It’s the first real week of term for the year, and I’ve just taken my really dedicated boardgame students for their first class. They were wondering when we could start on the first day of schooland now they’ve organised everything. Regular Ad Astra classes won’t start up until about week 4 or so, but we’ve already started. I introduced them to a game they hadn’t played … Continue reading Ad Astraing again
MilSims are back from their holiday back in Canberra, and so have sent me (and it’s arrived) some of my last order. Within the box: BattleTech: Total Warfare – the rules to the game BattleTech Map Set Compilation 1 – 24 maps for BattleTech BattleTech Map Set Compilation 2 – another 22 maps Open Grave – the undead book for D&D 4e Open Grave was surprisingly weighty; I … Continue reading More games (and books)
Friday Night saw our brave adventurers investigating rumours of a cult of Iuz in the Free City of Greyhawk, which appears to be led by their one-time-friend. It’s fun to have a PC turn evil, and the players were all very enthusastic to have Adam’s old PC, Archibald, be the villain for the course of this campaign. I’m happy to accomodate that, although it’ll be … Continue reading Boardgames and Roleplaying Weekend
I’m attracted to too many lifestyle gaming hobbies. What’s a lifestyle hobby? It’s a hobby that basically requires you to devote a lot of time to it, over an extended period. D&D is my pre-eminent lifestyle hobby. It’s one I’ve been playing now for (eek!) 28 years or so. That’s quite a chunk of my life, when you think about it. I spend about 16 hours … Continue reading Lifestyle hobbies
I have a bunch of board and card games. How many? Well, my list is over 100 items now (over 200 if you count expansions). Splitting them by broad category, the list goes like this: Ameritheme Arkham Horror Battlestar Galactica Betrayal at House on the Hill Chrononauts Citadels Classic Battletech Cosmic Encounter Descent: Journeys in the Dark Doctor Who: The Game Of Time & Space … Continue reading 100 games
Last Friday, our copies of the Dr Horrible’s Sing-along Blog DVDs arrived courtesy of Adam. (And the CDs, for those of us who are huge Joss fans; that means Adam, Sarah and me). I haven’t listened to the regular commentary yet, but I certainly have to Commentary: the Musical! You’ve got to hand it to him: Joss is one twisted individual. There’s actually more music … Continue reading Commentary: the Musical!
My Sunday campaign has just started through H3: Pyramid of Shadows. In some ways, I think it will be the most successful of the heroic tier adventures. Partly this is because I think the encounters should amuse this particular group of players, but mainly it’s because I’m getting more of a handle on how to run 4e adventures. During the 3e era, I ran a … Continue reading Running published 4e adventures
Well, this little boardgame has become firmly ensconced in my Top 10 Boardgames. Rich, Josh and I managed to have a game of it on Saturday… which ended with a mere 3 point victory to me from Rich. Josh was further back, but did very well considering that he hasn’t played it much yet. Through the Ages is a card/board game, where you draft cards from … Continue reading Through the Ages: A Story of Civilisation
Of interest… Wall of Fog [Revision] Player’s Handbook, page 162 On the Effect line, replace the fourth sentence with “The fog’s area is heavily obscured and blocks line of sight.” from “The fog grants concealment to creatures in its space and blocks line of sight.” Obscured Terrain [Revision] Dungeon Master’s Guide, page 61–62 Replace the text in the shaded box with the following text: ✦ Lightly … Continue reading Latest 4e errata
Our last session of the Friday Greyhawk campaign was not one of my better efforts. It didn’t help that I had a couple of players missing (pulling out at the last moment), nor that I was dreadfully tired. It was also a transition session, where we changed between one style of campaign plot to another. Urgh. We had four short (and quite boring) combats, plus … Continue reading Greyhawk Campaigning
