Assassination, pt 1

After a ridiculously long hiatus, we finally had another session of Tom's D+D game. He's been having random people design parts of the adventure... today he asked me to design a gnoll shaman and his escorts to 'challenge the party'. I made him an 8th level druid, with special druid armor and wild shape and the various animal buffing spells and everything, and a dire wolverine companion, with a bunch of gnollish barbarian guards.

Then Tom had him come at us alone, with us getting surprise, and without him having time to cast anything. Needless to say, he didn't challenge us.

( game summary )

Then I headed home, and played a bunch of City of Heroes doing missions with small groups with my controller. Not very good xp, but much less chaotic and frustrating than large groups (and loads better xp than soloing).