OOC Chat

[Mister-Kent]

I thought someone might trip at the last second and kill Largo, but that didn't happen, praise Mangore!

[KingOfCowards]

I agree wholeheartedly. It was a ballsy move going into the chasm (twice!), especially after you already knew there were enemies afoot. That was like 5k worth of experience just from the effort.

You have to keep your players hungry. I was going down there just for the chainmail, and the hope that he might have a gem or two in his belt pouch.

[Keehnelf]

I'm trying to keep unusual/powerful items just rare enough to be enticements, recognizing that chances are even if the character that carries them dies, the item will stay in circulation somehow.

[AleBelly]

but that didn't happen, praise Mangore!

heh heh

[OGRE MAGE]

I don't know......it seemed kinda like a cake walk to me. Especially since they all pretty much begged to keep the adventures really deadly.

I guess we all wont get to fight extremely overly powerful lizard men and their dinosaur mounts, then lose 3 points of INT after obtaining permanent brain damage.

[KingOfCowards]

Nope. You still have a monopoly on brain damage. Congrats.

[Keehnelf]

Well, they had two unconscious folks at the end of the road and one of them very well could have been dead but for some amazing rolls.

[Spartakos]

I don't know......it seemed kinda like a cake walk to me. Especially since they all pretty much begged to keep the adventures really deadly.

I guess we all wont get to fight extremely overly powerful lizard men and their dinosaur mounts, then lose 3 points of INT after obtaining permanent brain damage.

I guess we also don't all get to discover unguarded towers full of loot, or get credit/XP when the crazy shapeshifting wolf kills a bunch of lizardmen, eh?

[OGRE MAGE]

Sorry if that sounded offensive!

I wasn't trying to be a jerk about it. It just seems like the Sleep thing is being SERIOUSLY overused now. I guess if one group gets to do it, they all do though.

I wonder if the stupid goblins will ever learn to......ummm.........spread out?

(oh oh, now I suppose that will happen to us)

[Zhym]

Jealous because the sudden Sleep victory is no longer exclusively The Wendall's thing?

[OGRE MAGE]

No, proud to be a trend setter.

Wendall didn't invent the spell, but it is his favorite.

[Spartakos]

Ehh...IMO, sleep has been an overpowered low-level spell since the game was invented. LL is actually better than most versions of D&D, in that it grants a save.

That said...with an area effect spell that's basically a death sentence to anyone caught and affected by it? You'd have to be REALLY brain damaged not to use it as much as possible.

Sleep does make combat with goblins/wolves/stirges a lot easier, but combat at 1st level is always a crapshoot. Get lucky? Your enemies drop. Get unlucky? Stirges drain your blood and you die in 1 round. That's the adventurer's life!

EDIT: As regards taking offense...yeah, I'll admit I bristled a bit. Seemed like you were suggesting we had an easy time of it compared to you guys, which I don't agree with. Especially with 2 guys almost croaking (heck, Rhodri almost got killed by a hailstorm for gossakes). How tough things are is mostly a matter of luck.

[Zhym]

Sleep is amazingly powerful until it suddenly becomes useless. But who expects to live that long?

[Keehnelf]

I'm not sure whether this is a fight about who's having the most impossibly difficult time, or who's having the most stuff handed to them on a platter. I guess that it appears to be both at once it's a fair sign that things are reasonably balanced...

[Spartakos]

I'm not sure whether this is a fight about who's having the most impossibly difficult time, or who's having the most stuff handed to them on a platter. I guess that it appears to be both at once it's a fair sign that things are reasonably balanced...

I've got zero complaints about the difficulty level...but I'm definitely aware of it!

[OGRE MAGE]

That said...with an area effect spell that's basically a death sentence to anyone caught and affected by it? You'd have to be REALLY brain damaged not to use it as much as possible.

Im not mad or trying to be mean about what's happened so far, I just want my guy to get everything and the rest of you to all die. That's all.

[Keehnelf]

That said...with an area effect spell that's basically a death sentence to anyone caught and affected by it? You'd have to be REALLY brain damaged not to use it as much as possible.

Im not mad or trying to be mean about what's happened so far, I just want my guy to get everything and the rest of you to all die. That's all.

Don't worry, it shows

[Keehnelf]

Quick poll:

Private forums? Yes or no?

I'm not 100% sure how I'd do them, whether individual for in town and then by group when out and about (seems most likely), but wanted to float the idea. Basically, do you prefer getting the chance to see what's up elsewhere, or would the extra mystery add to the game? Or is there already so much content you can't keep up?

[Keehnelf]

P.s. Regarding sleep.

Now you see why I gave it a save, and why it is generally considered the must-have super-powered game-changing level one spell.

And you'll eventually see how it trains level one magic users to have an over-inflated sense of importance the minute you start encountering monsters and monster groups too big and touch for sleep to make a dent in, or too big to be affected.

Suddenly memorization isn't such a no-brained anymore.

But in the short term, sleep is a big aid to gaining mastery over low-level content, which is as it should be...you should be moving on to bigger and better and tougher things before long.

[Mister-Kent]

Re: private forums--The latter--I pay attention to everything, but there's still a great deal I've missed!