Totengräber's Workpläce

This has been my 3rd session of Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition now and I am still enjoying the game regardless of my die rolling. Our DM, Dave, is running the Keep on the Shadowfell adventure, which some of the other players have done before with him. However, they didn’t make it past the last encounter he ran for us yesterday.

The group came upon a group of kobolds made up mostly of minions. Unlike last session, he said he didn’t change the scenario, thinking we’d have a tougher time with the numbers. With the seven of us working together, we were able to do away with the enemies pretty quickly. I had a couple of opportunities to use my powers and a couple of times I got to roll initiative. It seems my dice wanted to betray me, so I didn’t roll over a 3 through the whole session except after the combat when I made an Arcana roll of 17 + my Arcana skill of 10 to identify a spell effect. Toward the end of the session, while making Stealth checks, I ended up rolling a 1 after everyone else seemed to make their’s with no problems. There’s nothing like feeling useless and sometimes even a detriment to the party.

One thing I did enjoy about this session over previous ones is Dave’s extra effort to make the game more immersive by calling us by our character names and describing some of the events during combat in a more flavorful way.

As I’ve said before, I think D&D of any edition is still a “role”playing game as long as the players and DM want it to be.