June 23rd - D'n'D game night...

Tonight everyone showed up for game (there were 8 of us huddled around a coffee table) at Tim and Dan's house! We started late (what else is new), at 10pm and got right into kicking some serious butt. We were fighting 8 different characters (some devilish looking, a shape shifter, and a couple of real uglies)...the first part of the night we were doing good, hitting our attackers and dealing out some decent damage - then our first party member had to go home (it was Angela's bedtime - she's only 15)...it went downhill from there pretty quick. Next to go was Mike (not our roommate) - his character's name is "Shamash" (well, his character was named that - we killed him off right before he left for the night)! He had been getting pummelled all night by one guy and he never took a healing potion or a second wind - so he died...The rest of our group was not fairing much better, but we were healing ourselves or being healed by other members of the group. This is typical of our rolls tonight - I rolled two 20's back to back (unheard of in our group), the next turn I rolled a 1- luckily, I did not kill myself or anyone else in our group with a miss thrown, automatic returning fire throwing hammer :-) Blake was not so lucky - his tiefling character was felled by an opponent and he could not roll higher than a 10 (your die is numbered 1 to 20) in three tries...so, we lost another one of our own to our dice not being friendly to us. All told it could have been much worse, since our elf rolled four 1's during the game and everyone else rolled a couple of them too (except for Jason and Tim who managed to escape the dice craziness)! Game wrapped up very late (after 1:00am) and I crashed into bed just before 2am - tomorrow will be rough :-(