What I Played Today: November 17

Pathfinder, Rift, Rock Band Blitz

Pathfinder today! So, we finally start heading to the next place, and we run into a storm system and a bunch of storm elementals, then go inside a tower and dick around for an hour. There's this jackass wizard halfling is creating these weird lightning grenades, and decided to completely disrupt the weather patterns of the region to do so. We told him to stop, and he did, and then we got back on our way.

We find a burned village, and then we fight some giant kobolds, and they really messed us up. One of them crit the crap out of our rogue, so she went down hard, and all I did was roll 1's. Managed to shoot the cleric, in fact. I think we are playing a little too fast and loose with the illusion spells; they end up being able to incapacitate our opponents for long periods of time, using it to trap escaping enemies, etc. I'm not sure that's how illusions should work. After spending what felt like forever arguing about splitting the loot, I went home.

Decided to play some more Rift, because I'm a dork. I was wrong earlier, you need the expansion to level to 60 and use the new classes, as well as visit the new continents, so...I just kinda screwed around, doing instant adventures, etc. I still can't recreate my old classes, because I just don't remember then, but it turns out my gear is good enough that it almost doesn't matter. I was able to solo the Chronicle that I couldn't do before easily.

Also played a bit of Rock Band Blitz! It is a video game.

What I Played Today: November 3

Pathfinder

I finally went back to the Pathfinder group after just missing a bunch of sessions, and it's a good thing I did, because they were going to kill off my character oh no! But I was there, and I think I finally have a better idea who my character is, although I was still a bit frustrated with how often we seem to get off-track. I want to play the game, guys.

But anyway, turns out the crew is on a mission to shut down a crapton more altars of death, and we get to this fishing town where they can't fish anymore because all their mermaid friends are murdering them. After a bit of discussion of what to do exactly, and meeting an old drunk sailor who, for some reason, we tied to the trunk of a tree instead of just taking him home, we paddle out to this coral reef and fight some mermaids. I was against killing any mermaids, so I used color spray on them to make them pass out and go away. Yeah me.

Then, because I was the only one who thought to actually have waterbreathing cast on me when we were going to the ocean, I dove in and found the mermaid city, where apparently the bad guy was. So after finally getting everyone else waterbreathing, we travel down into the ocean and go into an underwater mansion. It is full of traps. Underwater traps.

After fighting a tentacle monster and the big bad in a series of fights that seem to kinda forget we are underwater? Anyway, we take care of this guy and get him to surrender and tell us stuff, like why the mermaids are murdering people. Turns out they are diseased, so we just have to undisease them and everything will be fine. Then I notice this ladder. I climb up and find a bunch of gold, and the rogue wants to take all of it, and suddenly I think, "Wait, this is the mermaid's mansion. Isn't that their money?" And it caused a huge damn argument. Eventually we promise not to steal it and turns out the mermaids gave us an even better reward, so no harm no foul, but man. Then even more talking, and I decided I have roleplayed enough and went home.

What I Played Today: September 22

Pathfinder

Someone who goes to the game nights said I'm going to say a few months ago that he was going to start a Pathfinder game, and I expressed interested. After hearing nothing about it for a while, he told me Friday that it would be cool if I wanted to join, and I said okay. So I went to play Pathfinder. I'm sorry, D&D 4th Edition. The sorcerors in Pathfinder are too cool.

So, I rolled up a sorceror, giving him the Aberrant bloodline, which means that he will slowly turn into some creepy Dhalsim. I picked a couple of spells, noted my ability to shoot acid from my fingertips (so cool, 7 times a day!), and then proceeded to be a non-consequential member of the party. My build just wasn't that impressive; there is one spell I know that I can't use properly, and my acid rays never ever hit. I guess I just got unlucky, but I sure felt like deadweight.

Anyway, in the adventure so far, the team is working for some lord (I was never told why), and they need to clear out kobolds from a cave near the ocean. So we go down to the ocean, crawl into a cave, and a kobold pops out and blasts water at us, sending me flying into the ocean. Fun! Then a big fight happens, then we find some traps, and then there's a hostage situation. The kobolds held some peasants hostage. Really. We eventually talk them down and I loop around back to try and trick the kobolds, and cast color spray. And...one of the kobolds saves, and then they kill all the hostages. I felt really bad about this. But eventually everything was murdered and the evil altar was dismantled. Then the paladin went swimming for some reason. I guess to get more loot? I don't know, it was weird.

Then we reached a natural stopping point, and kept going for some reason, and this is where my pointlessness really came to a head. We go to another cave, and the entrance is this supersteep ramp. So, we set up a rope to help guide us down, and start climbing into the cave, and suddenly they cast grease underneath our feet. So, I stumble down the cave, and start moving slowly, when the kobolds at the bottom, who have fire, start making demands.

Obviously, we ignore their commands, but also, instead of actually...moving, we just stand there and wait for them to set us all on fire. Well, to set me on fire, since everyone else was out of range. So, I ignite, tumble down the corridor, have a bunch of water thrown on me, and stand up, singed but happy, when I get hit with four crossbow bolts and fall unconscious. Whoops! I'm healed and it turns out okay, but I knew things would be going south the second we decided to keep going.

But I like the casual style of the DM, and how creative his scenarios are, so I'll be sticking around for that. There is a lot of table chatter, a bit more than I'd like, but maybe the dynamic is different when the full group is there. I don't know, I'll show up again.