Comments on: My First Public Game http://www.level1gamer.com/2010/06/30/my-first-public-game/ Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:56:16 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: bliss_infinite http://www.level1gamer.com/2010/06/30/my-first-public-game/comment-page-1/#comment-410 bliss_infinite Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:06:38 +0000 http://www.level1gamer.com/?p=366#comment-410 I agree, the combat did flow pretty well and didn't bog the game down especially considering I and a couple of the other players haven't had experience with 4th ed. To be honest, the enemies felt pretty balanced with our PCs even though we had the one death - which I liked BTW. I've always heard that it's hard to die in 4th ed. with all the layers of protected stats for the characters so, IMO, it was good to see a character die in game. Yeah, the ogre seemed tough but I didn't think he was invincible - just a few bad rolls on our part. The other encounters were fun too, especially the one with the tiered room. Good job with that. I also thought that we had a good group of players. A little more roll-playing would've been fun but it was just an afternoon 1 shot. I agree that if we were to dungeon crawl this adventure it may get tedious and you made good decisions in compressing the adventure for the afternoon session. I might note that I played a Magic-User and, quite in contrast to classic style MUs, this guy was pretty powerful for 1st level. I could toss magic missiles pretty much every round plus all my other little spells. Overall an enjoyable afternoon and intro to 4th ed. I agree, the combat did flow pretty well and didn’t bog the game down especially considering I and a couple of the other players haven’t had experience with 4th ed. To be honest, the enemies felt pretty balanced with our PCs even though we had the one death – which I liked BTW. I’ve always heard that it’s hard to die in 4th ed. with all the layers of protected stats for the characters so, IMO, it was good to see a character die in game. Yeah, the ogre seemed tough but I didn’t think he was invincible – just a few bad rolls on our part.

The other encounters were fun too, especially the one with the tiered room. Good job with that. I also thought that we had a good group of players. A little more roll-playing would’ve been fun but it was just an afternoon 1 shot.

I agree that if we were to dungeon crawl this adventure it may get tedious and you made good decisions in compressing the adventure for the afternoon session.

I might note that I played a Magic-User and, quite in contrast to classic style MUs, this guy was pretty powerful for 1st level. I could toss magic missiles pretty much every round plus all my other little spells.

Overall an enjoyable afternoon and intro to 4th ed.

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