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DDE: Undermountain – Session 2

By | 25 March 2010 | General | 8 Comments
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Tonight was the second session of D&D Encounters: Undermountain at the local hobby shop.

Things went a bit more smoothly this week, so that was a nice improvement. There were enough people for two tables to be run although they had very different results. Our table managed to get through the encounter nearly effortlessly. We finished up towards the end of the fourth round. The second group experienced a total party kill off in fairly short order, so they decided to scrap that attempt and start over. I did not stick around to see if they made it through their second attempt.

Photoed on the right is the chimera that is ManBearPig. Last night Jason and I hacked apart a bunch of old MageKnight figures and carefully glued them together to create that “thing.” Off the top of my head I know that it has parts from a war bear, a zombie, a mutant berserker, a centaur, and the tail of a of something. It is a pretty sweet figure, and turned out quite well. Most of the people at the table liked it.You can check out several more photos in the flickr set for it.

On the both good, and bad side of things there were no major events memorable events in this session. Since I only got three actions I can easily recall them now:

  1. Cast Cloud of Daggers in the group of human guards and scorpion. There was no need for any control spells since there was a nice meat wall holding them at bay.
  2. Cast Healing Word to revived the dying rogue.
  3. Attempted to cast Astral Seal, and failed miserably. But, not wanting my turn to go wasted I used Mage Hand to grab one of the carrion fish from the pools and dropped it into the hair of the last human guard, much to his dismay.

The sorcerer nuked the guard and fried the fish, which he consumed after the battle. Since the guard was obliterated after I “marked” him, I now consider the fish my lucky charm so I picked up a few and stuck them in one of my robe pockets. Hopefully they survive the dungeon!

DDE: Undermountain – Session 1

By | 19 March 2010 | General | 1 Comment

Wednesday evening I particiapated in the first session of D&D Encounters: Undermountain. This time I stuck with the local game shop instead of going up north. The environment could not have been much different. We had seven players, and almost all of us had little to no 4e experience. This was also the first time that the DM had attempted to run anything 4e, so that was interesting. The individuals themselves were…colorful. The environment was much more casual, but the social interactions were much less fluid. It was kind of like going to a friend’s house for dinner. Sure, everyone was friendly for the most part, but you weren’t part of the inner circle. I believe the party consisted of three groups of people that already knew each other, and there was not very effective cross calaboration between groups. This may be in part to the fact that we were playing a group of with seven people.

The actual game itself was something of a blunder for me. I began by playing the counterpart to my Living Forogotten Realms character. Unfortunately, despite being very similiar characters the experience could not have been more different.

While in LFR my character was essentially a meat grinder scredding enemies like they were nothing. In DDE my character was all but utterly ineffectual. Sure, I laid in some status effects, and got a few guys with passive damage, but the minor advancements were surpassed by my plethera of misses, negating my damage roll by enlarging my spell, and the crowning achivement of the night.

During the last turn of the encounter I wanted to do something memorable, but ultimately pointless. So, I was going to attempt to do a double move and cast light on the last remaining enemy. Unfortunately, the result did not go quite as planned. I needed to cross a bridge to get close enough to cast the spell, almost the entire party crossed the bridge without a problem. Hell, one of them just jumped across the ditch. I on the other hand failed my acrobatics checked, and then failed my saving throwing landing my poor character head first into a river of sewage. Oh well, at least everyone got a laugh out of it. Before we entered the dungeon the party did a vote and determined that my character needed a bath first.