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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 9552417" data-attributes="member: 5142">I ran Dragonbane for my partner as a sort of solo venture. I was curious to see how they would like this game compared to past ones. I had them pick their PC from the pre-mades and then pick their two traveling companions. They picked the halfling thief as their primary PC, and then picked the human mage and mallard knight as their companions. I ran the opening scenario of the Box Set: i.e., "walking in a pass when attacked by goblins." When my partner was declaring their actions pretty early on, they said that their mage was looking around for the possible trap, so I decided to give them a boon on their Awareness roll. They rolled a dragon! So they were able to spot the goblin ambush and warn the party, which also meant they got to act normally on the first round. Combat seemed to favor them. The duck knight managed to kill one goblin in the first round. The mage nearly killed another with a fireball. The thief used their action to evade an attack. In the next round, the worg rider emerged and let out a howling battle cry that provided boons on attacks to his two remaining allies. But before the goblins could attack, the halfling thief somersaulted on a boulder (Improved Weapon) and then flung themselves at the goblin that the mage had attacked, killing him. The mage was not so lucky with their second cast of fireball. They rolled a Demon! They rolled on the mishap table - self-inflicted damage! - but they were lucky that they rolled low, so the mage only took 2 damage. The last goblin scout just couldn't hit anything, even with his boons. (I guess he was upset that the duck knight killed his friend so easily.) But the duck knight then made short work of the last goblin. Then the worg rider had his second turn (Ferocity 2) that round, and hit the duck knight for 8 damage, which barely did anything since the duck knight had 6 AR. The next round, the mage went first and cast Pillar to lift the worg up to try and throw it off balance, but the worg easily jumped down. The duck knight went next and hit the worg pretty well. The halfling thief went next and managed to get to the worg rider, used Backstabbing, and then killed the worg. At this point, I had the goblin rider become a goblin warrior, and took away his second initiative action. He went first in the next round. The goblin warrior attacked the halfling thief, but barely managed to hit her. However, he wasn't that lucky with his damage. At this point, the duck knight was FURIOUS (Ill-Tempered), and he decided that enough was enough, and he attacked the goblin warrior, killing him. The battle was won. I would say that the session went well. They had fun. They found the roll under skill mechanic to be incredibly easy, though it took them a bit to get the bonus damage die. They really liked the initiative system, the visual elements that came with the box set (the standees, battle map, etc.), as well as having cards. They liked the whole leaning into the character weakness as well. I was prepared to run the other two characters for them, but they did that themselves without any problems or even thinking about asking me for help. I think that that it's because, unlike some other TTRPGs, there's not that many moving parts in terms of abilities, actions, or numbers. So there was not much that they needed to know or keep track of. So this was a quick and easy game to teach them.Also, they loved the ducks and demanded that I add them to any Dragonbane homebrew setting I do. Duly noted.</blockquote>

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