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on Fri 07 of Oct., 2011 13:20 BST, by Laurent posts: 1029 United Kingdom

Fellow players,

Thanks for an entertaining evening. I particularly enjoyed our attempts, by Andrew, Ian and I, to play the most boring and generic characters ever:

One dimensional Barbarian
One dimensional Dwarven Fighter with toughness and weapon focus.
Healer-type Priest of Irori

To be fair to Amy, her PC was mildly unconventional: Undead-hater Ranger with heavy X-bow.

Game action.

I have totally "PAWNED CRITICAL HIT ROXXOR!!!!! THAT LUSTSPAWN!!!" (†)
We all had a decent bout of dice rolling, some awful, some great. It had been a while since I played an LV1 character. At the Big Meet I tend to run LV3 adventures so as not to have too fragile PCs.
The D20 roll indeed dictates the flow of the game far more than at high level where only a sprinkle of randomness impacts the game.

Kaer Maga.

I am terribly sorry for my meta-gaming last night. I hope it was not too disrupting. The problem is that I like the Varisian part of the setting and of course, as a Rise of the Runelords GM I tend to know way too much about Thassilon.

The setting book for Kaer Maga is "City of Strangers", which I recommend earnestly.

Basically the city is even more ancient than Xin himself, a powerful old Azlanti ruler who founded Thassilon. The story about Thassilon that you are engaged with in RotRL is in fact that of the era just before its fall... and that was ten thousands years ago already. Karzoug the Claimer himself made pacts with "elder entities" to use Kaer Maga as a prison for his most difficult cases. Therefore the city itself has a lot of Thassilonian history, hence the content of the ossuary we are visiting at the moment.
While the adventure itself is indeed very focused and, half-jokingly, merely about "Dead bodies are disappearing downstairs in the crypt. Pay some adventurers to look into this"; the setting of the adventure itself is far more detailed than its plot. I think we have the right selection of Knowledge skills to ensure our PCs will collect most of the information the author Rob McCreary has put in his adventure?.