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Is it true that Sydney Harbour Bridge has been turfed for a massive picnic this weekend?
(It was mentioned on the radio yesterday, must have been a slow day on the news.)
Not yet (I drove across it earlier in the day, and did not injure or kill any picnickers), but as of about 3am tomorrow, yes.
... no, I don't know why either.
Lotsa building of critchers done this weekend. I'm getting back ahead.
I'm coming to realize that "railroading" is or can be a beneficial thing, if only because it keeps the action rolling; go off the beaten path too much and what the d.m. is pulling out of his ass is either absolute gold or total drek.
I got a few laughs out of the dimbulbs who complained about the "railroady nature" of the APs. No, boys and girls, that's called "plot". If you want free-form stuff, look up sourcebooks like The Marklands or Ivid the undying. While great, these are also hundreds of pages long...
While I sympathise with DMs hard pressed for time, the idea that they can get a product that covers each and every thing the PCs may conceivably do in the mail each month for less than $20 boggles my mind.
Yeh, I like to give folks as much freedom as possible, and it's always good to incorporate their wishes, but sometimes you gotta give them a nudge to move along. You just gotta frame it the right way. The sound of the police thudding up the stairs is a good way to get the players moving out the door for instance: They can stay, but they're going to the pokey if they do, their choice.
Using the Legacy of Fire AP has been liberating because it reduces the workload to a minimum. But I do have a very well-behaved party. I doubt you guys would be the same, especially if you were in the Marklands facing off against Iuz.
For me, those APs and my older stuff is all for ideas, and bits of a campaign. My tabletop campaign is meant to be the Temple of Elemental Evil but I've used the Age of Worms, Ravenloft and Dungeon magazine.
The next few APs may be a good way for me to stop running our games and get one or two of the others to sit behind the screen for a while.
Cheers
P.S. Wife asleep, son watching Polar Express and so I have to tell someone, my football team, Liverpool have beaten their most hated enemies, Man Utd, 2-0. I am on cloud nine.
Heathy - what on earth (or beyond) was that creepy Shugoran critter? I've never seen anything like it.
Oh, and Alex Ferguson is the Antichrist (for you Americans out there, Sir Alex is the UK version of Bill Belicheck, only whinier and less charming). I don't keep close tabs on the beautiful game anymore (I used to root for Everton back in the 1980s), but it always cheers me up when the Red Devils lose.
Cool....."Shugoran" is an avatar of Nyarlathotep; also has a crew of "spawnlings" like the guy you fought; He's in Malleus Monstorum, as well as an earlier Chaosium monster book I had 15 years ago.
I just dirty statted him; I figured you'd all like a little diversion, but everybody was low on spells, so nothing too CR-intensive.
Yeah; I think those bloodlines really convinced me to do more sorcerous n.p.c's like the (late) Xever.....
Tatcher, a dropped name from Pett's adventure the weavers;....he had to be a wizard to do all the summoning.
All I can say is wow though....those new bloodlines and school and domain powers are wild.
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motherf~%&ing day at work; need to run an errand; back in an hour if anybody's around.
I see that I have to draw a map in Aubrey's game, and kick in a door in Aubrey's other game.