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I've never been into "organized play" of a roleplaying game -- but by my lights, D&D is only -somewhat- a roleplaying game, (the other part being a character construction wargame), and I've been hankering for putting the 4e books I've been buying to some use, so I showed up to the RPGA meetup yesterday, packing a female 1st level Deva (eg, multiply reincarnated angel) Avenger named Isa Sunrise.

And you know what? It was fun!

Apparently, you can choose "easy" or "hard", so we picked "hard" as, Living Forgotten Realms tends to be (supposedly) a bit easy. Three encounters, two fights.

The first one was a big mess against a large, well-balanced enemy party, where the party's two clerics and the swordmage took the brunt of the damage and someone made two death checks before I took a break from knocking enemy rogues and made a heal check.

The second was glorious. A boss (elite, probably) that felt like 9th level or so and a giant pile of minions. I got targetted early (and before I got a chance to "oath" the boss so I could get a benefit from all the attacks--avengers do extra damage if they're attacked by other than their target), going from a really hefty 34 hp to low teens, and was the bunny throughout the fight, once only avoiding unconciousness because of 3 temporary hp I'd been granted. The minions were nicely handled by various bursts, blasts, etc from the multi-attacking ranger, the swordmage, and the wizard, the clerics mostly kept me upright and hit the boss with a few attacks (I used a reroll to let one hit the boss with an encounter power), and I? In three attacks, I managed to crit with my daily and my encounter for a total of 50 and 42 damage, respectively (avengers, if properly positioned, get to roll twice on every melee attack, so this is only slightly less likely than 1/100), then, with me back in "one hit from unconciousness" territory, I managed to hit once more (a 25 didn't do it, so I used the Deva encounter ability to add a d6 to the roll and hit with a 31) and finish the bastard off.

Date: 2009-05-07 09:24 am (UTC)
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That does sound cool. 92 damage in two attacks at 1st level. Well hard!

Date: 2009-05-07 03:16 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] mylescorcoran
Does 4e really have you roll weapon damage once and multiply it 2w, 3w, etc, like that? Seems to introduce even greater fluctuation in the outcomes of those big dailies. I would tend to rule you roll 2 times, 3 times the dice, to soften the extremes.

Date: 2009-05-07 03:38 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] mylescorcoran
Ah, okay.

I'm so not ever going to get my local group to play 4e, I can tell. It's these sorts of mechanical tricks that have to be tracked that would drive half my table away.

Pity.

Date: 2009-05-08 09:38 am (UTC)
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I'm thinking of the general optimisation problem(s) of character generation and then the effective use of powers at the table. It's more mechanical and process heavy than some of my players would ever willingly choose to play in our sessions.

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