[OOC] Wretched Souls Huddled in the Dark

[Landsknechts]

Well, I will take that into account when I do further posts...

Peachy, rather peachy.

[Disaster Master]

@Landsknechts: Being a non-native speaker: What does "peachy" mean in this context?

I guess the other characters would call your ability "spooky"! It is quite scary if one suddenly hears a voice of someone else in one's head!

[Landsknechts]

wonderful, just wonderful
but being sarcastic so it actually expresses displeasure at the situation.

Hadn't realized it was one way so while still useful makes it less so.

[Disaster Master]

Thanks; I'm learning something new every day. Maybe I can reuse this expression for my character; she likes sarcasm a lot.

As for the way the warlock's or ghostwise halfling's telepathy works: I guess the designers don't want an ability that is constantly available to a character to outshine higher-level things like the spell message, which can only be used a number of times per day.

Anyway, I am wondering who will be the first to identify the source of the spooky telepathic messages.

[Landsknechts]

I assumed it was two way since in one of the forgotten realm books there is a two way conversation and the second party isn't a ghostwise halfling. But evidently where the game is concerned this is not the first time the novels and the rules vary.

[Disaster Master]

Originally Posted by Landsknechts

I assumed it was two way since in one of the forgotten realm books there is a two way conversation and the second party isn't a ghostwise halfling. But evidently where the game is concerned this is not the first time the novels and the rules vary.

Maybe the novel was based on a different edition of the game? But you are right, novel authors usually do not care too much about the actual rules (wouldn't probably be helpful, either).

[Landsknechts]

To be fair to the author... the novel was the first time ghostwise hin where ever mentioned...

and except for homebrew, I do not believe 3rd or earlier editions of Forgotten realms has them. Not sure about 4th.

[Disaster Master]

Out of curiosity, I just looked it up. Ghostwise halflings are in the FRCS of D&D 3.0 (haven't checked earlier editions, though) — didn't know this until now. In that edition, the range of their telepathic speech was just 20 feet, but two-way. Hard for novel authors to keep track with the changes in each edition; drow PCs, for example, have also changed a lot since 2nd edition.

In 5th edition, for example, there is no drow sign language anymore, which could have also served as a way to communicate bidirectionally without sounds.

[Landsknechts]

I don't remember them being in 3rd- but then again we always played Greyhawk.
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[Begon Ugo]

I didn’t know they took away the drow sign language. I’m not in favor of that at all.

[Begon Ugo]

Well that is the start of a grand alliance! If we can get that orc with us we are the muscle triumvirate.

[Disaster Master]

Hehe... what's so terrific about this campaign opening, in my opinion, is that the characters don't know about each other and will have to learn about the capabilities of everyone and whom to trust and whom not. And all these NPCs around as wild cards... I think it's great that our characters are given enough time to role-play this initial coming together.

[Prometheus]

I know how we can get free! We challenge the drow to a flex-off!

[Disaster Master]

Jeff, I have a request. Could I swap Rugadh Faoi's Constitution score with her Intelligence score? Currently, the Constitution score is 14, and the Intelligence score is 9. Initially, I didn't put the 9 in Constitution because everyone says that it is one of the most important stats. However, the way I do play her (and the way I had conceived the character as a schemer when I applied), it has occurred to me that 9 in Intelligence makes no sense role-playing-wise (only from a min-max-point of view).

Switching the two scores would not change anything retroactively because neither her Constitution nor her Intelligence score had come into play mechanically so far.

[LinguaManiac]

I posted my response without knowing of Prometheus's. I'm just saying because if you read my response before, you might have missed the final version.