Something that is becoming more common in our Sunday sessions is that we spend a lot of the four hours we gather for not playing D&D. This session, we spent 90 minutes talking about Star Wars (RPG, films, computer games, novels, etc.) before we even got to the D&D session. And then we only played 2 encounters of the adventure, plus a third one introduced … Continue reading Sunday D&D… sort of
I’ve finally gotten around to writing up the session reports for our last boardgame day, so you can find them on BGG now. Rich has also contributed two (and wrote them way before me as well). Here are the links for the lazy: Zooloretto – Mark, Merric, Randy, Rich & Laurie – a close game where my strategy as a miser contrasted muchly with Mark’s … Continue reading More boardgame session reports
Floydd and Rich’s paladin went shopping via PM before last session. As the paladin and the cleric wandered from place to place (followed by a complaining porter with a handcart), they became aware of a woman following them – she was dressed in good clothes which were now tattered and torn. After their dealings in the gallery, she gathered the courage to approach them: it seemed … Continue reading Betrayal in Greyhawk
Friday’s session (Castle Zagyg) saw our group without the cleric. It also saw an eighteen round combat against a group of hobgoblins. To be fair, it was the entire lair of about 15-20 of them, all coming out to fight the foolish humans who in their initial parley told the hobgoblins that they were there for the treasure. Yes, I hoped the party would run… … Continue reading Latest 4e sessions
I’ve just written my 400th session report to be posted on BoardGameGeek.com I feel pretty good about that. I’m still pretty far behind the person who has written the most session reports there; that would be Greg Schloesser, with over 2300 session reports (!), but I’m now in the top 5 session reporters. Another 105, and I’ll reach #4. The latest reports have been about … Continue reading 400th session report at Boardgamegeek!
A further two sessions of 4e this weekend brings my total number of sessions played to 7. Most of the players are now exploring the wonders of 2nd level. Various events on the weekend hurt the number of players that could attend – only 4 on Friday (of 6) and 3 on Sunday (of 6). Incredibly, the games survived and were even fun. I’m not … Continue reading Weekend D&D
Greg, Mat and half of Sarah were absent for this session (Sarah counts as half because she was half asleep)… the nett result of which was to cause a curiously disjointed session, at least to my mind. I don’t think the weather was helping. A lot of the customary banter was missing and it was fascinating to see how much less of a “life” the … Continue reading Musings on Keep part 3
Our second session of the Greyhawk game on Friday night, and I think it went pretty well. At least, Martin was surprised to discover that it was almost 11:30 pm when I decided to call it a night… that’s either a sign that he was enjoying it, or his time sense is really, really bad… We got in 3-1/2 combats. The big fight was against … Continue reading Friday D&D musings
Well, I’ve spent a few happy hours today preparing for Friday’s session. I started running this new Castle Greyhawk game a fortnight ago, and between then and now have picked up part of Castle Zagyg by Gary Gygax. So, I’m integrating my CG material with his… Of course, all of Gary’s material was originally for oD&D, ported into Castles & Crusades, and now being ported … Continue reading Preparing for Friday D&D
Well, it’s been a long wait since I wrapped up my 3.5e Ulek campaign, but today we got the chance to sit down and begin our first 4e campaign. My plan is to use the adventures published by Wizards for this initial run (whilst I run a Greyhawk homebrew on Friday nights). Players are Sarah, Greg, Adam, Nathaniel and Josh, with Josh being the only … Continue reading First 4e session
