Shard Saga – Sliding ice

I missed the first part of the previous game session. So I, Kepler that is, joined for the 3rd and final encounter of the ice cavern. How did the adventurers get to the ice cavern? “Air freight, what else?” winked the DM, referring to the airship of the Twelve, with Lady Sharyn in it.

Apparently, at the end of each turn, every creature will be slid 1 square in the direction indicated. The DM also built a 3D battleground. The upper level is 10 feet above the ground, with a difficulty level of 17 (or was it 21?) to climb. In case you’re wondering, he used Chinese chess pieces to prop the battle boards up.

So Kepler joined at the last moment, facing a cobalt dragon. Something didn’t feel right. My DM’s too crafty to just dump one enemy there.

Kepler’s suspicions were confirmed when some flying creature flew in halfway in the battle.

“Angry Bird!” the bard shouted.

There was also a frost zombie that joined the fun, but that’s not important. The bard then sung the song of Saga of Rivalry, linking the cobalt dragon and the invoker.

I made up a song for it:

Dragon and invoker can’t see eye to eye
Invoker just hit, and then say “Bye Bye!”

I declined when my friend playing the bard offered to swap character sheets with me.

Kepler also decided, for the first time, to target his ally. Casting “Chaos Storm” on the barbarian, he managed to get the angry bird and the cobalt dragon in the maelstrom too. Much apologies to the barbarian.

The whole battle still took longer than expected, about 2 hours. So we decided to playtest the DM’s one-shot battle, with a level 7 black dragon. It went down faster than the Titanic.

The DM originally meant to pit us, level 1 adventurers against a level 4 version of the black dragon. We’ll die spectacularly of course, but the DM will up our level to 2, and then we die try again. We continue till we defeat the black dragon. Well, we didn’t have level 1 character sheets, so we had six level 7 characters fighting one level 7 black dragon.