In an earlier post I commented on the experience of the four players who between them in the poll have 79 years of D&D active roleplaying experience... Alias poor Yorck...
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<innoscent look> It was merely self perservation at work... The warlock prized himself on being abarsive and said something on the first meeting and opening line to the elf wizard about evil rituals and the Dark Ones own alter for the elf wizard as a future so that the warlock could get ahead. The elf wizard rapidly and simply decided that the warlock should be allowed to go to his god as soon as possible as befitting such a religious sort and besides the wizard owed the ranger who is like the ranger in the movie Van Helsling (very interesting). Its odd but the soon to be liche and elf wizard actually trust each other as comrades for the last year"s plus of adventuring. Just hope being dead doesnt rot his brain as a good liche is hard to find... lol
Guys, What Allen hasn't shared (may not know) is that the remaining core of players that he is blessed with each has decades of game time. All the red shirts and power players using tweaked min maxed characters are gone. One of the remaining players started D&D when the Basic set of D&D was published with its 7 books of 6 by 8 inch books. Few DMs should be so lucky or more be challenged more as the opportunities with experienced roleplayers and gamers allow him to run it as written and as the dice fates degree His challenge is this group is working well together the only way for him as a DM to have it worse is if we all self sacifice for each other. That single thing makes a group unkillable if all the players do that and they then would be capable of anything. (As a player when the group does that for years on end it is trying an amazing experience.) The only chance a good GM has without deliberately trying to unfairly kill a character or group is to whittle down individual characters in the due course of things until even the mightly stand alone against the horde and then go down like the paladin in the breach against the horde as last man standing. Even that is remembered in parking lot discussions for years as a prized gaming moment... I praise allen for his fairness and resisting the temptation of the bigger badder thing that we loot that then requires even more extreme monsters and items campaign death spiral. Allen is being very fair and even handed to his immense credit and we as players are being very careful to apply the right stuff at the right time to try to avoid being sushi. Equine sushi is not chopped steak, lol
The choice of image is an inside joke reference Richenda lol
Actually, I was quite pleased in that my spell memorization choices were so well chosen as to use everything I had. It's a rare thing for the mage to expend all spells and spells slots on cue and to the needed threat sometimes before it materialized even as a bad guy in teh course of a 4 hour adventure without stopping. I have not had that happen very often in my gaming experience. As they say "all ordinance expended"...! All in all you should be quite happy as I used all I had and was prparing to draw rapier...
Quiet protest of a player LOL, as the lowest AC character and level, not only does my supposed outragious equipment like a broom of flying not really enter into hack and slash equation... but I didnt not pile on stuff that provided instant and complete protection or huge combat bonuses,and the items I have add maybe two preset spells a level at the expense of two prepared spells a level. In addition, I gave up starting with fifth level spells to continue to RP a character.
Turin, it should be said again that i am throughly enjoying the campaign and I would hate to see you stop running it. That said I will go to simply lurking from here on out.
I had a many houred thoughtfully crafted response disappear earlier. I have been enjoying this game very very much since the reset... As for my character, I planned for the long term steady growth instead of immmediate joy in AC that the money might have brought and I carefully considered wheither or not to buy up AC and opped not to recongizing that modules usually do not take into account high AC characters at the expected party level of the module. I focused on well rounded useful odd stuff A part of my houghtful would have been post was the issue seems to be the high ACs in half the party and the other half that doesnt not have the high AC (I am in that group with an AC-21 before Shield spell). As we all know a good GM can overcome high ACs by having bad guy NPC leaders focusing on those with those and the rest of us deal with like lesser AC minions and if our champions fall we should be smart enough to run away to avoid a TPK if our high AC PCs buy the farm as the high AC of the evil winning NPCs wold then assure our deaths and the GM should be flexability tolorant enough to allow us other paths and adventure arcs with our likely eye on revenging the fallen upon our eventual increase in capabilities and gaining new allies. I have no idea what is in the module as I refuse to buy, read about or look at it. In Age of Worms, the DM recognized the difference between monster characters and regular characters and started to solve that problem in the manner described above. Nothing that I have said should be taken as any sort of negative comments by me as a player, I am trying to be constructive. Ebil Yoda
Ebil Yoda (Derva) nods silently a tip of the wide brimmed hat...
To the one who recieves this missive, it is with sad regret I report our quiet attempt that was well planned to inflitrate the enemy duckdom has met with bombastic failure rife with confused lightnings and slow words. I fear our attempt to carefully learn more about our enemy before we struck with care to inspire confidence in would be allies in our ability to plan and execute the enemies of God has been most completely and carelessly ruined by those who would best serve the paladin princess as murderers on the run without without safe haven and before they fly ignobably in fear and defeat. I expect the party of "heros" will be tracked down and pursued with extreme prejudice for slaughtering a scheduled military patrol when they do not return to large and well guarded camp. What will the paladin princess do if the ignoble enemy resorts to retribution and ramdom murder on the enslaved local population becuase of her parties misdeeds to include the slaughter of the enemies heroic battlefeild wounded? Will she give herself up as a truly noble paladin to the foul creatures for their sport to save her people from mass retailation by the occupying forces? Will the retatiation against the oppressed population combined with the enemie's 30 pieces of silver given as reward for betrayal cause the death of the party before the population decides to trust us since we now have no safe place to turn for hiding and planning the rebellion. P.S. Captian, SS Nostromo distress signal says something about 40km safe distance.... Does anyone know what that <BRIGHT FLASH>
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