Dissonance
2014-02-03, 07:23 PM
So I've just started running Carrion Crown AP a few weeks ago and we are not that far into it. (They have been doing a lot of research and haven't even wandered anywhere near Harrowstone yet.)
But even now I can tell that fights are going to be a bit one-sided. The party is:
- Ranger (optimized; ranged and melee; knows what he's doing)
- Alchemist (kind of optimized; ranged' doesn't know what he's doing)
- Bard (not optimized; Skillmonkey; Doesn't know what he's doing)
- Cleric (optimized; Has run CC before and uses that knowledge; Knows EXACTLY what he's doing)
- Monk (optimized; but fairly basic; doesn't know what he's doing)
So far the party has been doing a lot of information gathering. (Bard's been MVPing it everytime he shows up.) The ranger and monk have been running amok (hah) in the little combat they've done. Alchemist got his chance in the spotlight by grabbing one of the informations (and the 400 xp) that the group missed.
They aren't the problem. The Cleric however, is. He's metagamed since start, pushing objectives and (sometimes forcefully) guiding the party.
I've asked him to stop, and he has toned it down a bit. It hasn't stopped him from speeding from objective to objective and connecting the dots for the party.
I want to know what kind of things I can do to throw him curve balls while keeping it challenging for the rest of the party.
But even now I can tell that fights are going to be a bit one-sided. The party is:
- Ranger (optimized; ranged and melee; knows what he's doing)
- Alchemist (kind of optimized; ranged' doesn't know what he's doing)
- Bard (not optimized; Skillmonkey; Doesn't know what he's doing)
- Cleric (optimized; Has run CC before and uses that knowledge; Knows EXACTLY what he's doing)
- Monk (optimized; but fairly basic; doesn't know what he's doing)
So far the party has been doing a lot of information gathering. (Bard's been MVPing it everytime he shows up.) The ranger and monk have been running amok (hah) in the little combat they've done. Alchemist got his chance in the spotlight by grabbing one of the informations (and the 400 xp) that the group missed.
They aren't the problem. The Cleric however, is. He's metagamed since start, pushing objectives and (sometimes forcefully) guiding the party.
I've asked him to stop, and he has toned it down a bit. It hasn't stopped him from speeding from objective to objective and connecting the dots for the party.
I want to know what kind of things I can do to throw him curve balls while keeping it challenging for the rest of the party.