TOPIC: WYC True Grind 2016 Post-Mortem

This is a work in progress, but just wanted to (finally) do some follow-up posts on True Grind at WYC:

Friday 4:30 PM - Hardcore - Victory - 10 players (9 survived, 1 dead)
Friday 5:30 PM - Nightmare - Victory - 9 players (9 survived)
Friday 6:30 PM - Hardcore - Victory - 10 players (10 survived, 2 PDD/Mushrooms used)
Friday 7:30 PM - Hardcore - TPK - 7 players (7 dead)
Friday 8:30 PM - Hardcore - Victory - 10 players (10 survived)

Saturday 9:30 AM - Normal - Victory - 10 players (9 survived, 1 dead)
Saturday 10:30 AM - Hardcore - 10 players (10 survived, 1 PDD/Mushroom used)
Saturday 6:30 PM - Hardcore - Victory - 10 players
Saturday 7:30 PM - Hardcore - Victory - 7 players
Saturday 8:30 PM - EPIC - Victory - 10 players (10 survived, 2 Fallen Star Mushrooms and 5 PDD/Mystic Mushrooms used)

For those interested, here is a partial list of consumables used by the victorious Epic group:

3 UR Special
2 Fallen Star Mushrooms
4 Mystic Mushrooms
1 Potion of Death's Door

3 Eldritch Runestones
7 other Runestones

4 Scroll of Cure Moderate Wounds
3 Golden Toadstool
1 Potion of Distilled Healing
1 3-point healing potion
1 1-point healing potion
8 Faerie Waters

About 20 Scrolls of Magic Spear
About 12 Scrolls of Acid Burst

2 Scroll of Mind Blank
1 Scroll of Stone to Flesh

1 +1 Arrow of True Flight
2 Potion of Bull's Strength

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Although the Epic monsters experienced a setback, they have regrouped and are prepared for any challengers at GenCon!

Incognito wrote: For those interested, here is a partial list of consumables used by the victorious Epic group:

About 70 Scrolls of Magic Spear
About 12 Scrolls of Acid Burst

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Although the Epic monsters experienced a setback, they have regrouped and are prepared for any challengers at GenCon!

Wow - can someone explain what was going on with that amount of scroll consumption?

Were a bunch of scrolls destroyed to no effect?

Even with Lenses of Sage Speed that's 40 rounds of combat worth of scrolls.

Were both WIzards and the Bard using these?

I had a blast on my first Grind with Master Ed Saturday morning and loved watching the first EPIC run that night! You did an amazing job Eric and I had way more fun than I thought I would!

Incognito wrote: Saturday 10:30 AM - Hardcore - 10 players (10 survived, 1 PDD/Mushroom used)

I had a excellent time in my first-ever grind. Thank you. Will make it a point to do a grind at all future cons

Thats a pretty impressive survival rate.

Harlax wrote: Thats a pretty impressive survival rate.

Ssshhhh...now he is going to make it harder!

I did not survive.... Sneaky tentacles.

Matthew Hayward wrote:

Incognito wrote: For those interested, here is a partial list of consumables used by the victorious Epic group:

About 70 Scrolls of Magic Spear
About 12 Scrolls of Acid Burst

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Although the Epic monsters experienced a setback, they have regrouped and are prepared for any challengers at GenCon!

Wow - can someone explain what was going on with that amount of scroll consumption?

Were a bunch of scrolls destroyed to no effect?

Even with Lenses of Sage Speed that's 40 rounds of combat worth of scrolls.

Were both WIzards and the Bard using these?

You'll have to ask Kevin (Lodestone) about this. But he was pretty much burning a scroll every turn.

Incognito wrote:

Matthew Hayward wrote:

Incognito wrote: For those interested, here is a partial list of consumables used by the victorious Epic group:

About 70 Scrolls of Magic Spear
About 12 Scrolls of Acid Burst

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Although the Epic monsters experienced a setback, they have regrouped and are prepared for any challengers at GenCon!

Wow - can someone explain what was going on with that amount of scroll consumption?

Were a bunch of scrolls destroyed to no effect?

Even with Lenses of Sage Speed that's 40 rounds of combat worth of scrolls.

Were both WIzards and the Bard using these?

You'll have to ask Kevin (Lodestone) about this. But he was pretty much burning a scroll every turn.

Cool - how many rounds do you guess Grind is?

I would have estimated 2 minutes per round minimum - but maybe things move faster than they do in True Dungeon?

I'm pretty sure he was using two scrolls per round.

Grind can be faster than normal TD. For this run there were 2 DMs, 1 per combat board, and the group was divided into 2 groups of 5 each. Cleric, Druid and Bard were using the new Cloak of Blending (I think), which made sliding pretty quick.

MasterED wrote:

Harlax wrote: Thats a pretty impressive survival rate.

Ssshhhh...now he is going to make it harder!

We did EPIC, right?? Because it sure felt like Non-Lethal.