Discussion Tavern: Sleeping Giant

[Zesty Zapcrackle]

Exactly how much would I regret Googling that.

Because based on what the AI did I feel like it's going to be a lot.

Yeah, former Jets and Bills coach that has a foot fetish. Google Wes Welker making fun of him. Best most worthwhile one series suspension in football history.

 

[Zesty Zapcrackle]

Oh that's tame as fuck, then.

Step up your game @Jon! ...Preferably wait like 10 minutes so I log off and only the others have to deal with that tonight though.

Shit, I'm not the one of us men here that's known for dirty innuendos.

But here's Welker for you. Couldn't find the super cut of it. Fucking amazing times as a Patriots fan.

 

[VashTheStampede]

Yeah, former Jets and Bills coach that has a foot fetish. Google Wes Welker making fun of him. Best most worthwhile one series suspension in football history.

I'm always someone impressed with how feet people are pretty open about being into feet.

Like, I don't have the balls to be that open about things. Respect.

Except Tony Atlas. That dude takes it way too far.

 

[TD]

Shit, I'm not the one of us men here that's known for dirty innuendos.

Wait who is the one?

 

[TD]

Awww I feel like that Eldritch Blast is gonna miss.

Is this our cliffhanger?

 

[T'anks]

Except Tony Atlas. That dude takes it way too far.

...I'll Google this one tomorrow. Meanies!

I feel like both foot and ass kinky men are pretty open about their, uh, passions. Generally.

 

[Zesty Zapcrackle]

Wait who is the one?

I don't know, I just know it isn't me!

**coughchoughvashcoughcough**

 

[TD]

I don't know, I just know it isn't me!

**coughchoughvashcoughcough**

I guess they're all going over my head which isn't all that surprising.

 

[Zesty Zapcrackle]

I guess they're all going over my head which isn't all that surprising.

Stick to pineapples and you'll be fine

 

[TD]

 

[TD]

The energy from the blast scours a noticeable mark on the stone wall, causing bits and shards of rock flying as shrapnel...and water begins to slowly leak from the point of impact.

It becomes apparent to the party that further damage in the same area could lead to a more severe structural collapse, potentially altering the battleground in unpredictable ways.

 

[VashTheStampede]

there's ur fkn cliffhanger

 

[Cookie Sweetmead]

Yo @TD before I go any further, I wanna make sure you're not nerfing yourself.

I saw you listed +2 for your hit and damage on your roll.

From what I see, you should be getting +4 on your hit rolls?

You are proficient with longswords, so you get the +2 proficiency bonus. You then add your ability modifier, which is either STR or DEX because the longsword is versatile. In either case, for you this would also be +2. Thus you add +4 to your attack rolls.

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This is from your character sheet. It seems to agree with me.

I got way behind on this thread but just encase TD doesn't know. The 1d8 is when you are using the sword 1 handed and the 1d10 is when you are using it 2 handed. So as long as you are not holding something else, you can swing it 2 handed for a stronger hit.

 

[Kutshort Yes]

What are the odds of 2 nat1s in a row?

 

[Ben Zine]

Klarg

Klaarg Killgore (named G'nash in the graphic novel) is a bugbear[1] NPC who has appeared in several of the party's adventures. He is described as 6-and-a-half feet tall, furry, and musclebound, though not more muscular than Magnus. In Klarg's first appearance, he is the chief bugbear of a...

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this is klarg the bug bear from the podcast i used to listen to, do you think they know each other

 

[Magni Kragtail]

Klarg

Klaarg Killgore (named G'nash in the graphic novel) is a bugbear[1] NPC who has appeared in several of the party's adventures. He is described as 6-and-a-half feet tall, furry, and musclebound, though not more muscular than Magnus. In Klarg's first appearance, he is the chief bugbear of a...

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this is klarg the bug bear from the podcast i used to listen to, do you think they know each other

Griffin was running this exact same adventure when they started the podcast, he just took it in a wildly different direction pretty early on. I think Phandelver's supposed to be like baby's first D&D adventure or something since the Starter's Set comes with it, so that's probably why he chose it.

 

[Ben Zine]

Griffin was running this exact same adventure when they started the podcast, he just took it in a wildly different direction pretty early on. I think Phandelver's supposed to be like baby's first D&D adventure or something since the Starter's Set comes with it, so that's probably why he chose it.

tbh i'm totally ignorant of that stuff, the thought did cross my mind when i saw the name though

 

[Magni Kragtail]

I remember being so confused when I read their comic because I think they had to change Klarg's name for copyright reasons or something

 

[VashTheStampede]

What are the odds of 2 nat1s in a row?

I'm not @Zell 17 but according to Reddit it's 1 in 400 or .25%

 

[VashTheStampede]

Griffin was running this exact same adventure when they started the podcast, he just took it in a wildly different direction pretty early on. I think Phandelver's supposed to be like baby's first D&D adventure or something since the Starter's Set comes with it, so that's probably why he chose it.

Yeah, this is on target. They eventually put out a sourcebook that took that starter adventure and expanded it out into a full, "normal" D&D campaign, and that's what I'm running this from.

They put out a new version of the Starter set eventually, and that's the adventure Ben is running.

 

[TD]

(@VashTheStampede where js the 3rd. Gobli on the map?)

A second goblin, possibly realizing the direness of their situation and the likelihood of defeat, or perhaps motivated by some other unknown thought, makes a calculated decision to retreat. With a swift glance around the skirmish to ensure its action goes unnoticed, the goblin darts towards the southern exit of the cave.

 

[TD]

I'm not sure what the bigger surprise is. Kutshort just leaving his crossbow on the cave floor or just stepping over an unconscious Hopper.

 

[T'anks]

3 options really:

1) Running to inform Klarg
2) Springing a trap
3) Running to get the other two wolves

DUN DUN DUUUUN

 

[TD]

2) Springing a trap

More like THE trap.

 

[T'anks]

I'm not sure what the bigger surprise is. Kutshort just leaving his crossbow on the cave floor or just stepping over an unconscious Hopper.

Not trusting T'anks to look after the formerly Goblin-"owned" wolf that helped save her life minutes hours prior, too!

Tut, tut.

 

[TD]

Not trusting T'anks to look after the formerly Goblin-"owned" wolf that helped save her life minutes prior, too!

Tut, tut.

T'anks really focused on that redemption arc now huh.

 

[T'anks]

Shhh, no spoilers.

I have an idea for her next move... but we'll see what Vash and Dice Zeus have to say about that!

 

[TD]

Well your shrug is collectively a "maybe, maybe not", and with past T'anks tendencies - who really knows?

...an idea.

 

[VashTheStampede]

I'm not sure what the bigger surprise is. Kutshort just leaving his crossbow on the cave floor or just stepping over an unconscious Hopper.

So yeah, unfortunately @shortkut is gonna have to make a new post.

Hopper is downed but not dead, so he cannot share a space with him. You can move through his space, but not stop in it.

Fortunately however, that means his melee attempt didn't happen, so he gets another hit attempt, possibly wiping out the Nat 1.

 

[TD]

Bailed out from a nat1 by not realizing what he couldn't do. lmao

In before 3rd nat1.

 

[T'anks]

shortkut: SOD YOUR RULES MY WOLF FRIEND

Vash: Exercise some goddamn restraint (breaking rules is my job)!

 

[TD]

@VashTheStampede

I have two questions about opportunity attacks.

a) I noticed Dragmire didn't get attacked by the wolf when he stepped beside him and moved another spot away - are opportunity attacks not always guaranteed?
b) Is moving through an enemy location "allowed" but you're opening yourself up to an opportunity attack? (as in the space they occupy)

 

[VashTheStampede]

@VashTheStampede

I have two questions about opportunity attacks.

a) I noticed Dragmire didn't get attacked by the wolf when he stepped beside him and moved another spot away - are opportunity attacks not always guaranteed?
b) Is moving through an enemy location "allowed" but you're opening yourself up to an opportunity attack? (as in the space they occupy)

A. An opportunity attack is triggered when moving out of melee range of an opponent. Dragmire stayed within melee range.

B. You can only move through enemy spaces if there's a 2 size difference between you.

 

[Kutshort Yes]

Yay!

Also, when I asked where the other goblin was, there was only one showing on the map, so I needed to know where the one that didn’t run away was

 

[Kutshort Yes]

There, that’s better

 

[TD]

Kutshort and Dude have both entered just bloodlust mode apparently.

 

[Kutshort Yes]

Kutshort and Dude have both entered just bloodlust mode apparently.

It was the first thing on my list for what Kutshort believes in

 

[TD]

We're eating wolf meat.

 

[Kutshort Yes]

We're eating wolf meat.

As long as it isn’t Hopper, I’m okay with it

 

[VashTheStampede]

I'd say there's a pretty even chance we end the first chapter tonight or the entire party blows up and we re-roll.

 

[TD]

 

[TD]

With milestone leveling, how many things we kill doesn't matter right?

I assume this would be our first milestone?

 

[Kutshort Yes]

Klarg must be a milestone

@VashTheStampede can I roll a d100 when we see Klarg and if I roll above a 95, I instagib him with a crossbow bolt through the eye?

 

[T'anks]

A. An opportunity attack is triggered when moving out of melee range of an opponent. Dragmire stayed within melee range.

...Wait.

WAIT.

You can move and attack diagonally?! (e.g., one square south and east is still 5 feet and not 7.5/10 feet)

I'd say there's a pretty even chance we end the first chapter tonight or the entire party blows up and we re-roll.

 

[Kutshort Yes]

...Wait.

WAIT.

You can move and attack diagonally?! (e.g., one square south and east is still 5 feet and not 7.5/10 feet)

You just walk 2/3 of the way through the box diagonally

 

[TD]

...Wait.

WAIT.

You can move and attack diagonally?! (e.g., one square south and east is still 5 feet and not 7.5/10 feet)

 

[TD]

Also I know I get an additional Lv1 spell at Level 2 but I don't dare research that or plan for that now.

 

[T'anks]

Okay but in the interest of trying to actually make this end of chapter happen in timely fashion:

Raine used Persuasion on @Dungeon Master
T'anks has informed me that, as a demonic bestial creature, she wishes to occasionally behave like one. She says that her beautifully maintained claws, sharp teeth and majestic argali horns are very much not being properly utilized and none really fit the mold of a 1 damage Unarmed Strike. She implores the gracious and most generous Dungeon Master to bequeath unto her new forms of wanton destruction, balanced appropriately, for:

1) Clawing the fuck out of idiots.
2) Repeatedly headbutting creatures and objects that annoy her.
3) Rending flesh from bone (and maybe through bone, she's not picky) with horrific biting.
4) And, because she's some sort of sheep/ram demon creature at minimum, the ability to ram something with her very hard horns. Possibly with a knockback because she's not sure how effective ramming something but then moving back 5 feet actually is as an attack.

 

[TD]

1) Clawing the fuck out of idiots.
2) Repeatedly headbutting creatures and objects that annoy her.
3) Rending flesh from bone (and maybe through bone, she's not picky) with horrific biting.
4) And, because she's some sort of sheep/ram demon creature at minimum, the ability to ram something with her very hard horns. Possibly with a knockback because she's not sure how effective ramming something but then moving back 5 feet actually is as an attack.

Not 1, not 2 - but 4 requests.

T'anks is a greedy devil.

 

[TD]

Also nothing says you can't try to do those things and then beg for the dice gods and DM to oblige.