If this place is a crank puzzle, I wish you all godspeed. 'cause my brain is fried after work nowadays, and my puzzle ability was low as it was.
I wouldn't call it a crank puzzle. The main plot here is that it's a cabal. But the cranks do serve a purpose.
Remember, you don't have to be able to solve puzzles, riddles, and mysteries. Your character does. Roll a skill check that you think makes sense, and tell me what you are trying to figure out. I'll give you information from the perspective of that skill check.
As a barometer for most skill checks:
1-5 will likely produce unreliable or unrelated results. 6-10 will produce common sense results. 11-15 will produce insightful results, including clues and hints 16-20 will produce a reliably accurate answer. Your character will be very confident in their knowledge of the subject. 21-25 divine intervention has guided your hand. Even if it doesn't make sense that you know this, you feel absolutely certain about something.
As a general rule of thumb, when I set DCs, I take RAW into consideration:
5 Very easy 10 Easy 15 Medium 20 Hard 25 Very Hard 30 Nearly Impossible
I'd say the DC on this is somewhere between Easy and Medium.
Some skill checks are impossible to succeed in, and I will tell you through PM. The god's can't always intercede. So sometimes, not even a result of 21-25 will reveal much. Since Sera grew up homeless (and may have camped out in a sewer on occassion), Merkas was a criminal, and Nare has been living in the sewers, I will allow them to roll with Advantage.
If you have a holy symbol of Sargonnas, or a robe with the holy symbol etched on it, please add that to your inventory. I will check that when determining who the zombies attack or ignore.
“Hey... look here,” she called, her voice a coaxing tone like one might use on a lost dog. “A totally non-Sargonnas-approved mortal right here... come now... be a good zombie.”
She paused mid-sentence, realizing how ridiculous it sounded, then muttered to herself: “How do necromancers talk to their creations anyway?”
That's going in the memory bank for D&D anecdotes. 🤣
Chuckles. But I thought I was smart now. Maybe it even listen to commands? How else they get the zombies to stay anyplace and not walk around open doors, set of trap..stink in he wrong places f you cannot command them? We find out...
Chuckles. But I thought I was smart now. Maybe it even listen to commands? How else they get the zombies to stay anyplace and not walk around open doors, set of trap..stink in he wrong places f you cannot command them? We find out...
Sera: Zombie Trainer 🤭
I like it. I was origionally thinking they were just ambling guards... wandering wherever. I liked the amusing thought that sometimes acolytes had to get them unstuck from closets and loose grates as part of their daily chores while they earn their rank. But the idea that you can heard them like cattle to do your bidding sounds way more entertaining.
Chuckles. But I thought I was smart now. Maybe it even listen to commands? How else they get the zombies to stay anyplace and not walk around open doors, set of trap..stink in he wrong places f you cannot command them? We find out...
Sera: Zombie Trainer 🤭
I like it. I was origionally thinking they were just ambling guards... wandering wherever. I liked the amusing thought that sometimes acolytes had to get them unstuck from closets and loose grates as part of their daily chores while they earn their rank. But the idea that you can heard them like cattle to do your bidding sounds way more entertaining.
“Zombie no!!! Don’t eat that!! Bad zombie! Bad!”
*zombie whimpering*
”Did you get stuck on the top of the stairs again?”
*zombie shuffling noises*
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<---- me irl slow reader, even slower writer easily jumpy thanks for being patient
DM: Drakkenheim Mind and Matter + Blood Secrets + What's in the Here and Now;
You're welcome to roll checks to understand the statue better. I will accept INT, Arcana, Religion, or Insight. Perception will not gain you any more knowledge than you already have.
Next week will be a very difficult week. I may not have the time or energy to post as frequently. Bare with me; I will update as often as I can.
That is okay..post when you can. I travel to Turkey tomorrow..unsure how much I get online...I am sure it be some..maybe even much since it is family i will visit in the middle of turkey. So not exactely turist place..
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Sounds good to me…
Loyalty Begets Honour
Sounds like someone’s got a wild hare…
Character: Hastos, Ibahalii Vriwhulth, the Reaper of Glory v2: IC Thread
That be me... :P
Team pointyears up for trouble right away!
If this place is a crank puzzle, I wish you all godspeed. 'cause my brain is fried after work nowadays, and my puzzle ability was low as it was.
lol!
I don’t think I grabbed one of those sigils from Merkas…
Character: Hastos, Ibahalii Vriwhulth, the Reaper of Glory v2: IC Thread
AND MAKE IT DOUBLE
we going rabbit huntin
<---- me irl slow reader, even slower writer easily jumpy thanks for being patient
DM: Drakkenheim Mind and Matter + Blood Secrets + What's in the Here and Now;
Player: Dragonlance
I wouldn't call it a crank puzzle. The main plot here is that it's a cabal. But the cranks do serve a purpose.
Remember, you don't have to be able to solve puzzles, riddles, and mysteries. Your character does. Roll a skill check that you think makes sense, and tell me what you are trying to figure out. I'll give you information from the perspective of that skill check.
As a barometer for most skill checks:
1-5 will likely produce unreliable or unrelated results.
6-10 will produce common sense results.
11-15 will produce insightful results, including clues and hints
16-20 will produce a reliably accurate answer. Your character will be very confident in their knowledge of the subject.
21-25 divine intervention has guided your hand. Even if it doesn't make sense that you know this, you feel absolutely certain about something.
As a general rule of thumb, when I set DCs, I take RAW into consideration:
5 Very easy
10 Easy
15 Medium
20 Hard
25 Very Hard
30 Nearly Impossible
I'd say the DC on this is somewhere between Easy and Medium.
Some skill checks are impossible to succeed in, and I will tell you through PM. The god's can't always intercede. So sometimes, not even a result of 21-25 will reveal much. Since Sera grew up homeless (and may have camped out in a sewer on occassion), Merkas was a criminal, and Nare has been living in the sewers, I will allow them to roll with Advantage.
My DM Registry
My Campaigns:
Ibahalii Vriwhulth, the Reaper of Glory v2: IC Thread (PbP); Secrets of the Island (On Discord); Lost Mine of Phendelver (tabletop)
My Characters:
Krik-tul, Thri-kreen monk; Mme Cragmaw, Goblin Artificer; River Kuthraeann, Wood Elf Paladin
If you have a holy symbol of Sargonnas, or a robe with the holy symbol etched on it, please add that to your inventory. I will check that when determining who the zombies attack or ignore.
My DM Registry
My Campaigns:
Ibahalii Vriwhulth, the Reaper of Glory v2: IC Thread (PbP); Secrets of the Island (On Discord); Lost Mine of Phendelver (tabletop)
My Characters:
Krik-tul, Thri-kreen monk; Mme Cragmaw, Goblin Artificer; River Kuthraeann, Wood Elf Paladin
YOOOOOO?! Damn that 21… !!!! *sweats* this is a real big amount at once :0 Nate’s boutta info dump
<---- me irl slow reader, even slower writer easily jumpy thanks for being patient
DM: Drakkenheim Mind and Matter + Blood Secrets + What's in the Here and Now;
Player: Dragonlance
Sera's gonna love you for that. 😆
My DM Registry
My Campaigns:
Ibahalii Vriwhulth, the Reaper of Glory v2: IC Thread (PbP); Secrets of the Island (On Discord); Lost Mine of Phendelver (tabletop)
My Characters:
Krik-tul, Thri-kreen monk; Mme Cragmaw, Goblin Artificer; River Kuthraeann, Wood Elf Paladin
That's going in the memory bank for D&D anecdotes. 🤣
My DM Registry
My Campaigns:
Ibahalii Vriwhulth, the Reaper of Glory v2: IC Thread (PbP); Secrets of the Island (On Discord); Lost Mine of Phendelver (tabletop)
My Characters:
Krik-tul, Thri-kreen monk; Mme Cragmaw, Goblin Artificer; River Kuthraeann, Wood Elf Paladin
Chuckles. But I thought I was smart now. Maybe it even listen to commands? How else they get the zombies to stay anyplace and not walk around open doors, set of trap..stink in he wrong places f you cannot command them? We find out...
Sera: Zombie Trainer 🤭
I like it. I was origionally thinking they were just ambling guards... wandering wherever. I liked the amusing thought that sometimes acolytes had to get them unstuck from closets and loose grates as part of their daily chores while they earn their rank. But the idea that you can heard them like cattle to do your bidding sounds way more entertaining.
My DM Registry
My Campaigns:
Ibahalii Vriwhulth, the Reaper of Glory v2: IC Thread (PbP); Secrets of the Island (On Discord); Lost Mine of Phendelver (tabletop)
My Characters:
Krik-tul, Thri-kreen monk; Mme Cragmaw, Goblin Artificer; River Kuthraeann, Wood Elf Paladin
Going psspsssspsss at the zombies!!!
Man I wish we had Speak with the UNDead we could’ve maybe talked with them
<---- me irl slow reader, even slower writer easily jumpy thanks for being patient
DM: Drakkenheim Mind and Matter + Blood Secrets + What's in the Here and Now;
Player: Dragonlance
“Zombie no!!! Don’t eat that!! Bad zombie! Bad!”
*zombie whimpering*
”Did you get stuck on the top of the stairs again?”
*zombie shuffling noises*
<---- me irl slow reader, even slower writer easily jumpy thanks for being patient
DM: Drakkenheim Mind and Matter + Blood Secrets + What's in the Here and Now;
Player: Dragonlance
ROFL!
Is Dawnbound going to build a Duskguard this way?!
My DM Registry
My Campaigns:
Ibahalii Vriwhulth, the Reaper of Glory v2: IC Thread (PbP); Secrets of the Island (On Discord); Lost Mine of Phendelver (tabletop)
My Characters:
Krik-tul, Thri-kreen monk; Mme Cragmaw, Goblin Artificer; River Kuthraeann, Wood Elf Paladin
You're welcome to roll checks to understand the statue better. I will accept INT, Arcana, Religion, or Insight. Perception will not gain you any more knowledge than you already have.
Next week will be a very difficult week. I may not have the time or energy to post as frequently. Bare with me; I will update as often as I can.
My DM Registry
My Campaigns:
Ibahalii Vriwhulth, the Reaper of Glory v2: IC Thread (PbP); Secrets of the Island (On Discord); Lost Mine of Phendelver (tabletop)
My Characters:
Krik-tul, Thri-kreen monk; Mme Cragmaw, Goblin Artificer; River Kuthraeann, Wood Elf Paladin
okay..roll arcana and gets...1 . IT IS A MOVING STATUE... period.
Lets smash it..initative 20
:D
That is okay..post when you can. I travel to Turkey tomorrow..unsure how much I get online...I am sure it be some..maybe even much since it is family i will visit in the middle of turkey. So not exactely turist place..