Genius Hour 2.3

Dungeons and Dragons: *spoiler-free for Allie and Hannah

Greetings fellow adventurers! This week I will be giving a brief recap of the events of our party's first session of Dungeons and Dragons. I had originally planned to do a podcast of sorts for every time we play, so that the audience could feel more immersed in the game. However, this plan did not exactly work out due to some technical difficulties with the voice recorder and audio editing software. I am attempting to learn how to use either Audacity or Ocenaudio to edit down our sessions into a highlights reel rather than just posting two hours of footage. Hopefully by next session I will have resolved these issues.

Most of the events and worldbuilding that I wanted to happen went off without much issue. All of my players had very positive feedback for me on how I ran my first game. In hindsight, I realized a few elements of combat that I messed up on, but I did not teach any of my players false information instead I just left out a few elements. For my character's first roleplaying and world interactions, I introduced these basic mechanics in the Sour Pig adventurer's tavern, were the players received their first adventure.

I was terrified of accidentally making the combat encounters too difficult and accidentally killing my players' characters, but everything worked out fine. On a whim I made the first encounter a lone wolf attacking the camp, which the players defeated with no issue. Eventually the group reached the Clear View Point Outpost and cleared out all the bandits and got some cool loot. I also introduced some luck mechanics at this point, with Xanaphia rolling really high and finding a rare dagger and Nyssaadi rolling low and only finding junk.

The adventurers then made their way to the final destination of the session and I let the players free to do whatever they pleased for the evening. Notably, Snargog managed to trade his talents as a drag queen for free lodging in a tavern.

And that's all for this session. Feel free to ask me any questions about game mechanics and I'm planning some exciting adventures for the future!