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Ellu’s past taught him the usefulness of being flashy as a means of influencing a mark, but that means he also understands that it’s better not to draw attention unless it serves a purpose. There’s a slight tilt to his head that his companions would find familiar, and if they happened to be looking directly at his multi-faceted eyes, the slightest, rippling spark of something electric crosses their compound surface. To strangers, it’s a brief moment of the husky faerie cracking his neck. A common gesture from a common wanderer.

Evasion: 9 | Armor Score: 3 | Armor Slots ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ | HP ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ | Stress ▣ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ | Hope ▣ ▣ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ Passive: Arcane Sense (class)You can sense the presence of magical people and objects when you’re close to them. Reactions: Luckbender (per session)Once per session, after you or an ally in close range makes an Action Roll, you can mark a Stress to allow a reroll of the Duality Dice. If you do, take the new result. Token actions this combat: 0 "Oh, thank goodness," Ellu muttered under their breath. Ivy going for the shoes meant he could go for his own. Having the bent of his feet exposed made his ankles itch. At the sight of the candy and figurines, he pauses and squints. Something crackles behind his eyes as he assesses the new objects. ((OOC: Ellu's just going to make sure they aren't radiating any magic before touching them.))

Heads up it looks like another rules update will be dropping next week. If it’s like last time, Demiplane sheets will auto-update with newest rules / text at that time. I need to remember to try and do screen caps this time so I can better compare sheet updates (my memory is awful about noticing things like that :) )

Evasion: 9 | Armor Score: 3 | Armor Slots ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ | HP ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ | Stress ▣ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ | Hope ▣ ▣ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ Passive: Arcane Sense (class)You can sense the presence of magical people and objects when you’re close to them. Reactions: Luckbender (per session)Once per session, after you or an ally in close range makes an Action Roll, you can mark a Stress to allow a reroll of the Duality Dice. If you do, take the new result. Token actions this combat: 0 Ellu sighed. So much for his ability to leverage useful information from locals. "Ah, so she's not imbibing at the moment? Fair enough, and our thanks." They turned to the others. "Not that I'm opposed to painting a pretty rock, but given our fun on the way here, I'd rather get our package handed off first, then we can talk about wrestling people's arms, yes?"

Evasion: 9 | Armor Score: 3 | Armor Slots ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ | HP ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ | Stress ▣ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ | Hope ▣ ▣ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ Passive: Arcane Sense (class)You can sense the presence of magical people and objects when you’re close to them. Reactions: Luckbender (per session)Once per session, after you or an ally in close range makes an Action Roll, you can mark a Stress to allow a reroll of the Duality Dice. If you do, take the new result. Token actions this combat: 0 Ellu was happy to let the more martial members of the party share the details of their weapons to entertain their information source. No one wanted to hear it's a stick with crystals and it sparks a lot, after all. At the tavern, Ellu shrinks a bit at the sign. Well, when in Hush... He slips his boots off, his digitigrade legs and clawed feet exposed now without obfuscation from footware. "Okay, let's find this fellow and get this done," Ellu said, drawing his cloak to draw darker shadows around his feet.

Evasion: 9 | Armor Score: 3 | Armor Slots ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ | HP ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ | Stress ▣ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ | Hope ▣ ▣ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ Passive: Arcane Sense (class)You can sense the presence of magical people and objects when you’re close to them. Reactions: Luckbender (per session)Once per session, after you or an ally in close range makes an Action Roll, you can mark a Stress to allow a reroll of the Duality Dice. If you do, take the new result. Token actions this combat: 0 Ellu checked his ears at the slight popping sensation. They hadn't moved too high for pressure to shift, had they? Probably not worth dwelling on. Find the arcanist, deliver the package, and find the next thing to distract from worries left unspoken. Finding a pliable ear in a new place was something Ellu was more than familiar with. He tapped Kimber on the shoulder to slow enough he could disembark, and used a practiced eye to find a lingering gaze that wasn't guarded, then deployed one of Toosum's old standard strategies for sliding into welcome. "Oh but you look familiar, at least from the stories I've heard. I think we've an old friend in common, as it were, and I'm hoping you can help me find them. Any idea where the Whitefire Arcanist is lazing about today?" ((OOC: burning a Hope to add +2 from Ellu's "We have an old friend in common" Experience on a Presence roll to try and sweet talk folks into pointing us to the Arcanist. Looks like 26 with Fear. So close to a crit... EDIT 2: Ellu's Arcane Sense class ability should confirm if the stone pilars are magical. It doesn't appear to need a roll or anything, so I think he just gets some kind of buzz whenever anyone or anything around him is magic.)) Presence with experience))

It's been several years since I've been in a PbP game. Is starting new threads for ongoing campaigns the usual practice? (this is a genuine question. My working assumption was that a given adventuring party would just use the same thread until their party ended adventuring, but like I said it's been awhile).

Evasion: 9 | Armor Score: 3 | Armor Slots ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ | HP ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ | Stress ▣ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ | Hope ▣ ▣ ▣ ☐ ☐ ☐ Passive: Arcane Sense (class)You can sense the presence of magical people and objects when you’re close to them. Reactions: Luckbender (per session)Once per session, after you or an ally in close range makes an Action Roll, you can mark a Stress to allow a reroll of the Duality Dice. If you do, take the new result. Token actions this combat: 1 Ellu gave a sigh of relief, his boots reconnecting with the ground as his wings folded back to blend with his cloak. "Okay, I think he threw the box this way. Is everyone all right?" ((OOC: I'm not sure if the thief threw the package such that it requires an Instinct roll to search or not, so I'll hold off rolling for now, but the intent is retrieving the package))

I thought it went well! Even though we sort of acted in blocks, it did feel a little looser in that I didn’t feel like I had to make sure X character acted ahead of me. I mostly tried to make sure I wasn’t just acting solo back to back and held off a bit when it seemed there were folks who hadn’t acted at all yet. One PbP wrinkle possibly related to that is I’m struggling to figure out how best to give a Help. It seems the game assumes there will be a decent amount of “let me give my companion advantage,” but since I think the intent of that is to declare in the moment (before a roll result), it’s tricky to figure out. I could say “I’ll burn a Hope to give whoever goes next advantage,” but since the idea is you have to describe how you help that gets clunky. Tag Team will probably be similar, but since that’s session limited, I imagine we’ll hold back on that for when fights look tougher) Oh! Do we have a “house rule” for when session abilities reset? PbP had no sessions really, so I’m not really sure how to gauge that. Overall thank you and well done!

Evasion: 10 (flying) | Armor Score: 3 | Armor Slots ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ | HP ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ | Stress ▣ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ | Hope ▣ ▣ ▣ ☐ ☐ ☐ Passive: Arcane Sense (class)You can sense the presence of magical people and objects when you’re close to them. Reactions: Luckbender (per session)Once per session, after you or an ally in close range makes an Action Roll, you can mark a Stress to allow a reroll of the Duality Dice. If you do, take the new result. Token actions this combat: 1 "Why is it always the last one that's wily and worrisome?" Ellu flits in an arc, not as close as Ivy, but he didn't want to chance misjudging the gap. Ellu felt a surge, the kind that made his stomach drop when it was tied to his magic. don't let this go wrong... With another crackle, blue-white lighting zig-zagged chaotically across the space to the amphibious thief. (OOC: 19 with Fear to hit, 4 damage). Dualstaff Attack

GM has final say, but I definitely assumed "flying" included a vertical movement axis. e.g., if Ellu flies up to be Far range from enemies, and those enemies have neither a Far range attack nor the ability to fly, then they have to find other ways to either end his flight or attack at range (or pick another target). Unlike D&D, flying in Daggerheart doesn't appear to change your move speed (which I like for its simplicity), though, so you still have to make rolls to move more than Close distance with an action (and always have to roll if you move without taking an action).

The previous version had a line about using it on groups of enemies. The new one seems to have omitted that, which certainly reduces one of its benefits. The line “if you use it as a weapon” suggests it’s supposed to have non-weapon uses, but the card doesn’t provide a lot of guidance for whether that’s difficult terrain or what.

Updated adventure stats are out for 1.3:

Looks like that worked! I fiddled and it seems to let me move stuff about. Added a little "flying" indicator to the token as a test and looks like it stuck. Thanks!

Similarly having trouble figuring out how to add token to map, so adding here: