Not going to make a habit of summarizing our weekly game, but our first night was pretty cool. Kuriin did great as a first-time GM, kept us moving along and more or less pointed in the right direction, and I think I can confidently say that the rest of the players had as much fun as I did.
We had one of those moments that we'll remember for a long time too, which always makes a game even more fun to play. It is probably one of those "you had to be there" stories, but I'll tell you anyway. Without too much detail, we had reason to not blatantly just kill members of this town we were in, so there was a lot of grappling and non-lethal combat. When we finally got to someone that was a lot more of a threat, we didn't really realize it at first and were still trying to subdue him, so our ranger had him grappled (since his arrows obviously aren't non-lethal). I had missed literally like 5+ times in a row to hit this fucking guy, so I said fuck it, I'm going normal damage, and I'm going to try to pin his foot to the ground with my spear. Kuriin decides on a negative to my roll, I roll, and once again I miss badly. Not a 1, but probably like a 3 natural roll before pluses. Kuriin decides that I hit the ranger holding him instead, the ranger of course protests, some arguing goes on, and I said here, let me roll to hit the ranger, how about that? Kuriin agrees, and I promise everyone it will be a 20, guaranteed. Well, I got a 19, with a +1, 20. Fortunately not a crit (x3 with spear no less), but still a clear hit, and we just all start dying with laughter (except the poor ranger of course) because, as you remember, I had rolled like shit for what seemed like forever trying to hit the fucker. Even better, when I roll damage I do exactly enough to bring him to 0 hit points!
Like I said, had to be there, but you can bet that throughout the campaign someone will probably express fear about me stabbing them or something, and we'll all laugh again. And those are the things, to me, that make the game something I look forward to every week. I think we've got a good group (the new guy's attempt at a Serbian accent is terrible though!), and Kuriin is a good GM, so I'm glad we got this going.
Get another group going somebody! I want to hear about your moments too.
It was definitely amusing everyone, including the ranger say, "Watch you roll a 20," and you did. Lol.
