Sewers and Shifters

Our second session of D&D took place last night, albeit with a slightly different line-up of PCs, and now up to 6 PCs. Seeing as I'm running a from-the-book game, this means encounters are (should be) a bit simpler than they were originally planned to be.

That said, it was a cakewalk; the hardest part of the game was organising 6 people's worth of combat rounds, and trying to get them to agree how to spend their gold. The party encountered a warforged rogue, and a pair of shifter warriors. The warforged put up a bit of a fight, and lasted a fair while. The shifters on the other hand, managed to charge, and not a lot else before getting cut down.

However, unlike last week, this weeks encounter would perhaps have been a challenge to 4 PCs. Even still, it wouldn't've been much of one. One of the fighters in the party got dropped to -1, but after some patching up from the clerics still did perhaps the most damage of the whole party. Whereas, the 3 NPCs just had to rely on beating down. He was also the only one who took damage.

From the information I've heard about 4th edition D&D, this seems to be something the designers are thinking about: the different monster jobs seem to include a 'boosting other monsters' classing, so hopefully there's more teamwork than just trying to stab the same guy.

I haven't initiative-carded up the next few encounters from the module, so I think I may bump them up (for at least 4 to 7 PCs, depending on how many show up), just to see if the challenges can be more, well, challenging.