PAX Thoughts: D&D Sword Coast Legends
D&D Sword Coast Legends was another game I had never heard of before PAX. My brother had heard a little bit about it and wanted to check it out. We finally got to the game on the last day of the convention and it ended up being a cool experience. You could be forgiven for thinking this is a generic action RPG set in the D&D world. I certainly thought so until we got half way through the line. Then we were made into groups of 5 and asked who in our group wanted to be the Dungeon Master. No one else jumped at the chance so I volunteered... and I'm so glad I did. I think I might have been bored being one of the players, but being a DM was amazing. I got to control the dungeon and tweak it on the fly. I could add things and take them away. I made their first encounter easier which got me some DM currency to make a later encounter much more challenging. I laid traps in tricky places. I dropped monsters in behind them...