Moments of Awesome (gaming)
When DMing, if I'm on the ball I like to make sure there's moments for everyone to be awesome during the adventure. Undead tossed at the cleric who demolishes them; minions for the wizard to crush; stupid monsters that swing and miss the rogue's astronomical AC vs. opportunity attacks, opening said monster up to the fighter's combat challenge free swing.
So, when I'm on the other side of the screen, I like to have chances to be awesome myself. With Friday's Scales of War session bringing us to the end of Heroic, there were some good moments in there. Like my wizard zigzagging a Wall of Fire to catch a downed war troll, a two headed troll, and a spitting troll.
Or my fighter, making good on what I declared last session, when the DM knocked me unconscious, that that was the last time he'd get to do that. It required my comeback strike, my victorious surge, my defensive resurgence, and my second wind, but I stayed up through the last fight. And now I've taken Dreadnaught as my paragon path and my HP have jumped to 115, so I think I'll continue to stay up.
Our new warlord also got her moments of awesome. While dealing with a flying opponent, she threw her +1 javelin, critting three times. In the final battle, she nailed the boss with Lead the Attack, granting us all +6 to hit and saving the day.
In Eberron Saturday, we found ourselves in this scene: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/downloads/galleries/EberronCampaignGuide_art/img/122606_CN_GL.jpg
My avenger and the barbarian were able to steal the floating platforms from some of our attackers, but it's my artificer who took the helm of the sky coach after our driver was knocked out. Things were looking bad- our swordmage had failed in her own attempt to steal a platform and was pushed off. She'd survive, but was out of the fight. HP were dropping faster than our foes, and we couldn't out run them. Then two of the cocky bastards floated in off port. I examined my options.
"Can I drive the skycoach into them and smash them against a building?"
Thank god for Sharn highrises :) Two smeared goblins later, the fight was much easier.
My revenant's own moment of awesome came earlier when I exploded a bad guy. Critical hit with an encounter power, with my dark reaping, bonus damage from the artificer's at will, and my great axe's high crit property. With a normal weapon at first level, I did 52 points of damage- enough to outright kill anyone in the party, and more than enough to destroy the changing I attacked.
I'm looking forward to the next session, as Rook is now using a Great hunger great axe; whenever I crit, I get additional dice for each critical hit I've done in that fight. Thanks to my avenger power, I don't think a fight has gone by where I haven't scored at least one crit.
So, when I'm on the other side of the screen, I like to have chances to be awesome myself. With Friday's Scales of War session bringing us to the end of Heroic, there were some good moments in there. Like my wizard zigzagging a Wall of Fire to catch a downed war troll, a two headed troll, and a spitting troll.
Or my fighter, making good on what I declared last session, when the DM knocked me unconscious, that that was the last time he'd get to do that. It required my comeback strike, my victorious surge, my defensive resurgence, and my second wind, but I stayed up through the last fight. And now I've taken Dreadnaught as my paragon path and my HP have jumped to 115, so I think I'll continue to stay up.
Our new warlord also got her moments of awesome. While dealing with a flying opponent, she threw her +1 javelin, critting three times. In the final battle, she nailed the boss with Lead the Attack, granting us all +6 to hit and saving the day.
In Eberron Saturday, we found ourselves in this scene: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/downloads/galleries/EberronCampaignGuide_art/img/122606_CN_GL.jpg
My avenger and the barbarian were able to steal the floating platforms from some of our attackers, but it's my artificer who took the helm of the sky coach after our driver was knocked out. Things were looking bad- our swordmage had failed in her own attempt to steal a platform and was pushed off. She'd survive, but was out of the fight. HP were dropping faster than our foes, and we couldn't out run them. Then two of the cocky bastards floated in off port. I examined my options.
"Can I drive the skycoach into them and smash them against a building?"
Thank god for Sharn highrises :) Two smeared goblins later, the fight was much easier.
My revenant's own moment of awesome came earlier when I exploded a bad guy. Critical hit with an encounter power, with my dark reaping, bonus damage from the artificer's at will, and my great axe's high crit property. With a normal weapon at first level, I did 52 points of damage- enough to outright kill anyone in the party, and more than enough to destroy the changing I attacked.
I'm looking forward to the next session, as Rook is now using a Great hunger great axe; whenever I crit, I get additional dice for each critical hit I've done in that fight. Thanks to my avenger power, I don't think a fight has gone by where I haven't scored at least one crit.