Take a walk on the wild side...

Tonight was my Tuesday D+D game, in which the players joined the forces of Chaos in their quest to destroy the plane of sheep. And Vashti got killed by a MYSTERIOUS PLOT ELEMENT that the players remain unable to guess despite gradually escalating hints as to its nature (and also by extremely poor tactics).

( game summary )

I... didn't expect the party to join the forces of chaos. They were supposed to join with Lantham and fight Sophie's minions. I had *stats* prepared for Sophie's minions. I had to make up the Lanthamites on the spot.

This is the second time Vashti's player has gotten killed in the second round of combat (although he keeps saying it was in the first round). He's decided he doesn't want to be a 'front line fighter' (although he's not much of one, with low damage weapons and poor armor and no shield -- only the ring of protection the party found in the vault where his first character died made his AC even reasonable) and wants to come back as a literally unkillable ghost archer, spending all his starting gold towards a ghost-touch bow.

Since Loren's player (Lance) quit, and told me that Loren was going to commit suicide if he couldn't contact his god, this leaves the party with two sorcerers, a mostly noncombat druid, and a rogue. Add an archer to that? I guess they plan to do a lot of flying around avoiding things...

Urge to kill... fading...

I'm supposed to be working, but I've spent most of the day in e-mail trying to mollify Vashti's player. Vashti was killed by a combination of ( several factors. )

After her death, she was immediately looted by other party members, even though they people they were working for had promised to raise them or whatever if they needed it. That didn't make him happy either.

Anyway, I pointed out the benefits of reincarnation, and that she wouldn't be *that* far behind the rest of the party since she'd just levelled up, and suggested she sell the cursed ring to another party member, since obviously 'AC wasn't doing enough for her to justify the expense'.

Gaaah. Death sucks. This wouldn't have happened if we were playing World Tree. };)

(because we'd still be working through the second big battle in the underdark... [cough])