[dungeoncrawl] Re: Monday Night, new Campaign

  • From: Johnathan Detrick <jdetrick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: dungeoncrawl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 09:27:47 -0500

    Personally, not that I get a vote, I love the idea of Tori have different 
arrowheads for different occasions!  It makes perfect sense!  Too bad I don't 
have a character in the group like Zolkiir.  He would suggest all sorts of 
things!  I can see it now; arrows with acid beakers tied to them, to break on 
impact, or ones with oil, to be followed by a flaming arrow.  And maybe a giant 
boxing-glove arrow!
    However, neither of my characters are willing to help her catch all of the 
frogs she'll need to make some of her arrows....that's disgusting!

Robert Deibler wrote:

> I really Enjoyed Monday Night!! It was noce playing with Tori again, but it 
> took me some time to remember who she had relations with and what she thought 
> of the party. Elizabeth was a little easier she got to make her forst 
> opinions once. I agree damon when it comes to orcs and sub orc species, she 
> can deal out some damage, other creatures not so much. I look forward to see 
> what lie in store for her and other creatures that might roll down the pike. 
> Again I thanks everyone for the oppurtunity to play again, Crista and I have 
> not played (boo Hoo she is going through withdrawl big time) in about 9 or 10 
> weeks. For folks that use to play daily ouch that hurt, I almost forgot what 
> dice I was rolling.
>
> Damon rule question regarding arrows. In second addition there was a 
> diffrence between Frog crotch damage and piecing arrow damage could we 
> utilize that in this game??
> I was going to have her start to research arrow head designs, she has that as 
> a craft so I was wondering if she could start trying some funky stuff??
>
> Some ideas could range from:
> Frog crotch, increased critical threat and damage but severly reduced range 
> due to bulkiness.
> A round headed arrow (no Point) for Stunnung and subduel damage
>
> Ect...
>
> We could make them as the game goes along and I could have her try them out 
> in a pass fail manner, soem might work other might be oopies and have no 
> affect at all..
>
>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: Damon Kline [mailto:damon.kline@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>         Sent: Thu 11/7/2002 9:02 AM
>         To: 'dungeoncrawl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
>         Cc:
>         Subject: [dungeoncrawl] Re: Monday Night, new Campaign
>
>
>
>         Well, I was hoping to get an email out yesterday, but unfortunately it
>         didn't happen.  I'll get this one out, but I'll be busy at another 
> location
>         at least all morning and possibly into this afternoon, so I don't 
> know how
>         much time I'll have to email.
>
>         However, I wanted to say that I had a lot of fun on Monday night.  
> The first
>         few steps back into DMing were a bit awkward, but it wasn't bad.  
> Adding to
>         the awkwardness was the fact that I was DMing 7 characters and four 
> players
>         for the first time in a long time.  It was so cool to me, to have all 
> four
>         players there, but it was a tad chaotic, but we made it through.
>
>         By the end of the evening, I felt like things were running smoothly 
> and
>         everyone seemed to be having a decent time.  I thought that the 
> combat went
>         pretty quickly, and the role playing was great!  It's actually nice 
> having a
>         fourth player, because two people's characters can be involved in 
> something,
>         while the other two players characters can be doing something else 
> and no
>         one is left out.
>
>         I have to admit, that I honestly had no idea how I was going to start 
> the
>         game on Monday.  I have two good ideas of where these guys and gals 
> are
>         going and where they will end up, but how to start the night was 
> really
>         bothering me.  But, I came up with the orc type things while typing up
>         Tori's back story on how she got there.  They worked because they gave
>         something to fight to bring the group together, they weren't overly
>         difficult and it did something I was hoping it would, but also 
> backfired at
>         the same time sort of.  I knew that Tori had a hatred for orcs and 
> some of
>         her items and Ranger abilities are geared toward them.  I also 
> thought that
>         Kage might be hesitant to bring Tori into the group, so I thought 
> that if
>         the group fought them first and she looked impressive, he would be 
> more
>         inclined to add her to their ranks.  However, the downside to it that 
> I
>         hadn't anticipated, was that we have a "new" character and a "new" 
> player
>         coming into the group for the first time in a long time and in the 
> first
>         fight, she kicked all kinds of butt and to a small extent, pretty 
> small, she
>         overshadowed some of the other characters by hitting so well and 
> doing so
>         much damage.  I think that makes the rest of the group...dislike? her
>         because she is showing them up to an extent.
>
>         So I was glad that in the second fight, she wasn't as overwhelming 
> because
>         she wasn't fighting orcs.  I hope it didn't scar the other
>         characters/players because of my misjudgment.
>
>
>         Anyway, so I didn't know what I was going to do next and I looked in 
> the
>         book for the picture of the creatures to show the group what the orcs 
> looked
>         like and on the previous page, was a Kraken.  That put an idea in my 
> head,
>         so I read them real quick and came up with a whole plot!  So anyway, 
> I know
>         where these guys are going now and how they are going to get to what 
> I want
>         them to get too.  I think.  :)  My overall impression of the night 
> was that
>         it was a good time and it may have been a bit awkward, but as we get 
> used to
>         playing these guys again, with new characters and a new player, we 
> should be
>         back to the normal awesome group that we are used to in no time!!
>
>         Oh, I never did my favorite/least favorite on Monday night, so here 
> it is:
>
>         Least Favorite:  My decision on the combat in the beginning.  I 
> should have
>         come up with a better foe and made it more of a challenge.
>
>         Favorite:  Kage letting the creature hit him, then taking him out 
> with his
>         axe, while at the same time, using his vampiric touch ability through 
> the
>         axe to completely heal his wounds.  Very, very cool!!
>
>
>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: Johnathan Detrick [mailto:jdetrick@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>         Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 9:01 AM
>         To: dungeoncrawl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>         Subject: [dungeoncrawl] Re: Monday Night, new Campaign
>
>
>             I had considered the question of what the older beings might
>         remember myself, and I like the idea of pushing the cataclysm back.
>         It's a neat idea that the world at large accepts the story (or
>         mythology) they have been told, while some of the dragons and elven
>         elders may know the truth.  Lots of cool potential there for future
>         plots.
>             I meant to put out an e-mail yesterday about the Sigil, but had no
>         time.  If someone would like to put their two cents in about the 
> group,
>         I'd like to hear it.  I'm curious to see what Damon has planned.  He 
> is
>         going to be DMing a group of eight characters, all of them pretty
>         tough.  (If Keith would ever be free, Damon would have ten 
> characters!)
>         With that many characters running around, just what sort of threats is
>         Damon going to have them face?
>
>         jimkaren@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>         > Hey, everybody!  It sure is quiet out
>         > here in email land.  John, thanks for
>         > doing the review - it would be nice to
>         > get some discussion going.
>         >
>         > As far as the new world discussion,
>         > I've been thinking about something -
>         > let me know where you all stand.  We've
>         > been saying that a huge cataclysm
>         > happened a century before the present
>         > day, and that current events are based
>         > on that event.  It's great, except for
>         > one thing - we'd have to figure out
>         > what longer-lived creatures (elves,
>         > dwarves, dragons, liches)
>         > remember/think about that event.
>         >
>         > Instead, how about we say it happened
>         > 500 years before the current time?  It
>         > doesn't put the event out of reach of
>         > the oldest creatures, but it does set
>         > it far back enough that humans (the
>         > predominant species) won't question the
>         > past too much.  It's like, we can be
>         > pretty sure about what happened in
>         > London in 1902, but what about 1502?
>         > It's much more difficult to know for
>         > sure.
>         >
>         > Thoughts/comments?
>
>
>
>
>
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