One of the more common adventure types that I encountered during my brief time with the RPGA was the investigative adventure – the mystery. Recently, I’ve been playing the Star Wars RPG "Dawn of Defiance" series of adventures, and guess what we’re finding? Mysteries. Not every adventure, but enough of them. And I really, really hate them. Especially in Star Wars. But also … Continue reading I hate mysteries
Yesterday, we had the latest session of our Thunderspire Labyrinth D&D 4e game. I’m very glad to say that it went much better than the last one, and I enjoyed it tremendously. Greg was able to make this session, so we had six players plus one DM (that was me, if somehow you haven’t worked out I’m normally the DM for D&D sessions around here). … Continue reading Good gaming in the Labyrinth
A lot of games have suddenly come into stock, so I’ve been getting regular parcels from MilSims of late. The highlights: Rails of Europe – the expansion to Railroad Tycoon, which is now out of print, and the license to the RRT name has gone. So, Glenn Drover is using the same system to produce a Rails of the World game, but before that comes out, Rails … Continue reading Games, games, games
Urgh. I’ve got that sinking feeling that has been engendered by reading the names in the latest list of layoffs at Wizards. It’s still not 100% official, but it’s depressing. Dave Noonan’s is the name that most surprises me, but there are some very talented people on the list. I hope they can find new jobs soon; this is not the time I would choose … Continue reading Layoffs at Wizards
It’s been a strange old week; I’ve been feeling mightily out of sorts during it. I’m not ill – at least, I don’t think I am, but there have been a couple of things happening to unsettle me. The major one was the car trouble I experienced on the weekend. My alternator died, so my battery was no longer recharging. This is really, really bad … Continue reading Strange old week
…I’m going to be 36 in a month’s time. Eek. As is traditional, I’ll be celebrating the event at my place on the weekend, which I hope some of my geographically-closer friends will be able to attend. The most likely date at this point is Sunday 14th December. Hopefully, at least someone will be able to come… Continue reading A month until my birthday…
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
Bradford missed this session, but at least Peggy and Martin were more awake than last time. Not sure I was, though. It was a fairly short session as these things go, and mostly involved the group exploring the caves around the basement of Zagyg’s “Dark Chateau”. There were a few nice moments – the group was completely blindsided by a carrion crawler rushing out of … Continue reading Dark Chateauing the night away
The beta of the D&D Character Builder is now up – DDi subscribers only, and only deals with the first three levels (so far). Also, PC/Windows only. My initial impression? It’s brilliant. Very easy to use, has all the character options from official books and the mags, and the character sheet it creates also has all the power cards, in the proper colours, and with … Continue reading D&D Character Builder
I managed to fulfill one of my longtime ambitions over the past couple of years: I learnt how to play ASL. You have to understand, it’s a game I saw when I was relatively young – at Uni? School? I can’t remember any more – and I was astonished that there was this game that you had to buy the rulebook separately from the pieces. … Continue reading Ambitions
