Be Excellent To Each Other

Send the apes in. They can climb

How much under Zardoth's control are the Might Wonderous Rescue Apes of Death? Will they run into a burning building for him? I'm assuming yes, as they were quite happy to start punching a giant on his instructions.

Get them to punch the fire.

They can hurl poop at the flames to smoother them.

If the fire is wearing metal armour Shuu could heat it up.

I'm sure we could tool them up too. I've seen it in films!

I'm bewildered for doodle choice this week... *swoons artistically*

Sorry about the delay getting the NPC stat blocks sorted, I thought I'd prepped enough to be able to share them quickly and give you access to all of the attack and spell details for the NPC you controlled but completely lost visibility of them being behind the DnDBeyond paywall because I've got access.

My intention was that you'd have access via DnDBeyond so you could click on each of the listed abilities or spells and easily see the description. When that didn't work I thought I could give you access to the character in Foundry and you'd be able to see it that way. If you'd had access like that, controlling the spellcasting NPCs would have been much easier because you'd have had easy access to their abilities.

I don't think it mattered as you gave us the 'print outs' anyway.

In future though I'd like all my summoned creatures to have full names each and a back story.

Yeah it wasn’t ideal, but not a game breaker. I had all my spells/cantrips open on different browser tabs and was using a notepad to keep a track of spells used and HP etc.

And from now on, "the game ain't over 'till the puppy pukes" applies.

Next Monday is a bank holiday so I expect to see everyone incredibly drunk and sunburnt.

ALL-D&DAYER

Only an all-dayer? We've got a 4-day weekend! Let's go from 7.30 Thursday night through to dawn on Tuesday!

Level 10 or death!

I'm going to need a bigger tankard.

Your puppy will have shit the bed 50 times by then anyway.

Is he ok?

I wouldn’t be surprised if you rolled 3d6+1 and got 2 at some point

I think this is the universe's way of telling me i need to get some fancy new dice.

He's fine, ta. Back to his old self after 30 mins. Did a lovely firm shit this morning too!

Ok good, I don’t have to feel bad taking the piss out of Shitty Puke Dog

I'll pass on the message.

I still can’t get over the fact that the first fire giant took hits from almost everyone and took multiple rounds to go down, then the second fire giant lost around 50% of his HP in one turn when Ermintrude finally got close enough to hit

Yeah, Ermintrude on a roll is sight to behold!

I really like it when a member of Rummage Inc does their "thing" and it totally pays off. Ermintrude's giant-clonking Action Surge, Myptic's Lighning Bolt, Zardoz and the Charge of the Ape Brigade, etc.

Shuu heating metal, Ivo rolling ones.

EXACTLY. All the team doing what they do best!

I suspect Shuu might barrel into the burning building like some kind of hero idiot.

Krung might get baked.

Of course, I also suspect krung might not like being baked, and suggest getting some kind of bag of holding full of water to soak the building, but will see.

Apes go in (or up outside), chuck kids out in bag of holding, Shuu casts feather fall on bag of kids. Fight next wave.

I say we leave the kids to solve their own problems. They'll never learn if we keep coddling them.

Hmm did anyone ID where the shout for help came from? Did it have an Orcish accent? Could well be a trap.

Also, are the Flying Snake Pikey's helping out here?

We could get a great discount on a fire damaged property too.

Another one of those sentences that no one could have predicted would feature this arrangement of words @Dimrill?

Who needs Dungeons and Dragons when you can make a great living flipping properties

I think Dimrill would be happy just to play The Sims in the D&D realms

I think Dimrill would be happy just to play a Candy Crush type game that used D&D dice

No (at least I don't think so), he's just the type of player who decides to play with the 'Contraption of Unknown Purpose' in a strange house...and then proceeds to pass his Constitution check while the Dwarf at the opposite end of the room fails his.

Ah, a Zardoz then.

A heroic adventurer.

Does anyone else think that the giants might've been digging for Terry's Chocolate Oranges?

They’re not Terry’s, they’re Ermintrude’s (because they hoard everything)

Dammit, you've cracked it!

They were digging their own graves

First proper session of my other campaign has led to some observations:

1.) FantasyGrounds app is a UX nightmare, like it's been designed by some UNIX programmers from the 80s who hate everyone.

2.) People who don't quite know the rules and aren't "gamey" types in general can end up with some bonkers character builds.

3.) Holy cow, I had forgotten how weak and flimsy you are at level one. Two characters got one-hit-killed by some well-rolling snakes.

4.) Playing a slightly obnoxious character is fun.

5.) They're not as awesome as you guys.

Someone on Reddit made a stat block for Lil Nas X as Montero. Love it!

There are so many VTTs, I see OwlBear Rodeo has started been recommended a lot in DM groups, I think because it's free and possibly works on ipad which most don't. I'm glad I made the switch to Foundry so early. There are new content announcement multiple times a week and the support in Discord is brilliant.

One of my friends wants to run an all Bard campaign, I think that could be pretty funny.


(They'll be equally as awesome once the party has gelled more.)

Early warning - it’s looking likely I’m going to get approval to travel for work w/c 19/04 and I’ll probably be away all week so I won’t be able to run a game that week. Instead, I’ll be sitting in the worst Holiday Inn ever outside Liverpool probably playing Stardew Valley on my Switch.

Knowsley?

Drive up the road on Monday night and I'll set you up here!