WotC Game Day - Anyone play?

[Twin Rose]

So, I just got back from playing at the local gaming store the WotC tournament module for today's Game Day. Did anyone else go play? Any fun experiences?

We actually did 2 rounds, which wasn't part of the tournament exactly. Bill Webb from Necromancer Games ran the module for the group I was in, and that was a blast. I actually survived AND we beat the module - well, by we... I mean I lived with 1 hit point left, but the hellcat was dead, and I was able to stablize another character The other 3 groups, all 3 were TPK.

We did it differently in that 2 players from each group got voted "MVPs", and then we ran a killer Bill Webb adventure. A good 4 of us managed to survive that one... Though all but 1 had mummy rot and would have been dead anyway in a couple of days, if they hadn't been 1-shot characters we cared about.


Anyone else ?

 

[Twin Rose]

PS - I started a new thread to talk about good experiences, not bad

 

[Keith Robinson]

Yep, we got TPK'd and had loads of fun in the process. The deathskull essentially wiped us out, as we had to use up most of our resources to knock it out. We then came up againt the magma hurler, which used up the remaining resouces. The final battle against the hellcat was a breeze - for the hellcat!

But it was a lot of fun, which was the main thing.

 

[Glyfair]

At one store I ran the Dungeon Delve final encounter of 4 20th level PCs vs. the Colossal Red Dragon, and then the pregen adventure. In the evening, I ran the Dungeon Delve encounter at another store.

Oddly enough, I got more complaints about the Dungeon Delve characters at the 2nd store than I heard about the poor pregen adventure's characters. A total min-max group of players with comments like "How would this wizard have reached 20th level without these spells..." Still, both groups managed to kill the CRD with only 2 deaths (I played so a new character entered as soon as a character died).

 

[sckeener]

Nope. I wanted and had planned on going, but instead went and looked at a couple of houses...put earnest money down....looks like I'm moving in 2 weeks!

Just letting that knowledge sink in changed my day to one of packing.

On the plus side I am with in walking distance now of League City, TX 's library. Now I can look into scheduling rooms there and holding games there.

 

[Sammael]

I posted my very positive (DMing) experience on Hordelings:

http://www.hordelings.com/frontend/forums/postView.php?post_id=31075&viewPage=0#31149

 

[FATDRAGONGAMES]

We were attending a family wedding this weekend but I did manage to slip away for a bit and find a game store to play it Saturday afternoon. We had a lot of trouble with the flame skull, whupped on the Magma creature very quickly (a LOT of good dice rolls) and then BARELY got by the Hellcat. The party at the table next to ours had a TPK by the Hellcat. Had a blast-it's always fun to play with new people.

 

[schporto]

We had a blast. Our group made it through with one death. I got to play the cleric and suddenly realized - oh a magma hurler? that's earthy? Let's try to command/turn it. That and the MM wand saved our buts.
I usually DM. Getting a chance to play was great.
-cpd

 

[shurai]

I ran a game at Empire Games in Manchester, NH. Despite shockingly flawed pregenerated characters and an awfully difficult adventure for the purpose of introducing the game to beginners, I had a good time. I hadn't DM'd in awhile, so it was great fun to get back on that particular bicycle.

I had good players, is really what it amounted to. They "won," in the sense that I ignored the Hellcat's invisibility and cut its attack bonus in half and they still barely managed to defeat it. I'd played it pretty fudgeless before then, though. Everybody had a great time which is the important thing. : D

 

[FunkBGR]

I also ran the Virtual Dungeon Delve at Critical Hit Games in Coralville, Iowa.

I ran the Black Dragon through 4 or 5 sessions, then got bored and yelled that it was time for the Red Dragon. The Black Dragon was hard, but most of the groups handled it well. The Red was ridiculous - it was ripping through players like mad. I also did it where people could join in as soon as someone died.

I ALSO got a group of people complaining about the pre-gen's - they asked things like, "Can we swap some of these spells out?"

Lots of fun though. LOTS of fun. Pretty sure most people enjoyed themselves.