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<blockquote data-quote="ForceUser" data-source="post: 383891" data-attributes="member: 2785">Re: Re: Session Three, Part TenMost members of the current group have gamed together for anywhere from two to seven years, although Vinh's players (Vymair) and Woo's player (Hjorimir) have gamed together since I was in grade school! The group is tough to challenge since most of the players have a keen understanding of 3E feats, skills, spells, tactics, and how to use them together to maximum effect. Because of this, I've told them frankly that the kid gloves are off. I don't flub die rolls behind the screen and I don't pull any punches with regards to what the monsters may do (but I do make an effort to roleplay those monsters correctly). As for Tran and Hien, what an awful night of bad luck for the player group! First they got dumped in a pit, nearly killing several party members and plunging almost all of them to single digit hit points. Then Mai nearly fell to her death again on the ladder trap, then they got punked by one measley 1 HD Darkmantle. The thing that killed Tran and nearly killed Hien had 9 hit points! Adding insult to injury, neither Tran nor Hien made a single stabilization roll, and nobody left standing had any points in the Heal skill! Luckily, you can use it untrained, so those guys were rolling their Wis modifiers against a DC 15 every round. Hien they finally managed to save (after a snafu where we though he was dead at first), but Tran just....ran out of time. You should have seen the shock on their faces. It was a very, very bad night for the PCs.Of course, the following session, they kicked ass. Karma is cool that way. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForceUser, post: 383891, member: 2785"] [b]Re: Re: Session Three, Part Ten[/b] Most members of the current group have gamed together for anywhere from two to seven years, although Vinh's players (Vymair) and Woo's player (Hjorimir) have gamed together since I was in grade school! The group is tough to challenge since most of the players have a keen understanding of 3E feats, skills, spells, tactics, and how to use them together to maximum effect. Because of this, I've told them frankly that the kid gloves are off. I don't flub die rolls behind the screen and I don't pull any punches with regards to what the monsters may do (but I do make an effort to roleplay those monsters correctly). As for Tran and Hien, what an awful night of bad luck for the player group! First they got dumped in a pit, nearly killing several party members and plunging almost all of them to single digit hit points. Then Mai nearly fell to her death [i]again[/i] on the ladder trap, then they got punked by one measley 1 HD Darkmantle. The thing that killed Tran and nearly killed Hien had 9 hit points! Adding insult to injury, neither Tran nor Hien made a single stabilization roll, and nobody left standing had any points in the Heal skill! Luckily, you can use it untrained, so those guys were rolling their Wis modifiers against a DC 15 every round. Hien they finally managed to save (after a snafu where we though he was dead at first), but Tran just....ran out of time. You should have seen the shock on their faces. It was a very, very bad night for the PCs. Of course, the following session, they kicked ass. Karma is cool that way. :) [/QUOTE]

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