Thursday, August 21, 2014

Actual Play 5e Initial Review

Last night I finally got to sit down and play 5e. Titan Games is running D&D Encounters with 2 full tables. 2 hour sessions, running through Horde of the Dragon Queen. I was under the impression that the Encounters sessions were going to run something in the Tyrany of Dragons story line, but something other than this adventure. Which is why I didn't worry about picking up Horde of the Dragon Queen a couple of weeks ago, and reading through it.

Whoops.

Clockwise around the table, starting with me at 12 o'clock:
Dwarven Wizard
Dragonborn Thief
Human Cleric of Bane
DM
Tiefling Paladin
Dwarven Sorcerer
Human Fighter/Barbarian
Human Ranger

I can say, thus far at least, it hasn't spoiled my fun, and I'll do my best to refrain from using my knowledge at the table. With 5 or 6 other players every week, that shouldn't be a problem.


As for how it went? It was great! It felt like D&D, it played like D&D. First level is still pretty squishy. I'd have gone down if I had been playing a wizard of any other race at least twice. The dragonborn thief constantly was having to make death saves. The fighter (will be a barbarian next week) dropped once, as did the paladin, and I think just about everyone else came close too.


On top of that, I'm going to try my hand at running 5e on Sundays, since I haven't managed to get any interest in DCC.


This was the other table, showing us up with their fancy headgear...

2 comments:

  1. Your lack of hats is a grave disappointment.

    But I was happy to read the review regardless. What I've heard about how 5e plays is about how it read for me - heroic, but dangerous for the heroes, and not bogged down by complexity.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I was unaware of the hat thing. :-/

      That's pretty much it. Heroic, but potentially very deadly, with the ease of play that you're used to from OSR type games.

      Delete

Comment Moderation is in place. Email notifications are spotty... might be a bit before this gets published. Sorry.