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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barendd Nobeard" data-source="post: 1642261" data-attributes="member: 960">Bingo.  This is the biggest problem--if you're not into power-gaming, you can get spanked really easily in the mods.  This weekend, my dwarven fighter took about 90 points of damage in one round from one opponent.  If you can't dish that right back at them, you're toast.  Though there are creative ways around this (one recent two-round mod had *no* combats for the first round--that was a nice change of pace and everyone *had* to role play for a while), the power-gaming escalation is still pretty much the norm.Aside from that, I still play it a lot.  As many people have noted, part of it depends on what DM you get.  Also, the players you get (if you're not playing with a set group) can really impact your fun.  I've had a good DM and players really make a bad module fun ("Brendigund's Bride")....and I've had bad judging and/or players ruin what should have been a fun mod to play.Finally, which region you're in can make a big difference.  I'm in Highfolk, which is a pretty nice region to be in, and I'm close to Verbobonc, so I get two regions to play in very frequently.  These two regions are very fun to play in (I think), and I have two other regions are fairly close (but I don't travel much to play LG).  Someone stuck in the middle of a region they don't like probably won't have a good time; I'm just lucky.LG is also great to get a gaming fix when your group implodes.  Sort of like drinking the brackish water when you're trapped in the cave in.  Sure, you won't drink it again when you've been rescued and have access to good water again, but when it's the only thing you have it tastes fine.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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