Woohoo! I am now the proud owner of The Hermit, The Hall of Many Panes, and, most importantly, Castle Zagyg: The Upper Works. A package arrived from Troll Lord Games today. I’m absolutely delighted. As some of you know, my current Friday campaign is a Castle Zagyg campaign using 4e rules. It’s been a blast – I’ve been using the Yggsburgh supplement along with the Mouths of Madness adventure from … Continue reading Gygaxian Goodness
Urgh. I really, really hate being ill. Ever since the surgery on my vocal cords back a couple of years ago, any new infection goes right to them and does horrible things to my ability to speak. I am really, really, really grateful that Peggy’s birthday is this Friday and I don’t have to run a session of D&D. The next session should be really … Continue reading While the cat’s away…
Someone on EN World asked about a rather strict Star Wars GM who gave out Dark Side Points for any use of Force Grip. I had a think about the situation and gave my reply; I repeat the reply here. I think it provides a useful solution to the Move Object debacle we’ve had in our games, although Martin will need to make the final … Continue reading Dark Side Points and Force Powers
My new digital camera will be shipped to me sometime next week. I’m not quite sure when – the memory card isn’t in stock, although they have given me a date for when it comes in – but with any luck I’ll soon be the owner of my very own digital camera. It’ll be cheap, probably quite effective, and will greatly relieve all of the … Continue reading Waiting, waiting…
I’ve just received a bunch of new wargames in the post. Woohoo! It takes my number of games on BGG one past how many Randy has. That’s 203, btw. The thing is, I don’t have the same number of games as Randy. Because I own lots of expansions. Give me a game I like a little, and I want to own all the expansions for it, … Continue reading Expansionitis
Floydd and Rich’s paladin went shopping via PM before last session. As the paladin and the cleric wandered from place to place (followed by a complaining porter with a handcart), they became aware of a woman following them – she was dressed in good clothes which were now tattered and torn. After their dealings in the gallery, she gathered the courage to approach them: it seemed … Continue reading Betrayal in Greyhawk
If there was a magazine I got just out of habit, it was Dragon magazine during the 3e era, and I feel that became more and more true throughout the Paizo era. While Dungeon under Paizo was doing better and better things, Dragon just had too many articles that didn’t interest me at all. To make things worse, I didn’t like Paizo’s take on demons … Continue reading My thoughts on 4e Dragon Magazine
I downloaded Google Chrome today, Google’s entry into the webbrowser market. I really, really like it. Efficient use of space, it’s fast, and it has some really nice features. Like a little whirly thing which tells you if the page is loading, or still waiting for your request to be processed by the server. And each tab has its own entry on the Task Manager. … Continue reading The future is Chrome
Another weekend has passed, and once again we got in some gainful gaming. Friday was my Castle Greyhawk campaign, and the group finally managed to locate the goblin caves where the prisoners they’d been searching for were held. They’d have found them earlier, but they actually believed the goblin who’d told them that another group of humanoids had taken the prisoners… Before they entered the … Continue reading Weekend gaming and beyond!
This has been a good week. I was named Geek of the Week on boardgamegeek, and a bunch of parcels arrived as well. Just in the last few days, I’ve become the proud owner of: D&D 4e DM’s Screen D&D Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 4e D&D H3: Pyramid of Shadows (the third in the “H” series of adventures) Pathfinder #13 Pathfinder Companion ASL: Pegasus Bridge … Continue reading It’s been a good week
