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peteyfrogboyI ran D through the entirety of "A Dark and Stormy Knight" last night, with great success.
I added a dwarven cleric to her roster, which filled out the classic fighter-thief-mage-cleric party. For a longer adventure I figured she needed to have some healing on tap. The dungeon was a little underpowered, since all her characters were 2nd level with good stats and fairly well optimized, but I didn't want to risk an accidental TPK on her first dungeon delve.
Things of note:
* "When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail" - The sorceror's only 1st level combat spell is Sleep, so it got thrown around liberally. Despite the fact that it often completely short-circuits entire combats, it's a very useful spell for gauging her moral sensibilities. After sleeping the two hobgoblins, she tied them up and interrogated them. She saw through their lie about having friends that would rescue them, then extracted a promise that they would leave the kingdom and never return before setting them free.
* Despite my worries about slaughtering her characters, the thought of them dying didn't seem to bother her too much. This is both good and bad.
* I don't know what it is, but after her very first battle during the previous session, she immediately wanted to play the goblins instead. I'm not going to give in on that point yet.
* I've been giving some suggestions for certain wise courses of action, but trying not to make all her decisions for her. It's hard for me. She did surprise me at one point by using Spider Climb to scale the shaft up through the ceiling to the top of the tor. It hadn't ever occurred to me.
* Last night I introduced the concepts of treasure and experience points. When she found cash during the adventure, her first instinct was to "give it to poor people". I see no reason to dissuade her from this.
* I got the new plastic orcs so that we'd have some minis to play with that I wouldn't get so worked up about her banging together. Unfortunately, they turned out really nice and now I still don't want her to mess them up. Ah well. (I would post pictures, but all the cameras went to war with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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I added a dwarven cleric to her roster, which filled out the classic fighter-thief-mage-cleric party. For a longer adventure I figured she needed to have some healing on tap. The dungeon was a little underpowered, since all her characters were 2nd level with good stats and fairly well optimized, but I didn't want to risk an accidental TPK on her first dungeon delve.
Things of note:
* "When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail" - The sorceror's only 1st level combat spell is Sleep, so it got thrown around liberally. Despite the fact that it often completely short-circuits entire combats, it's a very useful spell for gauging her moral sensibilities. After sleeping the two hobgoblins, she tied them up and interrogated them. She saw through their lie about having friends that would rescue them, then extracted a promise that they would leave the kingdom and never return before setting them free.
* Despite my worries about slaughtering her characters, the thought of them dying didn't seem to bother her too much. This is both good and bad.
* I don't know what it is, but after her very first battle during the previous session, she immediately wanted to play the goblins instead. I'm not going to give in on that point yet.
* I've been giving some suggestions for certain wise courses of action, but trying not to make all her decisions for her. It's hard for me. She did surprise me at one point by using Spider Climb to scale the shaft up through the ceiling to the top of the tor. It hadn't ever occurred to me.
* Last night I introduced the concepts of treasure and experience points. When she found cash during the adventure, her first instinct was to "give it to poor people". I see no reason to dissuade her from this.
* I got the new plastic orcs so that we'd have some minis to play with that I wouldn't get so worked up about her banging together. Unfortunately, they turned out really nice and now I still don't want her to mess them up. Ah well. (I would post pictures, but all the cameras went to war with
adelavanbrugge)