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Post by Zipp on May 4, 2020 21:59:23 GMT
My house rule "fix" for the problem of facing more difficult combats when having the Sommerswerd is to simply change the text of "If you have the Sommerswerd" to "If you have the Sommerswerd and you wish to use it". Given the context of the passages it doesn't make sense that you should be forced to use it if you don't want to. Certainly a feasible option! If I recall, though, some of the story makes a little less sense that way. For instance, I think there are extra weapons you can get if you choose to not have the Sommerswerd that never would have been given to you with the Sword of the Sun obviously perched on your back (or wherever you wear it: Little Cat wears it on her back).
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Post by Zipp on May 17, 2020 6:13:29 GMT
Book Four: Chasm of Doom
Was book four always this easy? Little Cat DESTROYED this one... well, at least as far as combat went. Basically took no damage, but also didn't really get in a lot of fights. She did, despite all of that, actually get her first death. It was a cheap one and one I'd forgotten how much I dislike: it's at the end, where you either enter a room or go along a balcony. Entering the room gets you captured and killed, but there's pretty much NO clue to why this is a bad choice. The description of the area is a little unclear too, so it really is just a lucky choice. Weirdly out of character for Lone Wolf writing. But aside from that, she crushed it.
Wife's favorite description: She like the descriptions of the siege. She felt that was really well done and she was getting pissed about the peasants being used as bait.
Wife's favorite fight: She liked the fight against the mounted soldier where you get a single chance to unhorse him or be struck down yourself. She felt that was a cool twist to normal combat. We also secretly took a look at the "what happens if you eat mushrooms in the mine" page, because she was like "who would ever do this? And do you trip?" And she loved that you would end up fighting fake demons and just bash yourself to bits on rocks and walls and whatnot.
Biggest "oh crap" moment: The dogs chasing her. That actually freaked her out.
Wife's favorite moment: She liked meeting the Herbalists. She almost killed them, but restrained herself at the last moment...
Wife's favorite thing she got: ... and thus got the Holy Water. Which sadly she didn't use! She just leapt at Baraka and cut his dang head off with the Sommerswerd instead.
Something I was glad she saw: She actually took a path through the mines I never have, by sneaking inside the wheelbarrow and then jumping out with the help of a slave. That was totally new for me so that was cool.
Something I was sad she missed: I think once in my life, I didn't go to Eshnar to hunt down that clue about D'Val. I think if you keep going south, towards Ruanon, you end up in a much deeper part of the mines, where there is this octopus thing in a water passage... I think there are Elix down there too? I was sad she didn't go this way, because I think she would have liked the Elix and I always like the illustration for that squid creature. Not sure I've ever actually found it though. Just seen it flipping through the book.
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