I should start with it being fun in general but I haven't been a dm for a while and today I ran a one-shot with pre-made characters. They had 8 characters to pick from and then we started to play.
The first thing I really liked was my awesome players really building their characters personalities immediately.
Then, after about an hour of just fun storytelling and character advancement we began with the real story, a murder mystery.
The characters are all on a ship, someone gets murdered at night and they need to figure out who did it. One player goes, in character "I have ways to speak with the dead if you would all know what he has to say" and I'm like "you have what?"
I forgot I gave them the speak with dead spell because they had the skull of an old pirate captain they used to talk with from time to time. Plot moved forward quite a bit.
Anyway they were charmed to do it so it wasn't over.
The next lol moments came a while after in the anti climatic battle of the main villain, guarded by a summoned clay golem in a tight space so they couldn't get to him. I thought. The monk had the crusher feat, kicked the golem back 5 feet so it was closer to the wizard, it reacted by attacking a random target within 5 feet, which was only the wizard, and then proceeded to crit. He lost concentration and the monk stunning fisted him.
Meanwhile the other character, who previously grappled the wizards owl familiar, used it as an improvised weapon by throwing it in the head of another spellcaster, to break their concentration instead. Best use of the tavern brawler feat I've heard of.
Anyway they won the first round, but I have another one shot with the Same characters! I can't wait to see how they solve this in some other random way :)
That sounds really fun! I am glad you had a good experience and we’re able to take the crazy in a good way) character actions in stride. Good luck on the next round and have fun!
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Anything is edible if you try hard enough!
I am a swimmer. If you see me running, you should run too, because it means something horrible is chasing me.
One shot number 2, the big storm. The whole session was basically a big storm, the mage trying to get released, lots of role playing and a lot of water. Lightning struck the ship, caused a bit of a ruckus. A mix of rolls for bad luck, rolls for riding out the storm and good rolls by the pcs made sure they handled the storm quite well. I also threw in a fight with a giant sized sea bird, which they handled pretty well, as well as a gargantuan kraken, which kinda ate the bird and was pretty much guaranteed to bring down the ship.
Turns out one of the pcs can speak with all kinds of sea creatures and since it wasn't really hostile just hungry I figured it would be susceptible to persuasion... A hard DC though but they of course managed to land two successful rolls in a row and it left.
GG players, you win round two as well.
Let's see how you fair against the island of shadows in the next adventure!
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I should start with it being fun in general but I haven't been a dm for a while and today I ran a one-shot with pre-made characters. They had 8 characters to pick from and then we started to play.
The first thing I really liked was my awesome players really building their characters personalities immediately.
Then, after about an hour of just fun storytelling and character advancement we began with the real story, a murder mystery.
The characters are all on a ship, someone gets murdered at night and they need to figure out who did it. One player goes, in character "I have ways to speak with the dead if you would all know what he has to say" and I'm like "you have what?"
I forgot I gave them the speak with dead spell because they had the skull of an old pirate captain they used to talk with from time to time. Plot moved forward quite a bit.
Anyway they were charmed to do it so it wasn't over.
The next lol moments came a while after in the anti climatic battle of the main villain, guarded by a summoned clay golem in a tight space so they couldn't get to him. I thought. The monk had the crusher feat, kicked the golem back 5 feet so it was closer to the wizard, it reacted by attacking a random target within 5 feet, which was only the wizard, and then proceeded to crit. He lost concentration and the monk stunning fisted him.
Meanwhile the other character, who previously grappled the wizards owl familiar, used it as an improvised weapon by throwing it in the head of another spellcaster, to break their concentration instead. Best use of the tavern brawler feat I've heard of.
Anyway they won the first round, but I have another one shot with the Same characters! I can't wait to see how they solve this in some other random way :)
That sounds really fun! I am glad you had a good experience and we’re able to take the crazy in a good way) character actions in stride. Good luck on the next round and have fun!
Anything is edible if you try hard enough!
I am a swimmer. If you see me running, you should run too, because it means something horrible is chasing me.
One shot number 2, the big storm. The whole session was basically a big storm, the mage trying to get released, lots of role playing and a lot of water. Lightning struck the ship, caused a bit of a ruckus. A mix of rolls for bad luck, rolls for riding out the storm and good rolls by the pcs made sure they handled the storm quite well. I also threw in a fight with a giant sized sea bird, which they handled pretty well, as well as a gargantuan kraken, which kinda ate the bird and was pretty much guaranteed to bring down the ship.
Turns out one of the pcs can speak with all kinds of sea creatures and since it wasn't really hostile just hungry I figured it would be susceptible to persuasion... A hard DC though but they of course managed to land two successful rolls in a row and it left.
GG players, you win round two as well.
Let's see how you fair against the island of shadows in the next adventure!