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on Sat 12 of June, 2010 20:05 BST, by Laurent posts: 1029 United Kingdom

This is now the place where to discuss the game. Register if you have not done so and post.

Dear Players,

For some unknown reason the hordes of football supporters never materialised, so we could play for longer than expected.

The party has at last reached the caves and are getting closer to the Kobold King and his crown. I have let you get rid of the children as sending a familiar to warn Kreed is a valid idea. The party leader is now Brant and his motivation for finishing off the Kobold King is to enjoy the company of an underage prostitute who happens to be the sister of the last missing kid. That is certainly a more original reason to adventure than the common and stale "50 gp each for killing the Goblins in thar yonder Dark Hills" D&D trope.

The fight with the Undead Dwarves was easier for the party than I thought it would be and the tactic of "Hit them hard first" was indeed sucessful. The Kobolds on the contrary worked out to be tougher than I thought and the Slurks make for some pretty decent monsters for a mere CR2. One cannot beat a Dire Bat working with a Gargoyle though, even if the latter sadly succumbed to a 'sleep spell'. cry

I hope you have all enjoyed the game as it was fun to run, although I got a bit tired near the end as I ended up GMing for far more than the planned three hours.
I think the party had a challenge on its plate with so many PCs being dropped.

See you all or at least some of you at the next Big Meet in July.

Laurent,

on Sat 12 of June, 2010 21:17 BST, by Paul from Derby posts: 4

Daylens bleeding heavily, drained of almost all his spells and half the party is lying on the ground... Next months going to be very interesting.

I had a great time. As soon as we sat down and started talking my nervousness about being a newbie vanished. I'm looking forward to carrying on the game and meeting everyone again.

And remember, that Kobold's crown is mine...

on Sat 12 of June, 2010 21:39 BST, by Len posts: 1095 United Kingdom

Welcome Paul.
Newbieness doesn't last long with us. It was good to see you were taken in swiftly and enjoyed yourself. I would normally have played the illustrious Gram T. Wren in that game, but I stepped over to the SLA game to balance out the numbers a little.

It was an odd session because of the footie scheduled to be shown. Lots of folks who normally make it didn't, but neither was there any footie crowd.

See you next month I hope.

Len

on Sat 12 of June, 2010 22:18 BST, by Laurent posts: 1029 United Kingdom

Paul,

Glad you enjoyed the game.
I was amazed, purely amazed, at the fact that the gaming group actually spent a good ten minutes - if not more! - discussing strategy before even starting. This has never happened before as the common strategy is "Open door... I sing... CHARGE!... Cleriiiiiiccc !!!!" wink

Of course, you needed not be astonished for that long at the apparent required level of tactical thinking after the second encounter, when things went back to normal. I just loved the fact that nobody said anything when the Barbarian and Cleric decided to go down a dark tunnel all by themselves, thus splitting the party and bringing back with them a Dire Bat and a Gargoyle! The party got very lucky when putting the Gargoyle to sleep, this one was a walking PC meat-grinder with its five attacks. twisted

Next month I expect "Hollow's Chronicles" to be back at the evening slot, potentially allowing me to play in an afternoon game.

Second strange Big Meet in a row. The last one was sort of deserted and this one never saw the football-heavy hordes swarming the pub mid-afternoon either. I honestly had in mind to pack up and go as soon as I was about to hear a "Threeeeeeee lions on the shirt" or "Vindalooooo Nah Nah!" but it never happened.
The streets of Nottingham city centre - I had to do a trip to Tesco late afternoon - were also not as crowded or "alive" as I expected. Well, it was a pathetic 1-1 draw in the end in any case, but at least England got to score a goal, which the French could not even achieve against Uruguay, which makes me grin. biggrin

See you next month,

Laurent,

on Mon 14 of June, 2010 19:52 BST, by brucethered posts: 61

Comrades,

Excellent session. Sorry about giving myself a feat to which I was not entitled. I've changed it from weapon specialisation to great cleave. The latter may have been more devastating on Saturday, given the opposition.

It's unlikely I can make the 10th (is it?). However, I'd like to make Brant available should anyone turn up and want to play a pregen.

Nice one again Laurent. You only reverted to your genuine cockney accent briefly, and I don’t think anyone but me noticed.

Bruce

on Sun 13 of June, 2010 01:56 BST, by spuglyfuglet posts: 20

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on Mon 14 of June, 2010 18:23 BST, by Laurent posts: 1029 United Kingdom

Sean,

Thanks for the praise.
I will try to re-organise the card holders for the next session. I know what I gave away, i.e. not much treasure because most of it is upstairs, behind traps, and of course ahead of you on the opposition!

Hopefully the next session should see either the demise of the Kobold King or his total victory over the party.

Your Tiefling might want to play with the party a little bit more, not that they have PCs with extremely high intelligence to notice, but the sneaking about in what ended up being a pretty safe corridor while the remainder of the party was getting butchered may have been felt by those who got butchered indeed.

Anyway, I am off on holidays for two weeks in the States, Rochester, New York State, on Friday morning and back the first week of July. So I shall let "The Hollow's Chronicles" sleep until then.

Laurent,

on Thu 17 of June, 2010 23:04 BST, by spuglyfuglet posts: 20

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on Sat 19 of June, 2010 22:01 BST, by Laurent posts: 1029 United Kingdom

Sean,

Most of what you say is true, however... razz

The slaves on this level are watched upon by tougher Kobold commandos, and realistically have more chance to be promoted to fighters by killing adventurers than be "rescued". The slave drivers are tougher because... this is D&D and in D&D the closer the party gets to the end, the tougher the opponents.
They damn well knew about the elite Kobold Ranger and his Slurks just behind them, they also knew that the only way out is via the now destroyed (but they did not know that) cauldron lift. Hence not really big enough to allow a swift exit.

Kobolds are Kobolds, and not French, so in WWII they would have run away from the enemy, not joined them. The Kobold upstairs did so because they were closer to the exit and the had a leader, whom the party has not met because the party did not "finish" the basement of the monastery, who could, and now has, arranged from them to escape in the woods and set-up a splinter tribe. To be fair, the party could not finish the basement after becoming aware of the urgency to rescue the kids.

Your character was more than motivated to rescue the boss' son, so her participation was indeed exemplary. No need to take my previous comment too negatively, I only meant to say that your Tiefling lost two or more round going after the Kobold elite team whose function was not to patrol but indeed ambush and stay put. I just did not understand why your PC was sneaking towards them one round, then back the next, then sneaking again towards them, while these rounds could have been spent shooting at the Ranger while hidden, which you were. The Kobold Ranger was too busy to spot you properly too.

I admit that I could have been a bit more precise when I introduced the Ranger. He was a named NPC, with levels, and was built for sneaking and range weapon mastery.
The Dire Bat and Gargoyle were NOT about me having a go at the party, they were genuinely there in the adventure and reacted as soon as a non-sneaky someone got into their lair.
What followed was also according to the behaviour of the monsters' respective stat blocks. And yes the sleep spell was valid, much to my chagrin.

I am away on holidays at the moment and should resume my presence on the site after July 5th.

Laurent,

on Sun 20 of June, 2010 19:51 BST, by spuglyfuglet posts: 20

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on Tue 22 of June, 2010 20:03 BST, by Laurent posts: 1029 United Kingdom

Dear Players,

I have entered The Hollow's Chronicles on the July Big Meet event on this site. Drop a line in this thread if you want to register your presence, or absence, for the game.
RSVPs might be in place by mid-July, but it costs nothing to do it that way for the time being.

Laurent,

on Tue 22 of June, 2010 21:56 BST, by Len posts: 1095 United Kingdom

RSVPs are in place NOW.
I am fully intending to play Gram T. Wren in the evening session of Hollows.

Len

on Thu 24 of June, 2010 05:40 BST, by spuglyfuglet posts: 20

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on Wed 07 of July, 2010 18:16 BST, by Laurent posts: 1029 United Kingdom

Sean,

As Jim Hacker would say in "Yes, Minister": "This is a good question... and I thank you for asking it..."

As it stands there is no game for the afternoon session and not many people signed in for any session (five at the last count on either Meetup.com or here). If things go very wrong, like hardly anybody showing up, my plan was to bring "Hollow's Chronicles" forward.
However, if you cannot commit to two session, it would be unfair to run it without you, since you were one of the first to put a "Yes" on Meetup and register your interest here.

Thus, I shall take the following executive decision:
"Hollow's Chronicles" will run in the evening.

This does not guarantee that it will run though if I do not have enough players.

After all this negativity, it is possible that people are going to wake-up and drop RSVPs tomorrow and Friday.

Laurent,

on Fri 09 of July, 2010 02:21 BST, by spuglyfuglet posts: 20

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on Fri 09 of July, 2010 02:28 BST, by spuglyfuglet posts: 20

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on Fri 09 of July, 2010 07:45 BST, by Len posts: 1095 United Kingdom

There were others at Continuum, just probably none you knew. I was unable to make it, but I know at least one other went. He said the same thing, so Darran was obviously recognisable. wink

Len

on Fri 09 of July, 2010 12:22 BST, by Laurent posts: 1029 United Kingdom

Sean,

Okay, so if you are coming for the whole day, I could revert to running "Hollow's Chronicles" as seen fit.

I do not think I will be running anything during the afternoon - apart from "Hollow's Chronicles" possibly - the number of overall registered Big Meet participants is still very low.

Laurent,

on Sat 10 of July, 2010 20:28 BST, by spuglyfuglet posts: 20

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on Sat 10 of July, 2010 21:31 BST, by Len posts: 1095 United Kingdom

Hey, that's a cool hat dude. Not as cool as my cloak of course. But cool none-the-less. I think you shouldn't have set Brenda up wih the kobold queen though, even if it was a hoot. Even Brenda didn't deserve to have to service that ugly old lizard thing. You should have set her up with Brant. Did you see Emin totally snogged her! Where did that come from? She is awesome. And the dwarf shooing the shadows away, how cool was that?

Still, if we don't mention the rope, we're OK right? Crossbows rock. That half-devil ran off again.- Bloody typical if you ask me.

Gram T Wren.