Saturday, July 7, 2012

Barrowmaze Last Night

Last night's session was pretty interesting. initially I was going to audio record it. I didn't, but I should have. The party had been following the pulses of the Fount of Law in an attempt to find the Pit of Chaos. They came across a set of large sealed double doors. Thinking this the possible entrance to the pit, they entered but instead found it to be the Vault of The Chosen, Nergal's elite clerical sect. They 10' foot poled their way east after knocking down a bricked-up wall. They came to a room and, despite tapping the floor, the body weight of the cleric Cromwell and the dwarf Kelg made the entire floor giveway in a trap. After landing on their asses a great abomination of bone came forth with a antlered deer skull and four arms! Winning initiative it hit Kelg and Cromwell who were prone. Cromwell attempted to cast the next round but this was wasted by a strike from a scimitar. Kelg was hit several times and drank a Potion of Extra-Healing to keep himself alive as the halfling Snake Pliskin fired sling stones and the fighter Sol stood agog holding a rope. Kelg and Cromwell were hit several more times and it looked like curtains for the two of them. Kelg decided to drink his Potion of Growth. With several sling stone hits by Snake, and three double damage hits by Kelg, they managed to drop the dreaded Bone Golem. Then the action began lol Employing the "One More Room" approach, the party entered the other bricked-up room. Sol poled around the walls of the room and returned safely. They noticed that the ceiling of this domed room appeared to sparkle like star constellations. Cromwell, the fifth level cleric, stepped into the center of the room for a closer look and...fell into a bottomless pit! Oh yeah, did I mention he was carrying The Fount of Law? The game certainly has a way of keeping things interesting...

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  1. That is awesome! Sounds like it was a blast. One of my players had Ghostcutter from The Grinding Gear and was of course overconfident and did not use a 10' pole and met a bottomless pit as well. The players also forgot until it was nearly too late that he had their map and Pinto's Conical Cap. They were not happy after that .

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  2. There was some grumbling last night, but the game giveth and taketh away.

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    1. I tell my players the same thing everytime something like that happens: I roll the dice and just go by the results. I am impartial to what happens.

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    2. Me, too. ... Ok, I'll giggle evily a lot if something like that happens... but not too loud...

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    3. Ahaha what DM wouldn't and as long as everyone is having fun that is truly what matters.

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  3. I shouldn't have made Cromwell walk into the centre of that room... at this point I think everyone at our table has grown accustomed to the lethality of old school gaming lol. There were a lot of pros to that session as well as cons, check out the session report if you're curious im going to put one up soon.

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    1. I will be checking it out for sure. My players are either new to gaming or used to Pathfinder and my newest is a 4e diehard and doesn't like the lethality (although they may live more if they hired retainers/used 10' poles). I can only hint so much :p

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  4. Yes, there were pros forsure. I'll wait for Alex to explain in the session report.

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    1. well the whole thing is done, check out if you're in the mood.

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