D&D 4E Running player commentary on PCat's 4E Campaign - Heroic tier (finished)

Blackjack · Oct 17, 2008

Sagiro said:
the thing managed to get in several psychic attacks before the PC's even knew there was a combat going on!.

This was sucky for the characters, but fun for the players! Once the first person took damage from examining it, we started handling it gingerly (with gloves on), washing our hands, and otherwise taking these precautions... unaware that no, this was not some kind of poison going on. Once we realized, "Hey, wait! That thing is moving!" we rolled for initiative, sure, but it was neat having the characters' "hey, wait!" match that of the players'.

Spatula · Oct 17, 2008

Perception skills were already very important in 3e. Combining the three skills (Search, Spot, Listen) into one and adding tracking to its game functions has just made it that much better - making Perception the most important 4e skill IMO. High Perception means not being surprised, being able to spot & attack hidden creatures, finding hidden treasure or clues, avoid traps & other concealed dangers, being able to track an adversary... all highly important abilities in the adventurer's line of work.

Fallen Seraph · Oct 17, 2008

Sounds very awesome, I may have to steal that doll for my own campaign. Would work perfectly with my Louisiana-Bayou centred, Voodoo-mixed-with-Devils/Demons setting.

garyh · Oct 18, 2008

Spatula said:
Perception skills were already very important in 3e. Combining the four skills (Search, Spot, Listen, Sense Motive) into one and adding tracking to its game functions has just made it that much better - making Perception the most important 4e skill IMO. High Perception means not being surprised, being able to spot & attack hidden creatures, finding hidden treasure or clues, avoid traps & other concealed dangers, being able to track an adversary, knowing if this important figure is lying to you... all highly important abilities in the adventurer's line of work.

I Insight killed Sense Motive and took its stuff, not Perception. Nonetheless, Perception is a great skill.

In any case, I'm very interested to keep reading how this game goes!

Allanon · Oct 18, 2008

Wow, this sounds like a veritable font of good ideas waiting to be stolen

One question though, after looking through the wiki and checking the posted characters, do you use a house rule for hitpoints? Because it seems like everyone doubled there starting hitpoints and then added their Con modifier. For example:

Dr. Elijah Caldwell
Ranger
Con 11 (+0 mod)
Toughness as feat (+5 hitpoints)
Ranger normal starting hitpoints - 12 + Con

The above should thus result in 17 Hitpoints. Instead according to his character sheet he has 28. Since the wiki doesn't mention this houserule I was curious if it was to compensate for the lack of a healer.

Anyways carry on everyone, hope you have fun!

Hypersmurf · Oct 18, 2008

Allanon said:
The above should thus result in 17 Hitpoints.

No, it shouldn't. At first level, you add your Constitution score (in this case 11), not your Constitution modifier.

His hit points are 12 (Ranger) plus 11 (Con) plus 5 (Toughness).

-Hyp.

Allanon · Oct 18, 2008

Wow, thanks Hypersmurf... I totally read over the part where it mentioned score. I guess old habits die harder than I thought. Thanks again!

Aravis · Oct 19, 2008

Sagiro said:
Can't disagree with that!

Actually, my rogue was already in the water; the boat wasn't big enough for the whole group, and since he's a decent swimmer, he volunteered to swim along behind while tethered to the boat by a rope. The croc went for him first (though it missed with its bite).

Ahem! You seem to have forgotten that Toiva (the Paladin) jumped into the water to attack the Croc (while holding the side of the boat). Is that Drama enough for you?

Piratecat · Oct 19, 2008

Let it be known that in this last game I did my best to label Cobalt with the nickname "Bait." He.. err.. vociferously objected.

I've just upgraded the wiki to a more graphical format, for anyone who cares about such things. I've also started the game writeups. I'll get several done before starting to post them as a story hour.

Mathew_Freeman · Oct 20, 2008

Piratecat said:
Let it be known that in this last game I did my best to label Cobalt with the nickname "Bait." He.. err.. vociferously objected.

I've just upgraded the wiki to a more graphical format, for anyone who cares about such things. I've also started the game writeups. I'll get several done before starting to post them as a story hour.

He just said the magic words, everyone.