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So I finally had an almost full conversion over to Alpha 2. The Players have changed their HD to match their BAB and the skills have gone over too. The players at first kind of moaned but realized what they had gained and were well pleased, well all but the Binder Player.
The Party:
Human Duskblade 3
Human Binder 3
Half-Elf Warmage 3
Gnome Rogue 3
This game was a continuation of a campaign world I created several months ago. It has no name at this time but the players have begun exploring it and have developed into a strong party. This was the 3rd month of the group playing from 1st level.
So to begin, the players had taken a rest after several encounters the day before. They had stumbled upon a small passageway beneath a sawmill and desided this was a better place than any to rest. With a town of crazies above and quite a few undead faced already, the party was able to expect somewhat what they would face. Right after the rest, they set off. They have already had the Binder the day before run off and face a room full of undead, so they were not totally blinded except by the dark. Since the Warmage just gained ulimited light, he decided to go ahead a cast it for the whole party.
1st Encounter
4 Ghouls from the MM
CR 1
Challenge: Hard
I didn't do much in the way of change. I just used their Hide modifier for their stealth roll. Surprisingly, the Party still got jumped in a 5ft wide corridor. The monsters sickened two of the members of the party and did a bite to the Binder. Lucky the binder saved vs. the Paralysis. The Fighter lasted for about five rounds. The party was able to just wail on the Ghouls but the ghouls were not so easy to take down because they would squeeze next to one another and strike at the party. I still did not give the rogue the ability to sneak attack. The Warmage opted to continue using Disrupt undead instead of using higher level spells and I don't blame him. He liked that he could do 1d6+4 damage. I didn't find that this encounter to be hard but it did last longer than any 3.5 encounter I would run.
After mopping up the creatures, the party continued on. They eventually reached the point that the Binder had found previously. They had made Perception checks and heard some noise from the empty room. The Binder lept into the fray only to be attacked by another unknown foe. The tentacle hit the binder, grappled him, and did it's constrict.
2nd Encounter
Otyugh
CR 4
Challenge: Hard
This creature did amazingly well. It not only grappled the Binder but when the rogue came in to help, it had grabbed ahold of him as well. So it had both creatures grappled and was going in for the bite. Well the creature was only able to hold on for 3 rounds before the players got lucky. Enough damage was done though but it's bite never really had the chance to connect. The creature was eventually tripped by a True Striked Bigby's Tripping Hand done by the Duskblade and then it's life ended by the rogue and binder.
The party took a while to do some body stuffing into a previously opened trap, while that was going on, the Warmage set off another pit trap. The binder then had a the bright idea to swim. Well that ended up being his demise as he could not hold his breath long enough to return with the loot he had found.
So I had one character death on his own accord.
My players really enjoyed themselves this session and they really enjoyed the changes because everyone had gained something. The binder player and I are talking about his next character at the moment and he may be going Soulknife but I will know more in two weeks. Until next time.