[Meta thread] Lord Windos' PokeRole Adventure : Celadon City Vandels

[Dragonstrike]

Well, that first playtesting went...interestingly.  First thing we determined after we finished was that the number of attacks per turn needed to be reduced a little.  It was rather easy to overwhelm a single target with a barrage of attacks.  Some of the starting stats might need to be adjusted as well.

It didn't really help that us players weren't entirely familiar with the world's setting either, unfortunately, so there was some missing information that might have changed some of our decisions for what to pour skill points into.

Regardless, here's a very rough summary of what happened:

Details

Characters:
- My character was a selfish female thief who plays things straight and is always looking out for herself first and most of all
- We had a super buff healer who can punch people really hard.
- There was a ranger type character
- And then there was a knight type character

But what really defined the session was the decisions made during it, obviously.

- The group started in a bar, an agreed upon meeting point before heading to meet our mutual boss
- The healer has a really nice set of armor, and before anyone can get a drink or introduce themselves, said healer gets molested by a couple ruffians that like the look of those duds
- Bar fight breaks out.  Healer's armor gets rather trashed.  Rest of the party ends up completely unscathed because we killed/incapacitated all the ruffians
- Ruffians turned out to be a bunch of infamous bandits.  We get handsomely reward for taking them down.  My character also snatches a map that leads to their hideout (and presumably more loot!) and a very nice looking dagger for her to use.

Seems pretty normal so far, right?

- Boss asks us to deliver a package for him.  3 days to do it, but it's apparently urgent, so he loans us a vehicle.  Only the knight type character knows how to pilot it
- A massive, wyvern-like monster appears on the way to the delivery location.  The vehicle can outrun it, though, so the driver just speeds on past, ignoring the monster completely.  My character is primarily concerned about the map she picked up, though, as the bandit hideout's nearby
- Reach our destination, and find it completely abandoned.  It's rather clear something's amiss.  However, all members of the party except my character (who would like to get paid and isn't sure this will count as completing the job) decide that we can just drop the package off in the empty residence of the person we're supposed to be delivering it to and leave instead of trying to figure out what happened to the entire village.
- On the plus side, we get to head to the bandit hideout sooner!  That made my character happy.
-...and then we spent an hour hunting what were basically deer and talking about afternoon snacks.  My character attempts to get things back on track, but to little avail.
- When we eventually do get into the bandit hideout, we're confronted with a door.  It's obviously trapped.  Before my character can say anything about it, though, one of the other party members opens it.
- Trap is triggered, setting off a massive explosion.  My character is the only one NOT KOed by the blast.
- My character rummages through their things (nothing interesting besides currency which she knew they'd check for immediately), then proceeds to loot the bandit hideout by herself since nobody is conscious to oppose her or say they should get a share of the loot (which included a boatload of cash).  That, and my character has almost no medical knowledge, so there wasn't much she could do to help in that situation besides drag them indoors.
- After several hours, the rest of the group wakes up on their own after what's effectively a short rest or two.  As predicted, the first thing they check is their pockets.  Then the healer tries to go about patching them up (it wasn't super successful, but it was something)
- We leave the bandit hideout, only to come face to face with more creatures in the middle of the night!


....soooooo...yeah.  That was weird.  I was trying to play a more serious character, but everyone else decided to be more chaotic, so that's what ended up happening, I suppose...

My character did manage to get away with calling the rest of the group buffoons for spending too much comedic time on trying to kill and roast deer meat, though (and the GM agreed, too).  To say she's not looking forward to traveling with them for an indeterminate amount of time would be an understatement.