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<blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 5639855" data-attributes="member: 3448"><p>Deforch's sixteenth adventure was one of the best games we've had in a while. It was fun and exciting, and my son stayed focused and into the game for the whole session.</p><p></p><p>Before we started, my son said that he wanted to become friends with some more monsters, in addition to Freezie the Silver Dragon and Slingie the Displacer Beast. I could work with that, so I quickly came up with an idea for the adventure. Freezie approached Deforch and said that he wanted to visit one of his friends who lives at the top of a mountain. He immediately got the obvious conclusion… "But it's a dangerous mountain, with lots of monsters on it, so Deforch should go with Freezie in case something attacks Freezie!" Exactly, I thought. So Deforch, Freezie, and Slingie all set out on an adventure together traveling up a trail leading up a very dangerous mountain.</p><p></p><p>They proceeded up a trail that switched back and forth as it climbed up the mountain slope. After a short hike, they reached a point where a raging river cut across the trail. There was no ford available, and indeed, the river across the trail did not look either natural or like it had been there for long--if nothing else, the river had turned and begun flowing uphill across the trail.</p><p></p><p>Deforch immediately began gathering up wood to make a bridge. I was pleased that my son came up with a quick, reasonable plan to handle the problem. A quick skill check sufficed to build the bridge, and he began heading across the bridge.</p><p></p><p>As he reached the middle of the bridge, a strange watery figure rose out of the river. "Who are you that would intrude on this mountain?"</p><p></p><p>My son smiled excitedly. "This sounds like a fight!" I agreed that it could be a fight, but I cautioned him that Deforch might not have to fight the water spirit--perhaps they could talk. If he had insisted on turning this into a battle, I would have been happy to follow his lead.</p><p></p><p>My son decided that if the spirit was willing to talk, Deforch would switch from outright violence to not-very-subtly-veiled threats of violence. "You should let me pass, because I have lots of power cards for my attacks!" I may have had him roll an Intimidate check--I'm not sure if I did or if I just relied on pure role-playing for this.</p><p></p><p>The spirit blinked at him, the rocky chips in her eyes shining like the light on the quartz on the mountain slope. "I can tell you are very powerful and dangerous… but I have powers of my own." The spirit holds up her hands, and with a woosh an arc of water courses between her hands. My son was clearly a little frightened by this. "Why are you here, and armed so heavily? Do you mean harm for this mountain?"</p><p></p><p>"Freezie, my dragon friend, wanted to visit his friend at the top of the mountain. But the mountain is dangerous, so we came with him."</p><p></p><p>"The mountain can be dangerous, and more of late. And I know well the one who dwells at the mountain's summit. If you are people of good will, I have a request of you. There is a cave farther up the mountainside. Animals that have entered that cave do not return. I would appreciate it if you would explore the cave and find out what is threatening the good creatures of the mountain."</p><p></p><p>Deforch quickly agreed and set out across the river. After a short hike farther up the mountain, he saw a cave mouth leading into the mountainside. He traveled into the mountain and found several animal skeletons lying in the cave, near a fire that continued to burn in a fire pit without consuming the wood in the pit. As he looked at the fire, he noticed some motion by the ceiling. He ducked out of the way as a large shapeless black mass dropped from the ceiling. The strange ooze lashed out at him with a black pseudopod, but Deforch dodged aside. He slashed back with his sword. The attack seemed to hurt the creature, but it also cut off another chunk of the ooze, which continued to fight.</p><p></p><p>Freezie spoke up. "Deforch! Your sword blows seem to be cutting off parts of the ooze. Maybe there is some way that we can destroy parts of the ooze with something other than your sword?"</p><p></p><p>"Try your frost breath, Freezie!"</p><p></p><p>Freezie's frost breath washed over both the original black pudding (to use the actual name) and the new black pudding. The breath did harm the black pudding, but it did not destroy either the original black pudding or its spawn. Slingie also attacked, and his claws ripped off another chunk of pudding that kept fighting.</p><p></p><p>The black pudding's pseudopods smacked Deforch, burning him with their acid touch. Freezie said, "I don't think my frost breath will work. Maybe there's something else we could use?"</p><p></p><p>Deforch decided that maybe he could burn the pudding, so he ran over to the fire, pushed his swords into it, and used his swords to shovel burning wood onto the black pudding. This had a dramatic effect, burning and damaging the pudding and without creating more of the spawn. While Freezie and Slingie finished off the black pudding spawn, Deforch continued throwing fire onto the black pudding. Finally, the pudding collapsed and burned up. They had dealt with the threat in the caves that had been killing all of the animals that came inside.</p><p></p><p>With that, they continued through the cave and emerged out just below the summit of the mountain. Deforch, Freezie, and Slingie walked up and met a great feathered serpent, Axatl the Couatl. Axatl the Couatl greeted his friend Freezie, who introduced him to Deforch. Axatl congratulated Deforch on having dealt with the black pudding, a dangerous threat on the mountain, and said that he was happy to have met Deforch. I showed my son a picture of a cobalt from the Monster Manual, although he didn't seem terribly interested in the picture. He did have some fun talking to Axatl.</p><p></p><p>With that, we were out of time, and my son had to go off to gymnastics camp.</p><p></p><p>Overall, this session was great. We both had a lot of fun, my son stayed focused, and we were able to do some interesting new things. He had fun and effectively dealt with both of the problem solving bits--crossing the river and figuring out the trick to fighting the black pudding effectively--as well as having some okay, albeit a little primitive, role-playing. Interestingly, my son, who was very interested in Deforch becoming friends with another monster, was not terribly engaged by the picture. I suspect that he would have reacted a lot better to another miniature to represent his new friend--the picture was a little abstract for his play, I think. But it was a great session for both of us. At the end, he said, "this was the best game ever!"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cerebral Paladin, post: 5639855, member: 3448"] Deforch's sixteenth adventure was one of the best games we've had in a while. It was fun and exciting, and my son stayed focused and into the game for the whole session. Before we started, my son said that he wanted to become friends with some more monsters, in addition to Freezie the Silver Dragon and Slingie the Displacer Beast. I could work with that, so I quickly came up with an idea for the adventure. Freezie approached Deforch and said that he wanted to visit one of his friends who lives at the top of a mountain. He immediately got the obvious conclusion… "But it's a dangerous mountain, with lots of monsters on it, so Deforch should go with Freezie in case something attacks Freezie!" Exactly, I thought. So Deforch, Freezie, and Slingie all set out on an adventure together traveling up a trail leading up a very dangerous mountain. They proceeded up a trail that switched back and forth as it climbed up the mountain slope. After a short hike, they reached a point where a raging river cut across the trail. There was no ford available, and indeed, the river across the trail did not look either natural or like it had been there for long--if nothing else, the river had turned and begun flowing uphill across the trail. Deforch immediately began gathering up wood to make a bridge. I was pleased that my son came up with a quick, reasonable plan to handle the problem. A quick skill check sufficed to build the bridge, and he began heading across the bridge. As he reached the middle of the bridge, a strange watery figure rose out of the river. "Who are you that would intrude on this mountain?" My son smiled excitedly. "This sounds like a fight!" I agreed that it could be a fight, but I cautioned him that Deforch might not have to fight the water spirit--perhaps they could talk. If he had insisted on turning this into a battle, I would have been happy to follow his lead. My son decided that if the spirit was willing to talk, Deforch would switch from outright violence to not-very-subtly-veiled threats of violence. "You should let me pass, because I have lots of power cards for my attacks!" I may have had him roll an Intimidate check--I'm not sure if I did or if I just relied on pure role-playing for this. The spirit blinked at him, the rocky chips in her eyes shining like the light on the quartz on the mountain slope. "I can tell you are very powerful and dangerous… but I have powers of my own." The spirit holds up her hands, and with a woosh an arc of water courses between her hands. My son was clearly a little frightened by this. "Why are you here, and armed so heavily? Do you mean harm for this mountain?" "Freezie, my dragon friend, wanted to visit his friend at the top of the mountain. But the mountain is dangerous, so we came with him." "The mountain can be dangerous, and more of late. And I know well the one who dwells at the mountain's summit. If you are people of good will, I have a request of you. There is a cave farther up the mountainside. Animals that have entered that cave do not return. I would appreciate it if you would explore the cave and find out what is threatening the good creatures of the mountain." Deforch quickly agreed and set out across the river. After a short hike farther up the mountain, he saw a cave mouth leading into the mountainside. He traveled into the mountain and found several animal skeletons lying in the cave, near a fire that continued to burn in a fire pit without consuming the wood in the pit. As he looked at the fire, he noticed some motion by the ceiling. He ducked out of the way as a large shapeless black mass dropped from the ceiling. The strange ooze lashed out at him with a black pseudopod, but Deforch dodged aside. He slashed back with his sword. The attack seemed to hurt the creature, but it also cut off another chunk of the ooze, which continued to fight. Freezie spoke up. "Deforch! Your sword blows seem to be cutting off parts of the ooze. Maybe there is some way that we can destroy parts of the ooze with something other than your sword?" "Try your frost breath, Freezie!" Freezie's frost breath washed over both the original black pudding (to use the actual name) and the new black pudding. The breath did harm the black pudding, but it did not destroy either the original black pudding or its spawn. Slingie also attacked, and his claws ripped off another chunk of pudding that kept fighting. The black pudding's pseudopods smacked Deforch, burning him with their acid touch. Freezie said, "I don't think my frost breath will work. Maybe there's something else we could use?" Deforch decided that maybe he could burn the pudding, so he ran over to the fire, pushed his swords into it, and used his swords to shovel burning wood onto the black pudding. This had a dramatic effect, burning and damaging the pudding and without creating more of the spawn. While Freezie and Slingie finished off the black pudding spawn, Deforch continued throwing fire onto the black pudding. Finally, the pudding collapsed and burned up. They had dealt with the threat in the caves that had been killing all of the animals that came inside. With that, they continued through the cave and emerged out just below the summit of the mountain. Deforch, Freezie, and Slingie walked up and met a great feathered serpent, Axatl the Couatl. Axatl the Couatl greeted his friend Freezie, who introduced him to Deforch. Axatl congratulated Deforch on having dealt with the black pudding, a dangerous threat on the mountain, and said that he was happy to have met Deforch. I showed my son a picture of a cobalt from the Monster Manual, although he didn't seem terribly interested in the picture. He did have some fun talking to Axatl. With that, we were out of time, and my son had to go off to gymnastics camp. Overall, this session was great. We both had a lot of fun, my son stayed focused, and we were able to do some interesting new things. He had fun and effectively dealt with both of the problem solving bits--crossing the river and figuring out the trick to fighting the black pudding effectively--as well as having some okay, albeit a little primitive, role-playing. Interestingly, my son, who was very interested in Deforch becoming friends with another monster, was not terribly engaged by the picture. I suspect that he would have reacted a lot better to another miniature to represent his new friend--the picture was a little abstract for his play, I think. But it was a great session for both of us. At the end, he said, "this was the best game ever!" [/QUOTE]
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