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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sagiro" data-source="post: 4857996" data-attributes="member: 726">I thought it was a well-balanced, exciting battle, and didn't feel any grind at all, personally.  Some tactical notes:- It took us a little while to really figure out how the damage-reassignment was working among the myconids.   (Was it distance based?  Could all of them do it, or only some?  Did each myconid have a hit-point-battery buddy?  Were they also regenerating?)  As a result, we spent about half the battle failing to pick up on the most important tactic: kill the minions first!  Once we (especially Strontium) started wiping out the minions, things turned around pretty fast.- We started out the battle surrounded, and it stayed that way.  Had we been on the ball, we could have all endured some OA's but dashed to a more defensible position.  As it was the bad guys had us effectively ringed after the first round.- The dice contributed to the down-then-up nature of the combat, as early on our rolls were terrible, while Piratecat rolled something like 3 crits out of 5 attacks.  In the second half of the combat, Doc and Bramble went nuts with the 20's.  It was a thing of beauty.- Have I mentioned how much we love Temporary Hit Point?  Both Toiva and Bramble were handing them out left and right, and it saved a lot of collective bacon.   And they don't use up healing surges!- The addition of Bramble (a shaman) as a 6th PC, along with her Spirit Companion, gave us many more things to keep track of than we had been used to.   (A 5-person team with 3 strikers and no leader did the have the advantage of simplicity!)  Starting next game we're going to try using a whiteboard to help reduce confusion.- I appreciated that Piratecat didn't give the monsters too many state-inducing powers, given that there were 27 of them!  Early on, one of them used a hypnotizing power on Logan that took away his standard action for the turn.  At the time, I thought:  this is going to one tedious battle if they can all do that, but fortunately that wasn't the case.- Piratecat has instructed us all to have a power card that specifically says “Do something cool!” I'm living proof that that was a good call.  One of the little minions had been spitting spores at my shins for a round or two, and I noticed the “cool action” card while flipping through the stack.  With my daily and encounter powers all burned up, I decided I would pick up the minion and use it as a club against one of the non-minion myconids.   Piratecat ruled (quickly) that it was Dex vs. Reflex to pick up the minion, and (I think) a basic melee attack with a medium-level damage rating when swinging it.  The dice were with me and it worked like a charm.  Very satisfying!- Doc Caldwell, for the first time in the campaign, hit with his Level 1 Daily.  Yeah, we're 4th level.  Finally getting a good chance to wade into melee with two weapons, he was a damage-dealing machine – reminding us that the rogues aren't the only strikers in the group.</blockquote>

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