The latest session of the Castle Greyhawk campaign saw Bradford’s dwarven cleric Floyyd suffer death at the hands of a few orcs serving Iuz (minions now of Adam’s traitorous warlock, Archibald). The group had been hired by Grey College to investigate the one-time mansion of Zagyg, which he lived in while his castle was built. Rich’s paladin was absent for this session. They avoided a … Continue reading Castle Greyhawk
It was only Nathaniel and Josh at the latest Thunderspire Labyrinth session (along with their pet goblin, Splug) and so I had another session of scaling all the encounters to three players. The group did horrible things to the bloodreaver slavers and then made their way to annoy some duergar. The last encounter almost saw a TPK, but Nathaniel demonstrated the power of the warlock and … Continue reading Sunday D&D
I’m becoming very fond of PDFs for my gaming hobby. Now, I love hardcopy, there’s no doubt of that. However, I’m finding it harder and harder to store stuff. So, PDF for the magazines? Fantastic! The other aspect of this is the rulebooks. I got very attached to the d20 SRD, but access to the rulebooks is even better. I bought the 4e MM pdf … Continue reading Roleplaying with PDFs
XRP has just released Mouseferatu’s Advanced Player’s Guide for 4e. It’s available as a PDF file for only us$12 (so less than $15 australian). 110 pages, and it contains the following: New Races: Earth Gnome, Orc Blooded, Shire Halfling (or Gnome, Half-Orc and Hobbit) New Classes: Martial Artist, Nature Priest, Savage Warrior, Troubadour, Spellbinder (or Monk, Druid, Barbarian, Bard & Illusionist) New Paragon Paths: Acrobat, Merciless Assassin, Specialist Mage, … Continue reading Advanced Player’s Guide
I’ve finally gotten around to writing up the session reports for our last boardgame day, so you can find them on BGG now. Rich has also contributed two (and wrote them way before me as well). Here are the links for the lazy: Zooloretto – Mark, Merric, Randy, Rich & Laurie – a close game where my strategy as a miser contrasted muchly with Mark’s … Continue reading More boardgame session reports
Sarah will probably enjoy #3 and #2. 🙂 Continue reading Tom Vasel’s top 3 games
I was meant to spend today down at the Magic prerelease for Shards of Alara, but the illness that has been dogging me for the past week still hasn’t gone away. Instead, I stayed home on a lovely, warm spring day. Instead, I watched the Australian football premiership. And I got to see my team, the Hawthorn Football Club, take the premiership against a team … Continue reading Go Hawthorn!
I’ve got a digital camera now, and I’m not afraid to use it! Two pictures from our front door (so to speak). And one of inside: You should be able to click on the images for bigger versions. Continue reading Home
As is normal and proper, it is the cat who rules my life… Continue reading The cat
I’ve decided that I’m going to allow players in my 4e games to hire NPCs as henchmen, men-at-arms, hirelings or whatever. Whether this will make combats too easy, annoy the other players or suchlike we’ll see, and we might adjust things as the game goes on. One advantage of this is that if a player is missing, there’ll be a henchman (etc) to back you … Continue reading Henchmen, men-at-arms and hirelings
