Doctor Who was merely “ok” on Sunday (Planet of the Ood), as compared to the awesomeness that was The Fires of Pompeii the week before. I made up for that with watching two classic Dr Who stories I’d just picked up – The Curse of Fenric and Ghostlight. They’re two of my favourite stories from the classic era, both from the final series before the … Continue reading Doctor Who, Yggsburgh and other things
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
I’ve been busy buying new games – both RPG and board – in the last few weeks. My latest boardgame is World of Warcraft: The Adventure Game. I’ve just had a brief (incomplete) game of it with my students. There’s a lot to recommend it. 2-4 players, takes about 90-120 minutes, and plays a lot like a more complex version of Talisman. Downtime is pretty … Continue reading Games, games, games
In our last session of my Castle Greyhawk campaign, Peggy’s magic-user “Mya” used her magic to destroy an altar to the Chaos Gods. She was promptly cursed by those gods, who made it impossible for her to heal. Luckily she was able to get the curse reversed (Into the Woods line there) at the temple of Rao, although she’s now engaged on a quest for … Continue reading Faith in D&D
I’ve just bought my first D&D Miniatures since War of the Dragon Queen, two years ago. (Well, almost. I bought the new starter last month). I bought one case of the new Against the Giants set. For those wondering why I haven’t bought any DDM in the past two years, it’s partly to do with the amount of money I’ve been spending on boardgames – … Continue reading Thoughts on the “Against the Giants” set of D&D Miniatures
MilSims has delivered the final 3.5e books I ordered about a month ago. So, that’s that for 3.5e purchases, I guess. For those who are interested, the books were: * Cormyr: the Tearing of the Weave* Shadowdale: the Scouring of the Land* Fortress of the Yuan-Ti Together, they finished off two 3.5e adventure trilogies. Yeah, I know… I had part 3 of the Realms trilogy … Continue reading Last 3.5e books, and first C&C books.
I’ve just been reading the first Castles & Crusades adventure, “Assault on Blacktooth Ridge”. There are some nice ideas used in the adventure, but the writing is terrible. Spelling, grammar and sentence construction are things you take for granted… until you discover that they’ve gone missing. Then you realise exactly how important they are. “The following are descriptions of the more notable places and people … Continue reading My eyes! My poor, bleeding eyes!
I picked up Dark Chateau earlier today, another part of the Castle Zagyg series of modules from Troll Lord Games. In actual fact, the copy I’d ordered from MilSims hasn’t arrived yet – I picked this up as a pdf, as it was on special with a bunch of other Castles & Crusades adventures at RPGnow. I then printed it out in booklet form and stapled … Continue reading More conversions
Once upon a time, there were these D&D designers who decided that clerics were boring. Why should every cleric have the same powers, even though one cleric was a priest of the god of battle, and another was a priest of the god of love… Now, all of this makes a lot of sense. It really does. Why should the powers that one god grant be … Continue reading The trouble with speciality priests
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
