12-06-2023, 06:37 AM
Character: Loramelian
Which Event: The Yearning of my Tempestuous Heart (My first event! Yay!)
Responsiveness: Insanely swift and yet detailed. Loved how all the long narration was typically pre-written but then adapted well to what we did.
Balance: I think this was extremely well tuned - it's astonishing to me that the NPCs were the right difficulty despite several last-minute additions and changes to the cast. I didn't go down in the first fight when I played it safe - and I did go down in the second when I didn't. So that feels remarkably spot-on.
Storytelling: Very nice and tightly done - a straightforward plot to keep things moving forward, with a couple entertaining moral choices thrown in to keep it from being too simple.
Fairness: If anything I felt like this was generous, though I've no real sense of comparison - some pretty awesome rewards and not as high a chance of death in reality as I expected from the engagement rules. But those fights were absolutely insane (in a good way!) and we did make it through three of them. So probably this is good? I'm not gonna rate it here because I frankly lack the knowledge.
Overall: Had a fantastic time! It was a real pleasure to participate in such a neatly-run event, and has given me a lot of inspiration for when I DM later myself. Wonderful job giving us so much to react to and incorporating PCs' actions and decisions in the flow.
Which Event: The Yearning of my Tempestuous Heart (My first event! Yay!)
Responsiveness: Insanely swift and yet detailed. Loved how all the long narration was typically pre-written but then adapted well to what we did.
Balance: I think this was extremely well tuned - it's astonishing to me that the NPCs were the right difficulty despite several last-minute additions and changes to the cast. I didn't go down in the first fight when I played it safe - and I did go down in the second when I didn't. So that feels remarkably spot-on.
Storytelling: Very nice and tightly done - a straightforward plot to keep things moving forward, with a couple entertaining moral choices thrown in to keep it from being too simple.
Fairness: If anything I felt like this was generous, though I've no real sense of comparison - some pretty awesome rewards and not as high a chance of death in reality as I expected from the engagement rules. But those fights were absolutely insane (in a good way!) and we did make it through three of them. So probably this is good? I'm not gonna rate it here because I frankly lack the knowledge.
Overall: Had a fantastic time! It was a real pleasure to participate in such a neatly-run event, and has given me a lot of inspiration for when I DM later myself. Wonderful job giving us so much to react to and incorporating PCs' actions and decisions in the flow.