So, my group got a Pathfinder game on Roll20 off the ground last night.
First off, I'm impressed with Roll20. It's actually a far more streamlined experience than playing in person, although that's helped by a few other circumstantial things like most of our players being experienced. The only issue was that it seemed to be willing to just roll over and accept its fate if the streams failed to connect on the first try, which eventually led to us switching to the Google Hangouts plugin, which worked perfectly.
Second, the session was awesome and hilarious. We knew we were going to be fighting mites, and probably at least one swarm pet, but the wizard assured the rest of the party that he could handle any swarms. Everyone took him at his word, since none of us had reason to doubt it.
We entered the room, and things started out pretty well. The mites got the jump on us, but the two darts they threw/shot at us didn't deal any damage. The paladin and I then shish-kebabbed one each, between a very good roll from the paladin and my ranged attack bonus, the sorceror stunned the other two, and the wizard moved to intercept where he thought the swarm would come from.
Then the swarm emerged and reduced him to one hitpoint in its first round. He tried to burning hands them, and... rolled a one.
Shenanigans ensued, as the sorceror tried to use colour spray on the swarm (not the player, the character
), the wizard dropped below 0 and barely stabilised while the sorceror dragged him towards the door, and eventually my character ended up saving the day by driving the swarm back with a torch and following it up with a flask of some kind of alchemical fire brought in when we called for help.
Mainly, I find it funny 'cause my character is literally just some guy. He works a day job as a bowyer and takes shifts in the town guard sometimes. Meanwhile, the wizard is all mysterious and finely-dressed, the sorceror is all dark and edgy and finely-dressed, and the paladin is some kind of religious fanatic warrior.