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Re: session one of my new group!
Thanks. Glad to see you're getting some questing in. lockdown is getting in the way for me at the minute.
I've been thinking about & discussing balance quite a bit recently. Balancing the Wizard by keeping him the same and upgrading everyone else is a very ambitious approach. Although, it sounds like a good way to keep everyone happy.
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2/Jan/2021, 10:21 am
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Edquest
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Re: session one of my new group!
i have enjoyed it, but it has been a lot of work!
last night we continued our quest to it's fruition.
objective room contained chaos dwarfs, hobgoblins and beastmen.
a hard to kill room in terms of defences and wounds!
we had a lot of "hit but no damage" moments and were surrounded so the 3 of us with guns could not make much use of them.
then we had a lucky turn and killed most of them suddenly!
did the city and moved onto the next dungeon.
it's not started great, but our main warrior just gained a heart seeker sword: re-roll one missed attack a turn so that should help!
first room revealed 3 minotaurs, fought them for 2 rounds then a savage orc shaman and 8 savage orcs showed up...took ages to kill off that shaman: T5 tattoos 5+ and 16 wounds really took a bit of working out!
oddly we've had no daemons yet, level 2 is a killer of a level for those sods. especially as 3 of our warriors still only have 1 attack and we have only 1 magic weapon between us!
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9/Jan/2021, 12:24 am
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Re: session one of my new group!
so my last entry was about the lack of daemons
guess what?
yep, daemons!
plague bearers of nurgle, a 1 leading to more plague bearers of nurgle!
we killed all of them eventually, although we were close to a player going down at one point.
Zoom gaming means you can't just lean over the table and see your friend is on 4 wounds!
after that blood letters of khorne showed up! and 7 chaos warriors!!
the blood letters were a significant risk as one of our crew has a total toughness and armour of 8, meaning chaos warriors and plague bearers can only cause a maximum of 2 wounds per hit.
she was tanking a lot of attacks per turn but blood letters can do the same damage PLUS another D3 per hit which ignores the T&A!
few rounds of focused attacks and the blood letters go down, followed by the chaos warriors shortly after.
amongst the treasure is a blade of leaping copper, which gives one of the group both a magic weapon AND +1 attack
enter the objective room, roll the monsters, obviously no daemons now!
12 hobgoblins with their sneaky ambush, 12 goblins with spears led by a Boss who sets off a trap every monster phase...
and 3 minotaurs and 3 ogres
yay, going to be a hairy one!!
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23/Jan/2021, 8:01 pm
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Sith Kinks
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Re: session one of my new group!
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Zoom gaming means you can't just lean over the table and see your friend is on 4 wounds!
Yeh, I've had to resort to "ZoomQuest" also. Although we Zoom via tablets and play online, so it's very easy to see each others life and such. Although the main focus seems ot be on who has the most gold!
Still looking forward to the day we are back at the table. I think our ZoomQuest party will reach BL 10 before lockdown is over.
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25/Jan/2021, 8:01 am
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Re: session one of my new group!
what level are you now?
BL10 is pretty rare
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29/Jan/2021, 4:37 am
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Re: session one of my new group!
We have 3 level 7's and a level 6 tagging along.
I think once you get through your first dungeon the odds shift sharply in your favour. We lost a lot of Warriors at level 1 as usual. We did get a party to level 3, but one got instantly killed in the first room from brain bursta. (used a luck, but rolled one again - house rule is only 1 reroll per roll).
So this is our second ZoomQuest party to make it past level 1.
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29/Jan/2021, 5:06 am
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Re: session one of my new group!
Just had a quick look through the graveyards. one player lost 11 Warriors and another 16 in the ZoomQuest saga so far, so assuming the other two lost about the same amount that's 54 Warriors died to get this far!
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29/Jan/2021, 5:12 am
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Re: session one of my new group!
level 1 is definitely the sticking point of the game.
i don't mind it actually, i've had otherwise perfect party composition die because of repeated rolls of 1 in the power phase, and weak line ups survive due to never rolling a 1 at all!
that being said, because game time is a rarity at the moment i tend to start characters at level 2 but with zero gold, run a level 1 dungeon for their first one, then go from there.
this means every character has better wounds, but nobody has more equipment.
takes ages to get to level 3 this way though, but if you have 2000 gold at level 1 it is always, always always always, the best idea to go up a level.
whereas at level 2 if you have 4000 gold but no equipment it actually makes sense to invest your money on equipment for most characters.
armour (layers of), healing stuff, fire arms, wizards staff, runes and flash powders.
almost every character benefits from some spending on basic equipment.
the reason i run a level 1 adventure is simply because the level 2 table is about 30% daemon and they give -1 to hit without magical weapons as well as have on average a WS of 5 plus Fear. it's not uncommon to need a 6 to hit them, which makes a less fun game.
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30/Jan/2021, 8:50 pm
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Re: session one of my new group!
i started that rule because i decided for my 41st birthday i wanted to play WHQ all day, but we just died all day long!
so no progress was actually made. one player literally rolled 12 consecutive 1's in the power phase...
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30/Jan/2021, 8:52 pm
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Re: session one of my new group!
I don't have a problem with level 1 Warriors dying, it makes the survivors feel worthy. It also makes sense that the unexperienced adventures are most likely to die.
I have a Chaos Warrior with teleport who only survived because he kept on teleporting to the entrance and leaving his comrades to die - seemed very fitting 
I'm not sure I agree it's always best to level up as soon as possible. I guess it depends on the Warriors. I usually opt to armour up and get bandages as quickly as possible.
12 consecutive 1's for power! Ouch! We got 4 consecutive 6's for the first 4 turns in the objective room the other week, the only problem being it was the Shifting Sanctum and power rolls are reversed 
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