Now recruiting!- Ghosts of Saltmarsh (5E)

[Ghrymhawke]

Hi all!  Keeping in mind that I would be completely new to DMing online....would anyone be interested in a Ghosts of Saltmarsh campaign?  I had just started an in-person campaign before the pandemic hit, and really enjoyed it.  I figure 4-5 players would be ideal.

[AndyZ]

5e, right?  I could be interested.  What’s the char creation and level?

[Mosos]

Ohhhh I'd be in.

[Roman100]

I'd be down. Would we be doing it in E or on discord (still pbp)? I ask because I'm on mobile and E doesn't always work easily compared to discord on a mobile.

[Chulanowa]

Quite interested!

[Arcanist]

Very interested

[AribethAmkiir]

If it's 5e, I'm interested.

[Polymorph]

How did I miss this? I would be definitely interested.

[Cuchulainn]

Very Interested

[Ghrymhawke]

Oh wow, I didn't expect this much interest!

5e, right?  I could be interested.  What’s the char creation and level?

Yes, I'll be using the 5e setting. 

Character Creation

- Everyone will start at level 1

- I do 8+2d4 for stats

-Player's handbook +1 for races/classes/etc.

I'll leave this up for a little while, just to give everyone time to reply!  :)

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[AndyZ]

Roll Result: AndyZ rolled: 2d4, adding 8 to the total
Comment:
Result: 4, 4,
Total: 16

Roll Result: AndyZ rolled: 2d4, adding 8 to the total
Comment:
Result: 1, 2,
Total: 11

Roll Result: AndyZ rolled: 2d4, adding 8 to the total
Comment:
Result: 4, 1,
Total: 13

Roll Result: AndyZ rolled: 2d4, adding 8 to the total
Comment:
Result: 3, 2,
Total: 13

Roll Result: AndyZ rolled: 2d4, adding 8 to the total
Comment:
Result: 3, 3,
Total: 14

Roll Result: AndyZ rolled: 2d4, adding 8 to the total
Comment:
Result: 1, 3,
Total: 12

[Chulanowa]

8+2d4 is a new way of doing it, but alright, let's see what I get!

146191   Noone or Anyone   2020-04-19 13:43:24   At 2020-04-19 13:43:24, Chula (uid: 27361) rolls: 2d4 Result: 5
146190   Noone or Anyone   2020-04-19 13:43:21   At 2020-04-19 13:43:21, Chula (uid: 27361) rolls: 2d4 Result: 3
146189   Noone or Anyone   2020-04-19 13:43:17   At 2020-04-19 13:43:17, Chula (uid: 27361) rolls: 2d4 Result: 5
146188   Noone or Anyone   2020-04-19 13:43:12   At 2020-04-19 13:43:12, Chula (uid: 27361) rolls: 2d4 Result: 6
146187   Noone or Anyone   2020-04-19 13:43:08   At 2020-04-19 13:43:08, Chula (uid: 27361) rolls: 2d4 Result: 6
146186   Noone or Anyone   2020-04-19 13:43:03   At 2020-04-19 13:43:03, Chula (uid: 27361) rolls: 2d4 Result: 4

So, before racial adjustments, I'm looking at 13, 11, 13, 14, 14, 12

Not bad! Will hopefully have a thing up in a bit! not sure WHAT but definitely a thing 

[Polymorph]

At 2020-04-19 13:44:15, Polymorph (uid: 17259) rolls: 2d4a8 Result: 12
At 2020-04-19 13:44:08, Polymorph (uid: 17259) rolls: 2d4a8 Result: 13
At 2020-04-19 13:44:01, Polymorph (uid: 17259) rolls: 2d4a8 Result: 12
At 2020-04-19 13:43:54, Polymorph (uid: 17259) rolls: 2d4a8 Result: 12
At 2020-04-19 13:43:47, Polymorph (uid: 17259) rolls: 2d4a8 Result: 10
At 2020-04-19 13:43:34, Polymorph (uid: 17259) rolls: 2d4a8 Result: 12

Um...ok

Character-

Sergeant Harbottle

https://ddb.ac/characters/26605947/RCpt4Q

Character Half Orc | Fighter | Experience=0 HP: 12/12 (0) | AC: 17 (18) | HD: 1/1 Passive Perception: 13 | Initiative: +1 | Proficiency: +2 Speed: 30ft | Inspiration: 0/3 STR: 14 (+2) | DEX: 12 (+1) | CON: 14 (+2) INT: 10 (+0) | WIS: 12 (+1) | CHA: 12 (+1) Saves S: +4 | D: +1 | Co: +4 | I: +0 | W: +1 | Ch: +1 Death Successes: 0/3 | Death Failures: 0/3 Money Coinage: 10g | Alternative Wealth 0 Carry: 123.5 (+0)/210 S/F/T/P Skill Proficiency Acrobatics +1 Animal Handling +1 Arcana +0 Athletics +4 Deception +1 History +0 Insight +1 Intimidation +3 Investigation +2 Medicine +1 Nature +0 Perception +3 Performance +1 Persuasion +1 Religion +0 Sleight of Hand +1 Stealth +1 Survival +3 Other Proficiency Heavy Armor, Light Armor, Medium Armor, Shields Martial Weapons, Simple Weapons Playing Card Set, Vehicles (Land) Feats Languages Common, Orcish Features Dueling: When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon. Second Wind: Once per short rest, you can use a bonus action to regain 1d10 + 1 HP. Relentless Endurance:  When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. You can’t use this feature again until you finish a long rest. Darkvision: Thanks to your orc blood, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray. Menacing: You gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill. Savage Attacks: When you score a critical hit with a melee weapon attack, you can roll one of the weapon’s damage dice one additional time and add it to the extra damage of the critical hit. Attacks Crossbow, Light Ranged Weapon 80 (320) +3 1d8+1 Longsword Melee Weapon 5ft.Reach +4 1d8+4 Unarmed Strike Melee Attack 5ft.Reach +4 3 Equipment Backpack Bedroll Chainmail Common clothes Crossbow bolts x20 Crossbow, Light Dagger Longsword Messkit Playing card set Rations x10 Hempen rope x50ft Shield Tinderbox Waterskin Spells Casting Ability: - | Save DC: - | Attack Bonus: - Cantrip 1st Level (Total Known) (used/slots) 2nd Level (Total Known) (used/slots) 3rd Level (Total Known) (used/slots)

Appearance

Sergeant Harbottle has the large and powerful build common to Half Orcs. Facially he favours his Human heritage, his tusks being quite small and only noticeable when he smiles or bares his teeth. The healthy tan from pounding the beat hides to a degree the grey/green hue of his exposed skin. Overall he appears as a large and plain man on cursory inspection.

Personality

Sergeant Harbottle never knew his Orcish father. His mother was ravished by an Orc raider whilst working as a dairy maid in a farming community. The country folk, bearing a strong dislike of the Orcs demanded that his mother dispose of the large and mewling halfblood. Instead she gathered her meagre possessions and her infant and departed to the nearby city. Finding lodgings in the city slums where folk were less discriminating Mother Harbottle toiled as a barmaid/washerwoman/seamstress or any other temporary menial position to raise her boy and in time was courted by a member of the city watch.

The guard, a kindly and honest soldier accepted his adopted son without prejudice and instilled in the growing boy a sense of duty and honour. When the time came for the growing man to choose a profession his large build made him ideal to follow in his adoptive father figure's footsteps and enter the service of the city watch. He served capably although unremarkably for several years and earned promotion in due course.

The nondescript course of the Sergeant's life changed during a routine encounter with a small gang of cutpurses in a dark alley. Pursuing a fleeing rogue into the night the Sergeant cornered his suspect who drew a hand crossbow and got off a hurried shot before Harbottle was able to grapple and arrest him. The bolt hit the Sergeant in the knee and a foul poison coating the head resisted the standard city watch level of healing. Partially lame Harbottle was honourably discharged from service on medical grounds.

Some months passed with the Sergeant reduced to serving as a doorman/bouncer until whilst making an offering at a chapel to Tempus an itinerant cleric of that faith on hearing of his story performed a greater healing and fully restored the injury. The Sergeant, now fully restored chose not to rejoin the watch, but instead to repay Tempus by bringing justice and protection to those who had none as a wandering adventurer.

[PixelatedPixie]

I'd be interested as well if there is still room.

[Arcanist]

My stats that I will work with

Roll Result: Arcanist rolled: 2d4, adding 8 to the total
Comment: Ghosts of saltmarsh
Result: 4, 1,
Total: 13

Roll Result: Arcanist rolled: 2d4, adding 8 to the total
Comment: Ghosts of saltmarsh
Result: 1, 2,
Total: 11

Roll Result: Arcanist rolled: 2d4, adding 8 to the total
Comment: Ghosts of saltmarsh
Result: 3, 1,
Total: 12

Roll Result: Arcanist rolled: 2d4, adding 8 to the total
Comment: Ghosts of saltmarsh
Result: 4, 4,
Total: 16

Roll Result: Arcanist rolled: 2d4, adding 8 to the total
Comment: Ghosts of saltmarsh
Result: 3, 4,
Total: 15

Roll Result: Arcanist rolled: 2d4, adding 8 to the total
Comment: Ghosts of saltmarsh
Result: 4, 1,
Total: 13

[Ghrymhawke]

I'd be interested as well if there is still room.

There is still room!  :)

[TheLaughingOne]

Thats Right. Stats rolled.. In Order.
Cause I live On The Edge!!!!

Roll Result: TheLaughingOne rolled: 2d4, adding 8 to the total
Comment: strength
Result: 4, 2,
Total: 14

Roll Result: TheLaughingOne rolled: 2d4, adding 8 to the total
Comment: Dexterity
Result: 3, 4,
Total: 15

Roll Result: TheLaughingOne rolled: 2d4, adding 8 to the total
Comment: Constitution
Result: 4, 2,
Total: 14

Roll Result: TheLaughingOne rolled: 2d4, adding 8 to the total
Comment: Intelligence
Result: 2, 1,
Total: 11

Roll Result: TheLaughingOne rolled: 2d4, adding 8 to the total
Comment: Wisdom
Result: 2, 1,
Total: 11

Roll Result: TheLaughingOne rolled: 2d4, adding 8 to the total
Comment: Charisma
Result: 2, 3,
Total: 13

Decosta Human | Rogue | Experience=0 HP: 10/10 (0) | AC: 14 (15) | HD: 1d8 Passive Perception: 10 | Initiative: 3 | Proficiency: +2 Speed: 30ft | Inspiration: 0/3 STR: 14 (+2) | DEX: 16 (+3) | CON: 14 (+2) INT: 11 (+0) | WIS: 11 (+0) | CHA: 14 (+2) Saves S: +2 | D: +5 | Co: +2 | I: +2 | W: +0 | Ch: +2 Death Successes: 0/3 | Death Failures: 0/3 Money Coinage: CC : 50, SC : 25, EC : 4, GC : 5, PC : | Alternative Wealth 0 Carry: 93.5 (+0)/210 S/F/T/P Skill Proficiency Athletics: 4 Stealth: 5 Perception: 2 Survival: 2 Intimidation: 6 Performance: 6 Persuasion: 4 Other Proficiency Light Armor, Simple Weapons, Hand crossbows, Longswords, Rapiers, Shortswords (Musical) Nyckleharpa Thieve's tools Feats Dual Wielder: You can Draw/stow two weapons per round, you can dual wield non-light weapons, and you gain a +1 AC when dual wielding Languages Common Elvish Dwarvish Thieve's Cant Features Human: One extra skill proficiency of your choosing One Bonus Feat of your choosing Outlander: You can always remember the lay out of a regions geographical features, and can usually find enough food and water for Six people. Rogue: Double Proficiency with chosen Skills (Intimidation/Performance) Sneak Attack: (1d6) Secret Language (Thieves cant) Attacks Rapier : Range: 5 Feet, To Hit: +5, Damage: 1d8+3 Piercing Shortsword : Range: 5 Feet, To Hit: +5, Damage: 1d6+3 Piercing Dagger : Range: 20/60 Feet, To Hit: +5, Damage: 1d4+3 Piercing Equipment Leather Armor Rapier Shortsword 2x Daggers backpack, a bag of 1,000 ball bearings, 10 feet of string, a bell, 5 candles, a crowbar, a hammer, 10 pitons, a hooded lantern, 2 flasks of oil, 5 days rations, a tinderbox, waterskin 50 feet of hempen rope Thieves Tools Staff Hunting Trap Giant Shrimp claw Set of Traveler's clothes Belt Pouch Spells Casting Ability: - | Save DC: - | Attack Bonus: - Cantrip 1st Level (Total Known) (used/slots) 2nd Level (Total Known) (used/slots) 3rd Level (Total Known) (used/slots)

Appearance

Decosta stands tall and wiry, his build whipcord and rough with a strange looseness to it. His face always seems in a gaped-tooth grin with permanent heavy stubble that never seems to grow beyond a rough cropping. Brilliant blue eyes show mirth and dart around scanning the area around. His bright blue waist hangs loose over his frame with a red bandana wrapped around his head, and a deeper crimson sash wrapped around his waist with pouches and bangles hanging from it Not to mention a long rapier, a curved shortsword, and a pair of wicked daggers tucked in.

Personality

Humorous and prideful, Decosta travels the world sampling all it has to offer, so long as it seems interesting. He takes his honor and word very seriously when insulted, but remains fairly flexible with it when he can get away it. Rarely really shows anger, tending to act more "disappointed" with people. He treats life as a game with its ups and downs, but by no means cannot be a sore loser.

[Arcanist]

Yesmythe Famorira Half-Elf | Sorcerer (Storm) | Experience: HP: 7/7 (0) | AC: 13 (-) | HD: 1/1 Passive Perception: 12 | Initiative: +3 | Proficiency: +2 Speed: 30ft | Inspiration: 0/3 STR: 11 (+0) | DEX: 16 (+3) | CON: 13 (+1) INT: 12 (+1) | WIS: 13 (+2) | CHA: 18 (+4) Saves S: +0 | D: +3 | Co: +3 | I: +1 | W: +2 | Ch: +6 Death Successes: 0/3 | Death Failures: 0/3 Money Coinage: 10gp | Alternative Wealth 0 Carry: 0 (+0)/0 S/F/T/P Skill Proficiency Athletics +2 Acrobatics +5 Sleight of Hand +3 Stealth +3 Arcana +3 History +1 Investigation +1 Nature +1 Religion +1 Animal Handling +2 Insight +2 Medicine +2 Perception +4 Survival +2 Deception +4 Intimidation +4 Performance +4 Intimidation +4 Other Proficiency Navigator's Tools Vehicle (water) Daggers, darts, slings, quarterstaff & Light crossbow Feats Languages Common, Elven, Draconic & Primordial Features Ship's Passage Darkvision 60' Fey Ancestry Wind Speaker Tempestuous Magic Attacks Light Crossbow +5 1d8 piercing Dagger +5 1d4 Equipment Belaying pin 50ft silk rope Lucky charm - Corded stone carved into a likeness of a dolphin Common clothes Light crossbow Arcane focus Explorer's pack Two daggers Spells Casting Ability: Cha | Save DC: -14/i] | Attack Bonus: +6 Cantrip Electric Bolt Prestidigitation Mending Shocking Grasp 1st Level (Total Known) (used/slots) Shield Chromatic Orb 2nd Level (Total Known) (used/slots) 3rd Level (Total Known) (used/slots)

Appearance

Yesmythe is a striking half-elf female and a local sea dog in Saltmarsh. Ask any sea dog to describe Yesmythe, they will always start with the half-elf with the raven black hair and blue-green eyes. Normally dressed in a black-flowing tunic and pants, her hair seems to be constantly moving in the breeze, even if there is none. Standing at 5'5", Yesmythe is slim and her movements efficient.

Personality

To those who know Yesmythe, she is friendly and easy to get along with. Depending on the social situation, she can be as polite as a noble's daughter or swear like a fishman's wife. Her moods are mercurial like the weather. One moment she could be laughing and the life of the party, the next minute electrify a stranger who dare take "advantage" of her.