Widow Targa, Rune Master (Steve)
Grisham the Thirsty (Evil Mike. The dwarf looks like a Santa dwarf)
Ashrian Spiritspeaker, Berserker (Owen)
Avric Albright, Disciple (Ben)
Mike Byrd ran us through a couple of games of Descent 2nd Edition. We had played the first edition many times. We found a lot of things had changed in second edition. For one, the game seemed to move faster, which we liked. One thing we didn’t like was that we hardly got any treasure or items.
Our first scenario was simple. Kill the Ettin leader before too many of his goblin cohorts got off the board. The game starts. Ben goes first and immediately cheats. We love Ben. Part of the fun is catching him doing these cheats that he is hardly aware of. Evil Mike and I take a bunch of damage from goblin archers. We blame Ben and his cheats. Owen gets first blood by killing one of the many, many goblins.
Ben gets riddled with arrows. (There is some justice in the world after all.) Mike’s dwarf is like a tank and keeps the big monsters busy while we chew into the goblins. The big Ettin tried to pick up Evil Mike’s dwarf and throw him. His dwarf was way too strong…or too stubborn, I forget which.
Turn 6. Ben discovers his character has “Reach’. Had his character not had reach, Ben would have tried to use it sooner.
I was able to get the final damage on the big Ettin leader and stop the goblin horde. Yeah, I’m a hero!
Our second game was not so glamorous. We simply had to stop the goblins from destroying some crops. (Is this what heroes do?) To make it more challenging a band of Barghests blocked our way to the fields. We punched a hole in the line of Barghests. Ben tells Owen to run ahead to the crops. Owen listens to Ben and his character goes down under a hail of goblin arrows. (Why did Owen listen to Ben?) Later when the rest of us arrive at Owen’s nearly dead body, Ben heals 2 of the 10 damage. (Go Ben.) My healing potion heals the rest. Owen turns around and takes another fist full of arrows for 8 more damage. Good thing we had Owen to stop all those arrows or one of the rest of us could have been hurt.
Owen recovers his wounds. He and I hold off the remaining goblins while Evil Mike and Ben grab the crops and store the crops for winter. Yeah, we’re farmers!
Mike is going to continue our adventure in two weeks. Looks like we might not stay farmer heroes for long.
Chaos Steve
