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<blockquote data-quote="devlin1" data-source="post: 7147885" data-attributes="member: 74208"><p>I whole-heartedly agree that this year's Open was better than The Soulbound Tomb of last year. I've complained to anyone who's made the mistake of asking me about those puzzles last year -- I didn't like how out-of-character they were/felt, and how they interrupted a cool thing (soloing a green dragon -- I will never not shut up about that) to do a thing that, in my daily life, I intentionally choose to avoid, because seriously, word searches.</p><p></p><p>But even though we didn't come close to solving the challenge of the cubes, I appreciated that it at least <em>felt</em> like something our characters were doing and made sense in the narrative. The smorgasbord of mini-games, less so, but still, at least it was short, varied, and fun. I liked fondling those blocks! Sue me! So hats off to M. Sean Molley for that, because I know he was for sure behind it.</p><p></p><p>We were an 8-10 table of six, with an AL admin for a DM, and we found the last set of encounters pretty challenging. We had a character go down to zero HP in spectacular fashion, only to be saved by another PC just as spectacularly, but we didn't end up actually making it out before time was up. My Eldritch Knight, who never worries about damage very much, got down to 3 HP from 124. It was tense at the end there, which is what I want out of D&D combat in general.</p><p></p><p>As far as ROI, yeah, the seats were $20 a ticket, but subtract the price of the character sheet-folder-thing I probably would've bought even though I think it's pretty gutsy to sell <em>character sheets</em> in 2017, that's $10 for an 8-hour event. No complaints there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="devlin1, post: 7147885, member: 74208"] I whole-heartedly agree that this year's Open was better than The Soulbound Tomb of last year. I've complained to anyone who's made the mistake of asking me about those puzzles last year -- I didn't like how out-of-character they were/felt, and how they interrupted a cool thing (soloing a green dragon -- I will never not shut up about that) to do a thing that, in my daily life, I intentionally choose to avoid, because seriously, word searches. But even though we didn't come close to solving the challenge of the cubes, I appreciated that it at least [I]felt[/I] like something our characters were doing and made sense in the narrative. The smorgasbord of mini-games, less so, but still, at least it was short, varied, and fun. I liked fondling those blocks! Sue me! So hats off to M. Sean Molley for that, because I know he was for sure behind it. We were an 8-10 table of six, with an AL admin for a DM, and we found the last set of encounters pretty challenging. We had a character go down to zero HP in spectacular fashion, only to be saved by another PC just as spectacularly, but we didn't end up actually making it out before time was up. My Eldritch Knight, who never worries about damage very much, got down to 3 HP from 124. It was tense at the end there, which is what I want out of D&D combat in general. As far as ROI, yeah, the seats were $20 a ticket, but subtract the price of the character sheet-folder-thing I probably would've bought even though I think it's pretty gutsy to sell [I]character sheets[/I] in 2017, that's $10 for an 8-hour event. No complaints there. [/QUOTE]
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