A Hobgoblin Wererat? That's Novel!

[the_gneech]

Tonight was the second session of my new Luskan campaign. On the whole it was fun, although jamesbarrett kept not being able to roll dice until he finally managed to drop the BBEG. (Also, fferret: did you prepare sleep after the rest? I noticed in E-Tools that it wasn't in your initial list of prepared spells. It's not worth retconning for a room with a couple of dire rats, but I want to make a note for the future.) I also have to remember to ask for arcane failure checks for armored spellcasters!

This scenario was a very generic dungeon crawl (in fact, it's part of the Goodman Games "Dungeon Crawl Classics" line) to introduce all the characters and get a feel for their characters and interaction. The next scenario gets the characters more actively involved in the Yo Ho Piratey setting of Luskan, which is something we haven't touched on much yet. The BBEG of this particular scenario was a hobgoblin wererat, which I just thought was a really cool idea. He was actually just a lieutenant of a larger threat, which the PCs may or may not go back to deal with -- but other things will get in the way first.

Alas, no more gaming for two weeks, le sigh. Next weekend is AnthroCon, and the weekend after that is a certain wedding I must attend, so the reasons are worthy. Still, 'tis a bummer -- I've spent entirely too many weekends not gaming lately!

Want game! Yarr!

But now, bedtime. Ni ni.

-The Gneech

Comments

[jamesbarrett.livejournal.com]

Given that the only 1st level spells he cast were sleep and magic missile, I figured he memorized sleep that morning instead of identify. So there wasn't that big a deal concerning it, though keeping in mind he needs to write out which ones he does memorize in the future. Spell failure is why I have never played a mage wearing armor. Why wear it when you don't intend to get anywhere near where you might have need of it? 90% of the good spells are all ranged anyway.

What Fferret needs to do is have a peice of paper with him where he writes down what gets memorized each time we wake up from resting. That's what I always did with Kyriela and it clears up the whole "do you have that memorized?" question quite nicely.

[sirfox.livejournal.com]

easiest is a list of the possible spells, and each day, make a few bubbles by the ones memorized. then cross them off as they're cast. Re-bubble the next day.

[stilghar.livejournal.com]

I used to have a Spellbook Manager utility that would, among other things, print out a list of a character's known spells, sorted by level, with a little checkbox next to it that could be pencilled in if the spell was memorized.

This was a number of years ago, and designed for 2nd Ed, but I'd be surprised to find that something similar wasn't currently available for 3.5+.

[hossblacksilver.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling about needing a gaming hit. Last weekend I attended one of my big gaming con (ConCarolinas), but between a panel I was on and working security this year, I got to sign up for on game and my luck was that it didn't make. *sigh*