I’ve just bought Skin Trade, the latest Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel. Woo. Good stuff here: Edward’s back, and Anita seems to be being taken far outside of her comfort zone. Guess what I’ll be reading tonight? Continue reading Delight of delights!
Incredibly, it is now exactly a year since I ran my first session of D&D 4E – the first session of Keep on the Shadowfell. In Australia, the adventure arrived about a month late, so I got it almost with the core rulebooks. Certainly, we all had the rulebooks when we played that first session, although we still (mostly) were using the pregenerated characters. … Continue reading Thoughts on my 4E anniversary
This Friday, I was hoping to take my friends through a rather nifty (if I do say so myself) adventure set in the dark heart of Farika, hunting a tiger. I’d worked out a bunch of entertaining encounters, thrown in some interesting NPC interaction, and basically based the entire thing around Nathaniel’s character. Well, not actually: Nate mainly would provide a great deal of the … Continue reading Plans and possibilities
Last night, Randy was ill, so I was free to go to the Magic draft at Good Games Ballarat. There, I met with old friends Julian and Craig for the first time in quite a few years. It was really nice to see them again, especially Julian, who played D&D with me for a couple of years in addition to all the Magic games we … Continue reading Old Friends and Magic
I’m now mostly over the cold I’ve had for the last week and a bit. Hooray! I was never happier that Martin cancelled Friday’s Star Wars session because it allowed me to recuperate a lot. Unfortunately, I had to cancel Thursday’s boardgaming session, which would have probably found Randy, Sarah and me playing Android. I was well enough on Saturday to get to the … Continue reading Weekend fun – Le Havre, Age of Empires, Magic
CREATURES (17):1W Aven Squire (x2)2W Aven Trailblazer3WW Battlegrace Angel5WW Yoked Plowbeast2R Exuberant Firestoker2G Ember Weaver3G Algae Gharial3G Cliffrunner Behemoth3G DrumhunterGW Qasali PridemageRG Nacatl OutlanderRGW Woolly Thoctar1RGW Retaliator Griffin2(G/U)W Messenger Falcons4GW Pale Recluse (x2) SPELLS (6):2G Gift of the Gargantuan(R/W)G Trace of Abundance(B/G)R Sangrite Backlash1WG Sigil of the Nayan Gods4RG Vengeful Rebirth3 Obelisk of Naya LAND (17):5 Plains6 Forests4 MountainsAncient ZigguratJungle Shrine Continue reading My Magic draft deck
Saturday was a big day of gaming for me. It started out at noon, when I ran the first of two sessions of the D&D Worldwide Game Day. The first group was mostly members of my regular games (Nathaniel, Martin, Rich and Josh) along with one complete newbie – Liam (I don’t think he’s even a teenager yet, though I might be wrong). … Continue reading An exhausting Saturday
Last Friday, we finished part 6 of the Dawn of Defiance campaign, The Core of Corruption. This installment gave us quite a number of troubles, mainly relating to its structure which assumed that we’d be more active in our investigation than we were happy in being. Honestly, most of us would be happy to have a big sign saying "Go This Way" at the beginning of the adventure, … Continue reading Dawn of Defiance update
Le Havre is a port city in France. Le Havre is the new game from the designer of Agricola. Guess which one I now own? Yes, alas, I don’t own a town. However, in the stakes of really cool games, Le Havre is very close to the top. The game is about developing the port city: building or buying buildings, harvesting goods and then manufacturing them into more useful … Continue reading Le Havre
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