Be Excellent To Each Other

7pm, or 7:30pm? What’s the consensus?

7pm works for me, but might struggle making any earlier.

If its anything like my famy zoom quizzes, the first 20 mins will be fixing odd connection issues and admiring each others backdrops.

7.30 is good for me. Are we doing video via zoom?

Discord would be better i think. Especially if sdg is creating a server as a central repository.

I'd plump for Discord too. Just cos I already have an account and I'm lazy.

I’ll get it sorted ready for tomorrow night.

It's sorted ready for tonight!

Ohhh, I have an discocords account. Is it worth using the app, or is the web interface ok?

The web interface is usually fine, but it can have sound quality issues in voice chat. The app is really good.

Have you setup a Discord? I was going to send out a Zoom invite and figure out Discord for next time but if you've set one up I can join it. You'll need to tell me how though

I can do it if you like. It’s pretty straight forward.

I don't mind doing it, I just don't want to do it if someone has already done it.

I don’t think anyone would do anything without your say-so, DM!

I've not used either before but have set up accounts on both now. It's entirely up to you DM.

Ok cool, in the process of setting up a channel now and will send out invites shortly.

Is there anything else that'd be handy to have ready, SDG? I've the PHB, paper, pens, dice etc. just wondered if there's anything else that would be handy.

No, that's everything. Tonight we'll run through session zero stuff which includes groundrules for things like hard lines none of us want to bring into the game, and what number of people have to call off in a week for the game to be postponed, as well introduce characters, explain spell casting, answer any questions, then kick off the adventure.
Everyone needs their character sheet open in front of them or printed out, access to dice to roll either electronically or physically, and I'll trust your results (a failure can often be more fun than a success!), and a login for discord. You may also want a notepad and pencil to note down things like XP gained and to track hit points and effects, although if you are using DnDBeyond you can track these on there. I'm the type of player who makes loads of notes though so I always have a pencil and paper when I'm playing to write down places of interest, people we meet etc.

Also, some fine dwarven ale for refreshment and some supplies to ward off hunger.

@Zardoz I could do with a wee icon for my Discord server. I uploaded a picture to see if I could so at the moment it's a picture of a Zoom loading screen

On it!

You realise you asked for a wee icon, right?

It's pouring off my scanner!

Discord:

https://discord.gg/6788ZEPt

One more meeting, quick trip to supermarket, dinner, and kids bathtime then it's time for D&D!

Will buy beer at the supermarket to celebrate.

Huzzah!

Good luck, little murderhobos. Remember: if it moves, it's an enemy, therefore fireball.
If it doesn't move, it's a mimic, therefore fireball.

Much clefting was done. We investigated fissures and hid in a cranny.

I can't wait until I'm better than I think I am!
Enjoyed this tonight, more!!!

Good work everyone! Great DMing, fantastic fighting from Ermintrude and well done on trying hard and taking part for everyone else.

The goblin was certainly grateful to you for accidentally cauterising his wound x

Did you say reconvevevening next week or in a fortnight Gilly?

We’ll be amazing when our spells hit.

I don't think a rolled higher than a 9 all session

Was he the one who ran off? He’ll be converting to Xuntism soon

Xunt has blessed them with his grace. The next lot will get their brains.scrambled though, promisse

We were also responsible for feeding and soothing THREE wolves.

Druidism!

I think a fortnight, but if you’re all free in a week let me see what Jen thinks about doing bedtime duty alone again.

I’d be more than happy to play again next week but don’t get in trouble for the sake of us x

I have ordered a phhhhhhhhb. £31.50 on Darksphere who have subsidised shipping for D&D it seems. The Tome of Foes was out of stock otherwise I'd've'v'e' snaffled that up too,

I got mine for £24.65! From Book Safari through Evil Amazon.
Maybe I should spend the saving on better dice.

Just ordered a set of dice... well 7 sets, let me know if anyone would like a set PM address x COLOUR CHOSEN AT RANDOM

Only Goblin bothers mind!

I'm really pretty footloose and fancy-free right now when it comes to weekday nights, so any day with a couple of days notice would be awesome for me.

I'm good Mondays to Thursdays usually too.

Who would have thought the pork would have been the most useful piece of loot of the night.

I think I might be able to get away with a follow up on Monday 23rd if we go for a 7:30pm start. It gives me less time to properly figure out Roll20 and to prep so let me see how work goes this week and if I'm not too overwhelmed we should be good. Roll20 worked fine last night without token to give you context of the environment you were in so it's not essential that I use all of the capabilities in it.

Roll20 is a pretty good but it’s a pig to figure out. The interface is pretty opaque. Feel free to ask “how do I...” type questions, I think I know the tool pretty well now.

Well, according to the rules, with that one copper piece we can now buy a sack or a single piece of chalk. Rich! Rich, I tells ya!

That's really good to know, thank you. I used the maps and fog of war to hide parts last night but I didn't know how to bring character tokens onto the map and I wasn't confident the fog of war was working because the visual clues weren't consistent so I had to take a gamble and ask what everyone saw, which fortunately was only what I wanted them to see, then uncover sections at a time with the reveal tool.
For next week, I'd ideally like to be able to drop character tokens onto the maps and come away from augmented theatre of the mind style so I'll do some more tutorials and then maybe come back with specific questions.

You’re going to be finished before I’m available at this rate!