D&D - 5

I think I dead.

I think Kobold chieftain send me through portal to one of Hells.

Everything look like home here, except no kobolds. No kobold wife. No kobold kids. And especially no kobold yummies.

Last thing that make sense was chieftain shoving me through portal and pointing at pretty lady in white dress. Then crazy humans and elves and drow start attacking me. I not last long against such fearsome fighters, but when I try to run away they catch me.

Then other pretty human lady protect me. She say, "No kill Clarence!" She is really pretty and have soft voice.

Drow man keep looking at me ugly and holding dagger. He say, "Where you from?" then get upset when I say "From my village." Then he keep asking questions like "What is the weather like?" I almost say, "Very nice, how is it here?" but I think that the wrong answer. After lots of questions he just kind of watch me, like owl watch mouse.

More humans come and talk and then go. One big human came screaming about his mace. I see lots of clubs from dead kobold friends on the ground. "Why not just use club?" I think, but he probably kick me for talking to him. He make all the humans kneel to him, so he probably chieftain here. He tell pretty lady to go fetch mace or he get angry. So pretty lady and drow man talk to big red-hair human and human lady with bow and they agree to find scary man with lightning.

This be an okay thing except they want me go with them. I definitely think kobold god hate me.

Tuesday is the big night! Here are the details as I currently understand them:

Meet at The Death Trap (post in the comments if you need instructions on how to get there.)
7:00 P.M.
Eat beforehand (there might be some snackage.)
Bring dice if you have them.
Bring your completed character sheet.
Leave your feat jokes at home.
A pencil and scrap paper are always useful.

It's official. We're shooting for a Forgotten Realms setting. I have come into possession of the FR books. For whatever reason, the "supplier" has asked that I keep it on the down low. I'm assuming that with my LG status, I just don't want to know. My supplier did ask that I pass on the following:

Supplier:
From page 28:
A character in the F.R. campaign is more than just a class and race. Your homeland determines...what sort of abilities you have. In game terms, character regions...allow you to learn special feats...and enable you to start out with some extra equipment based on the way people in that region live.
Me: huh
Supplier: So I thought you should quietly circulate that link and have people review the book to see what region they want to come from, as it might change what race/class/feats/equipment they choose.

So, there you go. Email me for more info.

So, I've now talked with Daboo and Radar about this, and I wanted to kind of put this out there for everyone else. Normally when generating stats for a character, you'd roll 4d6 and subtract the lowest roll, repeating this for a total of six times. While this adds to the dice rolling fun, you don't always get a character with stats that match the role-playing aspects you'd envisioned.

I humbly submit an alternative. :)

In both Neverwinter Nights 2 and Icewind Dale 2 the developers use the 3.5 ruleset as part of their game engine and they've made a change to character creation that I really like. Basically, you start out with all 10s. Racial modifiers are then applied, most likely giving you a 12 and an 8 somewhere. Then you have a certain amount of points to increase your stats. The more points you put into a specific category, the more points it costs to increase that stat.

If this kind of system interests you and you don't have access to one of those two games, feel free to finish up your character creation at the beginning of our first session.

Also, if you have strong feelings against this method, please indicate that in the comments with an explanation for why you think it's a bad idea.

Update. I noticed this in the PHB 4e Lite, "Use the 28 point‐buy system from 3.5E, DMG page 169." I'll try to verify if this is the same at lunch.

Update #2. Confirmed.

Plans within plans within plans.

I am going to be DMing for the first little while until we feel comfortable with the mixed offline/online group dynamic. My understanding is that the Death Trap will be hosting the offline contingent and that we're shooting for Tuesdays starting May 13. If any of that is incorrect or you have an issue with it, please let me know by posting a comment below.

In the meantime, it would help me customize my campaign if everyone could post a little about the character they'll be playing. An example of what I mean:

Glim Glammerstrom
Gnomish Bard
Glim is a typical gnome. About four feet tall, blonde hair, tan skin. He keeps his hair short and has no noticeable scars or tattoos.
Backstory: Glim is a young gnome who went out to seek his fortune as the apprentice to an aging bard who visited his clan's settlement. Unfortunately, Glim's curiosity got him into one too many scrapes and his master abandoned him.

By the way, Glim is not going to be a PC in this group.

Will there be D&D? Only Joey Smith can decide.

Wren, you're in charge of grub on Thursday.

Sideshow, we'd like to see you there, but I understand you have a standing obligation on Thursdays.

Wren, your services as a massage therapist will be required on Friday for Daboo. The parents are giving her a rough time of it.

Elbows, keep up the good writing.

AoD, thanks for your help on the db, but it's still slow :( Won't it be great when I officially don't have to worry about these things anymore?

Radar, keep on keeping on.

If I missed someone, I'm sorry.

That is all.

edit: Ahem, Anon, stop being so darn anonymous. It's difficult to remember the invisible man.

edit2: It appears I forgot Ladybug. It's so hard to be quippy on demand!