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Flames of Initiation (original) is another oldie but goodie. I will admit, I played this so Collin could pick up +2 Dwarven Armor. I have no shame. (Why are there so few +2 armor rewards in the 1-4 range, but so many +2 weapons? Faerun is full of wonders.) But I do authentically enjoy it and getting Flaming Fist membership is a nice hook into Baldur’s Gate. DM: Dareus. Players: Maelwys, Zeitgeist, Goldfishmind, Marquis, Jesterrr21, and me. Marquis plays a very nice barbarian.

Well! As noted previously, Susan rolled 4 crits in the space of 5 rolls against my poor Collin. She dropped him three times as a result. When he climbed up to fight a hopefully less dangerous foe, she crit our other defender, and then dropped Collin again. Nothing quite so sweet as rolling a 20 on a death save when you’re two strikes towards the eternal choir. The other highlight of the fight, for me: “Well, unless she crits me again, I’m OK for one more hit, and how likely would a fourth crit be?” Now I know. ...

Four crits against Collin in five attacks.

… third crit on me in a row. Collin drops again.

[gallery] Susan crits my PC twice in a row in her first time behind the DM screen. My PC drops like a stone.

Regulator Con 2010 Next con!

What I am now is pooped. I ran Pyrophobia (original) for the usual crowd – Peter, Jon, Susan, Mark, and Noah. It takes, let me tell you, a lot of prep. I had about 20 effect cards on hand to give out to the players to reflect various temporary effects on the PCs, and a good number of those temporary effects had specific effects on individual combats. Here, have Vulnerable 3 for the rest of this section. Also, here’s an extra power you can use once in the next combat. Whoo. ...

[gallery] In the , an ice gelatinous cube has two PCs and a spirit bear engulfed. It is marked, oathed, and bloodied. Ow.

I ran my second Sambral MYRE for Jonathan, Mark, Tom, Hudson, and Susan. I really need to tune down my MYREs – it is not the case that any random combination of experience point appropriate monsters will be as easy as one might expect from the average LFR module. The opening fight was a mere 938 experience points – even level for a high tier group – and I dropped three PCs. The second fight was also pretty iffy, although not as bloody. ...

More MapTool games! Collin is now only three sessions away from level 4. This experiment in leveling quickly has proven to be a success. Draden Tristen GMed; he did a great job of moving things along and running the combats well. My fellow players were Crow of Pyke, Logopolis, Neldar, Maelwys, and Dareus. Crow played his warlord again and I found it deeply satisfying to play a fighter with a warlord. We spent a good part of one fight keeping two monsters locked down as he granted me basic attacks. ...