Quasi Dungeons and Dragons

(4 hours and 100gp, yes)

(This is the big one cause now that we're level 5 our Eldritch blasts do 2d10 as a cantrip 😂😂. We don't really need basic weapons cause EB is essentially both our best "basic" attacks. And by basic i mean an attack that doesn't cost anything like a spell slot.)

(Let's get the game back on the road. Post some actions)

So our plan is to find your hirelings and see if they can track the coffin maker? Let's get on it.

(It's to fetch the hirelings and go explore to get gold. Why track down the coffin maker? We know where his business/home is. If you want to interrogate the coffin maker go ahead and wait in town right at his shop for him to come back, he's bound to at some point just to gather his things 😂. But we need gold to get our melees weapons that are silvered. Else all this will be for naught cause we'll get facerolled if even a few of the vamps wake up to fight.

3 hags each at CR5(1800 xp) wrecked us. One to two vamps full strength(not fledgelings) will faceroll us even harder each at CR13(10k xp). 

3 hags made it an adjusted xp modifier of 2x the 5400 total xp. So it was the equivalent of a 10,800 xp total fight. 2 vamps is 20k xp, multiplied by 1.5 for the adjusted modifier putting it at the equivalent of a 30k xp fight. That number continues to multiply if the realistic potential of having to fight more than just a couple happens. 

Keep in mind, the "xp modifier" is for balancing purposes. Its how you gauge the difficulty of encounters, outlined in the DmG. CR isnt really what's factored basically. At 5 level 5's a deadly encounter would constitute as a fight that is at around 10k+ modified exp.

Even at 5 the hags would still be a deadly encounter basically. 1-6 vamps would as well regardless of which specific number. We need to get weaps silvered, to even stand a snowballs chance in hell 😂.)

Ok well let's go see about silver weapons

(we still haven't check out the Vistini camp, I wonder if they could locate the coffin maker for us?)

(Not a bad idea, we can return the horses there and ask around 👏👏.)

(I'm not at home so I was working from my memory from when I was reading thru the core books. But I'm pretty confident im not off base with those estimates for gauging encounter difficulty. I'll look it up specifically once I'm home and can verify. 👍)

Doesn't matter since I totally get the point.

(Lets hunt for wolves and explore for a bit.

(so what's the deal-e-o, do  you pick up Mike and Ike and take them with us to the Vistini, do our thang there then head out to explore?)

Kk, Snerp goes back to the tavern to fetch Sven-whatever-his-name-is, his buddy, and the horses, with the purpose of heading out to return the horses to the Vistani. Then go out to the lake to hunt for wolves/search for the mad mage. 

(Maybe haunted Mansion after? Theres also the abandoned town 👍. We got about a day and a half or so, so plenty of time to explore them all including making camp to sleep.)

At this time of morning, the tavern is not very crowded, with only three patrons milling about, none of which are the hunters. Behind the bar Urwin smiles over at Snerp.

Urwin: Back so soon?

(ooooh, i forgot about that)

Lets go to that person.

(curious, have you gotten Guildmaster Guide to Ravnica? Was contemplating getting it along with Xanathars and Volos coming up here soon, trying to figure out if it's worth it.)

Urinw furrows his brow and scratches his head. You told them to leave and return here at noon, Da?

(Naw. The Magic/DnD crossover really doesn't interest me)

Urwin shrugs. Go ahead.

(ok cool, have you played thru waterdeep:dragon heist and dungeon of the mad mage? If so, thoughts on quality? On par with this one? Was thinking of getting it to run for the group im dm'ing cause it seems pretty dope, or Tomb of Annihilation.

Or would it be wiser to run a campaign I've already played thru by that point, cause i crafted a custom campaign already for 1-10 that'll take a few months at one session every couple weeks to go thru, such as this one?)

(This is the only module I've actually gone through start to finish. It's much easier to DM for a campaign you've already gone through once)

He then goes outside, lays out his backpack in front of him, slightly open to indicate it as a receptacle to throw coins into, and starts performing, taking pauses on occasion to drink some ale(enough to get buzzed, not drunk, make some jokes to whoever is watching, then returns to playing. 

("What's happens to a frogs cart if it's parked illegally? It gets towed(toad)"

"How do monsters like their eggs? Terri-fried"

"What do you call a knight that is afraid to fight? Sir Render"

You get the point 😂.  I'll chill the three hours performing till the hunters get back while the others can return the horses and find the drow 👏👏.)

Snerp points to Luxraxt as the group is going their separate ways. 

(What's everyone else doing?)

(going to the camp, looking for the dark elf of the tarot reading)

(I could use at least one other person with me for the horses. I think there were what, three or four? Plus just to be safe from getting robbed of em 😂.)