hippie bugbears
Last night, we got some D&D on, finally. John and Nick played, I ran. To expedite shit for these characters, we just made them part of an interplanar A-Team type thing, so they go take care of problems for areas that either can't afford or don't have real heroes.
They started off, rolling an adventure from Dungeon magazine (as will most of the addies they play in be for awhile). A town's wood crafts were suffering because of sleepless nights. The crew went to investigate. They headed off into the woods nearby, tracking a couple of other travleres that came through town the day before.
Found em about a mile into the woods, too, being consumed by a splinterwaif. John's fighter/scout tripped it and knocked the piss outta the thing with a halberd, the Nick finished it off. One round combat. That's a record for us!
Later, the duo encountered an enchanted bugbear in a lake. The brute quickly rendered John unconcious (my fault, misinterpreted the rules, but that's why we're play testing these new options) and Nick slipped into a hole in the lake, where he encountered a Nixie and the encounter quickly turned from a combat into an information gathering conversation, because Nick's character managed to grapple/subdue the nixie and bluff the bugbear into fearing for her... Good times.
Of course, then the duo were ambushed by pixies and pelted with sleep arrows. When they awoke, they met a satyr, chatted, found out a guy was killing the fey, driving them south and that's what was keeping the villagers up at night. Agreed to hunt the murderer down. Headed off, found some magic mushrooms, and we called it a night. Hopefully next week we can wrap it up, and that'll be the fastest adventure we've played yet.
Since I hadn't reread the nonlethal damage rules (we're using AC as damage conversion), I played that one wrong, but that encounter probably worked out better because of it. After John's initial attack of opportunity on the splinterwaif, I though he shouldn't have had one because of the reach, but he still got one, just in a different square than we though (it would have been at 10' instead of adjacent). We're ok, there. Unfortunately, if I remember right, you can't make special attacks like trips and sunders as attacks of opportunity. I'll have to look that up.
Oh well. I think everyone had a good time. I did. Should be fun characters, cause they're surprisingly versatile for just two of them.
They started off, rolling an adventure from Dungeon magazine (as will most of the addies they play in be for awhile). A town's wood crafts were suffering because of sleepless nights. The crew went to investigate. They headed off into the woods nearby, tracking a couple of other travleres that came through town the day before.
Found em about a mile into the woods, too, being consumed by a splinterwaif. John's fighter/scout tripped it and knocked the piss outta the thing with a halberd, the Nick finished it off. One round combat. That's a record for us!
Later, the duo encountered an enchanted bugbear in a lake. The brute quickly rendered John unconcious (my fault, misinterpreted the rules, but that's why we're play testing these new options) and Nick slipped into a hole in the lake, where he encountered a Nixie and the encounter quickly turned from a combat into an information gathering conversation, because Nick's character managed to grapple/subdue the nixie and bluff the bugbear into fearing for her... Good times.
Of course, then the duo were ambushed by pixies and pelted with sleep arrows. When they awoke, they met a satyr, chatted, found out a guy was killing the fey, driving them south and that's what was keeping the villagers up at night. Agreed to hunt the murderer down. Headed off, found some magic mushrooms, and we called it a night. Hopefully next week we can wrap it up, and that'll be the fastest adventure we've played yet.
Since I hadn't reread the nonlethal damage rules (we're using AC as damage conversion), I played that one wrong, but that encounter probably worked out better because of it. After John's initial attack of opportunity on the splinterwaif, I though he shouldn't have had one because of the reach, but he still got one, just in a different square than we though (it would have been at 10' instead of adjacent). We're ok, there. Unfortunately, if I remember right, you can't make special attacks like trips and sunders as attacks of opportunity. I'll have to look that up.
Oh well. I think everyone had a good time. I did. Should be fun characters, cause they're surprisingly versatile for just two of them.
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