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September 3, 2008

Summary of a campaign, Part 2

…continued from yesterday’s post. We headed back north with Rogenvald. The lich lived in a strange wild magic zone that was located north of the goblin lands. The only civilized inhabitants of this area are gnomes. Getting into the wild magic zone wasn’t difficult, but there was a checkpoint manned by volunteers – mostly goblins, but they appeared to be...

September 2, 2008

Summary of a campaign, Part 1

I’ve mentioned Angela’s D&D campaign here before. On Sunday, it reached a major turning-point… so I thought it might be a nice time for a campaign update/log/thing. I’ve mentioned the game a few times, but I haven’t gone into much detail about it. I’m playing a Dwarf chef-turned-adventurer. Here’s a synopsis of the campaign-so-far: It begins, as many D&D campaigns...

July 24, 2008

Nobilis report

The Nobilis game is still going really well. I say this after a session on Tuesday in which there was, essentially, a TPK. It was, however, a planned TPK. Jason, who is running the game, told each of us from the beginning to create two PCs – one who would start off in the position of a power and the...

July 24, 2008

4e: another playtest report

Last night was session 2 of Keep on the Shadowfell, and it featured an assault on the kobold lair. I toned things down to account for the fact that we only had three PCs (Morgan Ironclaw, dragonblood paladin; Bloodaxe Axebeard, dwarf cleric; and Owen, human wizard). They followed the Wyrmpriest who’d escaped from the ambush. I adjusted the battle map...

July 3, 2008

4e: Running the game

Last night, we began playing through Keep on the Shadowfell. I was running the game. Pat was playing Bloodaxe Axebeard, a dwarf cleric. Jeff was playing Owen, a human wizard. Doug was playing Morgan Ironclaw, a Dragonborn Paladin. We only made it through the first two fights… there was a lot of chatting and discussion, which is to be expected...

June 17, 2008

4e: first time playing

Last night was our regularly-scheduled Morrow Project Game, but George was out of town. Instead of forging ahead and then trying to reintegrate George to the ongoing game (which he doesn’t make easy), we decided to give 4e a spin. There were only three of us, so it wasn’t going to be a full-fledged group or anything, but it was...

June 11, 2008

Nobilis

I think I mentioned earlier that I was at least thinking about playing in a Nobilis game. Well, I am. Playing in one, that is. I suppose I’m also thinking about playing in it… or writing about… or writing about thinking about… or… Yeah. We’ve met four times. The first two were devoted to group character, Imperator, and Chancel creation....

May 8, 2008

Exalted intro

Last night was the first session of Doug’s Exalted game. I’ve played a lot of Exalted, but it was new to Doug, Jeff, and Pat. The game last night consisted of an introductory combat. A couple of Dragonblooded on a giant, flaming bird attacked the airship we were riding. Jeff gives a rundown here. Pat hadn’t actually given his PC...

May 6, 2008

The state of my gaming life

Gaming is entering another transitioning period. My Monday night group is currently playing in a postapocalyptic nWoD/Morrow Project game. I’ve had some frustrations with it, but we had a really good game last night. The dynamics of the game are interesting. We have far more firepower and better equipment than almost everyone we’ve encountered (and certainly everyone with whom we...

April 25, 2008

Nostalgia and Ingenuity

Last night, in the final session of our Gygax Memorial 1e AD&D game Jeff has been running, we finished clearing out the moathouse near Hommlet. Up until last night, out performance had been kind of lame. Last night,I think, we got into the dungeoneering mindset. We set an ambush. We used decoys. We took advantage of those few tools we...

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