ManBearPig wishes you a good day!
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:
- 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.
- Cast Healing Word to revived the dying rogue.
- 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!
Flex 4 Gives Me a Headache
I’m glad that I decided to wait until the release of Flex 4 prior to the release of DarkRoomX. Much of the style hacking I was doing for presentation in DarkRoomX has been obsoleted in Flex 4, and the new spark controls. As a result, upgrading will not be the simple matter of a little refactoring like I expected. Basically, I had to start a new project, and I am porting over things from the old project bit by bit. It’s going to be a long and painfully process but I hope that it will be worth it in the long run.