New 1:1 ACKS2e campaign started today. All new level 1 fresh meat. Only 6 players this time; we lost 2 or 3 when the DM decided to reboot the campaign. This one is set in the near east pre-islam.

We each rolled up 3 dudes to swap in and out as 1:1 time requires. I rolled a Dwarven Fury (basically a barbarian who can't wear armor but has damage reduction), a Dwarven Craftpriest (casts divine spells but like a M-U), and a Dwarven Tombsealer (fighter combat progression and equipment, ability to turn undead, and an at-will ability that works kinda like Hold Portal; not exactly dorf-paladin but somewhat analogous).

Started out with the Fury. Heard a rumor of some beastmen nearby and started hexcrawling. Ran across some dead guys. Followed their tracks, and came upon some escaped slaves who were hostile. Butchered them all (there was a bounty per each hand, so yanno). Followed their tracks back to their camp outside a dungeon entrance.

Lotta skeles in the dungeon. Usual tactic of beserkergang charges, preferably flanking. Took one decent hit, but that's truck driving. M-U got ganked, but didn't roll too bad on mortal wounds and will recover. Other M-U gigachad muscle-wizarded once out of spells and killed 2 or 3 with his staff. Lel. Threat level low, risk minor. Probably a feint, because this guy can be a killer DM. Looking forward to seeing what kind of complete and utter death springs up next week.

Outta dungerooni, back to town, sell the loot, get XP, downtime activities until next week. Dukac the Dorfen Fury spending the rest of the week training riding proficiency and hiring elven harlots to feed him grapes from between their bosoms (profligate spending XP bank). He's the 'most racist dwarf alive' meme, see.

I know, I know. Low level play reports are boring as shit. But it's kinda refreshing to get back to basics sometimes. Dude gets tired of the campaign he's running and starts a new one every time just before we hit name level though lol. This is #4 I think. That's cool though. I kinda like the mudcore play style tbh.

Only thing I know for sure is, man it's good to be playing a frontliner again. Spend most of the last campaign playing a Wonderworker (cleric/mu without any armor or weapon profs) and it was a cool character and all but I was getting tired of not being out in the shit.