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March 17, 2008

Character Update: Bart

Angela’s been running her D&D game for over a year now. We play about twice a month or so, on average. I’ve been playing Bart, my dwarf chef, for the entire time. The group’s at 8th level now – though we often end up tackling things much harder than we should. Tonight, for instance, we took out a 17th level...

February 12, 2008

DM Organizational Tool-Tip

On Sunday, Angela ran D&D… and it was a fairly combat-heavy game for that campaign (we tend to avoid combat). The first fight involved a bunch of Phantom, Sand-form Skiurids (shadow-squirrels with a couple of weird templates). Angela has taken to marking up the battlemat with an identifying number next to each opponents’ miniature. This works reasonably well, but she’s...

November 13, 2007

Update, of sorts

Games I am playing in: I’m still playing in Nick’s Mage: The Ascension game (I’m playing a Hermetic slacker), Angela’s D&D game (Dwarven chef), and Jenn’s Exalted game (clueless kung-fu kid). Each of these are on a more-or-less every-other-week basis. Jeff’s Star Wars game is on hiatus or something, as he is going through a bit of (totally understandable) GM...

October 15, 2007

Lessons from history

My last post got me thinking about using sites of real-life coolness as gaming inspiration. I’ve done this in the past (a few times, but I am just going to write about one today). Once upon a time, I lived in Washington, D.C. (in the Dupont Circle area, for those of you who know D.C.). I ran a large and...

October 3, 2007

The bang

Last night was Exalted. We ended last session facing down a volcano. We began this session by fighting it. We beat on each other a bit until the Lunar in our group (who had grown up in the area and respected the volcano) managed to talk us down by pointing out that (1) The volcano ruled here and received its...

September 20, 2007

I attack the volcano!

What? Tuesday night was Jenn’s Exalted game (which I was frustrated with for a bit…. but then made a new character and that helped). We had a hiatus for most of the summer, so I’ve only played the new PC a few times. I’m having a lot of fun playing the impulsive and mostly-clueless (but hyper-competent) kid. We were on...

September 18, 2007

The Face of a Killer?

Sometimes, I don’t know what George is thinking. Last night, in our Aberrant game, he introduced “The Quaker” as a villian. The Quaker, of course, has seismic powers. I nearly had to leave the room after being overcome with stupid. Stupid isn’t necessarily a problem, but the campaign has been fairly serious and realistic (given that it is, you know,...

September 17, 2007

Ow. Ow. Ow.

I just hit my knee on the corner of my desk. That smarts. I acquired a copy of Dungeonscape this weekend. It was mostly a present from Angela (who picked up a copy of Monster Manual V for herself. She has a bit of a bestiary habit.) I’m hoping that Dungeonscape will help inspire my work on the Goblins of...

September 10, 2007

Weekend Gaming

This weekend was Nick’s birthday, so he ran some games. He ran his nominally-bi-monthly Mage game (last played in early July, maybe?) and, on his birthday, he ran an Alternity game. Before running the game, he asked us for input. He was planning on making a bunch of pregenerated PCs for us to choose from, but he wanted to know...

September 5, 2007

Character Roles

There has been a lot of talk about character roles in 4e. It sounds as though each character class is designed to produce PCs who will fill one of the following roles: Defender, Striker, Leader, or Controller. I understand, I think, why this is the case. It’s frustrating when you really want to play a Monk but what the group...

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