But to answer your question, the Fey Step had been used IIRC.

In the 3rd series near the end where Will Wheatons character Aeofel gets pushed into the Acid Pit by the Gelatinous Cube. Couldn’t Will have just used the Eladrin racial daily power “Fey Step” ? Or had he already used it in the encounter?

I can’t remember for sure. And I know they all forgot allot of their powers, abilities and bonuses to dice rolls and so forth. But yeeesh, I mean your in a pit of acid, about to die, ask the “team” for ideas. Or spend an Action point and ask the GM for a tip out of character.

Felt bad for the guy.

When they were putting together characters, Jerry was told to pick a god for Omin Dran to follow. He picked his god and wrote the main commandment on the top of his character sheet “Luck Favors the Bold.”

Twice, during play, while the others were dilly-dallying and trying to metagame the best way to avoid any danger, he declared “Luck Favors the Bold,” and acted boldly. Once it was okay, once it was a disaster.

And on neither occasion did the DM *reward his roleplaying*!

I wanted so much to reach in there and give Omin Dran a +1 on every roll for the Encounter, or a bonus to XP earned for the battle.

But I might have missed it.

I would be more prone to help players.

Then again, with the Dungeon Crawl Classic tournament coming, I have to adopt a neutral DMing style. better start now

@Sean: The Undead Hound bit cracks me up whenever I listen to it. Also, don’t beat yourself up about forgetting things. Players don’t notice and usually it just spells a slightly easier challenge for players. With time you won’t forget.

I learned quite a bit as a new 4e DM. I think I am pretty good at voices, get compliments on that part, but I am very disorganized. Chris actually sounds organized (can you sound organized?). Party fighting some Kruthiks last night and I forgot their aura until about the 5th round..ugh.

After doing a little digging and finding Chris’ blog over on the WotC site where he talks about the game, he says that he had reasons for not telling Wil and the others when they were making mechanical mistakes. Those reasons being that everybody seemed to be having a good time anyway and that he felt it was more entertaining to see the players flounder their way towards discovery (or wallow in ignorance). It did, admittedly, make for a really entertaining podcast, but I can’t help but wonder if it might have made an equally entertaining podcast if they had followed all the rules.

The blog in question is at http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=1168167
.-= WolfSamurai´s last blog ..WolfSamurai: @wanderingscribe Wow. That’s really cool of that guy. =-.

Those two skill sets are often not present in the same person and hard work must be spent to achieve that balance.

i do tell my players that I will tend to be more neutral and it would benefit them greatly if they keep track of things their players is impacting.

That’s why I focused on what the podcast showcased and focused my analysis on that. Plus they were really funny to listen to.

@Drax: Mike and Scott totally dug their characters to the point that both feature in their comics on occasion. This is good stuff for sure.

@Tommi: Indeed, interesting conundrum, which I think comes from our expectations and personal experiences with that game. I’ll concede that whatever roleplaying there was in there might not be on par with some I’ve seen at my table but for new players I found it all right. It is clear though that out of the 4 players, 2 of them were initially pretty casual/inattentive about it.

@Dar: As my players reminded me last night, we too are mostly laid back, goofing around with some periods of hyper focus.

I almost didn’t realize it. It was freeing and validating hearing how they play the game. I hope and strive for more description and prose and rp, but my games are very much about laying back, hanging out and having a good time.