Dark Liquid

Hmm, well I played my first couple of games using D&D 4th Edition yesterday and I have to say for the most part, I’m impressed.

The rules are generally similar and everything tends progress more quickly and more streamlined. There were a couple of bumps but mostly those were down to not remembering some parts of the rules. Usually, everything you needed was in one place, unlike the chore of having to hunt through about 10 different tables spread across 2 to 3 different books I remember in 3/3.5.

I played a Dragonborn Warlock, Shiv Banedrake, a white-dragon styled guy that had taken on the mantle of Warlocks as an exercise in learning the skills of his old racial enemy, the Tiefling. Not that he harbours any magnanimity towards them now, but still, best be prepared. Remember the fallen!

We all had a pretty bad run of rolls on both adventures. My average dice score was below ten for both games. That made things harder, but playing smart and cursing everything I could see from a distance, then following up with lots of Eldritch blasts worked out nicely, with the occasional melee foray when I needed to rescue our Cleric who got knocked out. Of course, the GM fudging the dice probably helped too

All in all, I think 4th Ed has the makings of a great system. I need to find a third-party character sheet though. The ones we printed off suck and are mostly just confusing rather than helpful.