Campaign Stormwreck Isle: Journey to Stormwreck Isle (1-P)

[Short Order]

{{ @Ben can we make that joke cure wounds real? I don't know what would happen to help ego wise. Does it give him a temporary boost or is it just not a thing?}}

 

[Nac McWeeble]

{{Better ready a Cure Wounds for @Jon too, after that roll... }}

 

[Dungeon Master]

Ben: first of all, you're crushing it. The writing is awesome, hilarious, engaging. I love it. I was also planning for my backstory to be that I'd snuck on the boat.

{{I'm glad to hear that! Rules aside, I'm just trying to make this fun for you guys.

Just one thing I don't understand -- Jawneh rolled high, shouldn't his action be allowed to be completed? Or did my critical fail just taint every subsequent action?

I don't mind being transparent on this for understandings sake.

Yes, your critical fail affected the outcome of everything else after it, and went back to the alignment I mentioned before. Your crit fail soured the disposition of the Captain and crew to hostile, which made convincing them hard. Generally, something that is hard for your character to accomplish has a DC of 20, so even though @Jawneh rolled pretty well, it became not good enough.

This is what led to the "queuing up actions is going to affect stuff" thought.

Fucking lol with those two nat-20s right after, though. I'll get to resolving those ASAP, and already know how Kelly's will go. I might include that 20 from Alu just for lols in a doesn't-affect-anything way.}}

 

[Moonsprout Beandirt]

Fucking lol with those two nat-20s right after, though. I'll get to resolving those ASAP, and already know how Kelly's will go

{{Please tell me it involves the captain and all of his crew getting into the little rowboat and leaving us with the huge ship }}

 

[Zesty Zapcrackle]

{{Lots to respond to here that I just won't. The only thing I will is echo the sentiment that you're crushing it @Ben. Highly enjoying this, my shit rolls aside. My character didn't do anything at all.}}

Gang + Ben: Would it be worth trying to persuade the captain that we were promised passage if we performed a song/play/entertainment or whatever? Also, should these sort of questions for the group be addressed as character dialogue, or take place in curly braces, outside of character?}}

{{Personally, I would love to cast poison on the captain as we disappear kinda like Homer with the middle fingers while going down the sandbox. }}

{{I can't contribute anything new until Kelly's latest action is resolved, but my character doesn't really have anything to add. I definitely don't want to die before the campaign, lol. But I'm also chaotic, so I'd love to get a zinger in before we go. Maybe I'll try to convince the crew that the captain was cowering worse that a prostitute facing down Mr. 18 Inches and see if they mutiny against him when we're gone.}}

 

[Moonsprout Beandirt]

{{I can't contribute anything new until Kelly's latest action is resolved, but my character doesn't really have anything to add. I definitely don't want to die before the campaign, lol. But I'm also chaotic, so I'd love to get a zinger in before we go. Maybe I'll try to convince the crew that the captain was cowering worse that a prostitute facing down Mr. 18 Inches and see if they mutiny against him when we're gone.}}

{{I thought we agreed we could line up some actions by a few people posting in a row as long as they don't contradict? Or am I imagining that?}}

 

[Zesty Zapcrackle]

{{I thought we agreed we could line up some actions by a few people posting in a row as long as they don't contradict? Or am I imagining that?}}

{{We could. I'm just saying I'd like to see how your result plays out before I make a decision on what to say/do. I do NOT want to get into a situation where you've defused the situation only to have me anger someone again. I may do nothing. Again, I'm chaotic, so I want to stir shit up, but I don't want to kill us.}}

 

[Aims'Orreh Mwuh'Bwadd]

{{Now, I don't know what kinds of levels and stats the sailors have, but at least Nac and Aims could just shove one of them each overboard while one of the others goes and checks if there's any ropes or ladders around on the sides of the boat so that they can't get back up. Might even be one of those cases where we just get rid of the captain and the sailors simmer down. Buuuut.... They might also be our way back to coast so.... err.... Maybe not piss him off too much just in case. Who knows what long term plans Ben has.}}

 

[Zesty Zapcrackle]

{{Now, I don't know what kinds of levels and stats the sailors have, but at least Nac and Aims could just shove one of them each overboard while one of the others goes and checks if there's any ropes or ladders around on the sides of the boat so that they can't get back up. Might even be one of those cases where we just get rid of the captain and the sailors simmer down. Buuuut.... They might also be our way back to coast so.... err.... Maybe not piss him off too much just in case. Who knows what long term plans Ben has.}}

{{This is kind of why I said I wanna see how Kelly's move plays out. I'd love to take SOME action against the captain because he was a pussy during the encounter, so for him to come back at us when we were the solution, feels disingenuous. So I'd love to show him up in front of him crew. Why I was saying I wouldn't mind making a speech to the crew to just point out the captain was a wiener. Maybe the captain was the one that shit himself! Got a couple 4th wall breaking things I wanna say to him lol.}}

 

[Aims'Orreh Mwuh'Bwadd]

"Ye can scream all ye want, ye ugly bastard. Ye certainly didn't earn any reward fer doin' nuthin', and ye can kindly put me cargo back where it belongs. I'll not be explainin' to th' rightful owner why I let a barrel o' that Orc piss vanish from deck b'fore deliv'ry, even if it be only good fer dissolvin' scum like yerself."

Aims' jaw drops in disbelief as he clear made a great contribution to protect the objectively most valuable cargo onboard. As painful as it is, Aims isn't one for petty OR grand larceny so he is just... taking a few more moments with the keg of rotgut before relinquishing it. That is until...

You definitely see the Druid trying to suck on your crotch.

Whoa... I must still be drunk. I had no idea my hairy sack had grown this large.

 

[Dungeon Master]

Moonsprout springs up, and in large, exaggerated motions, dusts himself off. A sly grin creeps across his face. Suffering discipline from authority figures is apparently, for him, as commonplace as a morning toke. He approaches and peers at the rowboat that the crew has let loose into the ocean has begun preparing. His grin morphs into a look of awe, and with outstretched arms he issues a loud "Woah!".

Mays'll give this a shot, he thinks. Worst case, we have to row to shore.

You're just going to give us this beauty of wooden rowboat? Gnarly. I'd think it would be less costly to just let us sit quietly on the boat since we're so close to shore anyway, but hey, you're the captain! Thanks for the boat!

{{plz don't be a 1 again}}

Edit: consistency

Critical Roll!

The Captain's grim scowl falters slightly once the immediate overpowering odor abates, and he's overcome with a wave of emotion.

From a distance, the short Halfling starts to look familiar. Being half dressed and reeking of poor choices, a sense of longing for the teenage son he'd grown apart from overcomes him. His job ferrying supplies around Faerûn has not left much time for family life and the guilt of leaving his lad to navigate the realms without a parental compass weighs heavy on him.

"Wait, wait...", he sniffles, "Ye're an odor'us bastard, but maybe I can cut ye some slack, despite yer worthless life choices. I can't in all good conscience drop ye in th' busted lifeboat we were supposed t' replace back in port... We have anoth'r wat'r-tight rowboat. Ye can stay on deck until we're a little clos'r to shore, then I'll have a few fellas row ye to th' dock."

He gestures to the sailors holding the crossbows to be at ease, though they do not leave the deck nor put their weapons away.

One of the sailors, a fellow Halfling, approaches Moonsprout quietly after the others stop paying as close attention.

"Sup, bro? I'm Johnas. Suuuuper cool of you to show up when you did and getting the captain off my back. You dropped this in my duffel bag. Wanna share? Oh, and split this between your bros."

He slips Moonsprout 25 gold for the baggie.

{{casts cure wounds on Moonsprout's ego

}}

CRITICAL LOL

You detach your mouth from the Half-Orc's loins where you clung like a lamprey. You cross the deck and place your hand on Moonsprout's shoulder, patting him gently. Though life is difficult for those short of stature, it's reassuring to know that you've got companions.

Stormwreck Isle looms before you, the storm clouds that darkened the sky above now but an ominous aura emanating from the other side of the island. The ship has closed in on the island and dropped anchor far enough off shore to stay clear of the jagged rocks, but close enough that it's not going to be along row to the island. The crew allow you to enter the sea-worthy rowboat before they lower it slowly down to the waves.

Johnas volunteers to help row the party to shore, and return the rowboat, totally not having an ulterior motive for the return trip at all.



The rowboat delivers you to a small wooden dock on one of the few sandy beaches along the coast. The dock is bare and in need of some attention, with some of the boards cracked, and several others missing entirely. The sand gives way to dunes as it begins to climb away from the water, and you can make out a path leading through a small valley in the cliffs.

As you step off the weathered dock onto the sand, a gurgling behind you draws your attention back to the water. From the crashing waves, three zombies dressed in tattered nautical clothing stumble towards you slowly.



They're about 40 feet away from you and moving at a slow pace, though they have certainly seen you and are closing in.

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{{Sorry for making you guys wait on this. I wanted to give it the attention I could, and between my kids being nuts and my partner not feeling well enough to keep them out of my hair for any amount of time, it took until after dinner to get this fully together. Life, man.

And I know the party in that rowboat image isn't perfect. I gave up trying to get DALL-E to fully cooperate.}}

 

[Aims'Orreh Mwuh'Bwadd]

{{I'm taking as you haven't asked us to roll for initiative that it's fair game to do whatever until we need to. }}

Aims' eyes widen and he begins to grin widely! Prey! EASY prey!

Yeeees, finally some exercise! I'm way too sober and way too stiff from the boat ride! Time to return these rotten meatsacks back to to Hells! Ha haa! THE FIRST ONE IS MINE!

Aims grabs his javelin from the side of his backpack, walks just within 30ft from the first zombie and launches the javelin at it.

 

[Dungeon Master]

{{I'm taking as you haven't asked us to roll for initiative that it's fair game to do whatever until we need to. }}

Aims' eyes widen and he begins to grin widely! Prey! EASY prey!

Yeeees, finally some exercise! I'm way too sober and way too stiff from the boat ride! Time to return these rotten meatsacks back to to Hells! Ha haa! THE FIRST ONE IS MINE!

Aims grabs his javelin from the side of his backpack, walks just within 30ft from the first zombie and launches the javelin at it.

{{It will count as actual an combat encounter if you're attacking. You could also choose to just leave since they're so slow. Unless you're getting jumped by something that you don't notice through a passive perception check, it'd be the player's choice to initiate combat.

And you don't immediately roll to hit in such situations, you've got to express your intent to attack and then there will be a roll for initiative among all of the combatants. You might not get to go first. And there's also the element of surprise to combat situations, if someone isn't aware of their attacker beforehand, etc. But in this case, both you and the zombies know that you're both there, so no element of surprise.

If a party is surprised in an encounter, then for the first round they don't get to move, attack, etc.

Anyway, if you're stating your intent to attack one of the zombies, the party can roll for initiative.}}


Everyone roll a d20 + your dex modifier.

 

[Aims'Orreh Mwuh'Bwadd]

{{Do I get to keep my hit roll for whenever it's my go? }}

Let me at them already!

 

[Zesty Zapcrackle]

Everyone roll a d20 + your dex modifier.

{{Oh, hey, passable! @Ben - Do we need to EQUIP things before hand or how does that work, per se? Like, I have a crossbow and a dagger. I'd probably use my crossbow while they are still at a distance and switch to dagger once they close in (since my only offensive spell is poison that I doubt works on zombies.

Also, also - If I wanted to run a perception check on my surroundings, can I do that before we attack or do I need to wait now?}}

 

[Short Order]

{{time to massively fail?}}

Dexterity!

 

[Dungeon Master]

{{Do I get to keep my hit roll for whenever it's my go? }}

Let me at them already!

{{I'm going to use this 19+2 roll that I saw first... Since when you rolled it on DnDBeyond, it reset the 21 I'd manually entered with this horrible roll. Lucky you can't really crit-fail an initiative check.



Although it's worth mentioning, I do have the ability to auto-roll initiative for everyone during combat encounters. If that'd help speed things up and not need you to individually wait until you've all rolled here, I could just take to doing that once someone's started combat.

{{Oh, hey, passable! @Ben - Do we need to EQUIP things before hand or how does that work, per se? Like, I have a crossbow and a dagger. I'd probably use my crossbow while they are still at a distance and switch to dagger once they close in (since my only offensive spell is poison that I doubt works on zombies.

Also, also - If I wanted to run a perception check on my surroundings, can I do that before we attack or do I need to wait now?}}

Riiiiight. For the sake of this first real combat encounters, where I kinda missed making sure you'd all prepared things before "setting out", I'll say whatever you want to prep now before the zombies reach you is fine. Head-canon will just be that you did it on the rowboat while heading here.

However, in general;

1. Drawing or Sheathing a Weapon: You can draw or sheathe a weapon as part of your movement or as part of your action on your turn. For example, if you're moving towards an enemy, you can draw your sword as you approach.
2. Swapping Weapons: If you want to switch to a different weapon, you would normally need to sheathe your current weapon (as part of your move or action) and then draw the new weapon (as part of your move or action on your next turn). This is because you can only interact with one object for free on your turn. Drawing a second weapon on the same turn would require you to use your action, or you might need to drop your current weapon to draw a new one as a free action.
3. Using Items: Using an item like a potion usually requires an action, unless a feature or magic item says otherwise. This means drinking a potion or applying an oil in combat would typically take your action for that turn.
4. Special Cases: Certain class features, feats, or magical items can change these rules. For example, the "Dual Wielder" feat allows you to draw or stow two one-handed weapons when you would normally be able to draw or stow only one.
5. Dropping Items: Dropping an item you're holding doesn't use your free interaction. So, you could drop a weapon and then draw a new one as part of the same move or action. However, the dropped item is left behind unless you spend an action to pick it up again.
6. Donning and Doffing Armor: Changing armor is a more time-consuming process and usually can't be done in the middle of combat. Donning (putting on) and doffing (taking off) armor each take several minutes.

So yes you can change what you're wielding mid-combat, but doing something like switching from a crossbow to a dagger is going to cost you your action so you won't be able to attack on that same turn.

You can refer to this flowchart I made for the Adventurer's Academy. You get to take 1 of each of the actions in the blue box there per turn.



Edit: It also seems like if I let the Encounters window on DnDBeyond close or reset, it ends it and clears all the existing stuff, so... Good to know. Not that I can't just see the rolls to re-enter the initiative order, but I'd rather not have to do that. }}

 

[Zesty Zapcrackle]

{{Ok, so, for the sake of being thorough, this occurs while being on the boat.}}

Zesty equips his crossbow, crossbow bolts (or quiver) and his studded leather armor.

 

[Dungeon Master]

{{Ok, so, for the sake of being thorough, this occurs while being on the boat.}}

Zesty equips his crossbow, crossbow bolts (or quiver) and his studded leather armor.

{{Just make sure that's what you've got selected as Active on your character sheet for now. If you're changing in the middle of combat you'll need to green-up your action, but we'll just skip the everyone having to say it for the sake of getting it moving.

}}

 

[Aims'Orreh Mwuh'Bwadd]

I'm going to use this 19+2 roll that I saw first... Since when you rolled it on DnDBeyond, it reset the 21 I'd manually entered with this horrible roll. Lucky you can't really crit-fail an initiative check.

{{So, I shouldn't go to DnDB and roll things there for funsies to see that if doing things correctly here?}}

 

[Zesty Zapcrackle]

{{Just make sure that's what you've got selected as Active on your character sheet for now. If you're changing in the middle of combat you'll need to green-up your action, but we'll just skip the everyone having to say it for the sake of getting it moving.

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{{I think I did those right. But how do I prep the spells? I have 4, but only 2 slots. how do I tell D&D Beyond that I have a certain two equipped? Cantrips, alternatively, don't need to be prepped, right?}}

 

[Dungeon Master]

{{I think I did those right. But how do I prep the spells? I have 4, but only 2 slots. how do I tell D&D Beyond that I have a certain two equipped? Cantrips, alternatively, don't need to be prepped, right?}}

{{I don't think you need to specifically pick which spells you've prepped on the site, just when you click "Cast" on one of them it marks on of the spell slots used. So you can only use 2 spells before a long rest, etc. Cantrips are "At Will" so don't have spell slots.

}}

 

[Zesty Zapcrackle]

{{I don't think you need to specifically pick which spells you've prepped on the site, just when you click "Cast" on one of them it marks on of the spell slots used. So you can only use 2 spells before a long rest, etc. Cantrips are "At Will" so don't have spell slots.

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{{Ok, good, so then I should be all prepped for the dead heads}}

 

[Dungeon Master]

{{So, I shouldn't go to DnDB and roll things there for funsies to see that if doing things correctly here?}}

{{All of those things are linked together, so yes during an active campaign/encounter, your rolling something is probably going to be auto-counted and fed into whatever you're doing.}}

 

[Zesty Zapcrackle]

{{All of those things are linked together, so yes during an active campaign/encounter, your rolling something is probably going to be auto-counted and fed into whatever you're doing.}}

{{In future campaigns, I wonder how much easier it would be to have rolls in D&D Beyond to have the paper trail more efficiently? Rolling here is fine if that's what you prefer, but I think having it all specified out in the app may be more convenient. Your call though, you're the GM.}}

 

[Aims'Orreh Mwuh'Bwadd]

{{All of those things are linked together, so yes during an active campaign/encounter, your rolling something is probably going to be auto-counted and fed into whatever you're doing.}}

{{Alrighty, I shall refrain from spamming rolls. }}

 

[Dungeon Master]

{{In future campaigns, I wonder how much easier it would be to have rolls in D&D Beyond to have the paper trail more efficiently? Rolling here is fine if that's what you prefer, but I think having it all specified out in the app may be more convenient. Your call though, you're the GM.}}

{{I had planned on doing it this way, with everything rolled on that site, but on starting it seemed like trying to keep stuff on-forum was preferred. But you're not wrong, using the site rolls would make stuff more efficient.

I'd be willing to give the dndbeyond rolling a try if it's an amicable decision. }}

 

[Zesty Zapcrackle]

{{I had planned on doing it this way, with everything rolled on that site, but on starting it seemed like trying to keep stuff on-forum was preferred. But you're not wrong, using the site rolls would make stuff more efficient.

I'd be willing to give the dndbeyond rolling a try if it's an amicable decision. }}

{{I personally say, do what's easiest for YOU, especially in this campaign. Then we can try something new in the next campaign. Whereas D&D Beyond has a bunch of stuff from the dummy campaign, maybe we don't reinvent the wheel in the middle of this game unless it's truly easier for YOU.}}

 

[Aims'Orreh Mwuh'Bwadd]

{{I personally say, do what's easiest for YOU, especially in this campaign. Then we can try something new in the next campaign. Whereas D&D Beyond has a bunch of stuff from the dummy campaign, maybe we don't reinvent the wheel in the middle of this game unless it's truly easier for YOU.}}

I'd be willing to give the dndbeyond rolling a try if it's an amicable decision. }}

{{I personally prefer to keep everything here as I find it easier to keep track of our rolls-to-actions, but I also have some familiarity with what I'm doing. DnDB is definitely a lot easier to start off with for everyone else as it counts everything for you and you can just click things. But it's really up to you Ben. We will be referring to there for our stats and everything and then come here to roll. Maybe that's a bit better for learning and internalizing what we're rolling for and with since it's a tad more manual? I don't know. I can do either way though. }}

 

[Moonsprout Beandirt]

{{Dang, combat and combat prep is complicated. This is going to take some getting used to.

One question though -- what if one of the group members is a non-combattant? Do they still roll for initiative?

Also, DnDBeyond character sheet just straight up doesn't work on my phone for some reason so I can't start equipping stuff at the moment.}}

 

[Zesty Zapcrackle]

Also, DnDBeyond character sheet just straight up doesn't work on my phone for some reason so I can't start equipping stuff at the moment.}}

{{Did you download the app or are you trying to run it from browser?}}

 

[Moonsprout Beandirt]

Moonsprout observes the big green galoot getting ready to rush headfirst into a danger that could easily be avoided with just a slightly quicker pace. He lets in a big breath and sighs. Just then, the smell wafting from the zombies a distance away hits him.

Oof, that's gnarly. They smell like, well, death.

Though Moonsprout thinks all of the Earth's creations are beautiful, he considers that some, perhaps, are less beautiful than others.

Uh, have fun with that, lads. Good luck in your fight against literal dead and decaying bodies.

Moonsprout wanders around picking flowers and herbs from the grasses along the shoreline.

 

[Moonsprout Beandirt]

{{Did you download the app or are you trying to run it from browser?}}

{{I'll try from the app when I'm free today}}

 

[Dungeon Master]

{{Dang, combat and combat prep is complicated. This is going to take some getting used to.

For real.

One question though -- what if one of the group members is a non-combattant? Do they still roll for initiative?

{{So, I wouldn't say you're excluded from combat in any way. But you don't have to fight, per se.

I'd think you'll want to try to focus on this during battles, to keep in line with how you want to play the character.

• Healing and Support: Providing healing and buffs to allies.
• De-escalation: Using skills like persuasion or diplomacy to calm enemies or negotiate.
• Control and Disruption: Employing non-lethal spells or abilities to incapacitate or hinder opponents without causing serious harm.

I can also try to keep hinting at, or crafting, the non-violent solutions to encounters.

Oh, and I forgot about the question earlier about a perception check from @Jon. Yes, you can still do those things like perception or knowledge checks during battle. Most of the time I'd say it'll count as you're action for that turn, but some things that are very quick to notice might count as a reaction, or free action.}}

 

[Dungeon Master]

{{I'm going to sleep, but I'm sure I'll get dragged out of bed relatively early tomorrow. And my son isn't grounded anymore, so he gets to use screens again, which mean I get time to use screens... So hopefully it won't be a wait all day thing.

I also have Tuesday off with all kids in school and a partner at work, so that should be my time to work on a lot of this and pre-write as much as I can.

Just waiting on @Nae'blis to roll for initiative, then I'll post the order and whoever is first will kick it off. And again, if you guys would like me to streamline this, then I could auto-roll the initiative for the party to remove this step. Depends how roll hungry you all are.}}

 

[Aims'Orreh Mwuh'Bwadd]

{{I'm pro for auto-rolling for initiative. After the first roll of the campaign that is. There's no reason now to have all of us do our first roll for it. Most times if we walk into the middle of an ogre cave without realizing it, you can just make sure we know how poorly we rolled against them after they already surprised us. }}

 

[Nac McWeeble]

{{I'm at work now, but I'll throw a quick initiative roll to get things going!}}

 

[Moonsprout Beandirt]

I'd think you'll want to try to focus on this during battles, to keep in line with how you want to play the character.

• Healing and Support: Providing healing and buffs to allies.
• De-escalation: Using skills like persuasion or diplomacy to calm enemies or negotiate.
• Control and Disruption: Employing non-lethal spells or abilities to incapacitate or hinder opponents without causing serious harm.

{{This is kind of what I was thinking. For now I'm hoping to forage and find some useful ingredients. My character doesn't view shambling zombies as a serious threat right now, but might take them more seriously depending on what happens with the party.}}

 

[Zesty Zapcrackle]

Yes, you can still do those things like perception or knowledge checks during battle. Most of the time I'd say it'll count as you're action for that turn, but some things that are very quick to notice might count as a reaction, or free action.

{{Ok, well, I'll take an action to use a perception check. Time it however you'd like. If it's precombat, great, if not, i'll use it as par of my first turn.}}

And again, if you guys would like me to streamline this, then I could auto-roll the initiative for the party to remove this step. Depends how roll hungry you all are.}}

{{I'm down for streamlining it. }}

Zesty eyes the incoming zombies cautiously. He quickly scans his surroundings for possible items of use or other dangers maybe missed as things changed quickly after exiting the boat.

Zesty uses perception to check surroundings for other dangers, opportunities and objects of use.



{{I'm sad I didn't get to use either of my 4th wall breaking lines against the Captain. "I'm the Captain now" and "He had the right idea, he wore the BROWN pants" would have been SOOOOOOO good.}}

 

[Zesty Zapcrackle]

{{MOTHERFUCKING STUPID ASS ROLLS! Hopefully a critical fail on a perception check doesn't hurt us... My god the RNG on ACTUALLY USEFUL ROLLS is killing me...}}

 

[Short Order]

{{Is it possible for me to do a check to see what I'd need to roll to freeze the water in place enough to make it nearly impossible for the zombies to move? Even if we fight them that would make it a bit easier, but it would make fit an easy "let's just ignore them" choice as well}}

 

[Dungeon Master]

{{You're getting a bit ahead of yourselves with how the combat is going to have to go. Unless we can get to where everyone understands what they're able to do in one turn and are dropping all of their possible actions at once, and/or you're just agreed that you do to not take actions that you didn't name, there will have to be some more back and forth.

Initiative Order:

1. Aims'Orreh Mwuh'Bwadd (21)
2. Zesty Zapcrackle (17)
3. Zombie C (15)
4. Moonsprout Beandirt (14)
5. Short Order (14)
6. Nac McWeeble (8)
7. Zombie A (6)
8. Zombie B (3)

Now, how combat should work (after initiative rolls to see who goes when) is you declare what you're targeting and then roll to hit. After that, you have to roll again to see how much damage you deal. Spells work a bit differently in that there's not often a "roll to see if you hit" in so far as the targeted enemy rolls to see if they resist it.

So, it's not guaranteed that you hit what you're targeting, although these Zombies are pretty easy to hit. In a normal setting, I'd be telling you whether you hit it and then ask you to roll again for damage. We could do it that way, we could have you roll for damage just after you roll to hit with the understanding that you might still miss and so the damage won't be used, or I can roll the damage part for you.

I'm trying not be overly reliant on the maps, but combat does require a lot of attention to detail on positioning and where you move, so I think we're going to have to, to some degree. For example, Aims wants to move within 30 feet of the nearest Drowned Sailor (Zombie). That's using 10/30ft of his movement for that one turn, but he would still be able to move another 20ft after doing anything else. Aims and Zesty can move 30ft per turn. Short, Nac and Moonsprout can only move 25ft due to tiny legs.





So moving Aims within 30ft of the first Zombie (so he only moved 10ft from where I'd started everyone), he'll still be able to move another 20 feet even after attacking.

You've also got the bonus actions, etc. that your characters are able to take... So for example, Aims being a Barbarian has Rage which can be activated as a bonus action. My main worry is that the more we try to streamline this, the more likely it is that people are going to miss using all of their possible actions, etc. I think this is going to get easier the more familiar you are with your characters and what you can do, probably to where you can give me all of your actions at once and then give an "all clear I'm done next person" kind of thing... I just think it'll be a little slow going until that point.

So I'm going to say it's still @Jawneh's turn at present:

• Your roll of 22 from earlier definitely hits the zombie.
• You have to roll 1d6+3 for the javelin damage.
• Until you confirm that you've done everything you intend to, like use bonus actions and such, the combat won't move to the next turn.}}

 

[Aims'Orreh Mwuh'Bwadd]

{{It all looks good. }}

Time for blood! Ha haa! Or err... What's left of it in them...

If the rest of you don't want to get close and personal, find some high ground and fling some rocks at them! I'll stay here and hold em off!

{{No rage or anything. End turn.}}

 

[Aims'Orreh Mwuh'Bwadd]

{{ @Ben , for streamlining purposes, should we post twice for two rolls when attacking? First to hit and in case it hits have our damage roll be there as well?

Edit: Oh nvm. You can do that in one post already in one post lol. Didn't realize that. The idea otherwise still stands.}}

 

[Moonsprout Beandirt]

{{Is d6 always for damage when attacking? How do we know which d to roll?}}

 

[Zesty Zapcrackle]

{{Is d6 always for damage when attacking? How do we know which d to roll?}}

{{On my character sheet I see this under attack:

Spoiler

So I would assume I roll a d8 when I roll for damage. I assume I roll a d20 for hit and get a +4 modifier.}}

 

[Aims'Orreh Mwuh'Bwadd]

{{Is d6 always for damage when attacking? How do we know which d to roll?}}

{{Depends on your weapon / spell / how you're attacking. My javelin has 1d6 +3 as the damage. Meleeing or throwing that thing uses the same dice for damage. My ax would be 1d12 +3 and unarmed would be flat 4 damage. Just look at the thing you want to use in DnDB and it should tell you all the things. Healing works similarly, but you just roll for the amount of healing according to what dice to use.

For you specifically, since Ben did allow it for the first fight prep-wise, do the the things Jon also did in the app. Equip weapons and armor. You'll then be able to see what your options are.}}

{{On my character sheet I see this under attack:

Spoiler

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So I would assume I roll a d8 when I roll for damage. I assume I roll a d20 for hit and get a +4 modifier.}}

{{For hitting, you are correct. For damage, you roll 1d8 and add +2. That +2 is most likely from your dex for a ranged weapon. That is why I get +3 for my damage from my str.}}

 

[Zesty Zapcrackle]

{{ @Ben or even @Jawneh - On D&DB I know the first number next to my crossbow, the 80, is the range it can travel (so I'm good to stand where I am and not need to move closer to them), but what's the 320 in parenthesis? Max range?}}

 

[Aims'Orreh Mwuh'Bwadd]

{{ @Ben or even @Jawneh - On D&DB I know the first number next to my crossbow, the 80, is the range it can travel (so I'm good to stand where I am and not need to move closer to them), but what's the 320 in parenthesis? Max range?}}

{{The first one is your "normal" range and the larger number is "maximum" range. Anything within the normal range you roll to hit normally. Anything beyond that up to the max you are at disadvantage. How that works, is that you roll twice to hit and you pick the worse roll for your hit. In comparison, if you were to hit with advantage instead, you'd roll twice and big the better one.

Well, there might be other things too that work against hitting things, but I'm sure Ben will tell us all that when we get to it. We're still at the basic level.

You can click on all the actions and numbers and whatnot in the app and it'll pop up a thing from the side to tell you what it all means. It doesn't really intuitively say it's feature, but you can do that. Works for most things.}}

 

[Dungeon Master]

{{ @Ben or even @Jawneh - On D&DB I know the first number next to my crossbow, the 80, is the range it can travel (so I'm good to stand where I am and not need to move closer to them), but what's the 320 in parenthesis? Max range?}}

{{ @Jawneh was right, but just to summarize it again;

1. Normal Range: The first number represents the normal range of the weapon. When you make an attack with a ranged weapon within this distance (in feet), you roll your attack normally. This means you don't suffer any penalties for distance to the target. For example, if a crossbow has a normal range of 80 feet, any target within 80 feet can be attacked without penalty.
2. Long Range: The second number indicates the long range of the weapon. This is the maximum distance (in feet) that the weapon can shoot. When you make an attack with a ranged weapon and the target is farther away than the normal range but within the long range, you can still attempt to hit your target, but you do so with disadvantage. This means you roll two d20s for the attack and take the lower result, representing the decreased accuracy over longer distances. Continuing with the previous example, if the crossbow's long range is 320 feet, you can target enemies between 81 and 320 feet, but with disadvantage on the attack roll.

So yes, you'd be able to hit any of them from where you are without moving.}}