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Post by Anti-Steve on Jan 7, 2015 7:11:47 GMT
Tuesday, that is. I have to get this on record, because it was epic D&D slapstick. We're in an underground passage and the two scouts (a thief and an assassin, respectively) discover a big nest of rats. The assassin attempts to shoo them away and, as one might expect, they swarm on him and begin to nibble. He begins flailing around to throw off the rats and he manages to make his way back to the other half of the party, namely me (a wood elf monk) and the wood elf druid. Because he blundered into his predicament, I thought I would take the opportunity to harangue him and ask him "are you done feeding the rats yet?" In his rat pee-soaked frustration he takes a swing at me, rolls a 1 (a crit fail) and slips, face planting into the stone floor resulting in a broken nose. He was later killed by a hail of sling shot.  |
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Post by chris107 on Jan 7, 2015 11:24:35 GMT
Sounds like fun Occles. How did the rules play?
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Post by Anti-Steve on Jan 7, 2015 16:43:35 GMT
Considering the whole group is new to 5e, it went pretty well. At one point I was really wanting an Evade action (I wanted to move "serpentine" fashion [see video below] to avoid the sling bullets) which doesn't exist in the game, for some reason. We improvised. I also have some questions about the monk which don't seem to have easy answers. Other than that, it actually went pretty smoothly from a rules standpoint.
I was also the only one who didn't get knocked out, so there's that.
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Post by Anti-Steve on Jan 8, 2015 2:53:57 GMT
So I forgot about the monk's Evade ability. Sue me.  Actually, the kind of evade I was thinking of was something anybody could do. What I wanted to do originally was Dodge, but he ruled that I couldn't for some reason. I just wanted to make myself generally harder to hit by running around as the video illustrates. And there ya have it. |
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Post by mullmann on Feb 5, 2015 3:36:54 GMT
How goes the game?
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Post by Lord Huthor on Feb 7, 2015 20:16:22 GMT
- slight derail -
Just finished reading all the Starter Set, PHB/DMG/MM.
Totally impressed. Think I'm just going to run 5E from this point on as far as D&D goes.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled Anti-Steve game report.
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Post by Anti-Steve on Feb 8, 2015 7:18:00 GMT
Mullman: The game, for me, has come to an end. One obnoxious weasel munchkin player and one angry, wrathful DM (who is otherwise a cool guy) and that put an end to the festivities. I'm too old to put up with the kind of shit that was going on. Plus, the DM simply was too inexperienced and too unfamiliar with the new rules (he was a 2e guy previously) to try and run a module as large as Hoard of the Dragon Queen. It didn't help matters that it's not the best module ever written, either. So, that's that, at least for now.
Huthor: Yeah, it ain't half bad, is it? You could probably run a buttload of good adventures with just the Starter Set, but all three core books are nice. I especially like the way they handled the new DMG. The bits that I don't really care for are easy enough to ignore, which is a bonus. I don't have to feel like I'm fucking up the game by pulling out the bits I don't like.
I'm no edition warrior (I'm very happy with my B/X) but I would certainly recommend 5e to anybody.
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Post by Lord Huthor on Feb 9, 2015 10:08:15 GMT
Yeah, never understood the whole edition wars thing - played all of 'em as far as D&D goes, and liked all of them - though the deluge of stuff put out for 3.5 was off-putting.
With 5E, I'm starting small.
Though I've never been a fan of the Forgotten Realms, since it's the default world for this edition, decided to give the world another shot.
Converted over the "Doom of Daggerdale" module - at 36 pages, didn't take long to organize.
Only major departures from playing it as written from 2E was I had to replace two encounters with different monsters (the beastmen one, and the fire beetle one.)
Also using Blights in place of Nightshades.
Colderan's spell list needed some tweaking, then it was all good to go.
If it plays out well, I'll continue it with the Randal Morn trilogy.
Sorry to hear about the issue with the group you had. My groups have been really static over the years, so never had that kind of issue. Last year or so, half of it has been just with my kids - so they pull their shit in line during gaming or it's groundings all round!
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Post by Anti-Steve on Feb 9, 2015 23:33:31 GMT
AD&D turned me with its excessive Gygaxness, I skipped 2e (and D&D in general, for a while) and came back to it with 3e, which I regret. In other words, I really hated it, which meant pretty much anything d20 as well. 4e just sounded ridiculous to me, so I passed on that. It was all the love from the oldtimers that I'd read in various places that made me wanna look into 5e. You know the rest.
As far as the group goes, I'm glad to be out of that mess. The problem was a 22 year old that acted like a 12 year old and a DM who let him get away with it, then would unload on the rest of us when the kid inevitably got the DMs hackles up. Bleh.
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