Motorskills
Explorer
That's a great story. I know the player in question (she's awesome) and when she told me the story I was super-happy to hear that these kinds of great moments are still being facilitated by the design.
I had a great time at our T3 table. I was asked to leave my group to join another table so it had enough people, and you never know how that will end up - the table was great! We had a lot of fun and did very well even though our party was far from optimal. Our DM was excellent and I liked the encounter design. The only downside we had was that the dragon never even showed up at our table! But, we could at least see that our accomplishments were impacting the battle and we enjoyed seeing the dragon visit other tables and the effect that had.
Indeed. Our DM was great, the coordinator for Salt Lake City IIRC.
Our PCs didn't know that a vampire's Charm lasts for ages, so of course we untied her after the first visit ended. Big mistake.
(The player inquestion was sat next to me, and yes, she was awesome, you can tell her that from me, but I think she knows I think so already.
Everybody at our table was great.)
Based on all the above, I would definitely consider doing T1 again for a future Epic, but hopefully this particular Epic will be repeated somewhere else and I can play a different tier for a comparison.