Sorry all, I'm still beat from this weekend - I should be more involved in my PbP games starting tomorrow morning.

*pops back in when I should be saving data remaining...*

My characters as NPCs or player controlled is fine.

And to answer Bounty Hunter, barely with high dosage of Morrowind for now... Even if I can't find two places in guild missions...

Hi, Shockwave. I am missing you.

Return before I ruin your character. I am doing an awful job controlling him.

feels like the two games i am in have died or on life support

Dice shaming has made my day: http://imgur.com/gallery/4KpQc

Its been a busy busy week and I've had a bunch going on. Catching up on all games now, but will also be making this note in the game threads.

Thank you for that! Made my day as well...

That melted d6 though, lol.

FYI to everyone in games with me - I'll be on vacation all of next week. I should be able to check once or twice a day, but, if I'm holding any of the games up, feel free to ping me, or NPC me, as needed.

I'll prob NPC you in my game. No worries, I tend to play barbarians, so I got Tovar covered!

Life has been very busy for me, and I haven't had the time or energy to be on the forums. Sorry for the time away, but a lot of projects have been piling up that I have cleared off, several articles were written, several small jobs for friends and the like have been done, birthday is over, a death of a loved one needed tending to, minor home emergencies, and more emergencies of friends who are going through worse than I am, like losing their parents. All in all, I have had a decent amount on my plate, but I should have a bit more free time tonight. I'll try and catch up on all my missed games and do as many posts as I am able to try and keep games moving. Apologies to the DMs I didn't give warning to and the players in my own game that I have ignored.

~SE++

Handle your stuff man.

Well, everyone else's games are caught up, not much seemed to have gone on in the week I was gone. I'm still hesitant to get my own game going since I don't know how much time I have to dedicate to being here right now.

~SE++

Games have been kind of slow. I was gone for about a week, Shockwave has been unable to be online, you were gone, and the rest of the crowd had their various IRL stuff here and there as well.

Its the end of summer and classes and such are starting back up.

Argh. So I built a character for the 'Let's build 5E characters' thread. Now I want to play a 5E game. Or DM one. Or something. But then I'd have to actually read over the full rules to see whats changed. Damn you BH this was a trap all along wasn't it!

I had the same idea, but right now there are very few options available for character creation at D&D 5th, so I would postpone any attempt until we have at least the player's handbook.

The test material is incomplete and has many errors, although it has more races, classes and feats than the basic rules. For clerics, for example, it has only three builds and one of them is incomplete, but it is more than one build from the basic rules.

I know though, I want to try it out pretty badly actually. I wasn't exactly feeling it for the Mines of Madness game we did and a lot of the stuff didnt quite make sense to me, I kept having to look up what my modifiers were, and didn't really understand proficiency. But one of the reasons I made that thread was by getting in and looking at the content it forced me to read everything a time or two and some of it started making sense.

I'm not currently DMing anything so I could theoretically run one. But I'm only on one day a week for a whole day, and other than that its an hour or so a day. Not exactly PBP friendly. Things should be changing in about 2.5 months though when I'm back in the US.

Yeah, a lot of stuff comes down into only having one or two choices between things so a lot of characters would be extremely similar. But I think it will be a while yet before we have a full party of 5e PHB equipped players. Hell I'd be tempted to start tinkering with homebrew stuff. I've never got into it before, but it could make things more interesting than the basic rules.

Roaring Mouse just pre-ordered me the 5e PHB from Amazon!

Nice. Whens the release date? I may head to work early and pick it up before hand.

Amazon Link

It will be released on August 19th. Which is still tomorrow for most of you but has just arrived here....that does me no good in this case ... but meh.