Re: The Spell-Crypts of Thurfang Bormaug
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 9:04 pm
Encounters was good this week. In two weeks, the new 'season' starts up. It involves Neverwinter, which none of us are too pumped about. I'm going to run it though - for who, I'm not sure. I may run it in the 5 PM slot.
So we did the encounter and then got back to the Tomb of Aethering the Damned, which is from a Judges' Guild adventure book from the late 70's. The detailed summary is here:
http://dungeoncrawlclassics.webs.com/adv5.htm
TLDR version: They fell into a pit trap. It dropped them in a room with two undead giant lizards. The got bit a few times but killed them. The party then fought three weird statues with the power to cause amnesia, kill you in d6 rounds, and fire a heat beam respectively. One PC went down but was 'rolled over' and saved, though he accrued a -1 to agility.
Two questions came up:
Can you backstab with a sling?
As far as I can tell, yes. As long as the enemy is unaware of you.
If you cast Color Spray into a crowd, is there a chance you'll hit your allies?
Color spray says: "You summon forth a spray of brilliant colors that blind and dazzle your target"
... The 'firing into melee' rules refer to a bow/crossbow/dart/thrown dagger/other missile weapon, nothing about spells... So I'm going to say that color spray does not have a 50% chance of hitting an ally.
I haven't been using the 'withdrawal' rules because i am so sick of attacks of opportunity. I probably should start soon though.
It continues to go extremely well. The battles are terrifying. I am verrryy slowwwly making them harder. I'm kind of fine-tuning the ACs and hit point totals so I can gauge what's a challenge. So far they've been having no trouble. And they seemed to get a kick out of the 'spend gold to get xp' concept.
A week from this saturday is a game day... the kick-off to neverwinter. I might see if i can get them in to the store to do a special session of DCC where we have more time to play.
So we did the encounter and then got back to the Tomb of Aethering the Damned, which is from a Judges' Guild adventure book from the late 70's. The detailed summary is here:
http://dungeoncrawlclassics.webs.com/adv5.htm
TLDR version: They fell into a pit trap. It dropped them in a room with two undead giant lizards. The got bit a few times but killed them. The party then fought three weird statues with the power to cause amnesia, kill you in d6 rounds, and fire a heat beam respectively. One PC went down but was 'rolled over' and saved, though he accrued a -1 to agility.
Two questions came up:
Can you backstab with a sling?
As far as I can tell, yes. As long as the enemy is unaware of you.
If you cast Color Spray into a crowd, is there a chance you'll hit your allies?
Color spray says: "You summon forth a spray of brilliant colors that blind and dazzle your target"
... The 'firing into melee' rules refer to a bow/crossbow/dart/thrown dagger/other missile weapon, nothing about spells... So I'm going to say that color spray does not have a 50% chance of hitting an ally.
I haven't been using the 'withdrawal' rules because i am so sick of attacks of opportunity. I probably should start soon though.
It continues to go extremely well. The battles are terrifying. I am verrryy slowwwly making them harder. I'm kind of fine-tuning the ACs and hit point totals so I can gauge what's a challenge. So far they've been having no trouble. And they seemed to get a kick out of the 'spend gold to get xp' concept.
A week from this saturday is a game day... the kick-off to neverwinter. I might see if i can get them in to the store to do a special session of DCC where we have more time to play.