OoC - Out of Chocowaves

[paladinred]

Here you guys

https://discord.gg/qUvpQxK6

[8w_gremlin]

I'm on discord too, 8wGremlin

 

[PureChance]

So we can probably address it in character once we're in the city (and let me know paladinred if you'd prefer all tactics/strategy discussion to happen only in person), but given there's no cost to the trickery domain blessing (advantage on stealth checks for 1 hour), I'm thinking that Jac will default to providing it to Kerrick (presuming he's going to default to Guardian armour) to cancel out his disadvantage as we're otherwise pretty stealthy as a party. Obviously if one member is going to head off scouting on their own (of which we're a few candidates), he'll offer it to them instead.

[Evendur]

Kerrick is indeed Guardian armor.

Dual Wielder and Sentinel don't really do much for the Infiltrator model, lol.

 

I honestly don't know if it's worth it, it might be better to just let someone be really stealthy, and let him be the bait I intended. Though, not sure how well he can be bait in like, an 8 person party.

[PureChance]

Very happy for him to draw the aggro, but presumably there will be times when we want to avoid a fight entirely (especially given what paladinred said about the last time they ran this campaign), and in that circumstance one excellent roll wouldn't make up for one poor roll.

[Evendur]

Fair enough.

[paladinred]

Group rolls may be needed from time to time, also noise in general could be a killer. Once you are in the city and a fight breaks out you might attract a few more monsters, just to make it interesting lol

[PureChance]

Essentially my logic was that if you're better at stealth you can still choose to fail and cause a distraction, but if you're bad at stealth you can't choose to succeed. Plus I'm not sure there's any safe zones once we're inside so things could quickly snowball out of control with no real place to lose them (although that might be wrong, and I guess undead at least aren't traditionally the smartest so might be able to run them into some demons and leave in the confusion).

[slinkman00]

Its good to make the least stealthy person at least a little stealthy... I'm sure there will be times we dont want to attract attention. But ultimately, I dont want to fuss over it. We dont really know what we are running into. I'm also not sure how well stealth works against things that dont have eyes or ears... skeletons or zombies. Or things that might have amped senses like Vamps or Demons. We dont know exactly what we are running into.

Personally, I wont argue the case beyond this as its "cranky clank's" choice. But, if we are not directly in combat, we are probably trying to stay under the radar. When we are in combat... He can stop trying to remain quiet.

Additionally. If we come across things that are not fooled by stealth. We might want to try that spell on one of our more stealthy people to see if they can sneak and get intel. Or,

[Evendur]

Yeah, I get the thinking, definitely better to roll at +0 without disadvantage, lol.

Edited August 16, 2023 by Evendur (see edit history)

[Lunermist]

if we've got any rangers/druids they should have Pass without trace (the legit most broken spell in 5e) which as long as they hold concentration gives a number of people +10 to stealth checks for up to an hour.

[PureChance]

Jacerin has it as a domain spell - that's what he was alluding to when he mentioned giving him a moment when we get into the city proper

[paladinred]

You can post now in the Part 2 thread, I will close the part 1 thread.

[PureChance]

@paladinreddo you just want us to start a new thread in the part2 heading section?

[paladinred]

No need, I thought I had already done it lol