Monday, July 28, 2008

Some things we got wrong, rulewise:

The Ranger's Twin Strike power has no modifier for its damage: it's just straight-up weapon damage, no STR/DEX mod.... although Neveah will still get +2 for her Eldarin Soldier feat with her primary weapon.

While a Fighter can make a basic melee attack on marked enemies if they shift away (or if the marked enemy attacks someone else), it's not considered an actual "Opportunity Attack", but a basic attack that's an immediate interrupt. Therefore, when my bad-guy chain fighter was shifting away multiple squares as part of his awesome-o daily power, he wasn't actually provoking an opportunity attack and could have kept shifting and making attacks at the other guys (i.e. not being stopped by the Kurgan's Combat Superiority class feature). Bastards, it was an awesome power...

Not sure if Kurgan was adding this, but he gets a +1 for using his scimitar (favoured weapon style) in addition to normal attack modifiers, and a further +1 (WIS) when making opportunity attacks.

Rogue has to stay within cover in order to make use of Stealth/Sneak Attack in combat.... although I'm pretty sure Yuzzy did, for the most part. Sneaky little bastard.

So yeah, I'm going to keep my eyes on you guys... you pretty much breezed through those combats, with only one PC dropping out of 3 encounters. No pulling punches next time. ;)

Heh, and don't forget that the black-robed female wizard at the final fight managed to escape (barely). So not only does she know exactly what you look like... she knows you're heading into Deepingdale towards Highmoon. Heh heh heh... at least the authorities in the Dalelands aren't as easily bought as they are in Sembia.

So it sounds like next session is going to be August 31st. Sorry it can't be sooner, but I can only play on the weekends, Brandur's game is most Saturdays, I'm heading out of town a couple weekends in August, and the GeekCon coming up in a few weeks... maybe by September I can make it every 2-3 weeks so we don't lose steam. I'll also have a few pre-genned PCs on hand, in case we have some one-time players show up.

7 comments:

Craig said...

i got a chick who wants to learn to play if people want eye candy (and damn nice eye candy she is!) haha, but its a question of wanting total noobs, or experienced gamerz!

Wee Shuggy said...

^^^ Well, we let YOU play, didn't we? WONH WONH WONH...

By "eyecandy" I'm assuming you mean your girlfriend. :P Girlfriends and D&D have a tumultuous past....

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That being said, as long as she's not giving you handjobs under the table or you guys don't do something gay like having an in-game relationship, I welcome female gamers - even girlfriends... girls generally have less shyness when it comes to roleplaying and character development.

Craig said...

gf? no, shes far from noob, she was a big peice in the sudbury VTM larp for years, and she generally hates toronto gamerz, haha

no, eye candy is my friend leah

because everyone love pirates!

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Craig said...

well, that didnt work...wont allow html and doesnt asccept webboard stylez

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Craig said...

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Wee Shuggy said...

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Anyway, EW VTM! *makes sign of the cross*

Yeh, in any case, all is good with me, re: Leah... I know Kevin is a mysoginist, but fuck him - I'M THE DUNGEON MASTER! I CONTROL WORLDS, UNIVERSES! EVERY POTION YOU DRINK, I MIXED. EVERY MAGIC ITEM YOU FIND *I PUT IT THERE!*... :p You guys saw how quick the rules were - we were basically fluent by the third combat.

we should probably talk about what kind of game you guys all want, I forgot to get into that last session: like, story-based/plot-driven, character development/RP, combat-heavy, hackNslash, sandbox, rails, dynamic external enviro (lots of exposition of the history and doings of FR, etc), lone dungeon crawls, mystery, dark/horror, etc etc etc....

Just so I can build around that and try to keep as much of you guys entertained as possible.

Craig said...

haha VTM never interested me, but my gf did alot of gaming and larping in the sudbury circle, its funny because my ussual D&D circle and some people i met through tr knew her from her larping days. it was odd