I'll be traveling starting mid-morning today through sometime fairly late Tuesday. I'll have some opportunities to post during that time but it will be very sporadic (I'll try to get something up once a day, but no promises).
If action needs to be taken on one of my characters' behalf to move things along I'd appreciate it if the GM of that game would take care of it for me!
That looks like an excellent solution, WD! Now if everyone else will just follow your lead....
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Originally Posted by Mowgli
I'll be traveling starting mid-morning today through sometime fairly late Tuesday. I'll have some opportunities to post during that time but it will be very sporadic (I'll try to get something up once a day, but no promises).
If action needs to be taken on one of my characters' behalf to move things along I'd appreciate it if the GM of that game would take care of it for me!
Good job Leif, I just can't imagine stopping after every fight. My experience with D&D has always been one of resource management and finding the balance (as a spellcaster) of "going Nova" and being a destruction machine, and being too conservative and being less effective. I've never thought of resting after each encounter, even without DM intervention, nor has my group (thankfully).
I really have never thought of resting after every encounter, either, even though certain of my characters (Bevin Rockhammer) make a great show of being all 'tuckered out' after every fight and urgently needing a nap.
I concede that you were correct. I had not previously seen the powers on PH287, but that clears up very many of the questions that I had about 4E. Didn't I post this already??
The first 4e thread that I was involved in here, died suddenly and inexplicably before any real action happened. The secod, was a 20th level 4e combat thread. The first huge fight went well, but towards the end of the second fight, one of our wizards started popping off AoE spells that included attacks on my Sharm, Minotaur Battlerager Fighter 20, so I withdrew from the game. It would have perhaps been different if the player of the wizard had said something to me OOC, or maybe even apologized, but he said NOTHING about it to me at all. I just saw the deductions from Sharm's hp in the DM's post and wondered what was going on. After this happened a couple of times with him saying nothing to me, not gving me any warnings, explanations, or anything, I just gave up and withdrew. renau1g was in that game, too, if I remember correctly. He had more luck than I, thank goodness.
So that is the extent of my experience with 4E, which brings us to the present game. I'm pretty nervous about it, and that's why it's taken so long to get started. I just don't want to screw up.
But, I'm now also thinking, 'hey, it's just a game, right?' I mean, you guys aren't going to burn me at the stake if I make a mistake, are you? I've already made at lest one mistake, after all, and all Mowgli did to me was gripe me out like he does all of his DMs, so I'm pretty used to that.
I won't burn you at the stake for sure, and as you said it's only a game. My own 4e experiences have been less than ideal here as well (I think 5-6 died within the month of starting). I'm in one other one right now run the Charwoman Gene, besides L4W.
I wouldn't worry too much about any "screwing up" while learning the system. I still am picking up on things and thankfully covaithe is around to teach me all sorts of interesting things with his Monster Mash game. Take your time, I know I DM'd a 4e game here for a bit and my players were helpful as well.
. . . I just saw the deductions from Sharm's hp in the DM's post and wondered what was going on. After this happened a couple of times with him saying nothing to me, not gving me any warnings, explanations, or anything, I just gave up and withdrew . . .
I've already made at lest one mistake, after all, and all Mowgli did to me was gripe me out like he does all of his DMs, so I'm pretty used to that.
Somewhere along the way I figured out that NOT saying anything when I'm frustrated eventually leads to saying something truly rude and dropping out of the game. So now I try to speak my piece early and often - while I can be as diplomatic as I get and before I lose sight of the fact that it is, truly, just a game. Leif, Scotley and JA - my past and current DMs - know this about me (I think ) and all take my gripes with good nature and a grain of salt, for which I am extremely grateful!
Leif, Scotley and JA - my past and current DMs - know this about me (I think ) and all take my gripes with good nature and a grain of salt, for which I am extremely grateful!
Grain, or Shaker? hehe. I usually take your gripes too seriously, and that is my own fault.
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Now if everyone else will just follow your lead....
Thanks! That was what I've been waiting for all this time. You believe me, don't you?
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