I feel a bit like our 80+ blog posts blogger could easily fuel his own "Edition / My Playstyle is Better then Yours"-war with his blog posts. And he's spamming the blog news post, but I suppose his post numbers will tickle down once he has finished archiving the posts of the past 3 years.
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My first player experience with 4E went well! It was a fun evening and we had a unusually long session (I was home around half past four in the morning!).
And regardless whether you're fanboy (like me) or hater, "pure" Solo encounters go on too long. You have to add "spice" to them. I think I'll end up creating a house rule or blog thread on the topic of "tweaking" solos to get a little more variety and possibly shorter encounters, once I have reviewed a few ideas.
(For the record: We had one Purple Worm encounter, in which our main goal was keeping the Paladin from getting bloodied, and an Abyssal Solo Ghoul that could summon other Ghoul Minions. The latter was definitely more fun, with us having to find ways to minimize the 2-3 Minions that popped out per round...
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I already said (a belated) Happy Birthday in the birthday thread, so what more do I can do?
Ah, my mother made some cherry-pie. I think I can give some of it out to you - the cherries are sweet, which are harder to get here. So enjoy:
*hands out slices of cherry pie*