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« on: August 03, 2010, 08:41:00 PM »
Granted, this is all pretty fresh in my mind as i've only gotten into this sites stuff in the past few weeks, but Yea ross can be descriptive in the battles, but its not 100% of the time. And i'd say listening to the combat or as i refer to it the rules heavy portions of the game is incredibly boring for me, but that is to be expected.
One thing i will say is listening to the new world adventures and these podcasts in general got me back into trying to game. My first taste with 4e was a Living forgotten realms adventure at a local comic book stop and i truly hated it. The guy dming had no enthusiasm about him at all and it was as if he had just printed out the adventure that morning. I had made a lv 8 bard/monk hybrid that was more skill heavy than combat oriented, and when it opened up with some skill challenges all the regulars groaned and they just blew right through them. At the end the other players flat out told me the the LFRA or whatever its called is not meant for roleplaying..so that was a waste of 5 hours.
But this past saturday i played in a game that was a variation of keep on shadowfell, and the DM was excited and incredibly descriptive, he rped back and forth with all of the players, and kept bringing up little things here and there that kept raising questions for our characters in game, needless to say it was a blast!
Now both times i had written up some pretty crazy long backstories for the characters, as i try to do, but this past weekend, the fun DM actually took the time to read it over and is keeping in contact with us about possible hooks to be derived form such.
I will always hate the ridiculously high amount of math involved in D&D (im of the belief that the base ac should be 5, and that basically anything from 18 and up should be a hit or success or whatever, C'est la vie) but im quite happy to say that i will be continuing to play 4e thanks to the enthusiastic group i met. Lucky to cause its incredibly hard to find groups around me!