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<blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 4547759" data-attributes="member: 2"><p>A few notes from my perspective:</p><p></p><p> - Anyone know how exactly a portcullis is supposed to work? If I were going to do it again, I might make it a skill challenge to lift. Instead I ruled on the fly, making it a difficult athletics check to bend bar / lift gate. Dr. Caldwell got a 27 on his aided athletics check, jamming the damn thing up into the ceiling with no problem whatsoever. </p><p></p><p> - House rule #3, above, should technically read "Do Something Really Cool That's Daily-Power-Related." I think that'll help constrain it a little more.</p><p></p><p> - My players are still somewhat in the 3e mindset when it comes to moving in combat. No one used any environmental objects to aid in combat, and they didn't move around a whole lot (to the extent that someone second-guessed one character who <em>did</em> move.) I think this will change with time. I'll need to keep creating fight locations with Neat Things You Can Do (tm) to encourage this.</p><p></p><p> - Dr. Caldwell's personality is cautious. He made sure to save the baby instead of engaging the Dog-gobbler King in a fight. That ensured success while it removed one striker from the equation, but the others still pumped out a tremendous amount of damage. It was a tactical mistake for the King to charge the injured Logan to try to finish him off (and thus eating a whole lot of sneak attacky-OA damage), but the King was busy panicking. It seemed like a good idea at the time.</p><p></p><p> - Sagiro is mistaken when he says that the gobblers were fighting for a new King. Ha! With new access to the outside world, they were fighting to determine the new dog-gobbler champion. It's a shame the PCs didn't get captured and weren't made to fight in the arena. It was a tilt-floored, hazard-strewn battlefield that required athletics and acrobatics checks each round just to stay on your feet while fighting. I think I've seen Flash Gordon one too many times.</p><p></p><p> - The PCs still don't really understand why dogs and babies were being kidnapped, or what the gobblers were up to, although they have some theories.</p><p></p><p> - I still can't believe how quickly that gobbler.. err, goblin skullcrusher went down. Other than getting to plunge his claws into Logan's belly, he was dazed on the first round and then died like a punk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Piratecat, post: 4547759, member: 2"] A few notes from my perspective: - Anyone know how exactly a portcullis is supposed to work? If I were going to do it again, I might make it a skill challenge to lift. Instead I ruled on the fly, making it a difficult athletics check to bend bar / lift gate. Dr. Caldwell got a 27 on his aided athletics check, jamming the damn thing up into the ceiling with no problem whatsoever. - House rule #3, above, should technically read "Do Something Really Cool That's Daily-Power-Related." I think that'll help constrain it a little more. - My players are still somewhat in the 3e mindset when it comes to moving in combat. No one used any environmental objects to aid in combat, and they didn't move around a whole lot (to the extent that someone second-guessed one character who [i]did[/i] move.) I think this will change with time. I'll need to keep creating fight locations with Neat Things You Can Do (tm) to encourage this. - Dr. Caldwell's personality is cautious. He made sure to save the baby instead of engaging the Dog-gobbler King in a fight. That ensured success while it removed one striker from the equation, but the others still pumped out a tremendous amount of damage. It was a tactical mistake for the King to charge the injured Logan to try to finish him off (and thus eating a whole lot of sneak attacky-OA damage), but the King was busy panicking. It seemed like a good idea at the time. - Sagiro is mistaken when he says that the gobblers were fighting for a new King. Ha! With new access to the outside world, they were fighting to determine the new dog-gobbler champion. It's a shame the PCs didn't get captured and weren't made to fight in the arena. It was a tilt-floored, hazard-strewn battlefield that required athletics and acrobatics checks each round just to stay on your feet while fighting. I think I've seen Flash Gordon one too many times. - The PCs still don't really understand why dogs and babies were being kidnapped, or what the gobblers were up to, although they have some theories. - I still can't believe how quickly that gobbler.. err, goblin skullcrusher went down. Other than getting to plunge his claws into Logan's belly, he was dazed on the first round and then died like a punk. [/QUOTE]
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