Bandits are tougher than they look. You have the perfect spell for
surviving this already, and once you try it you will be amazed how well it
works. have the group stand well away from the road and the camp. You run
up to near the camp and start lulling bandits. Lull the lowest conning ones
first. Figure you can lull about 4 or 5 before it will start to wear off on
the first ones. throw something at a higher level bandit and run back to
your group fast. The lulled bandits should stay in camp and you should get
a manageable number.
My group tried to take that camp when we were 15th. It was then all
green/blue so we pulled the whole thing. Needless to say we were all
recovering our corpses soon thereafter.
Kitasi
-----Original Message-----
From: Jamie Furtner [mailto:
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Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 4:32 PM
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Subject: [eqbards] Bardic deaths
From: Jamie Furtner <
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I recently played with a party of six in West Karana, and we tried
to kill some bandits in the bandit camp. I'm interested in input
for how I can allow my more of party to survive a battle, including
myself.
Most of us were 11th Level, except for the Warrior, and the party
was comprised of:
2x Rangers
2x Bards (myself and another)
a Druid
A Warrior
We tried the camp a total of three times, some of us dying every time.
There were(I think) 5 bandits, all blue, except for one, which was yellow.
The first time I had the misfortune to be playing Hymn twisted with Anthem
from the beginning of the fight, and I ended up with three bandits on me
due, I
think to Hymn. Needless to say, I died. It was a fun run of shame back to
my body...
The second time we tried it, we were actually jumped -- a pair of
bandits running by started the fray, and the five from the camp
joined the fun. This time the other Bard was killed; he was playing
Hymn. When I noticed his health dropping rapidly, I told him to back
off, and he did, but the bandits didn't stop. Is there anything I could
have done to pull them off of him?
The third time, again there were 7 bandits. A ranger shot at a bandit
in the camp and those 5 ran at us, and two more running by at the same
time joined the fray. This time, I decided to use Discord, rather then Hymn
to try to do extra damage. I liked seeing 7 messages "a bandit winces"! But
once again, I managed to get the attention of a pair of bandits, and died.
I'd
asked the other Bard to play Elemental Rhythms, as there was a yellow bandit
caster in the camp. He died also, I'm really not sure why.
This time I grabbed my spare drum to make the run back a little faster.
Does anybody have any suggestions of how I could have survived the first and
last fight, and kept the rest of the party alive also?
Keep in mind that I'm only level 11 -- so I'm really not interested in
hearing about
songs that are higher levels(at least until I get there :).
All in all, I had fun, but it was a loosing night for me and experience.
Thank you
Jamie Furtner
Quies, 11th Song, Karana
-- Jamie Furtner
jfurtner@...