I had a hard time choosing between this and, “Bright Early One Mordor.” I’ve fallen quite a bit behind in my play reports, so this will have to be an abbreviated one to cover the last three weeks. Three weeks[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Over the weekend, I finally played Alpha Centauri. I have seriously meant to play this game for over ten years. At one point (two desktops upgrades ago), I had it installed on my PC and never so much as launched[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Players plan and the Dungeon Master laughs. Or something like that. I’ve been running my games differently the last few months, trying some things that I haven’t done before. Among other things, our group has kind-of-but-not-quite started a new adventure[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Every one of our side-stories has started out totally different. The paladin Akordia’s was no different. In a number of ways, we were retreading familiar ground. The Paladin wanted to recruit directly from an academy for arcane study we had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been two weeks now, so if I don’t hurry it up this won’t get written. Anat’s side-trek was starting to get long in the tooth and I sensed that things needed to come to some kind of conclusion, for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The session began as the party arrived back in town after raiding the creepy-Cthulhu mansion. The empress (hereafter “Minga”), called an emergency court to find a champion. Fomorians had kidnapped the crown prince. No demands had been made, but Minga[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ages back, cookiemonger bought Master of Magic for me on Good Old Games. Over the weekend, I finally loaded it up. It was . . . glorious. Maybe I’m easily impressed — a comment had described it as “Civilization with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Ranger decided she didn’t want to purchase the house and estate after the group cleared it of monsters. I’m a little disappointed, but it happens. Hard to design around a screaming floor I suppose. The Sorcerer’s well-to-do family approached[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I ran a 3e campaign via Skype from February to October in 2008. I created a wiki to track information related to the game and pass notes. — We began the first session with a test of combat using a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We wrapped up the first “side-story” with Darnek two weeks ago. The group freed up enough of Lord Malarkey’s men to secure an escort to the meetup site. So the players rolled up new characters for the second side-story, following[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
