Yesterday (May 22) I went to the first game for a new DM. He's using a premade series of adventures, which is good because the first thing to do is to learn how to be a DM, running encounters and figuring out how to balance roleplaying and combat. So far he seems to be leaning towards the roleplaying aspect. I've never actually played these adventures, so it'll be an interesting experience.
My character is a Shifter Runepriest named Autumn. Shifters are kind of like werewolves or werecats, but they don't change with the moon or anything like that. They're just regular people who become more animal-like when they get hurt bad enough. Runepriests are divine leaders who use the power of runes to create their effects. They're basically front-line combatants.
The other characters in the party are a dragonborn fighter named Balisar, a human sorcerer named Onis, and an elf ranger named Manard. Balisar seems to be kind of 'I'm big, I've got a big hammer, and I know how to use it'. Onis seems to be a good guy, but he's a bit of a hothead, which manifests itself as sparks between his fingers and a cloudy sky. Not sure about Manard.
One of our jobs is to get back some dragon scales for a local armorer, but when we were trying to negotiate for the job, Onis didn't make a good impression on the dwarf. Onis wanted 3,000 to get the scales, the dwarf was only willing to part with 2,000. So now we have a powerful enemy who will likely want us dead if he finds his scales gone. The first encounter was pretty easy, killing kobolds. Unfortunately, Autumn almost died in the second half of the encounter, fortunately the quick efforts of Manard saved her from certain death. The second half of the encounter took place in a room with a few sarcophagi and traps in the floor. Balisar destroyed a makeshift altar to Tiamat, which exposed the location of several traps in the floor. Searching the sarcophagi revealed a magic longsword which went to Manard.
Overall a good start to the adventure. Much fun was had by all and next week is the game with Marc the deva. :)
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Monday, May 03, 2010
New Blo... I mean, New Players
We have a new player on our team (or least, we did yesterday, hopefully she'll come back). Her name is Lynnette and she plays a human ranger named Ariana. Like the other ranger we had, she deals a lot of damage per round, which is always a good thing. The more damage that's dealt to the bad guys at one time, the faster the die and the less healing Marc has to dish out (which isn't much). Lynnette is new to roleplaying in general, so our DM made the ranger for her. Later on, once she's had a little more experience with the game, she'll remake it however she likes.
We had one encounter with about 20 minions (monsters with 1 hit point; just like a balloon, one prick and they're gone). Marc got to show off one of his area effect powers (he has two, but it didn't seem like a good time to use his 1/day power). It was pretty cool seeing all those minions drop at one time.
The last encounter of the session was interesting. I rolled a critical hit on my first attack, which dealt no damage. :P It lowered his defenses for a round, though, helping other players to hit him, which is always helpful. And then I got cocky, I made myself a target. My character isn't a tank (high armor class and a lot of hit points), he's not squishy like a wizard (low AC and a few HP), but it still doesn't take much to hit him. And if a few monsters concentrate their fire on him, he can get hurt pretty bad. Marc didn't go down, but it was a pretty close thing. After a couple rounds of being hit by slingstones, Marc activated the power on his cloak and teleported outside. Eventually our enemies were defeated and we barricaded the doors before settling down for the night.
At the end of the session, we were 20 experience points away from leveling up so the DM gave us the extra points (one first-level minion is 25 XP), raising us to level 4 (a new feat and one point to two ability scores on top of more HP and stuff).
I'll be starting a new campaign two weeks from this coming saturday (this saturday is the 8th, so the new campaign will start on the 22nd). No game on the 15th since our DM will be bowling in Las Vegas. Good luck, Toby!
We had one encounter with about 20 minions (monsters with 1 hit point; just like a balloon, one prick and they're gone). Marc got to show off one of his area effect powers (he has two, but it didn't seem like a good time to use his 1/day power). It was pretty cool seeing all those minions drop at one time.
The last encounter of the session was interesting. I rolled a critical hit on my first attack, which dealt no damage. :P It lowered his defenses for a round, though, helping other players to hit him, which is always helpful. And then I got cocky, I made myself a target. My character isn't a tank (high armor class and a lot of hit points), he's not squishy like a wizard (low AC and a few HP), but it still doesn't take much to hit him. And if a few monsters concentrate their fire on him, he can get hurt pretty bad. Marc didn't go down, but it was a pretty close thing. After a couple rounds of being hit by slingstones, Marc activated the power on his cloak and teleported outside. Eventually our enemies were defeated and we barricaded the doors before settling down for the night.
At the end of the session, we were 20 experience points away from leveling up so the DM gave us the extra points (one first-level minion is 25 XP), raising us to level 4 (a new feat and one point to two ability scores on top of more HP and stuff).
I'll be starting a new campaign two weeks from this coming saturday (this saturday is the 8th, so the new campaign will start on the 22nd). No game on the 15th since our DM will be bowling in Las Vegas. Good luck, Toby!
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