That was a really solid first event. Definitely one of the better Highwinters I've been to. I found there wasn't much downtime, and there was a good pace of things happening. Some highlights:
- The very trap-y puzzle mod
- Song of Heroism via carols (I always like things that make non-combat PCs feel useful in combat)
- Christmas witch
- Looting nutcrackers who did not resist because, you know, why would they?
- "I'm not your wife, we only went on two dates!"
- Very reasonable toilets
- Lots of yellow armband monsters
- People really went all out on their costuming
A couple of things I think could have been improved:
- One of the town mods was level split so that high level PCs could go in immediately and low level PCs had to sing to get in, which meant that by the time a bunch of low level PCs go to the mod, it was mostly done. I am not a fan of making low level PCs jump through extra hoops. Whenever there's a requirement like that, it should always be high level PCs having to do extra irritating things - or if you're going to split by difficulty, just give any low level PCs who want to go on the high level mod a fair warning. They can die if they want
- The "save my wife" mod was pitched as a stealth mod, but as far as I can tell there wasn't really an opportunity for stealth, since all the demons were sitting in one spot, facing the path we had to go down, and it was the middle of the day. There did seem to be any patrolling where they would leave or turn away or anything. Perhaps I missed something?
- The very trap-y puzzle mod
- Song of Heroism via carols (I always like things that make non-combat PCs feel useful in combat)
- Christmas witch
- Looting nutcrackers who did not resist because, you know, why would they?
- "I'm not your wife, we only went on two dates!"
- Very reasonable toilets
- Lots of yellow armband monsters
- People really went all out on their costuming
A couple of things I think could have been improved:
- One of the town mods was level split so that high level PCs could go in immediately and low level PCs had to sing to get in, which meant that by the time a bunch of low level PCs go to the mod, it was mostly done. I am not a fan of making low level PCs jump through extra hoops. Whenever there's a requirement like that, it should always be high level PCs having to do extra irritating things - or if you're going to split by difficulty, just give any low level PCs who want to go on the high level mod a fair warning. They can die if they want
- The "save my wife" mod was pitched as a stealth mod, but as far as I can tell there wasn't really an opportunity for stealth, since all the demons were sitting in one spot, facing the path we had to go down, and it was the middle of the day. There did seem to be any patrolling where they would leave or turn away or anything. Perhaps I missed something?