Feedback, Complaints, Concerns, Likes, Dislikes for Campaign #1 [Joy the DM]

[Wofl]

[Ashley] The way Joy runs this, believe it or not, I am also surprised sometimes and I also sometimes hear her thoughts and she'll just change her mind so I don't know what's going to happen until it's happening.

You won't understand this unless you write a novel or two, eventually you don't know where this is all coming from, not even Joy, and it's so odd that it often meshes together and works.

So I was surprised by Summer, and I know now why Summer was necessary but at the time I didn't know what Summer was going to say or do, what she'd be like and I didn't even know Summer was Ulla until later.

I also think we're going to have to fight a giant spider even though Alice doesn't think so. It makes sense to me.

[Joy] sounds like foreshadowing to me.

[Ashley] wait, so if Alice doesn't think we have to fight a spider then we definitely do right?

[Joy] I will not know myself until the moment one spawns or doesn't.

[Τamamo]

There were a lot of plot twists!
It was clear that our first quest wouldn't be a smooth escort mission but Cat was surprises the second thing we encountered after that cougar was a full grown dragon!
And yeah that part 2 of the goblin den was such a zerg rush of goblins and wolves. The bandits running away was also unexpected and of course Cat's duel with Ashley.

[Alice]

Obviously that Summer was not the dragon in disguise!
I still don't fully believe it.

Also that demon. I mean wtf?

[Wofl]

>Also that demon. I mean wtf?

Archdemons and demigods are the two vying factions that rival the gods in the material plane and other planes. Both can be thought of as level 20+ adventurers. They cannot take on a god in the god's home plane but can keep gods at bay in other planes. They also sometimes "kill" each other. This simply kicks them out of the plane they're in and into another plane, usually the ethereal plane. SheShe and the Mechathereal goddess are in the Ethereal plane currently.

So archdemons and demigods (they're equivalent) will sometimes align with interesting vessels to foster them. SheShe has aligned with Yulya, the nameless Mechathereal Demigoddess has aligned with Ashley. They sometimes don't ask for permission. If they don't, they eventually have to or they will be forcibly removed. Ashley was given the choice to accept or reject her recently.

Why him? Because he knows about the ship... along with a few dozen others and rumors are spreading.

[Kashtan]

rumors are spreading

lol Alices worst nightmare
im still excited about her ship though. and the entire Alice backstory

[Wofl]

Yes, the celebrity Alien

[Wofl]

Now that we understand things better, SheShe added a usage on Healer's Kit, it still is required to treat cut or pierce wounds due to critical hit, it's not needed for Blunt injuries. To compensate for the cost, it also heals 1HP but can only be used once per critical injury. For 5 gold, it technically heals more than a 50gp healing potion (2d4+2), that's a pretty good deal. I am not changing our game at this time.

[Wofl]

SheShe worked out this as an interim solution to: "Why not fast travel?" and "What's the benefit of slow travel?"

Slow travel .67 x speed will add stealth if trained, .5 x speed will add counter tracking if trained, stealth if untrained.

Fast travel 2x speed: Roll Fortitude (best of STR/CON) for each party member every hour. Critical failure adds 1 level of exhaustion, 3 failures will add 1 level of exhaustion. Exhaustion takes 8 hours of rest to remove. Fast travel is noisy and will add to the chances of an encounter.

[Alice]

Gotta go fast!

I think in reasonably secure places like the High Road, it makes sense to go faster. But with Ashley's STR/CON we probably won't get far before she drops dead. At least I have +2CON. But if I fuck up that roll... Fuck, I'm actually weaker that Ashley with -1STR! I can't wait to evolve into a less embarrassing form.

[Wofl]

Bear was watching another counter-tracking video because they had to escape bandits. They made it two hours before Bear rolled critical fail and made them even slower.

Oh, I forgot to mention that any travel beyond 12 hours a day also follows this rule. You risk exhaustion.

Now that said, exhaustion isn't that bad. It has a blanket -2 proficiency on everything affected by proficiency, AC is not affected, and since until higher levels, you only get +2 proficiency anyway, higher levels of exhaustion only affect speed. So even having exhaustion 2 won't stop you from traveling.

I am also allowing concurrent recovery for exhaustion so if you have exhaustion 3, 4 whatever, you can get rid of all levels on long rest, specifically sleep. For now this seems broken but it's very unlikely to get exhaustion 2 except by critical hits and as a front liner, Bear's had exhaustion 2 after a battle and requiring 16 hours of rest after an encounter seems pointlessly harsh.