Game Day re-hash

[Mark]

Although the final battle was fairly handily won, the group I ran through the adventure had some particularly bad rolls when first coming to the chasm causing a number of them to fall in and making the encounter with the creatures there very challenging.


Got a first hand look at how confusing the word level can be to a newer player when applied to a number of different mechanics.

 

[Teflon Billy]

Got a first hand look at how confusing the word level can be to a newer player when applied to a number of different mechanics.

Yeah, I often wondered why they abandoned the...

Character Level= Rank
Spell Level= Power
Dungeon Level=Level

...terminology.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

I have a more bust-in-the-doors, charge, and kill it mentality than my local FLGS staff. I'm like a Patton to their Montgomery.

Did you slap one of those teenage girls and tell her to man up or get the hell out of your party?

 

[haakon1]

Did you slap one of those teenage girls and tell her to man up or get the hell out of your party?

No, I managed to control myself for the most part.

I was playing the dwarf paladin, ahem, tank. In the set piece at the end, I charged into battle to slay one of the goblins, then once the rogue took out 1 more and I took down the drow, I double-timed it up to the stage to deal with the duergar, while the FLGS owner/dwarf cleric was saying something about protecting the spellcasters, sticking together, stopping to make tea, something like that.

 

[Mark]

(. . .) while the FLGS owner/dwarf cleric was saying something about protecting the spellcasters, sticking together, stopping to make tea, something like that.

Ah, so, the owner was the teenage girl?

 

[TarionzCousin]

Yeah, I often wondered why they abandoned the...

Character Level= Rank
Spell Level= Power
Dungeon Level=Level

...terminology.

Basic Design Theory 101 says NEVER name more than one element of the system the same thing. I hope this is one of the 'sacred cows' that 4E kills... but I wouldn't bet on it happening.

I was at a con so was unable to participate, but I'm posting here to bookmark and read others' responses.

 

[haakon1]

Ah, so, the owner was the teenage girl?

The "making tea" reference is to WWII movies, where Monty's troops always seem to want to stop of tea breaks or second breakfast or something, just when they should be killing things and taking their stuff.

I'm glad the FLGS owner fights like that. He was a really good simulation of the Union army when we fought the Civil War. But he did an excellent job of killing off the goblin riff-raff archers with some Sonic spell none of us knew about.

The two teenage girls were the FLGS owner's daughter playing the elf sorceress (well) and somebody else playing Tara the Fighter (who fell down the pit and got knocked out by the Drow) and the halfling rogue.

 

[Crothian]

Thank goodness we had a good DM to make it fun

 

[greatamericanfolkher]

I had fun, but the group I was in was the lucky group. In the other group that was running at the same time the DM was using the stats off the mini cards for the encounters and not the stats out of the module. We found out when my group finished with all hands and the other group had one character left desperately trying to get to the entrance of the dungeon to escape.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

Did the Dwarven Paladin in anyone else's group fall in the pit?

I really wanted to make the old joke:

What noise does a religious dwarf in heavy armour make when they fall in a pit?

CLANGGEDDIN, Clanggedin, clanggedin...