Request to petition to DM.

Table stats: bladeandbow.boards.net/thread/3617/dead-rest

Everything went well enough. The game got a bit slow at times, and it was a bit chaotic, but that can be attributed largely to the number of new players. The encounters were balanced enough, especially considering the disparity of the party.

Definitely a pass.

I hereby grant approval to Wrongdragons Approval of this Char Sheet:
bladeandbow.boards.net/thread/3613/frederic-magus-bladebound-kensai

Have good roleplay and a reason for your adventure. --Fail. Go kill monsters at location X with no character introductions is for quick pick-up games not a GM test where the goal is to impress us.



Have each of your two sessions related in content. --Fail. There was no lead in whatsoever.



Have relevant skill checks or research or intrigue to give your players an edge or continue the adventure. --Fail. Handed some information up front with no effort required from the party.



Familiarize yourself with Roll20. --Pass. Had Macros for monsters and no trouble with technical stuff.



Properly balance your encounters. Generate your encounters a 15-20% chance of a character death, with a 5% chance of permanent death per session. However, don’t change things mid encounter to kill a character. --Fail, Our APL was very high. When the party is 6 characters you need higher APL encounters. Adding more of the same type of monster last minute is usually not a solution.



Use nice maps. Many are available through the contributions of current dms. --Pass, solid maps



Use intelligent encounter design and terrain. (No single bosses, few 5ft corridors, etc). --Fail. Harpies did not even use their special power to captivate people. Manticores would fight in the open rather than a cave to take advantage of their fly speed and fly by attack. The harpies and the manticores should have been working together to kill us on the cliffside with their combined powers.



Use monsters and plots that work together. Demons and Angels in the same dungeon does not normally make sense. --Pass ish, not sure why harpies, troglodytes and manticores all live together but don't work together to defend their homes.



Encourage creativity in solving combat, be it through normal means or diplomacy/skill checks or an even more exotic method. --Pass, was able to convince enemies to surrender.



Use traps creatively and with a purpose. Trapception, mid encounter traps, etc can greatly improve your games. --Pass, got players to run up on some rust monsters.



Avoid stonewalling a PC in entirety. In addition, attempt to give each character some time in the spotlight. --Pass, no one got left out

--Overall, Dragon, you could use some more flair, but overall you should be passed.  It takes some time to get used to how stupidly powerful people's character suddenly become after level 4 around here.  Don't be afraid to use multiple types of enemies in an encounter and give some levels in sorcerer or something to throw people off their game and make them think on their feet. Also make sure to note powers like what the harpy can do and devise horrifying ways to use said powers. Also, at the beginning of a session, forcing people to go around and talk about their characters helps the group get into the feel of things and takes some of the work to set the stage off your shoulders. 

Wrong Dragon's Tier 2 try number one is a fail in my opinion.

--Minimal Intro, Minimal story, No player intro, no names on tokens, GM didn't really know who was who

--Forgot spell resistance on his outsiders, failed to use their spell like abilities to weaken the party before entering melee, used a single group of 1 type of monster, barbed devils would have done damage with the barbs every single time they got hit in melee and extra when grappling.

--Did not fully understand the different powers and spells used by PCs.

Pros -- Plotline development that happened after the initial combat was interesting. The portal being trapped was a good touch. I hope to see this story line continue.

Synopsis - The party was hired to go find a missing apprentice in some nameless town by some orc NPC. They ran into some barbed devils and were able to defeat them. The party discovered that there was a portal, and on trying to figure it out, a big ass death knight anti-paladin. He told the party to go recruit fighters for his hellish arena.

Tier 2 Test 2.

Pros - Wrongdragon used some very (mechanically) interesting non-bestiary monsters and was very good at conveying the intelligence of his monsters, as such rather than fighting the group of people that just went around and slaughtered all of their friends, he RP'd his monsters to bargain a deal.

Cons - Awful map choice, 5ft. corridors with 7 people slowed the game significantly as players were trying to figure out where and how to move. It's already incredibly hard to play with 7 PCs, especially at high levels and considering that Wrongdragon has set the limit at 5 players initially, he knew it was a bad idea, but still followed through with it, which to me shows a lack of resolve.
In addition, he did not use any environmental obstructions or similar, even though there was a very big chance to, considering that at some portions the floor was laced with ice, however rather than working in an acrobatics check or even something as simple as difficult terrain, he decided to ignore it for the most part.
While some of his monsters played very smartly, others did not, such as the Rakshasa casting spells non-defensively after having been hit with a fairly neat critical from our barbarian.


All in all, Wrongdragon has a lot of potential, however I can't give a pass on what can be, but what is and currently while there are some major pro points, the cons outweigh them ever so slightly that I have to consider this test a fail.

P.S. to further add insult to injury, another con point I forgot to mention was the encounter design, having less than 3 creatures in an encounter is usually a bad idea, especially with more than 4 players, considering that they're just going to get gange up upon. Consider adding more, weaker creatures, because that changes the action economy and health distribution, greatly aiding in making the encounters more challenging.