Now, I am struggling along at 4 fps waiting for the first major post release patch to fix all the issues (hopefully not the 'characters wander wherever' bug as it is so funny to see the Red Prince running over roof tops like he is practicing for the recent Assassins Creed sale on steam) with a game we paid 4 million dollars to fund, then brought again to play. Er....
However, I think a total new low in an encounter has been sighted. This is even more muppetish than the 'Balance the Weights' puzzle, which in all honesty is the dumbest thing out of Larian Studios, probably ever. (That's the puzzle that used mass, not weight, and DIDN'T BALANCE ANYTHING, just random masses on pressure pads. Unless .5lbs +1lb = 2lb + 10lb, which even in weird imperial units I doubt is maths).
So I find myself in a cave, where a'pon 4 giant 'frozen voidwoken' come up and freeze, web and kidnap my party to some further underground hell hole.
Now to a 14 year old DM in a DND 3rd or 5th (like, we don't talk about 4th edition, okay?) edition table top game, this MAY have seemed like a good idea.
Until, after running campaigns for some number of years, you begin to actually listen to the player characters.
Why didn't, whilst the 4 immortal, instant initiative, double stun blocking enemies web my frozen ass, JUST EAT MY HEAD whilst I was webbed and frozen?
Why even kidnap me when they could just have opened my abdominal cavity and laid eggs like some giant frozen wasp that they resemble?
Whomever made this encounter, please, don't think you can design your way out of a brown paper bag with directions towards the opening in it.
Just stop, now, before I have to laugh at you some more. T is for Troll. D is for Daft encounter idea.
Wut? If anything, it's one of the better encounters because it actually breaks up your usual almost scripted gameplay you use against 90% of the things otherwise.
It does not matter why they did it, the whole splitting party in a dungeon and making them find each other is awesome challenge, although they should have turned off waypoints, because that's kinda silly that you can technically just laugh and port away.
Honestly I wish they'd do more things like that where your usual house of cards falls apart because something unpredictable happened that causes you to work around it in a new unique way.
