The first D&D campaign I properly ran was at university. I’d been playing and occasionally DMing for eight or so years before that, but it was there that I really started running my own campaign. The game was a Forgotten Realms one, based on the Ruins of Adventure supplement (which was the paper version of the first Gold Box SSI AD&D computer game, Pool of … Continue reading Remembering the Forgotten
MilSims just e-mailed me to say they’ve sent my copy of Merchants & Marauders. Guess what I’ll have with me this weekend? The game is for 2-4 players (best with 4, pretty good with 3 and playable with 2) and takes (ahem) about three hours. But it also has really pretty components and interesting game play. And who doesn’t like being a pirate? Well, if … Continue reading Hooray! Merchants and Marauders on its way!
I was very young – only four or five – when I began watching Doctor Who. This was back in 1977-8, when Tom Baker was newly the Doctor. However, due to the wonderful way that the ABC was constantly showing (and thus repeating) the program on every weeknight, I got to see an awful lot of Jon Pertwee’s Doctor, and thus – as his recurring … Continue reading Goodbye, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney)
I’ve just been updating one of my documents which details (in summary) the Greyhawk campaigns I’ve played in/run. What astonished me is how long ago some of those games are getting! One of my favourite campaigns – the Great Kingdom campaign which had Gofa’s Lawful Evil enchanter, Cassie, and which ended with us going into Gary Gygax’s Necropolis – all hail the Set Rahotep! – … Continue reading A lot of gaming over the past 10 years…
Well, perhaps not. However, I’m pretty happy because I now have a copy of Martin Wallace’s Struggle of Empires on order. It’s likely to arrive some time next week, along with Poseidon and Merchants and Marauders. Struggle of Empires was originally published in 2004, and sits at #68 on the list of top boardgames at BoardGameGeek. That’s a relatively high rating, which undoubtedly the difficulty of acquiring the … Continue reading Happiness is… Struggle of Empires
My Greyhawk campaign has recently been on hiatus whilst Nathaniel has been vacationing in Canada. Now that he’s back, I’m trying to get it running again. Assuming this occurs, here’s a few notes as to where the game was when we suspended it, some of the themes currently in the game, and what I expect to do in the first couple of sessions… Necromancers of … Continue reading Greyhawk Campaign – Initial Notes
This weekend is looking to be somewhat dominated by Magic, with D&D getting a look in on Sunday. Friday evening, Good Games Ballarat are running a Mirrodin block draft… that’s right, the old Mirrodin-Darksteel-Fifth Dawn block. Somehow, Mark has managed to get hold of some old booster boxes, so that’s what we’ll be doing whilst waiting for the Mirrodin Besieged prerelease to get underway. (I’d … Continue reading A busy weekend forthcoming… and a look at upcoming D&D products.
The recent announcements by Wizards of the Coast have shed some light on what will be coming in 2011. It gives us a strong indication as to what Wizards new strategy will be for D&D, as well as giving us a clue of how well supplemental books have been selling. My analysis of the new way of selling D&D involves a lot of guesswork. Perhaps … Continue reading D&D in 2011: From Books to Digital
Death’s Reach is the first adventure of the Epic Tier produced by Wizards of the Coast; it continues some elements raised in previous adventures in the Heroic and Paragon tier adventures, especially the fight against Orcus, whose minions have been the major foes in several past adventures (in particular H1 and P2). It was now time for us to embark on our play of the … Continue reading Death’s Reach (part 1) – Portents of Dread
I’ve just organised the miniatures I’ll need for the first two sessions of Death’s Reach into a container so they’re all ready for next week. Well, except for the Goristo demon which doesn’t fit, and is sitting on top of the container. Assuming I don’t do something completely boneheaded like forget to take them to the session, the only thing I really need to do now … Continue reading Sorting out minis…
