D&D Session 25 - PVP arena
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taluminOur DM was running a special event this weekend, so he wanted to give us a try at it (and practice for DMing the event). Basically we made a brand new level 4 character (mine was a green dragonborn warlock), broke into teams of three and had to try and kill each other. In addition, there was a hungry hill giant wandering around the arena trying to kill us.
I really enjoyed the PvP, even though I was the first to die. It gave us a lot of ideas in regards to tactics and targeting each other. We also didn't get too invested and become unable to operate as a party afterwards.
In the actual game though, we met another new character! The former monk, now former rogue, is now a druid! A halfling hippy druid who is basically the party's biggest fan! He's also incredibly curious so his first reaction to seeing the hydra we faced almost immediately afterwards was to walk up to it and ask if it was friendly. Possibly it was, but I'd already hit it with my axe.
So, hydras are REALLY hard to kill! This was a really fraught battle for us, as the DM designed a great encounter to challenge us, since when we're not on the back foot, we can basically slaughter any beast one on one. Anyway, it started with 5 heads, and ended with 8. As players we'd decided to try and leg it, but Kaz was the one that led the retreat, on the basis that if it has more heads than he can count, he better leave. There have been a couple of moments where I've had Kaz act based on information we all have as players, but only he has as a character, and it's interesting to see which players have picked up on the fact that Kaz may not be the most trustworthy of people any more.
As an aside, Kaz's axe can cast detect good and evil, and since it works as a voice in his head, I'm going to start using FB Messenger to ask the DM to tell me the results, rather than let the rest of the table know.
It was a close thing, but we all got away from the hydra, although apparently there is worse to come...
I really enjoyed the PvP, even though I was the first to die. It gave us a lot of ideas in regards to tactics and targeting each other. We also didn't get too invested and become unable to operate as a party afterwards.
In the actual game though, we met another new character! The former monk, now former rogue, is now a druid! A halfling hippy druid who is basically the party's biggest fan! He's also incredibly curious so his first reaction to seeing the hydra we faced almost immediately afterwards was to walk up to it and ask if it was friendly. Possibly it was, but I'd already hit it with my axe.
So, hydras are REALLY hard to kill! This was a really fraught battle for us, as the DM designed a great encounter to challenge us, since when we're not on the back foot, we can basically slaughter any beast one on one. Anyway, it started with 5 heads, and ended with 8. As players we'd decided to try and leg it, but Kaz was the one that led the retreat, on the basis that if it has more heads than he can count, he better leave. There have been a couple of moments where I've had Kaz act based on information we all have as players, but only he has as a character, and it's interesting to see which players have picked up on the fact that Kaz may not be the most trustworthy of people any more.
As an aside, Kaz's axe can cast detect good and evil, and since it works as a voice in his head, I'm going to start using FB Messenger to ask the DM to tell me the results, rather than let the rest of the table know.
It was a close thing, but we all got away from the hydra, although apparently there is worse to come...
