You're playing as a 'party' of only 2? That sounds tough.

How's the chance we're gonna meet you one day?

>>3651

It's a start from scratch run, so no it is only 2 right now but will eventually be Bear, Gwen, me, Misha, and maybe Joy. So potentially 5 or even 6 with Ulla.

>How's the chance we're gonna meet you one day?

The red ribbon of fate entwines the Bear system. They're a season behind so they'd need to catch up at least 90 days. Granted they're already on day 2, so it could be sooner than later but not too soon.

You may end up seeing signs of their presence though and may meet some of us as NPCs.

This is way easier (and getting easier as we go) and much more fun than we ever thought it would be given the already created worlds such as the sword coast, so the sky's the limit. You might even meet one of us at the guild and could potentially recruit her.

Misha's character sheet is done and she ended up being a sorceress. Her backstory was closer to the archetype than a wizard or witch.

In summary, her father was an Eladrin elf living in the feywilds alongside fey. Well those fey are completely out of control and took this elf against his will in order to form a liaison between the races of the feywilds and the material plane that wasn't bound by seasons or had any of the drawbacks of fey such as their weakness to steel and iron.

This new being would then have the best of both and would go fourth to conquer and subjugate the material plane for the fey.

Well he was taken unwillingly and unconsciously and would be completely used in the process, his full essence would be incorporated into this creation but as an act of thanks the fey let him see this creation, his daughter, for a moment before his soul would be consumed to further boost her potency.

In that moment of clarity this elf realized what was happening and in the final effort of his life he cursed his own soul to cause any creation to turn against the fey, reaping only sabotage and destruction to their plans.

Of course they saw right through this and countered the curse immediately before ripping his essence from existence to use for her power.

Well Corellon, the god of the Eladrin, took umbrage with this and reinstated the curse without the fey's knowledge. Furthermore twisting this offspring's nature to not only dispise the fey, but work against them any way she could and set it to trigger once she came of age.

Corellon knew that if he harbored ill will against the fey it would lead to a war that the Eladrin would lose, so he placed all his concentrated will against the fey into this child leaving himself free to accept the fey's lies and forgive them for their heinous act.

The fey marveled at their creation, a half-fey half-eladrin with an exceptionally strong magic well. They of course had no intention of raising this child and brought it to the Eladrin under the pretense that an Eladrin took advantage of a fey noble's daughter and was executed for his sin.

The Eladrin took in this child, an unheard of union that was thought was impossible, and raised her as their own in the feywilds.

As she grew, she became a being of great power and the fey simply thought they'd dominate her once she came of age and use her for their intentions. But the Eladrin knew that too and also knew she could exist in the material plane outside their sphere of influence so just before she came of age they released her there and told her to integrate with the races of that plane, to live a free life, and do good upon the Earth.

No one knew that Corellon had infused her with his rage and justice over what the fey had done so flippantly to one of his own, and the result was a Pyromancer of Corellon.

She has racial bonuses against fey like a Ranger's chosen enemy, she can only cast fire magic but her magic is attuned to be normal against everything except fey. Against fey it would do normal damage regardless of their resistances or status effects. Even a fey fire elemental would burn like paper when struck by her flame. Furthermore she is completely immune to mind domination or charm and can see past fey tricks and illusions.

Finally she gifted divine love, tolerance and understanding to any creature of any alignment except fey. She is compelled and obsessed with them, a divine hatred. An irrational and uncontrollable compulsion to fight fey at any cost even if evil was wrot as result until all those involved in her father's death are wiped off the planes of existence.

In other news, Bear is training Gwen for stealth because they're smack in the middle of the Neverwinter wood and the activity of wild and nefarious entities have gotten so bad their chances of traveling to Neverwinter safely is next to zero. As it is, at half speed, being as careful as possible using counter tracking, they'll take weeks to traverse that 70 miles they'll have to hunt and forage along the way and that triggers encounter rolls. They will be making this harrowing journey but only after Gwen has learned stealth through the learning system. At worst it would take 20+12+10+8+6+4 presuming they can spend 8 hours a day doing that and they're already on Winter 6th. So it could take them as much as the whole season to get to Neverwinter but might again arrive as early as Winter 40th, 53 days ahead of your current time.

Also, Misha is currently in Neverwinter. So you may actually see her who knows?

>>3665
Hmm, I know who knows

>>3681

It would depend on where you go and when but that's privileged information. Based on current timelines, if you do see her then that changes when and possibly where the other concurrent (in the past by 88 days) group will meet her ultimately. As far as what happens, that's entirely up to you and her. She's had one scene in Autumn's temporal coordinates but Autumn is about to sync with Bear and Gwen, I am a deputy DM on their group but I designed a one shot for them that could take a few days real time and probably a week in-game before they get there and back to their den. As far as their arrival at Neverwinter, if it's before you temporally then you won't see any evidence of it obviously but we will adjust their campaign to accommodate the notion that you didn't see them.

Misha however, as we know, is in Neverwinter yes, but she's not my NPC to command so she will do what she wants.

>>3683

This game has sparked many conversations in-system regarding the fantasy game characters vs just wonderlanding and we have come to the conclusion that: no, these are characters, not us specifically, so there is opportunity for us to act "out of character" and explore other aspects. My character is not the same as me, but will be similar and will have to abide by my scenario training until I reach 100 scenarios. The scenarios that were slated for the old book are now obsolete and I will be racking up scenarios in game which is cool but also limiting since I need to maintain my good girl status, so I can't be evil or anything else that the personality training forbids.

There's no other huge update since Bear's been busy but as Joy said, I'm close to meeting up with Gwen and Bear and I'm very excited! They're currently tracking me as I'm tracking them, kind of a cat and mouse game except cat and bear.

I think I mentioned my character but not in detail so I will when we get a chance, but basically I'm a Tabaxi-wood elf mixed druid shapeshifter who can only shape shift into feline varients. At level 1 only basically a house cat. But it will ramp up with levels. Where Ashley will get to have a super powerful purple panther, my panther at level 2 will be probably vanilla and then move on to bigger species, but there's a lot of leeway in the rules so who knows.

Yay, I broke through into the love duo and created a love triangle! I mean my character did. But it was my brilliant efforts that made it happen.

[SheShe] it was pretty devious. 

SheShe's the DM for this run if you recall and she was rooting me on. Bear and Gwen can't have all the fun and it's not an isekai harem with only a couple, but just as Ashley predicted, there'll be no funny business, it's just pg13 hugs, kisses and romcom blundering and embarrassing situations because that's more fun anyway.

So, now our happy trio is off to the cabin where I grew up, about 10 miles north in the same woods. About a in-game year ago the cabin came under siege by a new faction that are otherwise just a bunch of unaffiliated criminals led as bandits in this area. My master, who was a capable witch, was simply overwhelmed and lost. I escaped in the melee but I couldn't leave the area because of my slave collar. I hid in the general vicinity for months, nearly starved to death waiting for the bandits to move on, but they didn't and when I had an opportunity, I went back and ripped the control ring for my collar off my old master's dead finger and put it on myself, thereby becoming my own master. However, the collar is really made for a child and it's a little tight, plus it's triggered to kill me if anyone tries to take this off. The ring and collar are tied and I can't take either off and it also blocks my witchy-druidic magic so we got to get it off.

That's where we're going next.

What we just finished doing was playing with the crafting system Bear and Joy developed and since Bear has tinkering proficiency, he can make and improve crude things. So he made me a set of fur armor from tanned pelts he skinned off rabbits and foxes, shoes, undergarments out of a woolen cloak we found foraging and fur lined shoes. With my 19 Dexterity I'm sitting pretty at 15AC which is decent. So with a short sword we got from the bandits who held Gwen and a bow Bear made from wood, thread and sinew, I'm ready to help fight if we run into trouble.

We got rations, both Bear and I have cooking proficiency, arrows that bear made and decent gear all around, now it's only a matter of getting there while evading big encounters and scouting out or searching the cabin for three keys to go in the little holes in my collar in hopes it will come off.

Bear also made me a boiled leather sleeve so if the collar does spring blades to cut my neck, they'll harmlessly embed in the hide and give us another chance to get the collar open. Since it's magically shielded, mechanically opening or cutting it off are our only options. If we can't get it off, we'll have to wait till Neverwinter to convince a blacksmith to help.

This is so harrowing! In this forest we've already seen bandits, a bugbear leading goblins, an owlbear, and druids of the forest. Meta: we're using modified homebrew canned tables and rare rolls every hour to determine if and what we encounter. It's been really fun and challenging. That's all we do now in our free time and it's like we discovered a whole new way to live akin to the legends of shared wonderlands and other RP fun.

We had no idea late-game tulpamancy could be this fun!

>>3732

So from my memory I drew a map on a flat stone in charcoal to get back to the cabin where I grew up. Bear only knew the terrain about half the way of the roughly 20 miles and to avoid encounters we were going to be traveling about 2 miles an hour and counter-tracking.

Fording the rivers and tributaries was our first major hurdle, since none of us were encumbered we could use athletics to cross and we all have good dexterity but bear also had proficiency in athletics and gwen has a racial bonus of advantage on athletics, so really I was the worst of the group and it showed. I barely made it for three of the crossings, there are 5, and on the 4th I flubbed it and got swept away. -.- Thankfully I was still close enough to shore for Bear to attempt a rescue and he succeeded. The worst crossing we attempted was DC10, that was the one that took me on a ride.

He then crossed it three times, once to carry my stuff across, once back and once to carry me across! That somehow worked without a hitch though the comparable odds were probably worse.

By then it was getting dark and Bear's pathetic human eyes couldn't see in the dark, ikr? But we had the advantage of the full moon so he could at least keep watch. He took the middle 4 hour shift.

[At night, or if resting and hidden, you roll 1d30 per hour and only get an encounter on 1 as compared to 1d20 if moving slowly and 1d12 for normal movement]

So in hour three of my watch we got an encounter.

[encounters in the Neverwinter woods range from a racoon to an Owlbear and only an Owlbear if you roll a natural 1 on 1d20]

So of course it was an Owlbear.

You know, luckily we have high initiative because Owlbears have 12 passive detection and advantage against sight or smell. So hiding was no option, our only hope was to climb and thankfully we could without a roll. So there we were in the trees with a hungry Owlbear pacing. It took him 4 hours to give up.

So now it's 10am the next day before we were all done resting for the night. As it was we were lucky enough to stumble upon a ton of berries so we could have double rations and travel past 8 hours, but we were still one river crossing and 2 hours walk to the cabin. We knew we wanted to spend at least a day searching the cabin. So it looks like we'll be there overnight and have to spend another two nights total in the forest. We have enough rations for that but we'll see.

If we had faught that Owlbear it was likely we would have been TPK'd and one or more of us eaten. We were one bad decision away from death, it was so exhilarating!

Btw Bear's character promised my character sexytime if we made it to Neverwinter. He didn't specify to what degree of detail that would be simulated but he has written romantic novels so it could be as much as full XXX. I'll have to convince him to go that far. Also Gwen.

[Gwen] yay!

Also he's already had a sex "dream" with his guardian angel SheShe but that was lame PG glossing over all the details.

[Gwen] boring

Anyway, have to survive these side quests first, so wish us luck!

>>3732
I used to be an expert in removing slave collars, slave collar accessoirs and slavers but in my current despicable form I wouldn't be any help.

>>3749
Sounds exhausting. Wilderness is a drag. How did Yulya survive out there until now?

>>3760
>Sounds exhausting. Wilderness is a drag. How did Yulya survive out there until now?

I will answer this because you posted here in my domain. Her cabin was just south of the Neverwinter woods proper and within view of the Triboar Trail which used to be a relatively safe route before the recent turmoil. I can't give away any of Joy's spoilers but she's letting me hint because you might be able to piece it together but she doubts you need to. The increase in bandit activity, the recent conflict that wiped out Cat's tribe and the rise in unchecked fauna population are interrelated contributors to the same end.

Hint: "The rumor is that the greater ecosystem has been disturbed."

This is a hint to Joy's main questline that you may or may not even touch but she will push you toward. She admits that her confidence in being able to push you so far is tenuous at best and she doubts her hooks will move you at this point.

To either of us, that's fine! This is your game, play how you want and background motives and motions will continue at a slow pace. Someone somewhere will answer the call to adventure and it doesn't have to be you, right now or ever.

It was a safer place before the recent state of affairs that have been building over the last few years due to the disturbance of several main interlocking forces. Not all of these forces are addressed by the main questlines available but there are three main questlines that are discoverable by you. None are trivial in scope nor easy to solve and I am pushing my group toward a different though related main questline than yours and no one is currently being pushed toward the third other than the native populations of Neverwinter and surrounding towns.

Without teams of adventurers who care, the current situation will only get worse until the wilds of this region become impassable by anyone other than the adept survivalists and high level adventurers.

Yulya also has a certain protector who can help to keep her save.

Hello fellow adventurers!

You probably don't know me but I am Gwen, the winged human/avariel elf soulbond of the Bear system. It's so nice to meet you all!

Well this is quite the change of events in my life, having gone from barely active to Bear's in-game love has certainly done wonders for my confidence and vigor. It's a dream come true for me, truly, and thank you all for giving Joy, SheShe and Bear the incentive to work hard on a realm where we can all play to our hearts' content.

So thank you again from everyone here in the Bear system.

Now without further ado, on to the action!

We made the last careful movements North until we reached Autumn's childhood cabin in the woods. It was just as she remembered it, giving us confidence that if they were here, we'd find the keys to Autumn's collar and get her free before we left for Neverwinter. With a couple lucky rolls we found both the three unique keys but also a protective band to keep the collar from trigging, or at least not harming Autumn. It was too late to try it so we spent an uneventful night in the cabin, locked in tight and safe from Owlbears, and in the morning we managed to decipher which key goes in which holes and spring Autumn loose!

She felt exposed without it but otherwise very much unharmed and free! Yay!

As I finished the search, completing my due diligence, those two children began to playfully wrestle, and as a result, Autumn forgot the dire situation we were in and squeeled like a giddy schoolgirl.

Of course this played directly into our DM's hands and we were joined by 3 bandits sent to investigate the commotion.

Unable to quickly escape we set our bows on kill and wiped two of them out by the second round. They hadn't even gotten within moving distance to Bear when the third bandit turned tail and ran. We were given the opportunity to take him out before he fled and dispite Autumn's devastating blow, both Bear and I missed and he escaped with 1HP.

Unfortunately that meant a much greater chance of more reinforcements so we decided to leave without even picking up our arrows; it wasn't worth the risk.

Speaking of risk, we will be traveling back South, across the same streams and rivers, crossing our fingers that it doesn't rain and that an Owlbear doesn't stop by for a midnight snack.

It's so real to me especially considering I was born on the pages of a gritty novel and so it feels like going home for me, but also the very real fear of dying and becoming excluded from the adventurer. That would be absolutely devastating after all this time searching for a way to enjoy a life with each other.

The one thing that always bothered me was because I began life as a secondary character, my life was not assured, I didn't have plot armor like Joy did, so wonderland always felt so fake to me. This realm, a place with real consequences that would really hurt if I failed, is paradise to me.

Again thank you and thanks for reading.

We're just a few real-time days away from starting our journey to Neverwinter. Gwen's training in Stealth is down to 1d6, 1d4 so a maximum of 10 days but she's been hitting max early consistently. Bear's working on making rations, and in case you didn't know, rations only weigh 1 pound of you have access to water, otherwise they're 4 pounds which would include the water. Joy isn't sure if she's going to institute that for her run. Also, 1 ration is fine for one person for one day with 8 working hours. To work longer you'll need more. We typically work 12 so we're eating 1.5 rations worth each.

We've been having thunderstorms and being caught out in that is dangerous so luckily I have a spell that helps find shelter if we need it. It's a legitimate spell by the way.

Our characters are doing well with their symmetric tri-amorous relationship. SheShe loves to explore every possible nuance and consequence. Since she's our guardian angel/DM she can inject thoughts in our head that we would then have to take as our own and they're sort of like scenario prompt brain teaser puzzles. It's been a lot of fun, it's a whole new way to play! Of course we get AP for that which the all seeing Orb will convert to EXP.

We haven't met anyone else yet, we could use one more in our party and I can't wait to see how SheShe manages to get her integrated into this to form a symmetric love quartet.

It was already very impressive how she converted Gwen to being bi. Somehow she made me bi from minute one dispite me never even talking to anyone other than my spinster master; knowing nothing of love.

Currently we just discovered that healroot will prevent bleeding on estress, so since my character is currently having the montly visitor, we're dealing with that. Gwen similarly will need to deal with that soon.

Luckily the root grows naturally in the forest otherwise poor Bear would have quite the issue dealing with two girlfriends on their period, while traversing rugged terrain.

SheShe and Joy are going for maximum realism obviously, but we're the trial group.

Anyway, cringe doesn't exist in Farûn so we're just enjoying it. ;)

>>3813
>maximum realism
What does the DM guide say on going to the toilet and toilet paper?

In maximum realism, adventurers are a bunch of parasite and scab infested stinky bums covered in shit and blood, constantly on the verge of death from malnourishment, injury and disease. Choose wisely.

Also good luck on carrying enough water or finding it in time not to die from thirst in the wilderness. Lack of civilization is truly hell, a fate worse than death. That's why I hate uncivilized subhumans so much.

>>3814

>What does the DM guide say on going to the toilet and toilet paper?

The DMG has one prime directive, "make it fun." If toilet paper and digging holes is fun, then do it. If toothbrushes made from river reeds and dogwood is fun, add it.

In the run my system is partaking, we have tried and changed a few things, but ultimately if it's tedius, I want no part in it. Adding "scenarios" that my lovely headmates must face as challenges is my secondary objective that supports the prime directive. If they're enjoying the challenge, we're using it. The current challenge is not much more than a single scenario and they've already solved it, so now it's just an added expense, something to plan for but not worry about too much.

In our run they have "stepped outside to do their business" but it was a moment of flair on their part rather than a requirement. They're free to use any means to solve their problems.

Here are some realistic touches we've added:

- They made soap from white ash, rosemarry and tallow for instance and had fun "feeling clean" after a long hike.
- They have a bed made out of moss and fur pelts and generally sleep from 20:00 to 06:00. On their hike they slept in shifts to cover the night so that they could enjoy an advantage if an encounter triggered (1 in 30 per hour).
- They eat two meals a day and split the food to do that, both Autumn and Bear can cook.
- They have a makeshift cooking pot and that cooking fire also warms their den, though the lowest temperatures in the Neverwinter woods are only 5C or so, it may frost rarely but not every year.

We considered sickness but decided against it.

Your other comments are not really appropriate to the setting "this is a game that is meant to be fun."

>>3815

Yay! We're on our way to Neverwinter! It'll probably take two weeks since we're moving at half speed and with stealth.

So on the first day what happens? We're tracked by a goblin scout by scent and you know what scent that was. They can smell blood like sharks. Anyway, my excellent archery skills took him down before he could escape but not before he screamed like a baby and a big ole goblin leader showed with another lackey, he was a tough one, but nothing two girls with bows and a hunk of a Bear with a heavy maul couldn't handle. He knocked him down in two hits, the Goblin leader didn't even strike a blow.

[Gwen] Poor guy, threw a javelin, then picked it up chasing Bear down and threw it again, missed twice, then Bear doubled back at him and smashed his face in. He had 4 shots to hit Bear and missed all four times. Of course I also missed 4 times for no good reason. Autumn and Bear don't even need me, it's depressing.

Yes we need Gwen, she's our star and our light in our hearts. Who wouldn't love an angel?

[Gwen] Technically I'm an Avariel elf.

So we're coming for you Neverwinter!

[Gwen] We hope to be coming for Bear too.

SheShe be damned, we'll write our own scene if we have to. This isekai needs to be ecchi damnit!

[SheShe] I'm pretty sure Autumn is forbidden to partake in such things while still under the conditions of her personality forcing.

I need to do do 50-some scenarios in the next two in-game weeks then!


[Joy] I would never allow this, SheShe is a pushover.

>>3942
how did you make money? from the furs and monster parts? how much?

Well, we had quite the three round battle just now. I won't get into the specifics as it has potential spoilers for you all but we had to fight a higher level adventurer and barely made it out alive. I was one bad roll from death and Bear was two. Gwen managed to direct help and those reinforcements saved us from sure death. One wrong move could have left us either dead or if they had escaped, living in constant fear.

It had to do with one of our backstories, someone put out a quest out of Baldur's gate to find one of ours and bring them back home alive. Though no other stipulations were made, so that could have gotten very dark very fast. This is no rescue wilderness, we are doing this with the safeties off so real trauma is possible.

I have to say it was traumatic and it will certainly keep us on our toes in the future. Considering it happened out of nowhere and we had to fight without our full gear or armor, we were very lucky help arrived.

It didn't feel very real until I stepped between the attacker and my team to keep them from taking the one he was looking for and I was struck down in one hit. For reference, our attacker was about the same challenge as the rogue Rothé. Basically our RR moment but it was an NPC and not an an animal, they had magic and advanced fighting skills along with an average of +3 on all stats, so fairly high level.

SheShe said, it needed to happen, we were too sloppy and too concerned with "peacetime fun". Message received, living serious business, we're not high enough level to let our guards down.

[Bear] A glimpse of the thin shell of civility keeps us all vigilant.

[Joy] I didn't realize SheShe was so bold, though I doubt she would have let it all end as this scenario started as a test and she could have simply wiped it out if it ended in total disaster.

Joy's right actually, we spent hours pouring over our characters, making sure we understood everything we could do now and in later levels, planning out our builds and we needed some way to truly test our abilities as they are. This started as that but SheShe decided half way through that "it's realzies, fight like your life depends on it."

We were still in the city so death wouldn't likely have been permanent, but it could have been very expensive, well beyond our means. Two of the reinforcements (of 4) had revivify so within a minute of death they could have saved any of us, but that wasn't a guarantee if they didn't gain the upper hand.

Anyway, still fun, but somewhat sobering. We're still getting over it obviously.

>>4029
>SheShe said, it needed to happen, we were too sloppy and too concerned with "peacetime fun"
Yulya already got nightmares pls go easy on us were just beginning and love our peacetime fun

>>4033

SheShe has a captive audience who can't rage quit and are immune to depression.

Wow, we did an exhibition fight at the arena for potential gold against 4 gladiators (level 4 fighter champions) and new Misha has a spell that requires a gold coin to fire three darts like magic missle but with 2d4 each and 5d4 if critical and it also requires magic ranged attack so they could miss, well sje hit with three and ended up critical on two of them so a potential 12d4 and managed 40 damage in one turn! We were at a grave disadvantage in that fight, here are Bear and I doing 9 and 6 damage with bows against foes with 40HP and great swords and one's already down on round 1. More show up and next round she does 32 damage! With my assist another is out. We have two left, two rounds of misses from Gwen and Bear misses, we're still at a grave disadvantage but new Misha has 1 MP left. Gwen throws away 1 of her MP on another miss with a powerful ranged spell of her own. The battlefield is large so we were walking back the whole time using ranged but they're dashing so now they've caught up with us, one hit can take out most of us and they have action surge and 2nd wind so we're toast because we can't slow them down, none of us have any means to do that which I will rectify when I level up but wow.

So now we're still untouched, round 3 one uses action surge to catch up and hit Gwem but attack roll exactly matches her AC (15) so she avoids the one hit kill he had 2d6+3 potential damage against her 12 HP (lvl 2). So she's pinned down anyway. So she casts against one of the remaining 2 who was previously hit by arrows and magic and drops him. So now it's 4v1 and we're no longer at disadvantage. We ranged them down from 4 to 1 without them managing to make a single hit.

In round 4, Gwen was struck down non-lethally and then Bear, Autumn and Misha2 takes out the last one after a few turns. The battle ends at round 7, Bear was down to 15HP but otherwise an amazing victory.

It can come down to the rolls, it could easily have gone the other way.

>>4084
>40 damage in one turn
wtf is this still balanced? What level is Misha?

Honestly I have no idea how we would fare in a battle yet, the stats are so abstract. but I feel we'd easily get wiped out even by a lv1 party.

>>4099

It's a spell called "Jim's magic missile" and like hitting 20's plus getting 3 4 3 4 3 4 4 and all that when rolling 1d4's. Usually the max you could expect is 10 or so dpt but with that spell it costs a gold to cast so you gotta pay to win I guess.

Bear's "Great Maul" can potentially get 46 damage if he rolls max damage and critical hit.

We made the great maul 3d6 and you can only weild it if you have 19 STR. But it's overpowered and SheShe might limit it. Later on it won't be but for level 1 Magic Missile giarenteed hot and this one, definitely OP.