Took a gamble on a game on sale on GOG.com. Elemental: Fallen Enchantress It’s a neat little game. There are some interesting mechanics at work here. My first game was a disaster, as I couldn’t figure out how to create[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I completed my second full match in Alpha Centauri Sunday night. It was actually my fourth match but only the second I played through to the end. I recall aborting one match less than a hundred turns in ’cause I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last Tuesday saw the conclusion of Lorik’s sidequest. After defeating the char-goyles guarding the evil-looking tower, the party made their way inside and upstairs. The interior of the tower was decorated with demonic carvings. The second floor contained an arcane[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some gaming groups achieve this. Others do not. It’s a shared world. Slowly, over the course of the last few months, it’s become apparent that my gaming group has achieved a degree of world shared-ness. My friend Jared and I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To date, our group has completed three (and a half) of five planned story arcs, each one centered around a PC from the group that raided Fort Sungard. The Storming of Fort Sungard – Big Trouble in Little Hestavar –[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Post title may be too dramatic, but we did lose a PC on Tuesday. Still wondering where the hell they were (“You’re the hell here.”), the party took a short rest to recover from their encounter with the bearded devils.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
