Thursday, November 8, 2007

Dark Tower Days, Part 3...

Last night was my third in-store demo at Dark Tower. It would have been a bust if not for the owner, Joe, telling his friends to come try the game out (he played the game a couple of weeks ago and had a blast). A guy named Allen showed up and he had "given up gaming" many years ago. We chatted a bit about his prior gaming experience and it ranged from old skool D&D to Warhammer minis. He noted that he always played rouges in other games, so he rolled up a quick Humnz Trickster taking the lucky option (so he started with lots o' spoints). We were hoping that Joe would jump into the game, but he didn't have the time. So we ran a quick one-on-one.

I pitted him against one Level 5/55 Goblin Warrior who had two Level 2/22 fighters with him. The scenario was simply: Woodland path. The Goblins are out foraging and are nearing your party's camp. You need to stop them from discovering the camp and going to get more Goblin reinforcements.

Allen started off succeeding his Act Fast Test, taking the action to aim his bow. He also won top of the inning as he had the highest stat on the board (57%). He fired on the Goblin Warrior using his Stealth Attack. The Goblin Warrior dropped a chip. Allen had enough time to aim/fire once more before the Goblin Warrior was on top of him. The Goblin soon dropped him 15 wounds, leaving him with 15 to go. Meanwhile, the Level 2/22s were closing in (they weren't as quick as their leader). A couple innings later, Allen was burning Phew! points - but the Goblin Warrior was hurting, too. Allen was able to finish him off though, just before the Level 2/22s were a couple squares away.

Allen stopped the little guys in their tracks by using Get The Point?, and then he ran a good distance away. He then turned and began firing upon them with his bow. The Goblins turned and ran as fast as they could away from him (toward their camp). After several innings of aiming/firing and rolling in the 90s, Allen's only choice was to run up to them and engage them in hand-to-hand. He quickly finished the two off, thereby winning his first game of WEGS.

I bumped him 6%.

He said he would return with reinforcements (gaming friends).

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