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marsden_online) wrote2009-04-17 02:12 pm
marsden_online) wrote2009-04-17 02:12 pm
Entry tags:
- cat,
- life,
- neverwinter,
- rpg
Not accomplishing an awful lot today
What I ought to do is line up a video to dub and then go and do the dishes or somesuch. Right after I make a pointless post :)
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An emotional afternoon yesterday didn't leave me in top for for gaming, and the session suffered. It was however a lesson in just how potent highish (11th) level casters can be against an army of mooks - who would have thought a large air elemental can hoover up and spit out 42 medium creatures a round? The opposing orc horde didn't get within 20' of the fortifications supported by the PCs, although some of that was due to me forgetting stuff. I also should have had a better idea of the visibility (or lack thereof) and used that - the fact it was night was sort of handwaved.
The hill giants soaked up a few fireballs, but the orc general being dropped to his death from 200' in the air pretty much ended things.
So D&D unstructured mass combats - it's not necessarily how many casters you have on your side (the orcs had a number of 5th level clerics), but who can cast the biggest spells soonest which makes the advantage. A more disciplined force might have pulled back and waited for the short-duration spells to expire before renewing the assault.
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Racky update - front lump is also a 'benign' tumour.
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An emotional afternoon yesterday didn't leave me in top for for gaming, and the session suffered. It was however a lesson in just how potent highish (11th) level casters can be against an army of mooks - who would have thought a large air elemental can hoover up and spit out 42 medium creatures a round? The opposing orc horde didn't get within 20' of the fortifications supported by the PCs, although some of that was due to me forgetting stuff. I also should have had a better idea of the visibility (or lack thereof) and used that - the fact it was night was sort of handwaved.
The hill giants soaked up a few fireballs, but the orc general being dropped to his death from 200' in the air pretty much ended things.
So D&D unstructured mass combats - it's not necessarily how many casters you have on your side (the orcs had a number of 5th level clerics), but who can cast the biggest spells soonest which makes the advantage. A more disciplined force might have pulled back and waited for the short-duration spells to expire before renewing the assault.
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Racky update - front lump is also a 'benign' tumour.