Pathfinder

So yesterday (that would be Thursday the 30th of December)  Three of my friends came over to my place and we had a Pathfinder game session.  And if you don't know what Pathfinder is, it's D&D 3.5 done RIGHT!  I know some of you may be D&D 4th edition fans, but I personally don't like it.  I really liked 3.5, but I knew that it had it's problems, and Pathfinder fixed most of them.

A little background to our Campaign.  It started out with just two players and my friend "Big Game" as Dungeon Master.  As such both me and my other friend "Full Time" had to play two characters.  Not a big deal, we've done that a lot in our gaming group.Our "primary character" was supposed to be us, transported into a different world by a freak accident.  Over three years (game time) we trained and learned the arts of our chosen class.  I chose tho train to be a Wizard (despite wizards being hunted down) and Mike chose to be a Fighter trained specifically in the Long Bow.  Now, wizards in Pathfinder may choose to dispense with a familiar and choose a bonded Item instead.  This bonded Item gives you special powers and abilities to enhance the spell casting.  Since I was supposed to be playing myself, I chose as my Bonded Item, my Wedding Ring.  Cool eh?  Our other characters were a Dwarven Paladin named Uthor played my me, and a Cleric played by "Full Time."  Later on, "Full Time's" nephew James decided he wanted to play and he created a character.

So, on to the events of last night.  After finishing exploring a wizards tower began in the previous session, we decided to take a shot at the "cave of many wonder"  Which sparked several "Aladdin" references beginning with Full time calling out "TOUCH NOTHING BUT THE LAMP" and ended with my breaking out in song "YOU AINT NEVER HAD A FRIEND LIKE ME."  Turns out the cave isn't quit as wondrous as it sounds as much as it is a breading ground for Dragons and Wyverns.  After barley defeating two Wyverns (hey we're level 4!) we decided to go back to town before trying to get through the rest. We go back to town and my character decided to go back to the wizards tower where he and Full time's character were presented an opportunity to go back to our world, which we took much to the surprise of Big Game.

Not to worry though, both me and Full time are experts at creating characters and we both had new ones to play in 15 min.  I had a new Swashbuckler (my second favorite class). After greetings, during which Full Times new nameless Rogue lied point blank to the Dwarven paladin that he only reason he was in the stockade (and was escaping at the time)  was because he was hungry and stole some food, claimed he was a homeless orphan child (he was in fact a halfling of 17).  The dwarf took mercy upon him (after failing his attempt at reading his bluff) and took him to the inn to buy him food and took him on as his squire.  My swashbuckler was introduced to the group by a bard he had been telling the tale of his thrilling and and embellished fight with bandits on the highway.


We all ended up back in the wizards tower trying to find the two characters that had gone home.  We met the wizard who sent them home and he decided that he would grant each of us a wish.  Now, anyone familiar with D&D knows that a wish spell is very dangerous.  If you aren't specific enough on what you want, the DM might take this opportunity to screw you over.  You could wish for a +5 vorpal longsword , and he'll say "ok, you get a +5 Vorpal Long Sword that is made out of wood."  Nasty, nasty DMs.  Oh well my swashbuckler wished for an opportunity to showcase his skill, Which he got!

he was transported to the top of a tower where lightning was striking all around an d down three vicious monster all by him self felling the final foe, a Troll, by tripping hm and watching him fall over the edge of the tower with only 5 HP left. 

All in all, a fun night!

Of Elves and Things

My first and foremost army that I play is the High Elves.  Now this doesn't mean that I think they are the best, Far from it.  Though the new edition has been kind to them they still have many glaring problems, but they are fun to play, and I like them.

One thing you may find as you read my blog, I don't always make the choice that will be "best" for my army, character, gaming group or sanity.  I do what I think will be the most fun, interesting or rewarding.  Often I take silly army lists to tournaments just to see what will happen.

So anyways, about my friend above.  this is Norbert, affectionately named after the Norwegian Ridgback Hagrid so briefly owned in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."  I do not claim to be a great painter, but I think that I do pretty well.    I know many of you have seen better, or could even do better.  I would like to hear about others painting methods they may have used.  I am always trying to get better.
 
With High Elves, I think the key is to minimalize the number of hits you take.  Elves a frail and weak and to represent this they have been given a toughness so low even a lowly Skaven Slave has a 50/50 shot at wounding even the most fearsome of Elven Warriors.  High Elves have the ability to always strike before their opponent, which used to be how you kept them alive.  Kill them before they kill you.  But now with the new step up rule it has become much harder.  If you kill they guy in front of you, the guy behind him just steps up to take his place and takes a whack at you.

The answer to this, as far as I am concerned is in the shooting and magic phases.  Use these phases to thin out the opposing army before getting to you, giving them fewer people to fill in the ranks with.  Use magic (lore of Life and Lore of Shadow specifically) to buff your units and keep them alive longer.

That's all for today.  Pathfinder RPG gaming session tomorrow.  if anything interesting happens I'll blog about it. No, i am not playing a bard in this one, but I thought about it.

About Me

I am the Bard!  I just happen to be a gaming enthusiast, and when I mean gaming I mean table-top war games and paper and pencil RPG's.  I have played Warhammer Fantasy and Dungeons & Dragons for about 12 years, and have finally decided to run a blog sharing what I love.  In D&D my favorite class to play also happens to be the least popular, the Bard!

In Warhammer: Fantasy Battles (here to after refered to as "Warhammer" or "WFB")  I have several armies and many years of experience, though I won't pretend to be very good.  I win a lot, but I lose a lot too.  But that doesn't mean I don't know what I'm doing.  Often Warhammer is a game of chance.  Dice are involved, and of Dice are involved you never really know what the outcome will be.  The key is to try to stack the odds in your favor, but no matter how much you do that you will eventually roll a "1" on the die when all you needed was a "2" or better.

I also love video games, but this blog will not focus on them  I have an Xbox 360 and currently play "Black Ops" a lot.  Don't expect a lot of commentary on Video Games though.

I am a HUGE American Football fan, especially the College game.  My team is the University of Utah Utes.  I habe season tickets and didn't miss a play n the 2009 season (home and away).

I am married to a wonderful woman and we have a child on the way!!