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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nookiemonster" data-source="post: 5318129" data-attributes="member: 94853">I played the mage in this game; The first two encounters went OK. Used the Beguiling Strands as written, shifted the monsters around to give the slayers combat advantage, and that helped in the first. Second one was a target-rich environment, blew away I don't know how many minions with Beguiling Strands. Went into the first chamber with the humans and orcs. I played badly here, concentrated on trying to decipher the trap rather than just shoving the bad guys around onto the trap squares; for some reason I had the idea the trap would not affect them. Wasted my daily here. We got knocked about badly.Then... the fight with the dragon. I went forward a bit to blast as many minions as possible with Beguiling Strands, but the monsters' initiative was just after mine and I got mobbed. Knocked unconscious very quickly, so the hobgoblins and minions lasted much longer than they should have. I got healing worded and knocked unconscious twice more. The Cleric was a rock in this encounter, healing everyone (and getting knocked unconscious once). Just when it was looking like a TPK, I daze the dragon with my encounter power and the Elf thief nails it with a huge damage roll, setting alight to an arrow with the astral fire from the braziers, adding in Backstab and Sneak attack, doing just enough damage to finish it off. High fives all around. Tough adventure, would have been easier with players who were used to working together and who had more experience with their characters. I enjoyed the game though.I did think that the black-and-white map was s**t. The Red Box seems to have a split personality, in one way it's designed to bring in new players (I mean, they're selling it in Target and other general retail stores) in others it's designed to appeal to old-school gamers. It's two completely different groups. Modern gamers expect full-colour, sexy maps, not blue on white (or in this case, black on white) maps.</blockquote>

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