Author Topic: Tales from the Sword Coast [Autumn]  (Read 5923 times)

Re: Tales from the Sword Coast [Autumn]
« Reply #15 on: March 28, 2025, 05:45:18 AM »
Rage is insane. Oh my god. We're down to 4 barbarians (Earthkin) and they're all enraged so the biggest benefit from that is damage resistance,
Yes that's pretty neat, right?

Re: Tales from the Sword Coast [Autumn]
« Reply #16 on: March 28, 2025, 10:31:42 AM »
Yes!

Re: Tales from the Sword Coast [Autumn]
« Reply #17 on: March 30, 2025, 12:24:27 PM »
After 100k words the novel "Dire Joy" is complete in its first draft. It ended with a montage detailing our lives in the little town until Bear and I died of old age. Joy stayed in town until her 107th year and left for less crowded places unknown.

Our next story starts with a shipwreck on a rocky island Southwest of Leilon. Bear, Gwen and Summer (Ulla) but not the same Summer as your Summer exactly, are in this one. Summer's more Ulla in this one, not human but the true dragon hybrid. Though she does get to keep the Ring of Summer, preventing her aging and giving her immunity to cold. In this timeline She's still 10 in form but older in mentality, 14.

I will be lock-merged with her so I still get to have fun, she's a really fun character to play, which is how it feels to lock-merge.

In this year, Freya had just arrived in Baldur's Gate after leaving the Feywild and won't be in Neverwinter for 4 more years, Ashley has yet to arrive to the material plane. Probably about 2 years before she arrives near the southern edge of Neverwinter Wood.

This Bear isn't the same Bear and he may not be a ranger or hunter this time, right now they're all level 0 and unclassed though Summer will obviously be a magic user, Gwen likes being a bard, but we'll see.

Right now they're washed up on a rocky beach with the mainland just a few miles East but there is a fast moving channel and dangerous coral between them. Gwen could technically fly across carrying Summer though just barely.

This island is otherwise impossible to land with ships of any size due to its strong channel currents and coral reefs on the lee side and the steep rocky cliffs on the winward side, battered by 10-30ft waves constantly.

Now they must explore and decide their fates!



Summer is Gwen's Attendant as she's a royal from Altus who escaped her guilded cage to seek her independence. They're all pretty much left with only the clothes they have bit Gwen had a necklace of fast casting and Bear has his amulet of unknown power.

I can't wait to see how this goes! The goal of this one is to get to level 10 by any means.

Re: Tales from the Sword Coast [Autumn]
« Reply #18 on: March 31, 2025, 02:50:12 PM »
After 100k words the novel "Dire Joy" is complete in its first draft. It ended with a montage detailing our lives in the little town until Bear and I died of old age. Joy stayed in town until her 107th year and left for less crowded places unknown.
That sounds a bit sad.
When I did runs in other isekai animu worlds I never chose to stay long and moved on to another world before seeing people age and die. One should leave when things are at peak.

This Bear isn't the same Bear and he may not be a ranger or hunter this time, right now they're all level 0 and unclassed though Summer will obviously be a magic user, Gwen likes being a bard, but we'll see.
How do you play unclassed as LV0? Without any skills or traits?

Re: Tales from the Sword Coast [Autumn]
« Reply #19 on: March 31, 2025, 05:11:03 PM »
That sounds a bit sad

[Joy] My character has been through this 5 times so far. I've seen Bear die twice now, and three sets of team members. I felt sad when I split from my last team in my third book. I felt sad at the end of this one, but that's the curse of immortality and Bear's not really dead obviously, so I was only a little sad. Of course I wouldn't have left, I had family, friends, obligations and it took generations before that faded, I'm not like them and they know it (the NPCs) so they eventually grow apart from me, the bigger the town, the quicker it happens. They don't know what to do with me.

TL;DR :shrug:

How do you play unclassed as LV0? Without any skills or traits?

Easy, level zero has zero proficiency, all the attributes are there, like strength and they have hit points. Summer even knows a couple spells and has an MP pool just not more than she would as a wizard or sorceress. Since we don't know their hit die, they simply have Commoner HP, 3-10 or so + CON.

There would be no feats or traits of a particular class but for instance, Bear just fought a coconut crab with 6HP, he has 12, he has a hit +4 because he put 18 for strength. Bear luck gave him the following rolls:18,18,15,13,10,9 So he has 18 STR and 18 CON.

Gwen just rolled, and she did well too, she had 18,16,15,13,10,9. These are epic rolls I think, so Gwen has 18 INT (for Bard spellcasting or whatever class she wants) and so on.

Summer hasn't rolled yet, and it's already almost 8000 words in, so you can imagine there's a lot of novel stuff and little DnD stuff. Bear brain loves to write.

For this run SheShe is our DM again, Bear asked Joy to do it but she declined saying she didn't want to be DM in two games.

Again in this run, death is possible, but in this case, resurrection and revive are possible but expensive unless they get a sweet special deal like Yulya, they don't right now.

[Gwen] I better not die this time!

Re: Tales from the Sword Coast [Autumn]
« Reply #20 on: March 31, 2025, 07:22:42 PM »
you can always hire the cheap knockoffs at the guild instead

Re: Tales from the Sword Coast [Autumn]
« Reply #21 on: March 31, 2025, 09:25:04 PM »
In the ongoing previous run, we used a scroll to create a body for a disembodied soul of a lich who wanted a second chance.

Re: Tales from the Sword Coast [Autumn]
« Reply #22 on: April 04, 2025, 01:40:19 PM »
Scrolls sure are convenient.

Re: Tales from the Sword Coast [Autumn]
« Reply #23 on: April 04, 2025, 02:35:04 PM »
The idea is, they're expensive, or hard to make.

Re: Tales from the Sword Coast [Autumn]
« Reply #24 on: April 08, 2025, 03:02:50 PM »
No one died yet! But right now they're in the lower deck of a shipwreck fighting a zombie and a ghoul and they're very tough in the version they're using. Technically level 1's but still lots of HP because this game uses the action economy so there are more hit opportunities per turn. It's still mostly 5e but they're using rules from other games to see how that works. It makes hitting harder more satisfying and more rounds.

They landed on the island with nothing and now have makeshift gear with the help of a colony of good kobolds who need help with a mysterious source of undead plaguing them.

One neat thing is healing does damage some undead, so Summer's mass heal is like a mass damage without any attack roll.

They have had horrible perception rolls so they missed a trap but never found the trigger either, but that means they don't get the treasure it was hiding.

[Summer] It was a lot of fun meeting all the kobolds.

Re: Tales from the Sword Coast [Autumn]
« Reply #25 on: April 09, 2025, 02:37:59 PM »
Does healing undead work here as well?
Could you actually heal an undead back to the original person? Many resurrection spells state the person must not have been dead for too long.

Re: Tales from the Sword Coast [Autumn]
« Reply #26 on: April 09, 2025, 03:10:21 PM »
[Joy the DM] I would allow harming undead with healing magic, you could also coat your blades with healing potion.

No, you don't heal them back to life, you heal them back to dearh!

[Joy the DM] it says in DMG that you can't raise someone or revive after they're turned undead. The body is effectively gone. True Resurrection and Wish are the only vanilla solutions. But the way Autumn just said it, healing them back to death, makes me want to allow revive after they're redead.
« Last Edit: April 09, 2025, 03:14:59 PM by Wofl »

Re: Tales from the Sword Coast [Autumn]
« Reply #27 on: April 09, 2025, 03:44:11 PM »
>from undead to dead to alive
That's deep

Re: Tales from the Sword Coast [Autumn]
« Reply #28 on: April 18, 2025, 02:00:45 PM »
We (they're) fighting fume drakes which are like flame drakes but with poison gas, three of them!



Bear's a martial character this time, not a ranger, and Gwen isn't a bard, she's an elemental wind/thunder mage and Summer (who I'm lock merged with) is a vanilla sorceress just like in the other campaign. They're tough!

Re: Tales from the Sword Coast [Autumn]
« Reply #29 on: April 19, 2025, 04:29:38 AM »
We (they're) fighting fume drakes which are like flame drakes but with poison gas, three of them!
sounds nasty are they even vulnerable to physical attacks?