A new DM and his first adventure

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. :)