Okay dokey. My friend and I rolled up some ACG characters and ran through one of the Society Scenarios. He controlled 2 and I controlled 2 and DMed the Scenario. We rolled 4d6 drop the lowest.
Our Party consisted of 4 1st level characters...
Bloodrager
Investigator
Shaman
Slayer
The first issue we ran into of course was healing. Our shaman couldn't really keep up(Lore Shaman) and the Scenario was a bit of an on the clock run. My Investigator really wasn't hurt much at all with 9 out of 11 hit points by the end of the Scenario.
So first of all, the Bloodrager is awesome. He's incredibly flavorful, thematic, awe inspiring, crazy cool. My friend rolled up an Infernal Bloodline Bloodrager and he had a blast. He had a problem in one part when the Sahuagin flipped our boat because he couldn't make the swim checks. Other than that he had a hair raising moment with the Pirate Du Moire at the end which ended with him collapsing after his Bloodrage.
The Investigator handled many a situation well with Inspiration continually proving to be a very cool mechanic. That said we could really use some Extra Inspiration Pool feat or something. No real complaints here. I probably should have put his 18 in Dex or Str so he could actually contribute more in melee but oh well.
Our Shaman was built to take advantage of the Lore abilities later in her Career. She came ready with 2 healing spells and her last slot was somewhat wasted as there was hardly an opportunity to cast it. I built her a little MAD with her high scores going into Wis, Int and Cha. She had a good Con by virtue of being a Dwarf but her STR and DEX were 10s. Its plain that the Shaman won't replace the Cleric as a healer without spontaneous cure spells. She did not survive the Scenario. The Sahuagin knocked her unconscious underwater and she drowned.
The Slayer did quite well. My friend built him to be a ranged combatant and a ranged combatant he was. No real complaints or problems here. He scouted ahead a few times and made his balance check against a nasty fall.
Overall we did okay. After defeating Du Moire we waited for the various authorities to arrive. I didn't feel right running the final encounter of the Scenario as we were already a party member down and we were all out of resources.
Next I'm going to run Second Darkness and make my friends play some of the ACG classes.
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Thanks for the actual play feedback.
Good to hear the Bloodrager is living up to its metal appearance! And that the Investigator and Slayer worked as intended.
Do you think the Shaman could have done okay with a different (more combat-focused) stat array? Which is to say: how do you rate build, luck, or class in that death?
Cheers!
Landon
Without knowing the full details, it does sound like the shaman just had bad luck. Getting hit and going unconscious in water is basically a death spell for anyone.
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Without knowing the full details, it does sound like the shaman just had bad luck. Getting hit and going unconscious in water is basically a death spell for anyone.
Ah, yeah, didn't notice the "unconscious" in that sentence, just the "knocked her underwater." Which makes all the difference in the world :)
Thanks!
Cheers!
Kinak
Thanks for the actual play feedback.
Good to hear the Bloodrager is living up to its metal appearance! And that the Investigator and Slayer worked as intended.
Do you think the Shaman could have done okay with a different (more combat-focused) stat array? Which is to say: how do you rate build, luck, or class in that death?
Cheers!
Landon
I probably should have allocated her stats a bit better. She had a remarkable good streak of rolls hitting enemies with a 15 or 16 AC with a +0 but eventually it got her killed.
Build wise it was probably my fault.
There wasn't a whole lot of luck about it. The encounter was pretty brutal getting tag teamed by Sahuagin in the water without preparation. Somebody was most likely going to die.
The Class probably didn't have too big of an effect on the outcome. I will say that it did hurt to not have spontaneous healing. I imagine the shaman is ALOT better at higher levels. As with most casting classes.
The Scenario we played was The Hydra's Fang Incident.