goes against my UA-hatin' ways ); you should know that I have an NPC or two up my sleeve who might make up the deficit, at least in the early going.

I say we put it to the group.

[onlyme]

I am ok either way. It has been so long since I played, I really dont have a feel for what we need.

[Alethan]

That's a generous offer, Alethan. I'm not necessarily against it (though it goes against my UA-hatin' ways ); you should know that I have an NPC or two up my sleeve who might make up the deficit, at least in the early going.

I say we put it to the group.

Ha! My biggest bone to pick with UA is that I'm holding it all together with a large rubber band, and not the original binding glue! Stupid crappy binding. From what I understand, that is pretty much universal to the first UA printings.

Yep, I'm fine with going with the group consensus.

So far we have:
Yes - 1
No - 0
Not Responded - 5

[onlyme]

Is currency, 1 gp to 10 sp, or 1 to 10?
OSRIC has it 1 to 10.

If it is 20, I need to do a little refiguring my equip list. Not much, but should have some left over coins to buy a night's stay at the inn...

[emirikol57]

I'm cool with either a dwarven fighter or cleric. It's all good!

[Argennian]

Yeah, if we could make the change pre-launch, Alethan is cool with the change-up & GQ's okay with it, then put me in the "Yes" column, gentleman. You can never have enough healing or divine magic, I always say! Besides, we look pretty well set off for fighters, even with the change to a straight cleric if a dwarven cleric/fighter isn't an option.

Actually, I was really tempted to go with a straight cleric or even a cleric multi-class but when I rolled up my PC's stats, and realized I could qualify for a triple-class (which I've never played, btw) I quickly went with the fighter/mage/thief. Another deciding factor was being able to start at full hit points for 1st level, which offsets the horrible hit point average that all triple-classes without a Con bonus suffer from.

Quick Q: are we rolling for secondary skills?



EDIT: Alethan, I have 3 used copies of the UA & all of them have been coming apart since day one! From everyone I've ever spoken to, it's the same for them too.

[Gelatinous Q]

Is currency, 1 gp to 10 sp, or 1 to 10?
OSRIC has it 1 to 10.

If it is 20, I need to do a little refiguring my equip list. Not much, but should have some left over coins to buy a night's stay at the inn...

We're using the PHB gold standard.

10 copper pieces (common) = 1 silver piece
20 silver pieces (noble) = 1 gold piece (imperial)
2 electrum pieces (royal) = 1 gold piece
1 platinum piece (plate) = 5 gold pieces

[Argennian]

Is currency, 1 gp to 10 sp, or 1 to 10?
OSRIC has it 1 to 10.

If it is 20, I need to do a little refiguring my equip list. Not much, but should have some left over coins to buy a night's stay at the inn...

If we're going BtB:

10 copper = 1 silver
20 silver = 1 gold
2 electrum = 1 gold
1 platnum = 5 gold

This is how I calculated mine.


EDIT: Ha! Just saw GQ's post above! Glad I did it right!

[onlyme]

thanks... I dont have the PHB and am using the OSRIC guide. Please corrrect me if y'all see anything amiss in calculations, etc from where the two are different. If it gets to be too many things that are fundamentally different, I will look to score on of ebay.

[Gelatinous Q]

Quick Q: are we rolling for secondary skills?

Yep, go ahead and roll them.

EDIT: Alethan, I have 3 used copies of the UA & all of them have been coming apart since day one! From everyone I've ever spoken to, it's the same for them too.

The binding on my copy has held up pretty well. Likely because I rarely open it.