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Yuuki

00:46

For character creation, do we want to do point-buy or dice?

John

what's point-buy?

Unionhawk

You get like 18 points or something, put them how you want (fallout style)

John

Yuuki

Except higher stats cost more points rather than a flat amount each time.

John

I'm kinda partial to dice

Yuuki

00:48

The advantage of point-buy is that you don't get screwed by RNG.

The disadvantage of point-buy is that you don't get blessed by RNG.

Unionhawk

RNG never blesses only takes

John

I dunno I've had really good RNG lately

Unionhawk

Roll for @John's luck

> 19

Yuuki

I've gotten a 17/16/18/16/20/17 cleric before.

Unionhawk

>_>

John

00:50

@Unionhawk I told you

GodEmperorDune

01:14

@Yuuki wow

i'm partial to point buy

or score array

Q: Is it better to take the array and be Joe Average, or to roll for the odds of getting on average better scores?

I am new to D&D. I was looking at character creation for D&D 5th edition. There were a few ways one could generate ability scores. I assumed the optional method of taking the numbers 15,14,13,12,10,8 would be at least as good as the default chance method (roll 4d6, drop lowest die), and more like...

dnd-5e

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune It was a bit odd, but my DM allowed us to roll one 4d5 stat just so we had a chance at hitting 20 for our mainstat.

Everyone hated me so much that session.

I feel like point-buy or score array would be best for us though.

That way, everyone has roughly equal characters and there's no cheating/fudging dice rolls (not that anyone would do that...)

Unionhawk

I think the platform does dice or something?

OR WE COULD TTS THIS STUFF

(no)

GodEmperorDune

yeah roll20 does dice and the roll is saved into history so no fudging

in a test one i set up using 4d6 drop lowest, i got two 17s

but then i rolled for starting GP and got right above minimum

Yuuki

Well, I guess doing it that way also lets us get used to roll20.

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SaintWacko

14:05

@GodEmperorDune Are spells not as much for combat?

Yuuki

@SaintWacko Spells are for in and out of the combat. It's just that arcanists have to prepare spell lists at the beginning of the day.

Which means they can't focus all their spells on combat otherwise they might be useless for some encounters.

D&D magic has two forms: spontaneous and prepared.

Both types of casters have a certain number of spells they can cast per day.

However, prepared-type casters have to prepare specific spells at the beginning of the day. In return, they usually have a larger number of spells they can cast every day.

Spontaneous-type casters on the other hand, can cast any spell that they know at any time so long as they still have enough "spells per day" in the bank. In return, they usually can't cast as many spells as a prepared-type.

SaintWacko

Hmm, so it's not like a mana thing that regenerates?

Yuuki

Nope.

SaintWacko

Also, are we playing today?

Yuuki

No, I think we're just doing character creation and testing out roll20 at the same time.

Ah, arcanists look to be a wizard/sorcerer hybrid. They still have to prepare specific spells beforehand, but the specific spell isn't used up when cast (although "spells per day" is still used up).

Prepared magic is a bit complicated for newbies, which is why I suggest sorcerer or another spontaneous-type if you want to do magic.

Oooo, Savant looks interesting if only requiring a lot of work.

I think it looks a bit complicated for now, I might just stick with factotum.

GodEmperorDune

15:13

if we have enough time, a sample combat might make sense to do

but either way i am super hyped

Yuuki

15:48

Oh wait, I need to get Mumble, right?

Unionhawk

Yes probably

Do we have a server?

Also, wait, I have shit going on anyway

SaintWacko

16:25

@Yuuki Yeah, it's sounding like I should avoid the magic classes for a first time

Yuuki

@SaintWacko Spontaneous-types are fairly simple though.

GodEmperorDune

16:43

@SaintWacko we'll help you out with all the how to play type stuff

SaintWacko

Alright, thanks :)

GodEmperorDune

the important thing is to play something you'll have fun with, not just what is easy or hard

two bugs

17:02

It's in 1 hour I think

GodEmperorDune

confirmed that i am crazy

SaintWacko

I don't think I'll be able to join for today's character creation session, so maybe during this next week I could get some help with that?

LadyWacko has also played D&D, so she'll be able to help me out, too

two bugs

Sure, that's fine

I'm getting some tracking stuff set up on my end

user15026

17:47

I was going to jump into today's stuff but I just spent 3 hours wandering between getting breakfast and groceries so I am tired so I think I am going to grab a shower and then hold really really still for a bit

two bugs

No worries, I think we were just going to do group character creation today

John

18:03

Alright!

Who's around?

two bugs

Me!

Yuuki

(raises hand)

Do we have a Mumble server?

John

Origami runs one once in a while, we could ask him

but

I thought roll20 could handle voice?

Yuuki

Can it? I did not know this.

John

I think you have to sign in for that

GodEmperorDune

18:05

roll20 does voice, according to their docs

John

Anyone with experience wanna make a roll20 game or should I?

GodEmperorDune

if we're going to do sheets and stuff it should be the GM

so its all in one place

John

Who wants to DM?

GodEmperorDune

i think @twobugs is DM

two bugs

I was going to try DMing. Playing with rolld20 now

John

18:10

I just had Python choose a random name from a list and it chose @twobugs too.

It's official now.

two bugs

This looks quite useful (rolld20)

John

Yeah @Pip said it was good

two bugs

Okay, here's a basic game using one of the predefined modules if anyone wants to try joining

app.roll20.net/join/1073724/5SMQ1A

John

18:26

it's giving me a 5 minute tutorial vid since it's the first time I've joined a game

two bugs

It gave me a 12 minute tutorial :P

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GodEmperorDune

19:52

here's the tutorial game

app.roll20.net/editor

cc @twobugs

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two bugs

@GodEmperorDune Thanks! I'll definitely check this out and some more DM tools

GodEmperorDune

20:39

app.roll20.net/editor/tutorial

there should be a /tutorial after editor

not sure why i fail at copy paste

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Yuuki

22:59

Thought: Use old-school gaming sprites for tokens instead.

Yuuki

23:17

Okay, I'm going through the character creation, I think I have a bit of a handle on it.

We definitely need to schedule a session for this since the character sheet is a bit complicated.

GodEmperorDune

Yeah I agree

The formulas are powerful but a pain to get right

Yuuki

23:42

Using gaming sprites would be tremendously appropriate for us though.

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