2008-12-02 Rise of the Runelords

We started our second M20 Hard Core playtest (2008-09-22 Some Paizo GameMastery using M20 HC coming up) – Crucible of Chaos by Wolfgang Baur for level 8 characters. After the session we started talking about our future plans. By now I’ve come to realize that my Monday group prefers D&D 3.5 to M20 and its variants (2008-10-14 Cannot Please Them All). We discussed switching our M20 characters to D&D 3.5 characters to finish the module, or starting over with D&D 3.5 first level characters and a new adventure path – Rise of the Runelords.

And we decided to *start Rise of the Runelords next week*.

I mentioned my reservations regarding tactical play – I prefer No Battlemap, I prefer no rules lookup (even though I do it myself sometimes, shame on me), I prefer less rules in general. We talked about the problem of character optimization making non-optimizing players feel out of place, we talked about books beyond the three core books (and decided to allow feats on a case-by-case basis and the Duskblade. We decided against races such as the half aasimar. I also mentioned my frustration with buffing, multiple attacks, and similar fun killers at higher levels. We decided to play the adventure path up to level nine and then see whether we want to continue or not.

No Battlemap

Duskblade

James also offered to run a different campaign every other Monday. That’s good news; he also runs our Shackled City campaign.

our Shackled City campaign

I shall spend some time reading volume #1 of the adventure path. I’m not sure whether I should invest time in reading other DM’s campaign journals or dedicated forums. I tend to loose a lot of time and I’m not sure the info helps improve my game appropriately. Most people – me included – tend to write too much diluting the helpful info.

Which is why I should stop here. 😄

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Sounds like a plan 😄

– greywulf 2008-12-02 01:16 UTC

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If buffing is a problem an no fun, is a possible solution just to omit all buffing spells?

– Chris 2008-12-02 09:48 UTC