Review of Play: The Saga of the Westmarch DF Game

mlangsdorf · 10-06-2009, 09:39 AM

New campaign session 3
http://westmarchsaga.wikia.com/wiki/WM/Treks/Log_1-4

The delvers continued their fight with the goblins to a painful victory.

Wolfgang the gargoyle returned, and quickly dispatched both crossbowmen. Thasos and Ghazeb spent a couple of seconds annihilating their enemies and then spent the rest of the combat running north. Firefly played tag with the shock lizards until Wolfgang reinforced her, while Beltarne ran north to support Marik. He took a lightning bolt in the back for his trouble but recovered.

The giant eagle that had been fighting Firefly flew off to help engage Marik. Marik killed another goblin but then took a ST17 axe to the chest and dropped. The giant eagle then started eating his face. Beltarne came up and distracted the goblin. In a moment of awesome, the goblin made a Committed (Determined) Rapid Strike, which Beltarne countered with a Commmad spell: "Drop it!". Instead of brutally carving the dwarf to pieces, the goblin swung his fist at Beltarne's nose twice. The giant eagle (actually an Divine Servitor of Disease) then released a disease cloud, doing 3 damage to Firefly (nearly killing her!) and just enough damage to drop the wounded goblin. Beltarne then carved up the eagle before it could flee.

The delvers found some general loot and a cryptic map:
http://westmarchsaga.wikia.com/wiki/File:GoblinMap.png
which they are trying to decipher.

All in all, this was a slightly longer fight than I would have liked, but a nicely tough one. Dropping 2 of the PCs into negatives demonstrated the potential lethality of the West March nicely. Both sides had pretty iffy tactics: the PCs were too spread out to reinforce each other properly, and too many of the goblins spent too much time making ineffectual ranged attacks against Firefly.

Huh. Looking over my notes, the shock lizards are supposed to a 1d lightning aura that might have affected Wolfgang. Not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things, though.

10-06-2009, 09:39 AM	#11
mlangsdorf Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Austin, TX	Re: Review of Play: The Saga of the Westmarch DF Game New campaign session 3 http://westmarchsaga.wikia.com/wiki/WM/Treks/Log_1-4 The delvers continued their fight with the goblins to a painful victory. Wolfgang the gargoyle returned, and quickly dispatched both crossbowmen. Thasos and Ghazeb spent a couple of seconds annihilating their enemies and then spent the rest of the combat running north. Firefly played tag with the shock lizards until Wolfgang reinforced her, while Beltarne ran north to support Marik. He took a lightning bolt in the back for his trouble but recovered. The giant eagle that had been fighting Firefly flew off to help engage Marik. Marik killed another goblin but then took a ST17 axe to the chest and dropped. The giant eagle then started eating his face. Beltarne came up and distracted the goblin. In a moment of awesome, the goblin made a Committed (Determined) Rapid Strike, which Beltarne countered with a Commmad spell: "Drop it!". Instead of brutally carving the dwarf to pieces, the goblin swung his fist at Beltarne's nose twice. The giant eagle (actually an Divine Servitor of Disease) then released a disease cloud, doing 3 damage to Firefly (nearly killing her!) and just enough damage to drop the wounded goblin. Beltarne then carved up the eagle before it could flee. The delvers found some general loot and a cryptic map: http://westmarchsaga.wikia.com/wiki/File:GoblinMap.png which they are trying to decipher. All in all, this was a slightly longer fight than I would have liked, but a nicely tough one. Dropping 2 of the PCs into negatives demonstrated the potential lethality of the West March nicely. Both sides had pretty iffy tactics: the PCs were too spread out to reinforce each other properly, and too many of the goblins spent too much time making ineffectual ranged attacks against Firefly. Huh. Looking over my notes, the shock lizards are supposed to a 1d lightning aura that might have affected Wolfgang. Not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things, though.