Well, I’ve finally reported what happened in our last group of BattleTech missions. For those who are interested: The Fox’s Teeth Mission #5: Supply Run Mission #6: Recon-in-Force Sorenson’s Sabres Mission #5: Pursuit Next up will be missions #6 and #7 for the Sabres, which will be run on Thursday evening and Saturday afternoon. As a change from the revision of the rules in S&D, we’ll … Continue reading BattleTech reports
What is D&D? According to some people on the ‘net, it’s their favourite edition, and anything that comes after it is no longer D&D. I like 4e, so every edition of D&D is D&D to me. However, there’s a couple of basic core concepts that I believe that D&D has to have to remain D&D: Attacking in melee: You roll a d20, higher is better. … Continue reading The core of D&D
Today was a good session of Pyramid of Shadows. This was a combination of good DMing, great players, and better encounters. We had three major encounters. The PCs met the bandits and talked to them; human foes are always interesting as they have at least some areas in common between them and the PCs. This led to the “room of the demon bitch”, which saw everyone … Continue reading Pyramid of Shadows joys
Wizards have posted a really good interview with Rob Heinsoo, the person behind a lot of recent D&D. However, his musings on 4e weren’t the most interesting thing in the article. No, he’s designing a new version of Three Dragon Ante! Now, that’s something to really look forward to! Continue reading Rob Heinsoo
D&D Home Page – What Class Are You? – Build A Character – D&D Compendium Continue reading Like I could have guessed already…
I’m currently running Pyramid of Shadows, the third of the Wizards 4e adventures. It has a nice set-up, interesting locations, a great hook, and, despite all that, is falling rather flat. Why is this? Well, in this writer’s opinion, it’s due to the incessant combat encounters with little chance for a change of pace. Now, I’m not against combat in D&D. Most of my campaigns … Continue reading Pyramid of Shadows woes
Well, we had a pretty good weekend of gaming – or at least, I did. 🙂 Friday night saw Martin take Adam, Greg and me through the end of part 5 of the Dawn of Defiance campaign, The First to Strike. We’ve struck a blow for the rebellion and the rights of all enslaved aliens everywhere! The campaign may need another player with Nathaniel likely having to leave. … Continue reading BattleTech and other boardgames over the long weekend
Yay! As of today, I’ve now written five-hundred session reports for BoardGameGeek. I rather happy about this. Have the session reports gotten better as I’ve written more of them? Honestly, I don’t think so. I think they’ve become more colourful, especially once I started borrowing my father’s digital camera to illustrate them and then bought my own. However, I do so much gaming that sometimes … Continue reading 500 session reports!
I’m very fond of the format that Catalyst Labs have created for their new BattleTech Record Sheets. I think they’re very stylish, and far, far better than the ones that the HeavyMetal program produces. However, for our S&D campaign, it’s likely we’ll be modifying some of the mechs at some stage. How do you get a CL-style record sheet when there isn’t a program to … Continue reading BattleTech Record Sheets
Last evening, I bought Swallowing Darkness, the seventh book in Laurell K. Hamilton’s Merry Gentry series. Three hours later, I’d finished reading it. Sure, it’s not the longest of books, but after I bought it I spent 30 minutes travelling home and also included a 15 minute nap. I read quickly when the book is good, and this one was excellent – just what I needed … Continue reading Books, books, books
