Larsenio Roguespierre, Thief, hits 3rd level.

[S'mon]

Just levelled up to 3rd and bought Bracers of the Perfect Shot, using Mr Pointy my newly engorged +2 Dagger, my Ranged Basic Attack with Combat Advantage & Sneak Attack is ATT +15 for 1d4+2d8+12, crit 2d6+32.

And I can now Backstab twice per Encounter with a range-5 Basic Attack for ATT +18 damage 1d4+3d8+12, crit 2d6+40.

I'm a happy little Thief.

 

[Neonchameleon]

How did you make Backstab d8 rather than d6? Backstabber only applies to Sneak Attack as far as I know.

 

[Mallus]

I have nothing to say, rules-wise, S'mon, but those names are priceless!

 

[Goonalan]

You must have a nice DM, my players have just hit Level 4 and are just picking up their first magic weapons (+1 of course), most of them have one or two other magic items- an amulet +1, suit of armour or something else off their wishlists, for the most part.

That said we're not combat oriented, last nights session was 3.5 hours RP and an hour (nearly) of fighting.

Love the name byw.

 

[S'mon]

How did you make Backstab d8 rather than d6? Backstabber only applies to Sneak Attack as far as I know.

Y'know Francis, I was just reading over Backstab 2 hours ago and I noticed it didn't specifically say the bonus d6 is sneak attack damage. So perhaps I should be doing 1d4+2d8+1d6+12 backstab, and 2 points less on the backstab crit. I can live with that.

 

[S'mon]

You must have a nice DM, my players have just hit Level 4 and are just picking up their first magic weapons (+1 of course), most of them have one or two other magic items- an amulet +1, suit of armour or something else off their wishlists, for the most part.

That said we're not combat oriented, last nights session was 3.5 hours RP and an hour (nearly) of fighting.

Love the name byw.

We didn't have much gear until now, but last session we brought back the head of the Beggar King to the Overlord of Punjar (and also returned the Overlord's missing girlfriend Lady Constance) for a cool 10,000gp reward. After Larsenio generously distributed 1,600gp each to his 5 loyal henchmen (the other PCs), I still had a dainty 2,000gp to invest in the future.

 

[Goonalan]

Sellswords of Punjar, an excellent opening adventure- I've DM'ed it maybe 3 or 4 times. The entire series can be used to make a great Heroic opening to a campaign- I hope your DM chooses to run you through them- opportunities for roleplay, weird and wonderful villains, and some nice flavour- unlike the WOTC offerings.

God bless Goodman Games.

Good luck to you- any chance of a story hour for your adventures?

I think the adventure features twice in my own story hours (see sig), but don't go looking too far as the other adventures in the series are in there too I think.

The last time we played it the following encounters were stand out-

The Bazaar of the Bizarre- the PCs ended up fighting Arthuro and his Toughs, the Otyugh (and when it died ten Otyugh Grubs), and Irocar and his Dog-Brothers, three encounters in to one- which caused two PC deaths.

Madame Zeb- not a dangerous encounter but there was much roleplay between her and the Halfling Paladin PC, which resulted in Zeb focussing her attacks on the holy warrior- to devestating effect, a crit with her Daily reducing the Halfling to beyond negative bloodied- another PC death.

The Beggars in the Warehouse- I armed them with a variety of weapons; bones, table legs, fiery brands, broken bottles etc.

The Hobgoblin Slavers down below- the PCs killed the Great Ape and then chased the fleeing Hobgoblins all the way back to their comrades, and so six Goblin Archers, another four Hobgoblin Slavers and Gorliss the Goat were added to the fight. And as if that wasn't enough when the last two Goblins ran away the PCs chased on again and straight in to the Slavers themselvers- Vermoth, Drazen the Drow and Wrix and Reiko, the Gnolls. It was another three encounters rolled in to one, only this time the PCs were Level 2 and after expending more or less every power they had they managed to win through- some great tactics by the players, and high rolls- while I seemed to have a dice-mare.

Again, a lovely little scenario.

Congrats to you, and thanks for the memories.

Cheers Goonalan

 

[S'mon]

Sellswords of Punjar, an excellent opening adventure- I've DM'ed it maybe 3 or 4 times. The entire series can be used to make a great Heroic opening to a campaign- I hope your DM chooses to run you through them- opportunities for roleplay, weird and wonderful villains, and some nice flavour- unlike the WOTC offerings.

God bless Goodman Games.

Good luck to you- any chance of a story hour for your adventures?

Our DM is planning to run the whole Punjar Saga, weekly on Monday nights - it's heavenly! We didn't get to RP with Zenobia though, we were so freaked out we decided to ambush whatever was beyond the drapes - so we got ourselves a surprise round, but at the price of no character interaction!

Re story hour - not AFAIK, but I found out today one of the other players is a famous author, so who knows? I'm looking forward to seeing my PC Larsenio Roguespierre's name in lights.

Edit: No PC deaths yet - unlike you (and me!) our DM Mark is not a Killer DM, and we've mostly been playing with good tactics & decent luck. We also had the experience of encounters rolling together, but one thing Mark has been doing is having some rooms unoccupied, the NPCs are often met later as wandering monsters, which made for a great dynamic feel to the adventure. Eg Irocar & the alley-guards were away on our first visit, but turned up in the middle of the second session, resulting in *us* defending the Bazaar against *them* - we eventually made a fighting withdrawal up the stairs to the Dog Brothers' den, a useful bottleneck where the four of us were able to eventually take down Irocar (4th level Soldier with AC 23, and us 1st level - *yikes*) with 1 PC dropped but no fatalities; the last of the alley-guards ran away.

 

[S'mon]

Kimberly Pauley, "Young Adult" fantasy fiction author, and player of Warlord Thalia in our campaign, discusses playing in Sellswords of Punjar, actually her first experience of tabletop D&D, here:
On Slaying Dragons Kimberly Pauley

 

[Tony Vargas]

Those are some big numbers allright.

(Oh, and 6th level items are on the menu for a 3rd level party, though it might be a tad 'lucky' for one character ... who just happens to be a "Theif" ... to have two them.)