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I just wanna say that this is a total trip playing this character! This is NOTHING like anything I've ever played. I've never played a robot. I've never played a range-specced fighter type. And my normal RP is more like the gnome. Very extraverted, very wordy, very much running on and on with backstory and exposition and questions of PC and NPCs both. So playing this guy is just nuts for me! And it's been great! I hope you all are enjoying this campagin as much as I am and I can't wait to see how things develop! =)

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Is everyone okay with the DM rolling initiative for all of us? Most of the boards here have the DM roll for each player, and then once for all the bad guys, so that the party can post, and then the DM posts for the baddies, then the party, then the baddies.
Given the natural lag for waiting for everyone to just post init., this might save lots of time.
Whadayathink?

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I have no problem with running.
With that having been said.... =)
We're 4 2nd lvl chars, there's only one monster, we've no idea what our combat numbers would actually look like, I have a rifle that I've not yet had a chance to shoot yet, and I wanna see Copperbottom in action. =)
Hence, if we had gotten our collective buttocks kicked once before by one of these things, I'd be all for a strategic withdrawal.
But we haven't.
So I can't really say Run when I don't yet know that we should.
Just the price of playing in a new pool, I guess. =)

GM Dust Devil |

You do have 2 free potions of cure lights wounds each and yes running is an option... Note that some of the content in the table comes from the monster codex, this particular example you are facing is a troll who attended "college" (four levels of barbarian)... Another note is that many traditional monsters (such as trolls) will be reflavored as mana wastes mutants...

GM Dust Devil |

Not a mulligan, their is plenty on that table that can kill your party at your current level... Some things should not be fought, also however remember that their are ways equalize a fight. If you want to lure a troll into a deep gorge and drop one ton of acid on him to kill him I would go with that (so long as you could find and transport said acid).
Be cunning, be smart and be ruthless in the wastes.

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I don't beleive I'm familiar with it, but I'm learning lots of new things lately. =) What is it?
Also, I'm not even sure who's turn it was. Maybe in a combat post, it might be a good idea to say who's up?
Also, I'm still here, even if we need to re-open recruitment.

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Sounds good to me!
Dude man, just a word: Please do try and keep the encounters somewhat in our orbit. We don't know from the description "A troll is coming" whether it's a normal troll, and maybe something we can handle, or if it's somehow CR9 and something we should run from. If every monster can have PC levels, then every combat is something we'll have to run from. (Like, we have no way of knowing if one of the gnolls is a 10th level fighter.)
Probably not, but if we're constantly running into leveled monsters, we won't actually be able to fight anything, but anything might be tougher than us.
I'm not trying to be a killjoy, I'm just saying my perspective as a player. =)
Does this make sense?

GM Dust Devil |

Not everything is that bad, you for example are currently fighting gnolls, a "PC" (in terms of power) race. This encounter table is designed to vary sharply in power curve, however if you do take "reasonable" precautions (such as a watch every night and the like) you shouldn't be surprised by the "big boys". None of them have stealth whatsoever, basically if it's big it's going to have a hard time sneaking up on you.
In other words you have time to escape if need be.