After Daelkyr introduced his framework for Dragon Age a couple weeks back, I thought my group and I would give the game a go. Turned out that due to other issues, the group is really 2 players, each playing 2 characters, but it's a group anyway, dangit!
We've been running through the Dalish Curse (the intro adventure in the game), using a modified version of Daelkyr's framework (I'd worked with him on it after doing some modifications on my end in order to run the first session, which was two weeks ago - since then, I made other additions to customize it to my group's needs, but the heart of it is still Daelkyr's). In any case, today was session 2, during which we went through 3 encounters of various types (aside from some setpiece roleplaying and exposition scenes). In the shots below, the red and green rings are just there to make it easier to see the tokens against the backgrounds.
First, the group encountered ambushers from the local village (long story; suffice to say the local toughs decided to rattle some cages) but managed to talk them into accompanying the party to the site of a crime they were investigating. It worked out. Would have been a good ambush, but it turned out a different way.
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The second one is an attack on an abandoned campsite (being investigated) by hideous darkspawn, who were rather quickly dispatched by the group (though one escaped, one of the Rogues tracked its bloodtrail through the forest).
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Finally, the group had to cross a slippery bridge, while assailed by blight-tainted crows. This was not
nearly as tense as I thought, as the group calmly put down most of the crows before even trying to assault the bridge. Crossing the bridge itself was tricky, but everyone made it despite a couple close calls. Here they are, enjoying their across-ness.
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Used MapTool b63, no hiccups / disconnects or problems of any sort (though I've noticed that for some reason it stopped remembering that I had the token macro panels open when it reopens - that may be due to me screwing with the MT code a bit; perhaps even a "test run" from Eclipse is using the same .maptools directory?). Not a crisis, but interesting.
Anyway, good stuff.