It’s been several months now since I have been a DM, sort of. Mostly at the moment I am a player in two online games and a play by email one. These are all with the same (pretty much) group of people.
The PBEM was firstly the newer “Dragon of Icespire Peak”. I found that ok, mostly as I had never DM’d more than about the last half (I used the last bit of that to link my old Phandelver campaign into the Dragon sequels). Currently though, one of the DMs is taking us through the Rick and Morty dungeon. Which has proved very entertaining, even though I’ve barely watched any of the show. Most recently we have had a long, confusing and confronting experience with the Mr Meeseeks.
Tyranny of Dragons is one of the online campaigns. Now this DM is brand new. She is improving, but it is a bit more plodding than the rest of us, and she does have a habit of telling / reading out more than she probably should. But she is learning. I have to admit, I’m a little distracted in that campaign, but I’ve also missed more of that one than any other, so I’m also a little disconnected from the plot.
The last online game is Shattered Obelisk. While this was a bit of a drag initially, more recently the DM has worked hard at brining challenging combats to our group, now level 7. Even with a stack of experience in the players, we are finding the combat challenging and interesting. Take our last one, against a creature we still really don’t know what it was. We had party members getting hit all over, people incapacitated and grappled. Hit points dropping. It was overcome, but took some really serious efforts on our behalf. My own Circle of the Spore Druid got banged up and grappled, before Gaseous Form away. Then pissed, he dropped a Blight and then a Tidal Wave on it, and was grappled again!
A fun fight.
These games are all going well. I’m playing a variety of characters. All dwarves, of course. One is a Circle of the Spore Druid (ToD), one is a War Wizard (Shattered Obelisk) and one is a Grave Cleric (R&M). I’ve decided I really like the clerics, not really the druids, and am undecided about wizards.
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