Ghosts of Saltmarsh OOC

[paradox26]

Sorry for the slow post rate. MY parents were staying with me for the last week, and just left this morning. So now I can post regularly again.

[CaoimhinTheCape]

No problem. Assuming there's no objections, I'll move y'all up to the door/give you more info this afternoon.

[CaoimhinTheCape]

Hypothetically, if we were to get into a combat, would you guys prefer I do all of your initiative rolls or would you rather roll them yourselves?

The way I'll run combat will basically be whoever gets higher than my initiative can act in any order they want, then the enemies, then anyone you was lower than mine. Doing it on your exact turn is better but with play by post I don't want us to get too slowed down.

[Snarkhunter]

I'm fine with you rolling.

[Izzarra]

Hypothetically, if we were to get into a combat, would you guys prefer I do all of your initiative rolls or would you rather roll them yourselves?

The way I'll run combat will basically be whoever gets higher than my initiative can act in any order they want, then the enemies, then anyone you was lower than mine. Doing it on your exact turn is better but with play by post I don't want us to get too slowed down.

Sure roll initiative for me.

Posting in exact rolled order can result in it taking an entire week to finish a single round of combat, primarily due to people being in different time zones and having busy lives.

In the game I am running I have the players declare their intended actions then I sort out everything to work with the initiative order rolled, but that takes a while.
I am giving serious consideration to abandoning initiative order all together. PC actions happen in whatever order they post and they can coordinate actions in the discord OOC. Then the enemies go.

[CaoimhinTheCape]

I'll stick with Initiative for now, but having people submit actions whenever they can and I'll resolve them as close to in order as possible. Post coming soon-ish.

[CaoimhinTheCape]

Turns out it didn't even matter, since they rolled higher than all of you anyway!

Everyone gets a round to attack/do whatever they want, Yue gets an opportunity attack on Weasel 3 or 4.

[Snarkhunter]

To clarify: Do we declare our action both here and in the IC thread, and you handle rolling? Or do we roll here or spoiler roll in IC? Any of the above are fine with me, although my preferred would probably be declare both and you roll.

[CaoimhinTheCape]

Declaring anywhere is fine, though I'd like at least a short description of what you're doing IC. Rolling can be done by whoever - I'm happy to let you guys roll for yourselves, if you don't I'll resolve it for you.

[Snarkhunter]

Cool. Byrok will ready his pike, attack the nearest Giant Weasel and if it dies, he will move to assist Yue.

[Lioslaith]

Apparently gitp decided to stop notifying me of posts. Sorry about that. So Caspian will attack when he is able with his trident.

[CaoimhinTheCape]

Posted the various attacks. Big oof on Byrok's damage, which was so close to being enough.

Tulvi and Eldryn still have turns. I'll give them some time to post but if I check in tomorrow morning and they still haven't posted I'll just move on to the next turn, owing anyone who hasn't posted an extra turn.

[Lioslaith]

You may have addressed it, but are you going to do all the rolling for us throughout this? Or was that just because of the stall?

[CaoimhinTheCape]

So, I'm happy to let you guys roll - I think it makes the most sense if when you submit your action you make the attack and (potential) damage rolls. I did them in the last post because people submitted without rolling and I figured I'd save us a little back and forth.

I'll definitely do some rolls for you (publicly). So, Initiative and then anything from my turn that forces a save.

[Lioslaith]

No worries, just wanting to get a feel for how you do things.

[Awful]

GFB: (1d20+5)[19]
Damage: (1d6+3)[4] on a hit + 3 fire damage for a nearby weasel

[paradox26]

I overlooked this game when I did my updates. Sorry, will try not to let it happen again. I have posted IC just now. And wow, rotten rolls. Including my initiative, that is two 1s in a row, followed by a 5. Not a promising start to the game.

[CaoimhinTheCape]

Sorry y'all, got very busy yesterday, but I'll have a post up soon.


EDIT: Posted. For a quick survey of the situation, Byrok's Weasel looks like it is about to die and a good hit on either of the ones near Tulvi could take them down.

[paradox26]

Much better roll this time around. Thankfully.

[Awful]

Same as before: (1d20+5)[23] to hit
On a hit (1d6+3)[9] mundane damage and 3 fore damage on a nearby weasel

[Lioslaith]

Fudged the damage roll but it didn't hit anyway.

[CaoimhinTheCape]

You're down to one weasel left. Byrok has a turn - if he hasn't posted a few hours from now I'll just move forward in combat and owe him an extra turn if the rest of you don't end the fight first. So long as a couple of you hit, the weasel should go down relatively easy.

[CaoimhinTheCape]

Posted, so y'all get another round of attacks. Get your attacks in and hopefully it'll go down this round.

Since it actually does matter, if Byrok comes back and can one shot the Weasel on his first attack, I'll retcon the damage to Caspian. Byrok gets 2 turns this round.

[Lioslaith]

Lets add in a smite for (2d8)[6] damage.

[CaoimhinTheCape]

Fight over! (With possible retcon to benefit the party, pending a byrok attack). You can look through the garden/well or enter the house.

[Lioslaith]

Appreciate that chance!

[Snarkhunter]

Here's Byrok's attack from the previous turn, to try and save the damage / spell slot:

To hit: (1d20+6)[9]
Damage: (1d10+4)[11]

Edit: Ah well, missed anyway.

[CaoimhinTheCape]

Paradox - the weasels came out from under a rosebush in the garden - you're sure there's no one else in there. Did you try throwing the firebolt at the garden (where the weasels came from) or down the well? Or, both?

Probbly won't get an IC post up today, hopefully one tomorrow but this weekend turned busy.

[paradox26]

Sorry, I misread that. I will throw it down the well.

[CaoimhinTheCape]

Cool. I'll have another post up later, but if you're around feel free to make a damage roll for that. No reason to read into this at all, haha, there's nothing down there to take damage. But if there were you should probably roll damage.