11-30-2015, 06:24 PM
This is only the third game I've played at Ralinwood this year because I live in Peterborough so the trek out is a long one, and quite frankly I don't think I'm going to be trying so hard to swing it anymore. This game was quite dissapointing.
my pros are very pro but were all player interactions, with the exception of one mod.
+ all the fae, taking over town fire with fae, and all the innuendos and shenanigans. IG Silvie told people to bugger off, OOG I love it. I'm regretting making my character a bit of a prude.
+The einher throwdown, lavender and I meeting eyes across the fire and saying "shit just got real" in unison
+meeting Auntie Lilith!
+ the gingerbread mod was the best mod of the whole day, and all it was was standing around IG with svens feet sticking out of a cupboard keyhole OOG standing around on the field while austin and talmon solved a puzzle that let us into the cupboard and gave us gingerbread.
cons
- the entire day felt like a zelda fetch quest where you had to go trade around to get the things everyone needed. It was a really neat idea and it would actually be pretty awesome for say 5 people, or a dnd party, where you dont have to literally walk everywhere and can be included in the discussions. I love it when theres a problem you can solve without combat, but unfortunatly that's really boring for everyone but the 5 people doing the negotiations. we COULD have solved it with combat and just killed everyone for the marbles, and honestly this would ave been a more fun option, which is very unfortunate.
- beyond the initial part, noone really understood what was going on because the few people with the information weren't spreading it around. beyond the first tree part too apparently we were inside, noone knew this either. This wasn't just me not trying to integrate myself in either, people who had marbles and are generally important and know whats going on didn't know either.
- this is highwinter. it's suposed to be a parody of the season and be silly and fun. why are there undead everywhere. there should not be undead wave battles at highwinter. Apparently the marbles gave people elemental blades. most of us didn't know this. when there hasn't been combat pretty much all day and the only thing we get to fight is undead those of us without big weapons (so they get the ele blades) or magic that can harm them just got to stand around. And because the undead weren't really scary or really dangerous (they're not suposed to be re: still highwinter) it was just boring again watching everyone else kill them.
- no value gumdrops dropping from undead, who wants to eat that?
-spider caves are suposed to be scary. Not only was it not made clear that it was an attic ( I didn't know til being told after game) but why were spiders so easy to kill. again nerfing things cause it's highwinter? Just don't use scary things!
overall I had an okay time, but that was mostly because of player interactions. a game where only really 5 people get to play and everyone else just walks everywhere in the cold getting muddy boots then only a handful getting to fight when there actually is combat isn't a lot of fun. don't nerf monsters into the ground just because its highwinter and they're not suposed to be scary, use different monsters. I would have much rathered the gingerbread men who gave me a dodge when I ate them and the icepuppet effects from last year again. You need to keep people up and fighting on cold events. Non-combat solutions are great when it's warm,, but when we need to keep moving to stay warm it becomes detrimental.
my pros are very pro but were all player interactions, with the exception of one mod.
+ all the fae, taking over town fire with fae, and all the innuendos and shenanigans. IG Silvie told people to bugger off, OOG I love it. I'm regretting making my character a bit of a prude.
+The einher throwdown, lavender and I meeting eyes across the fire and saying "shit just got real" in unison
+meeting Auntie Lilith!
+ the gingerbread mod was the best mod of the whole day, and all it was was standing around IG with svens feet sticking out of a cupboard keyhole OOG standing around on the field while austin and talmon solved a puzzle that let us into the cupboard and gave us gingerbread.
cons
- the entire day felt like a zelda fetch quest where you had to go trade around to get the things everyone needed. It was a really neat idea and it would actually be pretty awesome for say 5 people, or a dnd party, where you dont have to literally walk everywhere and can be included in the discussions. I love it when theres a problem you can solve without combat, but unfortunatly that's really boring for everyone but the 5 people doing the negotiations. we COULD have solved it with combat and just killed everyone for the marbles, and honestly this would ave been a more fun option, which is very unfortunate.
- beyond the initial part, noone really understood what was going on because the few people with the information weren't spreading it around. beyond the first tree part too apparently we were inside, noone knew this either. This wasn't just me not trying to integrate myself in either, people who had marbles and are generally important and know whats going on didn't know either.
- this is highwinter. it's suposed to be a parody of the season and be silly and fun. why are there undead everywhere. there should not be undead wave battles at highwinter. Apparently the marbles gave people elemental blades. most of us didn't know this. when there hasn't been combat pretty much all day and the only thing we get to fight is undead those of us without big weapons (so they get the ele blades) or magic that can harm them just got to stand around. And because the undead weren't really scary or really dangerous (they're not suposed to be re: still highwinter) it was just boring again watching everyone else kill them.
- no value gumdrops dropping from undead, who wants to eat that?
-spider caves are suposed to be scary. Not only was it not made clear that it was an attic ( I didn't know til being told after game) but why were spiders so easy to kill. again nerfing things cause it's highwinter? Just don't use scary things!
overall I had an okay time, but that was mostly because of player interactions. a game where only really 5 people get to play and everyone else just walks everywhere in the cold getting muddy boots then only a handful getting to fight when there actually is combat isn't a lot of fun. don't nerf monsters into the ground just because its highwinter and they're not suposed to be scary, use different monsters. I would have much rathered the gingerbread men who gave me a dodge when I ate them and the icepuppet effects from last year again. You need to keep people up and fighting on cold events. Non-combat solutions are great when it's warm,, but when we need to keep moving to stay warm it becomes detrimental.
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OOG Shoshana Watson e-mail shoshwatson@yahoo.ca