[D&D B/X] Path to Fame and Fortune OOC

[Lacco]

Links:

IC thread

Recruiting thread

Rolling Thread (to be prepared)

Please post links to your charsheets below and select colour of your voice. As per usual custom, traditional black is reserved for the GM.

Table rules:

• Everyone is responsible for enjoyment of every other participant.
• If you are out of Luck and face possible death... you can ask the GM for a reroll. It may save your life, but now NPCs have one reroll too...
• Be aware that I as a GM, am not fond of use - without warning - of mind control/reading magic, however, be aware that I plan to fully exploit the perception of your characters and the impact of their conditions on their sanity.

Party Roster

Character	Class/Level	XP	Player	Voice
Drake Greyhawk	L1 Thief	0	2D8HP	Feels blue.
Ancy	L1 Magic User	0	Xhosant	Teal
Bob, son of Bob	L1 Fighter	0	IronLionShark	FF0000
Jor Alricson, Acolyte of Tyche	L1 Cleric	0	Snarkhunter	Purple!
Penny	L1 Elf	0	Stan	Going to be green.

[Lacco]

The fireplace in the Orc's Last Rest tavern provided too much smoke and too little light. You couldn't almost see the face of the person sitting across the table, but you knew who your companions were.

You were the same kind - outlaws, outcasts, misfits. At least that's what you were back at home. But here - at the edge of civilization as you know it, here you could be something else.

Heroes. Explorers. Rich men. Maybe even kings.

That's why you came here and that's why you sat to this table. It's time to go, to gather supplies, and to venture into dungeons - to find fortune, to find fame, to become legends.

You all look at the small map that the tavernkeeper gave you. It was only a rough sketch, but there they were - the ruined keep, the ancient tomb and somewhere also the abandoned mansion - but the tavernkeep doesn't know where exactly. Each of these should contain precious loot and - also - untold dangers.

Will you venture forth into one of these?

Will you find death or make your fortune?

Who will you become...? Which path will you take...?

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As your first adventure you can choose between:

Ancient Tomb of Karnakh the Usurper located at the end of Fargrave Cementery

and

Ruined Keep overlooking the Blacktear Lake

To keep things simple, there will be a wagon with a local guide who will drive you there and back for simple fee of few copper coins. He will drive you to both these locations, but to no other.

[2D8HP]

Drake the Thief
Feels blue.

[Stan]

Penny is going to be green.

[Stan]

Procedural question. Are we going to jump right into a dungeon crawl or is it ok to gather rumors in town and from the map giver about which of the three might be the easiest and what kinds of things might be in them? I'm fine either way, just curious about expectations.

[Xhosant]

Ancy, in his teal voice, will vote for the keep. Crypts are scary.

[Stan]

Crypts are scary.

Yea, lets not go there first. We need to be able to afford holy water first.

[Snarkhunter]

Jor the Acolyte will be purple!

Also, I vote for the crypt, because turn undead...

[Lacco]

Ok, it seems we have 4 players out of 5 here...

...and votes are 2:1 for the ruined keep...

As for the start, I wanted to jump right to the first dungeon, but I'm fine either way. However, I'm on my phone what makes posting very uncomfortable. Let me know if you want to start in a tavern or at the first location. Ideally in next 24 hours - I would like to start...

[Xhosant]

Straight in sounds just fine for me!

[2D8HP]

The whole point of adventuring is to get loot to spend at the tavern, which hopefully some of our PC''s will survive to do!
It goes like this:

meeting in a tavern. Leaving said tavern to wail on scaly types who occupy underground abodes, collect shiny objects in said underground abodes, avoid bandits who occupy space between underground dwellings and tavern, bring shiny objects to spend in tavern in noble quest for ale and time with hotties.

[Stan]

Jumping right to the keep is my vote.

[Lacco]

Ok, let's jump right to the abandoned keep!

In other words: IC thread is up! Feel free to post!

So, the deal is simple: you get a "drive" there, and back (on a wagon, so horses are rested, and you can get back all the stuff you can carry out of the dungeon), including some food (so your rations are untouched when we start) for the first 2 dungeons (the keep and cementery). You also get some moneyz if you "clean" the dungeon completely.

As for the keep itself (I'm not going to upload a map at this moment, so there is some visual inspiration. There are walls surrounding he main building, but most of these are already broken through or destroyed completely.

You are still around 3 miles from there, so it will take you some time to get there... however, choice of road is yours.

So: let the adventure begin!

[IronLionShark]

Dibs on FF0000

[Lacco]

So, you go up the path and the party formation is:
- Bob in lead with Drake checking for traps next to him
- Ancy and Jor
- Penny
Correct?

Also, if you want to state that you have a weapon in hand, or anything, let me know beforehand...

EDIT: Do you take your horses or go on foot?

[2D8HP]

While I'd like to say that Drake the Thief has his bow ready, since he is checking for traps, verisimilitude demands thar he be on foot and poking the path with a 3.048 meter wooden pole.

[Stan]

Penny has her bow out. We have horses? I'd guess we tie them up somewhere near the gatehouse and approach on foot.

[Xhosant]

Ancy will hold a dagger, nervously. He will also hold someone as a shield, given the chance :P

[IronLionShark]

Bob is wielding his pole-arm.
(No, his arm is not a pole...)

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... YET

[Snarkhunter]

Jor has his shield equipped and mace in hand.

[IronLionShark]

Will we be using alignment languages, or can I swap that out for a different language?

[2D8HP]

Drake has 50' of rope (15.24 meters), is the gate house taller than that, and is there enough daylight left to climb it?

[IronLionShark]

UPDATE: Got a pdf of the rules. Not using LL anymore!

[Lacco]

Hello everyone, I'm visiting my family, so I won't be able to post anything until Sunday as I'm on my phone. However, short answers to your questions:

@IronLionShark: Great! Also, alignment languages may be switched for any other racial language (e.g. goblin, dragon, elven). You can also use one slot for three other choices: "ancient", "rune" and "secret" languages - ancient languages cover old inscriptions in dead languages older than few hundred years, "rune" languages cover magical glyphs and runes favoured by some races and "secret" needs specification (e.g. thieves guild language, etc.). I'm open to suggestions on the third one.

For others: feel free to change alignment language to other one. Or you can keep it - it will give you basic means of communications with races you can't otherwise speak to (usually limited to few basic words as "trade", "fight", "yes/no/maybe"). And if you want to change your languages, now is the correct time.

@2D8HP: the gatehouse is around 8 meters high, so you have enough rope (thanks for the conversion!)

@Stan: regarding horses, if you did not buy them, you don't have them. Sorry, flashback from other system where almost everyone has a horse...

[IronLionShark]

Bob no longer knows the Chaos language. He now knows Dragon

[Xhosant]

Ancy will stick with rudimentary Chaos, and fill his high-int slot with Glyph!

[Stan]

Penny will swap out lawful for ancient.

[2D8HP]

Already had swapped "Neutrality" for "Goblin" per the recruitment thread:

As for the alignment languages: if you want, we can assume that most intelligent creatures will be able to communicate in basic terms ("trade?", "no kill", "kill") in the "alignment" language or you can choose an actual language instead (e.g. "goblin" for orcish/goblin/hobgoblin dialects, "dragon", "elvish", "dwarven", etc.)......
Drake's backstory is approved!

[IronLionShark]

Dragon: Rawr, rawr, rawr, rawr!

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Bro, can you get me some tea?

Bob: Rowr rawr rowr

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Okay.

[Lacco]

@IronLionShark: Replace the "Okay" by "chomp, chewchewchew, gulp" and it will be a bit closer to reality .

So, let's say all the climbing took one turn.

No wandering monsters yet.

Also, meant to ask sooner - do you expect me to narrate your actions? Or shall we do a deal - you narrate actions, I narrate results...? That's how I usually do it, but if you want me to narrate also the actions in full, let me know