Sunday’s D&D session saw us almost reaching the end of Pyramid of Shadows. By my judgement, they will probably only face the ultimate encounter in the next session, ignoring another three which would see them trapped in the pyramid if they try that. As most of them have slipped behind the XP curve a bit, I’ll run a small adventure before King of the Trollhaunt Warrens to bring them all up to (at least) 11th level.

 

Greg missed Sunday’s session – stupid Mother’s Day! – and so managed to not lose another PC. 

 

Before that session, I spent a couple of hours at Good Games playing (first) Ticket to Ride and then four or five games of Magic: the Gathering, of which I won all but one. This is particularly significant because I’m using Standard-legal decks based almost entirely on cards that have been reprinted in Tenth Edition. The only set in the last two years I’ve got any cards of at all is Lorwynn, and that’s due to going to its prerelease – I don’t have many cards from it at all! 

 

However, as Tenth Edition has lovely cards in it like Verdant Force and Overrun, it’s quite possible for me to play competitive Green/Black and Green/Red decks – at least against the moderately casual players I’ve been facing (who have tended to have problems with their mana).

 

I spent a large part of the weekend rereading Lois McMaster Bujold’s Miles Vorkosigan series of books. Boy, they’re good! I haven’t been doing as much reading as normal of late, partly due to a lack of good new books, but also due to extensive gaming and TV-watching. Sitting on my desk is a game of Great Battles of Alexander, going back to 300 BC or thereabouts on the isle of Sicily. No, Alexander isn’t in it; it’s a battle between the Syracusans and the Carthaginians, but the GBoA rules were the ones it was written for. Go the hoplites!