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June 19, 2007

Mediocre game night

Last night’s gaming was mediocre at best. We were playing Aberrant. I’d missed the past two games due to travel and work craziness, but my PC had been kept in the loop, doing a bunch of run and fetch type things that kept him off screen most of the time. The set-up was promising. My PC was developing a crush...

June 1, 2007

More Exalted Frustrations

Last night was Jenn’s piratey Exalted game. I think I’ve concluded that I made the wrong character for the game. My PC (Hijiki) is a generalist, but the things that he’s good at are either not terribly useful or are things that someone else does better… and which we only need one person to do. For example, Hijiki has 8...

May 29, 2007

Touched by the Hand of Fate

Yesterday I ran the Secret of Zir’an one-shot for the C-U Run Club. We didn’t quite have enough time to finish. I had a nice set-piece battle for the end that we never actually got to. Part of it was me not noticing the time (I would have rearranged things to speed the plot up), part of it was me...

April 24, 2007

Run Away

My Monday night gaming group, which I’ve been playing with since I moved to town in 2001, might be coming to an end in the not-too-distant future. One of the three guys I play with is moving to NYC (he’s finishing up his second Ph.D. from the U of I and got a teaching gig). Last night we came to...

March 19, 2007

Random Encounters

So, Angela has been running this game in which I am playing a Dwarven chef. She has been making her own random encounter tables. When I say random, I mean random. Last night’s random encounters included: A guitar pinned to a tree with a rusty knife.A field of strawberries.An abnormally large (~1ft long) cicada.A satyr walking down the road carrying...

February 2, 2007

Game Drama II

So, it appears that the player who was having secret identity issues in the Aberrant game has dropped out. This both saddens and frustrates me.

January 29, 2007

About last night

Last night’s D&D game was fun. It was our third session, and we finally (sort of) saw some combat. Combat the first: a guard recognized me as an escaped prisoner. I tried to bluff him with the ‘do all dwarves look alike to you?’ sort of line, but my bluff score is less than stellar. I’ll need to do something...

January 25, 2007

Game Drama

Last night’s Aberrant game had some player-drama. We are still less than a half-dozen sessions in to the game. Some of us are coming together into a cohesive group. Others, less so. One of the players believes that his character’s concept is dependent upon him having a secret identity. Another character is a telepathic spy who revealed the first PC’s...

January 18, 2007

Surprisngly good gaming

Last night was Aberrant. I’ve been skeptical about it, mostly because I am worn out on White Wolf and there are some system elements to the game that I really dislike. That’s okay. Last night it was about the roleplaying. Considering that most of the game was a big fight scene, that’s pretty cool. The campaign is set in 1998....

January 8, 2007

Birds =$$$

Last night, after the Run Club, we had the second session of Angela’s D&D campaign, in which I play Bart Fliegenbart, dwarven chef. In this game we: Accosted a man selling barnacles (who was claiming they were goose eggs) Went fishing with a rather pleasant ogre Performed dentistry on an ox Sold a cygnus horibilis egg to a strange noble...

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