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Last night was Ralph's D&D game. I, err, had a blast. (My character had different kinds of blasts. Several of them.)
We have gone back to Larissa's home town to fight off an invasion of "slime monsters". (One of the players at the last session said something about an "oozemaster". Neither I nor my character know about those, but I'm assuming there's a Big Nasty Something at the end of this trail.) Last game we parked at the entrance to the caves and made an initial foray in, fighting off a couple different kinds of slime-based critters. We found that edged weapons don't work so well, but crushing weapons are fine and fire kicks butt. (Unfortunately, we mostly don't use crushing weapons.)
Last night we went back in. The first encounter was a lot rougher on us than I think Ralph intended; it was a single ooze-infested poisonous giant spider, but it took two nasty bites out of our fighter and knocked him down to 2HP. It also kept dodging my flame sphere, so while we were keeping it at bay somewhat, we weren't doing damage. Eventually a combination of magic missiles, physical missiles, flame blade from the druid, and old-fashioned melee did it in. But we left to lick our wounds after that.
The next morning we went back in (yeah, overnight every night we have to thwap some critters, but we have the advantage). This time our first encounter was with a couple of "ooze dire weasels", which Hrolf (acting as scout) spotted for us. (Hrolf is Larissa's owl familiar. He described them as "two large food".) It turns out that the gnome can, as a racial ability, talk to weasels. So much for Ralph's plan to reduce moral ambiguity by giving us non-sentient opponents. Prolix eventually convinced one of them to leave us alone. The other was trying to kill our rogue, Kyle, so we killed it. Prolix also managed to get some basic information from the surviving weasel (a poisoned stream causes the ooze infestation, and it's that-a-way). This was all very entertaining.
Kyle was badly hurt in this fight but everyone else was fine, so we pressed on. We came to a room with a bunch of slime monsters, and Larissa let loose with a pair of flame spheres. Sometimes they dodged, but 6-foot-diameter balls of fire did still serve to route them a bit. She supplemented this with magic missiles (once the first sphere burned out), and others fought them in their usual ways. I wasn't tracking it, but I think Larissa did at least half the total damage to them in that fight, which made me feel really good. Usually I'm not nearly that effective, especially compared to Turok (the fighter). It's the half-damage-from-edged-weapons effect. (It's not a competition thing for me; fighters are supposed to do lots of damage, and I do have non-damage spells. But every now and then it's gratifying to be really, really effective.)
One of the townsfolk was with us (an apprentice cleric), so I have hopes that this show will lead to an increase in Larissa's reputation in particular. (She's the only local in the party.) I have some hopes of this sending a message of "leave me/my family alone or else" to certain other folks in town, all without Larissa having to say a word.
We have gone back to Larissa's home town to fight off an invasion of "slime monsters". (One of the players at the last session said something about an "oozemaster". Neither I nor my character know about those, but I'm assuming there's a Big Nasty Something at the end of this trail.) Last game we parked at the entrance to the caves and made an initial foray in, fighting off a couple different kinds of slime-based critters. We found that edged weapons don't work so well, but crushing weapons are fine and fire kicks butt. (Unfortunately, we mostly don't use crushing weapons.)
Last night we went back in. The first encounter was a lot rougher on us than I think Ralph intended; it was a single ooze-infested poisonous giant spider, but it took two nasty bites out of our fighter and knocked him down to 2HP. It also kept dodging my flame sphere, so while we were keeping it at bay somewhat, we weren't doing damage. Eventually a combination of magic missiles, physical missiles, flame blade from the druid, and old-fashioned melee did it in. But we left to lick our wounds after that.
The next morning we went back in (yeah, overnight every night we have to thwap some critters, but we have the advantage). This time our first encounter was with a couple of "ooze dire weasels", which Hrolf (acting as scout) spotted for us. (Hrolf is Larissa's owl familiar. He described them as "two large food".) It turns out that the gnome can, as a racial ability, talk to weasels. So much for Ralph's plan to reduce moral ambiguity by giving us non-sentient opponents. Prolix eventually convinced one of them to leave us alone. The other was trying to kill our rogue, Kyle, so we killed it. Prolix also managed to get some basic information from the surviving weasel (a poisoned stream causes the ooze infestation, and it's that-a-way). This was all very entertaining.
Kyle was badly hurt in this fight but everyone else was fine, so we pressed on. We came to a room with a bunch of slime monsters, and Larissa let loose with a pair of flame spheres. Sometimes they dodged, but 6-foot-diameter balls of fire did still serve to route them a bit. She supplemented this with magic missiles (once the first sphere burned out), and others fought them in their usual ways. I wasn't tracking it, but I think Larissa did at least half the total damage to them in that fight, which made me feel really good. Usually I'm not nearly that effective, especially compared to Turok (the fighter). It's the half-damage-from-edged-weapons effect. (It's not a competition thing for me; fighters are supposed to do lots of damage, and I do have non-damage spells. But every now and then it's gratifying to be really, really effective.)
One of the townsfolk was with us (an apprentice cleric), so I have hopes that this show will lead to an increase in Larissa's reputation in particular. (She's the only local in the party.) I have some hopes of this sending a message of "leave me/my family alone or else" to certain other folks in town, all without Larissa having to say a word.