So Christopher talked me into giving the Dungeons and Dragons encounter a go at Game Cafe on Wednesday night. I have to admit every once in a while I get a hankering for some Roleplaying. My heart belongs to the table top, but this can be fun too. And was a whole lot cheaper.
How it works. You show up and sit down at a table. They have DM's ready to go with a pre-generated character sheet. These got passed around the table and in turn everyone read over them and picked out the character they wanted. Luckily for me, the more complicated characters (Rogues, Sorcerers) went first. There was a brawler left, and if I play anything it's gonna be a tank.
It seems like the game creators were trying to be "non-traditional" in their created characters. The guy next to me was some sort of bug-man and I was something that I was told is related to dwarves. But taller and hairless.... Still not sure how it's like a dwarf then.
Everyone in the group was friendly and the DM did an excellent job. Sure there were people who knew how to play the game well and dominated a bit. And even though I saw them start to show the tendency of telling people how to play, they backed off and let others play their characters.
How it works is that it is basically a single encounter. Very little roleplaying then right into the action, which is how I like it.
The scenario itself was our band being ambushed by giant hungry bugs that rushed up and grappled three of us, me included, in their mouths. While the others scrambled about and cast their spells, I began to wrastle the big bug. Eventually after several turns of flat out wrastling him, I was able to dispatch one bug, run over and start to wrastle the other one. This one I flipped on his back and slapped on a figure 4 leg lock tough.
I ended the game with full health and was attacked every turn. TANK!
Scoring and experience. What you get out of it is, Renown points. For different things that you achieve or do in the game you get renown. Everyone earned 3 for finishing, and I gained an additional 2 for being voted a moment of greatness for my bug tossing.
What I think is great about this is that you are not required to show up. If you miss a night, no one is left high and dry waiting on you. You can join when you want, Tonight was game #2, and I sat down and started playing with no issue.
As of right now I think I'm going to try to continue playing and recommend others who are interested to give it a whirl, as it was easy to do, fun, and costs nothing.
I would be very into this, but already have standing plans on Wednesday nights.
I really think it's an awesome concept and game structure. I also happen to like the new D&D 4.0 rules. If only Wednesday night was Taco and Beer night...
We'll get this posted in the Event Calendars as soon as possible, so other visitors can see it as well.
I also wanted to add that this has become so popular that they are doing early sessions(4pm), Monday sessions and I think even late sessions(8pm). I think they had 4 tables of 6 that night. The alternate sessions though I believe are "by appointment only" and they are only running them for people who do commit to coming.
the new edition is cool and al but pathfinder is way better in alot of ways. and i dojnt know how fun it would be to sit around the table be the last to get to choose and have to play something you absolutly hate.
Had my second night with this and was still really enjoyable and am picking up rules as I go.
And not to brag but I was voted "Moment of Greatness" two-weeks in a row. It was being on a cliff face 20 feet up, striking a spell caster(due to an attack of opportunity), throwing him off the cliff(a special ability of mine to move them a space), then jumping off and delivering the big elbow(my turn). And in case you are wondering, I rolled a critical hit on the elbow. It was glorious!
The group itself is ever changing, we lost 2 guys but gained 2 more just like that so it was still a full table. And we were out by 7:30 again.
ok so let me get this straight you threw a guy off a cliff (belivable) then you jumped off and did a elbow drop(not so) how much damage did you take from the fall? I still say pathfinder is alot better then dnd shrugs but of course we play that every week. so shrugs
I climbed down to 10 foot before I jumped to avoid damage. That just didn't sound as exciting in the narrative.
But yes, he prompted an attack of opportunity on his turn.(I ducked the spell by the way) Which allowed me to strike, and my ability to move him and take his square if I do damage. So I hit, do damage, push him out his square and he falls 20 feet, all on his turn. My turn a shimmy to the edge. Climb down 10 feet, across vines, a quick elbow pat and a D10 of falling damage on him was enough to finish him off.
heh that is rather funny. i dont know how much i would like the encounters for the simple fact you have no real sence of character progression or anything like my pathfinder char i play on sundays. hes a fighter base but he maxed out dragon lord and dragon rider prestige classes and now has a copper dragon as a mount. to me going through those steps to make my char unique along with all his little quirks is what keeps me playing. I guess if you didnt want to get to involved then the dnd encounters would be ok but personally i like the real thing.
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