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<blockquote data-quote="Dan Chernozub" data-source="post: 7183620" data-attributes="member: 6899046"><p>A bit about the game so far:</p><p></p><p><u>Homebrew:</u></p><p>The setting is a post-magical-apocalypse world. A few centuries back the epic heroes of the world lost to the Really Big Bad Evil Guy, and most of sentient life was eradicated from the material plane. Now the nations of the world are rebuilding themselves and retaking the world for themselves. The PCs are from a mostly human kingdom and the game begins when the party arrives at a small island that was recently re-explored a few hundred nautical miles from its position on the pre-Cataclysm maps. This is mostly an open-world game - there are lots of locations and dungeons to go to and there are several factions operating on the island, most of which are not necessarily hostile.</p><p></p><p><u>Party composition:</u></p><p><em>Big Smart Barbarian</em> - Barbarian with 16 INT and scholar background - a bookworm gone wild while studying the real world. </p><p>Does a bit of Tanking and solid DPR with a Greataxe and a Feat.</p><p><em>Light Cleric</em> - the star of the group so far. Was very efficient using his Domain Features, both offensively and defensively. IMO not so efficient with his spells so far,</p><p><em>Valor Bard</em> - half-elf, the brunt of support work is on her shoulders, but the player is fine spending her time being useful and not being the centre of attention.</p><p><em>Rouge</em> - the DPR guy, for versatility purposes he picked the AT archetype. The party quickly figured how to provide the SA requirements and 3d6+3 is a lot for low-level monsters.</p><p><em>Diviner Wizard </em>- the only who had issues regarding his usefulness. The reason I found this board (the epic 111-page thread "Do low-level wizards suck in 5e"), however after talking about what does the group need (not more DPR) and adjusting the spell selection by levelling and scrolls, he feels much more useful now.</p><p></p><p><u>Challenges so far:</u></p><p>Level 1.They've arrived at a small base on the island. Made friendly contact with the local idealistic CG Commander. They fought some wild monsters like <u>Giant Crabs </u>and an <u>Owlbear</u> (The Owlbear could have been easily avoided, but they used terrain to their advantage and killed it quite easily).</p><p></p><p>Level 2. Saw them in the first encounter with intelligent enemies in form of <u>Goblin</u> hunting party which they ambushed, but it still was a deadly fight. <u>Perytons</u> are a recurring enemy on the island. After a hard few fights party has figured out the birds' behaviour and are doing much better against them. They've met and made peace with the Hobgoblin Regiment whose Goblins they fought earlier and even took a "quest" from them to help eradicate the peryton problem. (My Hobgoblins are still ruthless but a really civilized and know better than to fight adventurers when it is not completely necessary). </p><p></p><p>Level 3. Started burning peryton nests and continued into a long-lost Dwarf Hold. Some <u>Ooze</u>, <u>Skeleton Dwarves</u>, a healthy dose of <u>Riddles</u> and <u>Traps</u>. The Hold was built to guard the magic trap where the Evil Fire Giant is held and the party had to fight a couple of <u>Azer</u> who came through a portal party activated. The succeeded at protecting the trap but almost died because of not adapting in time to the damage caused in close range by the enemies heat.</p><p>Later they were ambushed by a band of Outlaws from a second human fraction on the island. This was the first time they've met an organized group fighting with them - the <u>Sergeant</u> had Leadership Action and Protection Fighting style, the <u>Scout</u> had Sneak Attack and <u>Thugs</u> were using Pack Tactics. </p><p>Quite some time is when spent with little combat on travels, exploration, diplomacy and inter-party leadership squabble.</p><p></p><p>They hit Level 4 after a big fight with a 12-strong Lizardfolk band. Those came in several types - 4 squishy <u>Lizard Scouts</u> with poison, 6 <u>Lizardfolk</u>, a <u>lvl3 Divine Caster</u> and a CR3 greatsword-master <u>Champion</u>. They did a great job stealthily approaching and casting Sleep on the Scouts, which made the rest of encounter much easier, though they still had a tough time and were almost TPKed at one point. The fight resulted in some difficult prisoner interrogation that brought up the inter-party (RP) leadership issues back. The group is now not sure if their alliance with a local Fey was a right thing or not (LF were making a ritual to destroy her "home"). But whatever the truth is - their relations with the LF are likely beyond repair anyway and there are they headed now they will find out that LF are serving a Red Dragon, so ...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dan Chernozub, post: 7183620, member: 6899046"] A bit about the game so far: [U]Homebrew:[/U] The setting is a post-magical-apocalypse world. A few centuries back the epic heroes of the world lost to the Really Big Bad Evil Guy, and most of sentient life was eradicated from the material plane. Now the nations of the world are rebuilding themselves and retaking the world for themselves. The PCs are from a mostly human kingdom and the game begins when the party arrives at a small island that was recently re-explored a few hundred nautical miles from its position on the pre-Cataclysm maps. This is mostly an open-world game - there are lots of locations and dungeons to go to and there are several factions operating on the island, most of which are not necessarily hostile. [U]Party composition:[/U] [I]Big Smart Barbarian[/I] - Barbarian with 16 INT and scholar background - a bookworm gone wild while studying the real world. Does a bit of Tanking and solid DPR with a Greataxe and a Feat. [I]Light Cleric[/I] - the star of the group so far. Was very efficient using his Domain Features, both offensively and defensively. IMO not so efficient with his spells so far, [I]Valor Bard[/I] - half-elf, the brunt of support work is on her shoulders, but the player is fine spending her time being useful and not being the centre of attention. [I]Rouge[/I] - the DPR guy, for versatility purposes he picked the AT archetype. The party quickly figured how to provide the SA requirements and 3d6+3 is a lot for low-level monsters. [I]Diviner Wizard [/I]- the only who had issues regarding his usefulness. The reason I found this board (the epic 111-page thread "Do low-level wizards suck in 5e"), however after talking about what does the group need (not more DPR) and adjusting the spell selection by levelling and scrolls, he feels much more useful now. [U]Challenges so far:[/U] Level 1.They've arrived at a small base on the island. Made friendly contact with the local idealistic CG Commander. They fought some wild monsters like [U]Giant Crabs [/U]and an [U]Owlbear[/U] (The Owlbear could have been easily avoided, but they used terrain to their advantage and killed it quite easily). Level 2. Saw them in the first encounter with intelligent enemies in form of [U]Goblin[/U] hunting party which they ambushed, but it still was a deadly fight. [U]Perytons[/U] are a recurring enemy on the island. After a hard few fights party has figured out the birds' behaviour and are doing much better against them. They've met and made peace with the Hobgoblin Regiment whose Goblins they fought earlier and even took a "quest" from them to help eradicate the peryton problem. (My Hobgoblins are still ruthless but a really civilized and know better than to fight adventurers when it is not completely necessary). Level 3. Started burning peryton nests and continued into a long-lost Dwarf Hold. Some [U]Ooze[/U], [U]Skeleton Dwarves[/U], a healthy dose of [U]Riddles[/U] and [U]Traps[/U]. The Hold was built to guard the magic trap where the Evil Fire Giant is held and the party had to fight a couple of [U]Azer[/U] who came through a portal party activated. The succeeded at protecting the trap but almost died because of not adapting in time to the damage caused in close range by the enemies heat. Later they were ambushed by a band of Outlaws from a second human fraction on the island. This was the first time they've met an organized group fighting with them - the [U]Sergeant[/U] had Leadership Action and Protection Fighting style, the [U]Scout[/U] had Sneak Attack and [U]Thugs[/U] were using Pack Tactics. Quite some time is when spent with little combat on travels, exploration, diplomacy and inter-party leadership squabble. They hit Level 4 after a big fight with a 12-strong Lizardfolk band. Those came in several types - 4 squishy [U]Lizard Scouts[/U] with poison, 6 [U]Lizardfolk[/U], a [U]lvl3 Divine Caster[/U] and a CR3 greatsword-master [U]Champion[/U]. They did a great job stealthily approaching and casting Sleep on the Scouts, which made the rest of encounter much easier, though they still had a tough time and were almost TPKed at one point. The fight resulted in some difficult prisoner interrogation that brought up the inter-party (RP) leadership issues back. The group is now not sure if their alliance with a local Fey was a right thing or not (LF were making a ritual to destroy her "home"). But whatever the truth is - their relations with the LF are likely beyond repair anyway and there are they headed now they will find out that LF are serving a Red Dragon, so ... [/QUOTE]
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