Tonight's ACKS game: Orcs & Dorks 2: Electrum Boogaloo.


Tonight's ACKS game: Orcs & Dorks 2: Electrum Boogaloo.

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  1. Casey G.October 26, 2012 at 9:42 PM

    Goddamn sleep spell. Goddamn elf rolling 14 fucking hit dice of orcs and ogres to put to sleep.

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  2. Erik JensenOctober 26, 2012 at 9:43 PM

    I have recently come to hate sleep as a DM for precisely that reason.

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  3. Casey G.October 26, 2012 at 9:45 PM

    It saved them from losing at least two characters to a "Hold Person" spell. The swingyness of old school gaming is part of the charm.

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  4. Erik JensenOctober 26, 2012 at 9:45 PM

    Agreed, but it riles me when all of a sudden they've plowed through something I thought might take half an hour... :)

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  5. Keith J DaviesOctober 26, 2012 at 10:01 PM

    Casey Garske in Erik Tenkar's ACKS game we ran into a major fight: ogre and 16 orcs.

    2d8 HD of orc later (yes, he rolled a 16), the ogre went down in about a round.  He hit me for 4, I hit him for 12.  At that kind of exchange, it doesn't take long :)

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  6. Bernd PresslerOctober 26, 2012 at 10:01 PM

    I dislike sleep for different reasons. It doesn't really scale well.

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  7. Erik TenkarOctober 26, 2012 at 10:04 PM

    Bernd Pressler Sleep doesn't scale at all. Extremely powerful at low levels and pretty obsolete by levels 4/5

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  8. Bernd PresslerOctober 26, 2012 at 10:07 PM

    yup. But then again, the choice is not that bad, as I have a feeling that 50% of the D&D-like adventures seem to happen on levels 1-6. XD

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  9. Casey G.October 26, 2012 at 10:07 PM

    An ettin just knocked in the door on floor below, so they can have this one.

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