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!