The Sundered Way - OOC

[NotStickFigures]

How much healing does Ulmwin need? 1st level or 2nd level healing?

[spiderwrangler]

I have him at 8/27 HP.

[Theis2]

Did Holger take the same damage as Randy from the statue?

[spiderwrangler]

Yeah.

[spiderwrangler]

((Rather than clog up the OOC with stories of tonights RL session, I started a new thread for sharing entertaining D&D session stories here, if you'd like to check it out and possibly tell a story of your own! At some point I think the goings on of the Shipwrecked crew should be told there!))

[thinkslogically]

Hah! Awesome

[Lurks_In_Shadows]

Going to be offline until about/after 6PM CST. Got to be out of town for a lecture/meeting. Spider can run Randy for me. He'll plan on moving about 15 feet north and then taking his next shot so that he doesn't risk hitting Maj.

[spiderwrangler]

Sounds good. If we get back around to a second action for him, I'll go from there.

[spiderwrangler]

I plan on incorporating the expanded tool proficiency stuff from Xanathar's into the game, this won't affect everyone, as not all of you have tool proficiencies, but it'll add flavor and utility for those of you that do. It's a lot of info, so I'll fill out the stuff for the relevant skills first.

Tool Proficiencies
Tool proficiencies are a useful way to hightlight a character's background and talents. At the game table, though, the use of tools sometimes overlaps with the use of skills, and it can be unclear how to use them together in certain situations. This section offers various ways that tools can be used in the game.

Tools and Skills Together
Tools have more specific applications than skills. The History skill applies to any event in the past. A tool such as a forgery kit is used to make fake objects and little else. Thus, why would a character who has the opportunity to acquire one or the other want to gain a tool proficiency instead of proficiency in a skill?
To make tool proficiencies more attractive choices for the characters, you can use the methods outlined below.
Advantage. If the use of a tool and the use of a skill both apply to the check, and a character is proficient with the tool and the skill, consider allowing the character to make the check with advantage. This simple benefit can go a long way toward encouraging players to pick up tool proficiencies. In the tool descriptions that follow, this benefit is often expressed as additional insight (or something similar), which translates into an increased chance that the check will be a success.
Added Benefit. In addition, consider giving characters who have both a relevant skill and a relevant tool proficiency an added benefit on a successful check. This benefit might be in the form of more detailed information or could simulate the effect of a different sort of successful check. For example, a character proficient with mason's tools makes a successful Wisdon (Perception) check to find a secret door in a stone wall. Not only does the character notice the door's presence, but you decide that the tool proficiency entitles the character to an automatic success on an Intelligence (Investigation) check to determine how to pen the door.

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Tool Descriptions
The following sections go into detail about the tools presented in the Player's Handbook, offering advice on how to use them in a campaign.
Components. The first paragraph in each description gives details on what a set of supplies or tools is made of. A character who is proficient with a tool knows how to use all of its component parts.
Skills. Every tool potentially provides advantage on a check when used in conjunction with certain skills, provided a character is proficient with the tool and the skill. As DM, you can allow a character to make a check using the indicated skill with advantage. Paragraphs that begin with skill names discuss these possibilities. In each of these paragraphs, the benefits apply only to someone who has proficiency with the tool, not someone who simply owns it.
With respect to skills, the system is mildly abstract in terms of what a tool proficiency represents; essentially it assumes that a character who has proficiency with a tool also has learned about facets of the trade or profession that are not necessarily associated with the use of the tool.
In addition, you can consider giving a character extra information or an added benefit on a skill check. The text provides some examples and ideas when this opportunity is relevant.
Special Use. Proficiency with a tool usually brings with it a particular benefit in the form of a special use, as described in this paragraph.
Sample DCs. A table at the end of each section lists activities that a tool can be used to perform, and the suggested DCs for the necessary skill checks.

Alchemist's Supplies

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Alchemist's Supplies
Alchemist's supplies enable a character to produce useful concoctions, such as acid or alchemist's fire.
Components. Alchemist's supplies include two glass beakers, a metal frame to hold a beaker in place over an open flame, a glass stirring rod, a small mortar and pestle, and a pouch of common alchemical ingredients, including salt, powdered iron, and purified water.
Arcana. Proficiency with alchemist's supplies allows you to unlock more information on Arcana checks involving potions and similar materials.
Investigation. When you inspect an area for clues, proficiency with alchemist's supplies grants additional insight into any chemicals or other substances that might have been used in the area.
Alchemical Crafting. You can use this tool proficiency to create alchemical items. A character can spend money to collect raw materials, which weigh 1 pound for every 50 gp spent. The DM can allow a character to make a check using the indicated skill with advantage. As part of a long rest, you can use alchemist's supplies to make one dose of acid, alchemist's fire, antitoxin, oil, perfume, or soap. Subtract half the value of the created item from the total gp worth of raw materials you are carrying.

Activity | DC
Create a puff of thick smoke | 10
Identify a poison | 10
Identify a substance | 15
Start a fire | 15
Neutralize acid | 20

Brewer's Supplies

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Brewer's Supplies
Brewing is the art of producing beer. Not only does beer serve as an alcoholic beverage, but the process of brewing purifies water. Crafting beer takes weeks of fermentation, but only a few hours of work.
Components. Brewer's supplies include a large glass jug, a quantity of hops, a siphon, and several feet of tubing.
History. Proficiency with brewer's supplies gives you additional insight on Intelligence (History) checks concerning events that involve alcohol as a significant element.
Medicine. This tool proficiency grants additional insight when you treat anyone suffering from alcohol poisoning or when you can use alcohol to dull pain.
Persuasion. A stiff drink can help soften the hardest heart. Your proficiency with brewer's supplies can help you ply someone with drink, giving them just enough alcohol to mellow their mood.
Potable Water. Your knowledge of brewing enables you to purify water that would otherwise be undrinkable. As part of a long rest, you can purify up to 6 gallons of water, or 1 gallon as part of a short rest.

Activity | DC
Detect poison or impurities in a drink | 10
Identify alcohol | 15
Ignore effects of alcohol | 20

Calligrapher's Supplies

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Calligrapher's Supplies
Calligraphy treats writing as a delicate, beautiful art. Calligraphers produce text that is pleasing to the eye, using a style that is difficult to forge. Their supplies also give them some ability to examine scripts and determine if they are legitimate, since a calligrapher's training involves long hours of studying writing and attempting to replicate its style and design.
Components. Calligrapher's supplies include ink, a dozen sheets of parchment and three quills.
Arcana. Although calligraphy is of little help in deciphering the content of magical writings, proficiency with these supplies can aid in identifying who wrote a script of a magical nature.
History. This tool proficiency can augment the benefits of successful checks made to analyze or investigate ancient writings, scrolls, or other texts including runes etched in stone or messages in frescoes or other displays.
Decipher Treasure Map. This tool proficiency grants you expertise in examining maps. You can make an Intelligence check to determine a map's age, whether a map includes any hidden messages, or similar facts.

Activity | DC
Identify writer of nonmagical script | 10
Determine writer's state of mind | 15
Spot forged text | 15
Forge a signature | 20

Carpenter's Tools

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Carpenter's Tools
Skill at carpentry enables a character to construct wooden structures. A carpenter can build a house, a shack, a wooden cabinet, or similar items.

Components. Carpenter's tools include a saw, a hammer, nails, a hatchet, a square, a ruler, an adze, a plane, and a chisel.
History. This tool proficiency aids you in identifying the use and the origin of wooden buildings and other large wooden objects.
Investigation. You gain additional insight when inspecting areas within wooden structures, because you know tricks of construction that can conceal areas from discovery.
Perception. You can spot irregularities in wooden walls or floors, making it easier to find trap doors and secret passages.
Stealth. You can quickly assess the weak spots in a wooden floor, making it easier to avoid the places that creak and grown when they're stepped on.
Fortify. With 1 minute of work and raw materials, you can make a door or window harder to force open. Increase the DC needed to open it by 5.
Temporary Shelter. As part of a long rest, you can construct a lean-to or a similar shelter to keep your group dry and in shade for the duration of the rest. Because it was fashioned quickly from whatever wood was available, the shelter collapses 1d3 days after being assembled.

Activity | DC
Build a simple wooden structure | 10
Design a complex wooden structure | 15
Find a weak point in a wooden wall | 15
Pry apart a door | 20

Cartographer's Tools

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Cartographer's Tools
Using cartographer's tools, you can create accurate maps to make travel easier for yourself and those who come after you. These maps can range from large-scale depictions of mountain ranges to diagrams that show the layout of a dungeon level.

Components. Cartographer's tools consist of a quill, ink, parchment, a pair of compasses, calipers, and a ruler.
Arcana, History, Religion. You can use your knowledge of maps and locations to unearth more detailed information when you use these skills. For instance, you might spot hidden messages in a map, identify when the map was made to determine if geographical features have changed since then, and so forth.
Nature. Your familiarity with physical geography makes it easier for you to answer questions or solve issues relating to the terrain around you.
Survival. Your understanding of geography makes it easier to find paths to civilization, to predict areas where villages to towns might be found, and to avoid becoming lost. You have studied so many maps that common patterns, such as how trade routes evolve and where settlements arise in relation to geographic locations, are familiar to you.
Craft a Map. While traveling, you can draw a map as you go in addition to engaging in other activity.

Activity | DC
Determine a map's age and origin | 10
Estimate direction and distance to a landmark | 15
Discern that a map is fake | 15
Rill in a missing part of a map | 20

Cobbler's Tools

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Cobbler's Tools
Although the cobbler's trade might seem too humble for an adventurer, a good pair of boots will see a character across rugged wilderness and through deadly dungeons.

Components. Cobbler's tools consist of a hammer, an awl, a knife, a shoe stand, a cutter, spare leather, and thread.
Arcana, History. Your knowledge of shoes aids you in identifying the magical properties of enchanted boots or the history of such items.
Investigation. Footwear holds a surprising number of secrets. You can learn where someone has recently visited by examining the wear and the dirt that has accumulated on their shoes. Your experience in repairing shoes makes it easier for you to identify where damage might come from.
Maintain Shoes. As part of a long rest, you can repair your companions' shoes. For the next 24 hours, up to six creatures of your choice who wear shoes you worked on can travel up to 10 hours a day without making saving throws to avoid exhaustion.
Craft Hidden Compartment. With 8 hours of work, you can add a hidden compartment to a pair of shoes. The compartment can hold an object up to 3 inches long and 1 inch wide and deep. You make an Intelligence check using your tool proficiency to determine the Intelligence (Investigation) check DC needed to find the compartment.

Activity | DC
Determine a shoe's age and origin | 10
Find a hidden compartment in a boot heel | 15

Cook's Utensils

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Cook's Utensils
Adventuring is a hard life. With a cook along on the journey, your meals will be much better than the typical mix of hardtack and dried fruit.
Components. Cook's utensils include a metal pot, knives, forks, a stirring spoon, and a ladle.
History. Your knowledge of cooking techniques allows you to assess the social patterns involved in a culture's eating habits.
Medicine. When administering treatment, you can transform medicine that is bitter or sour into a pleasing concoction.
Survival. When foraging for food, you can make due with ingredients you scavenge that others would be unable to transform into nourishing meals.
Prepare Meals. As part of a short rest, you can prepare a tasty meal that helps your companions regain their strength. You and up to five creatures of your choice regain 1 extra hit point per Hit Die spend during the short rest, provided you have access to your cook's utensils and sufficient food.

Activity | DC
Create a typical meal | 10
Duplicate a meal | 10
Spot poison or impurities in food | 10
Create a gourmet meal | 15

Disguise Kit

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Disguise Kit
The perfect tool for anyone who wants to engage in trickery, a disguise kit enables its owner to adopt a false identity.
Components. A disguise kit includes cosmetics, hair dye, small props and a few pieces of clothing.
Deception. In certain cases, a disguise can improve your ability to weave convincing lies.
Intimidation. The right disguise can make you look more fearsome, whether you want to scare someone away by posing as a plague victim or intimidate a gang of thugs by taking the appearance of a bully.
Performance. A cunning disguise can enhance an audience's enjoyment of a performance, provided the disguise is properly designed to evoke the desired reaction.
Persuasion. Folk tend to trust a person in uniform. If you disguise yourself as an authority figure, your efforts to persuade others are often more effective.
Create Disguise. As part of a long rest, you can create a disguise. It takes you 1 minute to don such a disguise once you have created it. You can carry only one such disguise on you at a time without drawing undue attention, unless you have a bag of holding or a similar method to keep them hidden. Each disguise weighs 1 pound.
At other times, it takes 10 minutes to craft a disguise that involves moderate changes to your appearance, and 30 minutes for one that requires more extensive changes


Activity | DC
Cover injuries or distinguishing marks | 10
Spot a disguise being used by someone else | 15
Copy a humanoid's apperance | 20

Forgery Kit

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Forgery Kit
A forgery kit is designed to duplicate documents and to make it easier to copy a person's seal or signature.
Components. A forgery kit includes several different types of ink, a variety of parchments and papers, several quills, seals and sealing wax, gold and silver leaf, and small tolls to sculpt melted wax to mimic a seal.
Arcana. A forgery kit can be used in conjunction with the Arcana skill to determine if a magic item is real or fake.
Deception. A well-crafted forger, such as papers proclaiming you to be a noble or a writ that grants you safe passage, can lend credence to a lie.
History. A forgery kit combined with your knowledge of history improves your ability to create fake historical documents or to tell if an old document is authentic.
Investigation. When you examine objects, proficiency with a forgery kit is useful for determining how an object was made and whether it is genuine.
Other Tools. Knowledge of other tools makes your forgeries that much more believable. For example, you could combine proficiency with a forgery kit and proficiency with cartographer's tools to make a fake map.
Quick Fake. As part of a short rest, you can produce a forged document no more than one page in length. As part of a long rest, you can produce a document that is up to four pages long. Your Intelligence check using a forgery kit determines the DC for someone else's Intelligence (Investigation) check to spot the fake.

Activity | DC
Mimic handwriting | 15
Duplicate a wax seal | 20

Gaming Set

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Gaming Set
Proficiency with a gaming set applies to one type of game, such as Three-Dragon Ante or games of chance that use dice.
Components. A gaming set has all the pieces needed to play a specific game or type of game, such as a complete deck of cards or a board and tokens.
History. Your mastery of a game includes knowledge of its history, as well as important events it was connected to or prominent historical figures involved with it.
Insight. Playing games with someone is a good way to gain understanding of their personality, granting you a better ability to discern their lies from their truths and read their mood.
Sleight of Hand. Sleight of Hand is a useful skill for cheating at a game, as it allows you to swap pieces, palm cards, or alter a die roll. Alternatively, engrossing a target in a game by manipulating the components with dexterous movements is a great distraction for a pick-pocketing attempt.

Activity | DC
Catch a player cheating | 15
Gain insight into an opponent's personality | 15

Glassblower's Tools

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Glassblower's Tools
Someone who is proficient with glassblower's tools has not only the ability to shape glass, but also specialized knowledge of the methods used to produce glass objects.

Components. The tools include a blowpipe, a small marver, blocks, and tweezers. You need a source of heat to work glass.
Arcana, History. Your knowledge of glassmaking techniques aids you when you examine glass objects, such as potion bottles or glass items found in a treasure hoard. For instance, you can study how a glass potion bottle has been changed by its contents to help determine a potion's effects. (A potion might leave behind a residue, deform the glass, or stain it.)
Investigation. When you study an area, your knowledge can aid you if the clues include broken glass or glass objects.
Identify Weakness. With 1 minute of study, you can identify the weak points in a glass object. Any damage dealt to the object by striking a weak spot is doubled.

Activity | DC
Identify source of glass | 10
Determine what a glass object once held | 20

Herbalism Kit

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Herbalism Kit
Proficiency with an herbalism kit allows you to identify plants and safely collect their useful elements.
Components. An herbalism kit includes pouches to store herbs, clippers and leather gloves for collecting plants, a mortar and pestle, and several glass jars.
Arcana. Your knowledge of nature and uses of herbs can add insight to your magical studies that deal with plants and your attempts to identify potions.
Investigation. When you inspect an area overgrown with plants, your proficiency can help you pick out details and clues that others might miss.
Medicine. Your mastery of herbalism improves your ability to treat illnesses and wounds by augmenting your methods of care with medicinal plants.
Nature and Survival. When you travel in the wild, your skill in herbalism makes it easier to identify plants and spots sources of food that others might overlook.
Identify Plants. You can identify most plants with a quick inspection of their appearance and smell.

Activity | DC
Find plants | 15
Identify poison | 20

Jeweler's Tools

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Jeweler's Tools
Training with jeweler's tools includes the basic techniques needed to beautify gems, It also gives you experience in identifying precious stones.
Components. Jeweler's tools consist of a small saw and hammer, files, pliers and tweezers.
Arcana. Proficiency with jeweler's tools grants you knowledge about the reputed mystical uses of gems. This insight proves handy when you make Arcana checks related to gems or gem-encrusted items.
Investigation. When you inspect jeweled objects, your proficiency with jeweler's tools aids you in picking out clues they might hold.
Identify Gems. You can identify gems and determine their value at a glance.

Activity | DC
Modify a gem's appearance | 15
Determine a gem's history | 20

Land and Water Vehicles

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Land and Water Vehicles
Proficiency with land vehicles covers a wide range of options, from chariots and howdahs to wagons and carts. Proficiency with water vehicles covers anything that navigates waterways. Proficiency with vehicles grants the knowledge needed to handle vehicles of that type, along with knowledge of how to repair and maintain them.
In addition, a character proficient with water vehicles is knowledgeable about anything a professional sailor would be familiar with, such as information about the sea and islands, tying knots, and assessing weather and sea conditions.
Arcana. When you study a magic vehicle, this tool proficiency aids you in uncovering lore or determining how the vehicle operates.
Investigation, Perception. When you inspect a vehicle for clues or hidden information, your proficiency aids you in noticing things that others might miss.
Vehicle Handling. When piloting a vehicle, you can add your proficiency bonus to the vehicle's AC and saving throws.

Activity | DC
Navigate rough terrain or waters | 10
Assess a vehicle's condition | 15
Take a tight corner at high speed | 20

Leatherworking Tools

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Mason's Tools

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Musical Instrument

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Musical Instrument
Proficiency with a musical instrument indicates you are familiar with the techniques used to play it. You also have knowledge of some of the songs commonly performed with that instrument.
History. Your expertise aids you in recalling lore related to your instrument.
Performance. Your ability to put on a good show is improved when you incorporate an instrument into your act.
Compose a Tune. As part of a long rest, you can compose a new tune and lyrics for your instrument. You might use this ability to impress a noble or spread scandalous rumors with a catch tune.

Activity | DC
Identify a tune | 10
Improvise a tune | 20

Navigator's Tools

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Navigator's Tools
Proficiency with navigator's tools helps you determine a true course based on observing the stars. It also grants you insight into charts and maps while developing yoru sense of direction.
Components. Navigator's tools include a sextant, a compass, calipers, a ruler, parchment, ink and a quill.
Survival. Knowledge of navigator's tools helps you avoid becoming lost and also grants you insight into the most likely location for roads and settlements.
Sighting. By taking careful measurements, you can determine you position on a nautical chart and the time of day.

Activity | DC
Plot a course | 10
Discover your position on a nautical chart | 15

Painter's Supplies

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Poisoner's Kit

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Poisoner's Kit
A poisoner's kit is a favored resource for thieves, assassins, and others who engage in skulduggery. It allows you to apply poisons and create them from various materials. Your knowledge of poisons also helps you treat them.

Components. A poisoner's kit includes glass vials, a mortar and pestle, chemicals, and a glass stirring rod.
History. Your training with poisons can help you when you try to recall facts about infamous poisonings.
Investigation, Perception. Your knowledge of poisons has taught you to handle those substances carefully, giving you an edge when you inspect poisoned objects or try to extract clues from events that involve poison.
Medicine. When you treat the victim of a poison, your knowledge grants you added insight into how to provide the best care to your patient.
Nature, Survival. Working with poisons enables you to acquire lore about which plants and animals are poisonous.
Handle Poison. Your proficiency allows you to handle and apply a poison without risk to exposing yourself to its effects.

Activity | DC
Spot a poisoned object | 10
Determine the effects of a poison | 20

Potter's Tools

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Smith's Tools

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Thieves' Tools

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Thieves' Tools
Perhaps the most common tools use by adventurers, thieves' tools are designed for picking locks and foiling traps. Proficiency with the tools also grants you a general knowledge of traps and locks.
Components. Thieves' tools include a small file, a set of lock picks, a small mirror mounted on a metal handle, a set of narrow-bladed scissors, and a pair of pliers.
History. Your knowledge of traps grants you insight when answering questions about locations that are renowned for their traps.
Investigation and Perception. You gain additional insight when looking for traps, because you have learned a variety of common signs that betray their presence.
Set a Trap. Just as you can disable traps, you can also set them. As part of a short rest, you can create a trap using items you have on hand. The total of your check becomes the DC for someone else's attempt to discover or disable the trap. The trap deals damage appropriate to the materials used in crafting it (such as poison or a weapon) or damage equal to half the total of your check, whichever the DM deems appropriate.

Activity | DC
Pick a lock | Varies
Disable a trap | Varies

Tinker's Tools

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Tinker's Tools
A set of tinker's tools is designed to enable you to repair many mundane objects. Though you can't manufacture much with tinker's tools, you can mend torn clothes, sharpen a worn sword, and patch a tattered suit of chain mail.
Components. Tinker's tools include a variety of hand tools, thread, needles, a whetstone, scraps of cloth and leather, and a small pot of glue.
History. You can determine the age and origin of objects, even if you have only a few pieces remaining from the original.
Investigation. When you inspect a damaged object, you gain knowledge of how it was damaged, and how long ago.
Repair. You can restore 10 hit points to a damaged object for each hour of work. For any object, you need access to the raw materials required to repair it. For metal objects, you need access to an open flame hot enough to make the metal pliable.

Activity | DC
Temporarily repair a disabled device | 10
Repair an item in half the time | 15
Improvise a temporary item using scraps | 20

Weaver's Tools

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Woodcarver's Tools

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[spiderwrangler]

I have some things I need to get written up and sent out by end of day, so I likely won't be able to update until this evening, just as a heads up.

[Arch Lich Burns]

Do Zombies qualify as food for the purify food/water spell?
What about Zephyr? Or Holger? And can purify food/water alter the taste?

[spiderwrangler]

I've recently backed this Kickstarter, with the possibility of including some of the content from the book in the game...

[thinkslogically]

...so you're saying we can build a castle?

[spiderwrangler]

Who knows what the future might hold! He's also designing a bunch of gemstone dragons that sound kinda cool, Neutral rather than the Evil or Good of Chromatic and Metallic.

[BBvideo 560,340]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpRX6PgKUB0[/BBvideo]

[Arch Lich Burns]

Just because they are colour coded for convince doesn't mean chromatic/metallic have to be evil/good. Espessially if you have the spell true polymorph.

[Theis2]

What I'm hearing is Spider saying Holger should definitely go for the leadership feat

[spiderwrangler]

The number of people with access to True Polymorph on any given plane at any one time is a pretty rare club to be in.

As far as leadership feat, not sure if that is something that exists as in earlier versions in 5e, but we'll see.

[Theis2]

There was in 3.5 that gave you a cohort with class levels and followers. I also think there is one in this edition called inspirering leader, but that just grants temporary hp to 6 people for doing an inspiring speech or something, not really clear so I guess I could play an inspiring tune for 10 min if I took it xD

[Rodgeir]

Spider, any chance more of the tool proficiencies are on the way? Specifically forgery and poisoners? Asking for a friend .

[spiderwrangler]

Yeah, I'll get some more up when I Get a chance.

Just a heads up that I'll be traveling to see family over break, I'll have daily access, but might be a bit spottier on my part for the next week.

Brake line blew in the truck, I'm not going anywhere...

[spiderwrangler]

Spider, any chance more of the tool proficiencies are on the way? Specifically forgery and poisoners? Asking for a friend .

Those have been added. I'll link to that post from the first page of this thread.

[thinkslogically]

Yeah, I'll get some more up when I Get a chance.

Just a heads up that I'll be traveling to see family over break, I'll have daily access, but might be a bit spottier on my part for the next week.

Brake line blew in the truck, I'm not going anywhere...

Well that sucks... Hope it's an easy enough fix.

[spiderwrangler]

Depends on if the whole line is corroded and prone to the same thing happening again, in which case it's a replacement rather than a repair. It's not difficult work, if it had happened once we got to my parents, it's something that if we were able to get the parts, I could have done with Dad and brother, most likely. But here, it's a question of how much is it going to cost me...

[thinkslogically]

Yeah, I hear that. I had a power steering line blow out on me as I was turning a corner once, the day before we were due to drive it 5 hours to catch a plane for a holiday. It's like they know when you have plans! Still, here's hoping it's both easy and cheap to fix!

On the matter of the game... We might be in way over our heads here! Good luck Zephyr and Randy!

[spiderwrangler]

This is a custom baddie, so I can't really say whether it's a balanced encounter or not, should it come to fighting.