Yeah, I'm a little bored and felt like shooting the stuff with you my fellow board surfers. I'm running my regular Friday night game tonight and will probably wrap up "There Is No Honor", the first installment in the Savage Tide.
So, what about the rest of you? Are you gaming and if so what's the adventure/setting/system?
Yeah, I'm a little bored and felt like shooting the stuff with you my fellow board surfers. I'm running my regular Friday night game tonight and will probably wrap up "There Is No Honor", the first installment in the Savage Tide.
So, what about the rest of you? Are you gaming and if so what's the adventure/setting/system?
It's not quite this weekend, but on Monday we'll have session 2 of "There Is No Honor". I expect that they'll deal with Vark and the vault, and will end up in the Parrot Island tunnels.
Im definitely geeking it up with you tonight!! :]
So if we finish this part of the STAP tonight, whats next?
This Sunday I'm running the first session of Age of Worms, set in Greyhawk. I've got five or six PCs:
A young halfling rogue apprenticed to Balabar Smenk
A half-drow changeling rogue masquerading as a stage magician at the Emporium
A half-Baklunish warlock grieving the recent death of his father
A Baklunish monk from the Twilight Monastery named Omen
An orc wizard who works the mines to pay a family debt
A Heironean cleric (maybe)
I'm going to encourage them to hire some retainers...
6 hours from now and approximately 10 miles from your gaming site we will begin our maiden voyage installment of Savage Tide. We are taking a short (2 week) haitus from AoW (which I run), and when we pick it back up, swapping Adventure Paths every other week, we will have only 2 Dungeon Magazines left.
I had read part of a Campaign Journal post you made earlier in the Savage Tide module (your characters were getting off a boat and one PC remarked that another PC was weird), and got jealous - how could Steve be running the AP already and no one has the first module yet?! (I had to stop reading, since it might contain spoilers and this time around I am a player....)
Turns out, as I come to realize, you wrote one of the modules, and so knew a bit about the modules prior to it. So, late congratulations are in order, Steve. I look forward to playing a character in it, and if he dies, I hope its a "Cold Stone" death. :)
The horror!
I will be continuing to use Sunless Citadel to introduce new players to the game. The last session only had two people, and this session will balloon into six, assuming everyone will make it. Three total of the six will be new players and two people of the total I will be meeting for the first time. So we'll see how this goes. The new folks will have to start at second level because the previous session saw the other characters get to that point. We'll hopefully wrap it up (just recaptured the Kobolds' dragon) this session and I suppose move on to Forge of Fury, to make sure that everyone is completely 100% sure on the rules.
After a dry spell, I'm back in action with a vengeance this weekend.
Saturday night I'm playing in a homebrew game. We're bunch of CN viking raider types and we're supposed to save the world. When we're not bickering over who's in charge. :)
Sunday night I'm starting Savage Tide for a bunch of local 14-15 year old teenagers in their first D&D experience. I'm a little worried that STAP is a bit of a stretch for a first time experience, but I'll probably throw in a DMPC and start them out with a side-trek to bump them up a level.
Monday night sees the return of my Age of Worms campaign after a hiatus. The party just finished up the Ebon Aspect and is returning to town to sell loot and refresh their hatred of Balabar Smenk. I think he may take up calling himself "Lord Smenk" now just to get the PC's goats.
I've got a game Saturday based in Egypt.
Let's see... my girlfriend and I are in it, the DM's wife and a couple of his friends, an editor named John Rateliff, and some writer guy named Jeff Grubb. The DM's name is Wolfgang. ;D
Okay, I'll stop namedropping now. ;P
That last one fell on my foot. This is gonna need stitches.
I'm DMing SCAP tonight--we just started Drakthar's Way, and then Sunday I'm DMing a newbie group--they're on their fourth session of Sunless Citadel, and want to start SCAP as soon as everybody's cool with the rules.
--Fang (overworked and underpaid)
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This will be our 4th week. I am actually playing this time-no DM'ing.
My character race is an ...ApeMan-dont recall the name. His class is Monk.
Surprisingly, he is doing the best in the party when it comes to kicking arse and taking names. Admittedly, my rolls have been excellent.
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So your name would be Dick? ;D
I'm certain I don't know what you're talking about. ;)
That last one fell on my foot. This is gonna need stitches.
Well he is a heavyweight in the industry. Ha ha... ha...
Ahem...
It's a rare honor and a real treat to get to play D&D with the people you've admired for X years. In the game Wolfgang runs I mostly just sit back and watch, with my mind reeling under an endless stream of "I'm playing Dungeons & Dragons with Jeff Grubb AND Wolfgang Baur. I'm playing Dungeons & Dragons with Jeff Grubb AND Wolfgang Baur...."
But I've hijacked this thread long enough. Saturday I play in Wolfgang's game. Next Wednesday I play in Jason Bulmahn's game (with James Jacobs and Mike Mearls).
We will be playing our 5th or 6th session of Red hand of Doom. We have four PCs:
Human Werewolf Druid
Lizardfolk Ranger
Elf Rouge/Wizard
Half-Elf Cleric of Herinous
AND I will be kicking off my own homebrew campaign arc with 3 PCs:
Smoke Element Dwarf Desert Knife Fighter (my own class)
Half-Vampire Fighter/Necromancer
Armant (or Armand, I can't remember) Ninja/Assassin
All the PCs are about 10th level.
Mike, you're such a taunter.
Taunter.
I'm playing in a game with Shalom, and Jeffrey, and Kerry, and Kina, and Ben! So there.
:)
Were playing The Library of Last Resort. The party just wrapped up the meeting with Lashonna and will be heading to Tilgos via ship.
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I've got a game Saturday based in Egypt.
Let's see... my girlfriend and I are in it, the DM's wife and a couple of his friends, an editor named John Rateliff, and some writer guy named Jeff Grubb. The DM's name is Wolfgang. ;D
Okay, I'll stop namedropping now. ;P
You darn Paizo employees. Always coming around reminding us mere mortals about your gaming experiences with the icons of the industry. Sure I am not jealous of your AoW campaign with Erik Mona, James Jacobs, Kyle Hunter, Jason Buhlman and the Gods know who else. Not jealous at all :P
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You darn Paizo employees. Always coming around reminding us mere mortals about your gaming experiences with the icons of the industry.
We're just mortals too. Remarkably lucky ones to be sure, but just mortals. For example, up until just a few months ago I still fanboyed every time I talked to Wolfgang, even though I've known him socially now for about two years. And I only recently met Jeff Grubb, so I still fanboy about him. ;D
Heck, I wasn't even originally invited into Wolfgang's game. My girlfriend was invited and got me added to the roster as well. I just happen to know people who know people. :)
Mike, you're such a taunter.
Taunter.
If by "taunter" you mean "namedropping jerk" then yes—yes I am. ;)
But anyway, I didn't mean to hijack this thread. Sorry Steve! ;D
But anyway, I didn't mean to hijack this thread. Sorry Steve! ;D
Please share the glamor. You are one of a select few who get to tell the tale. It's kind of an exciting viewpoint, meeting and playing with luminaries in the field. What can I say? I'm easy.
Tomorrow I've got my Shackled City game that I DM. We're currently towards the end of Secrets of the Soul Pillars and are just inside Karran Kurral.
w00t.
Running my FR Campaign on Sunday. Have to think fast and try to recover from a GM FUBAR. It's been occupying my mind all week.
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The addiction has gotten so bad with me I am now involved in three games on thursday, friday and sunday. I am dming 2 of them (AoW) and (STAP). On thursday they just managed to kill Illthane, and friday I will be playing my 6th level ranger in The Red Hand of Doom. And sunday they should get out of the tunnels under parrot Island and start invading th guildhall of the Lotus Dragons.
GM FUBAR
Gah! I hate those. I've still got my GM training wheels on, so I make a lot of 'em.
Good thing is that my GM bike also has little tassles on the handlebars and an orange flag flapping on it's tall pole on the back wheel. Paizo gave me those so I look good even though I'm new. :)
Well, I was hoping to be playing in a Realms game for the first time ever on Campus with the Gaming Society there, but they have been strangely unresponsive (well, not they, but rather the head of the society, who hasn't given me the contact info for that game yet!). Next weekend I could have been involved in a Greyhawk game for the first time ever, but that DM has a full table at the moment.
So, despite predictions that within a few weeks of starting college we would have a game again, my two friends and I are still gameless after two months in school. Splendid. I just love waiting around to hear back about info on a game that may or may not be open, and the prospect of having to then deal with the abysmally slow responding Society if it is full so that I can start to run a game in my homebrew with a bunch of people that I don't know. I am still hoping that I'll get a chance to play a bit first, both so that I can actually play in the Realms and so I can get a feel for the individual gamers that I'll likely be drawing from for future games. However, that hope is fading fast. *sigh*
Hope remains, however! A buddy and I are getting together tomorrow to play test several character concepts, the closest thing to a real game that we'll have had in far too long.
Well, I was hoping to be playing in a Realms game for the first time ever on Campus...
So, despite predictions that within a few weeks of starting college we would have a game again, my two friends and I are still gameless after two months in school.
Okay sorry to hear about that Saern. I found out about D&D my first year in University. However, as a University graduate i would have to say that societies in University rarely run smoothly especially if you don't know the guy. IF you know where you could find him, meet him personally and ask about stuff, or maybe you could start your own. Good luck.
As for me no games in about 3-4 years, however my friends are suppose to be playing one now, and hopefully I will get in on that when I am back from China in January. Then it will be version 3.5 Forgotten Realms/homebrew campaign, with either me playing a half-drow Samurai or a Dwarven Monk.
Later
A.
But anyway, I didn't mean to hijack this thread. Sorry Steve! ;D
Not a prob, Mike "it's not McCartor" McArtor! Your credentials after your name trump mine, so feel free to threadjack all you want. I was just excited about my game tonight and wondered what everyone else was doing. GAME ON! My players are arriving :)
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The addiction has gotten so bad with me I am now involved in three games on thursday, friday and sunday. I am dming 2 of them (AoW) and (STAP). On thursday they just managed to kill Illthane, and friday I will be playing my 6th level ranger in The Red Hand of Doom. And sunday they should get out of the tunnels under parrot Island and start invading th guildhall of the Lotus Dragons.
You're living the dream. I wish i had the time to play 3-4 nights-or more-a week. Play on!
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It's a rare honor and a real treat to get to play D&D with the people you've admired for X years. In the game Wolfgang runs I mostly just sit back and watch, with my mind reeling under an endless stream of "I'm playing Dungeons & Dragons with Jeff Grubb AND Wolfgang Baur. I'm playing Dungeons & Dragons with Jeff Grubb AND Wolfgang Baur...."
But I've hijacked this thread long enough. Saturday I play in Wolfgang's game. Next Wednesday I play in Jason Bulmahn's game (with James Jacobs and Mike Mearls).
Where do you guys live? I wanna move and start gaming with Legends also!
FH
I've got a game scheduled Sunday afternoon via instant messenger.
3.5, homebrew.
This Monday, live from Montreal Quebec the Trial's Warriors will make their return in Cauldron after no less thant FOUR months without gaming!
Our 5th Shackled City game (my PCs are still doing Life's Bazaar, but they should finished it soon) is scheduled for Monday afternoon, and will likely go until late, late in the evening.
Tomorrow I'm running my guys through the (probable) last night of Zenith Trajectory. After that I'm handing ove the reigns for to the next DM, whose running us through some Dark Sun (and then it's Freeport with the next DM, and then it's back to me for the Demonskar Legacy).
Wednesday I'm running my other group through the (probable) last episode of this arc of my MnM "Pulp Action Theatre" game, and then we're starting Shackled City.
I'm getting my money's worth out of that book!
Age of Worms AP... On Monday, my group should head into the swamps after they've saved Blackwall Keep last game. I'm considering running the Spawn of Kyuss encounter before they head out into the swamps. Mainly because it will take them a couple of days to get to the lizardfolks'lair and a couple of days to return to the keep. And by that time the reinforcements should have arrived from Diamond Lake (with Allustan).
Ultradan
Sunday, Sunday SUNDAY!!
heheh, ahem.
I'm running my campaign for something about the 5th actual sunday session and what will be the FIRST full group session.
I'm running a Ghostwalk conversion to 3.5 and I'll be having all 8 players present (I HOPE) on Sunday so that their PCs and their npc counterparts can meet THE KING of Salkiria...not to mention the major NPCs I'll get to play...it should be interesting considering I'll be introducing the Skull Collector to most of the players as well as my NPC Marshall and his cohort. (whom I'm hoping gets to pick a fight with the ghostly monk)
Yay!
Too bad one of those npcs them already failed his will save or die vs a bodak eye (I rolled a friggin 4+.) So the encounter my players have involving him will be rather short lived so to speak. Luckily he can become a ghost as it is Ghostwalk, but I'm interested to see if the players get the chance to actually save him and/or save his body. I'll role a percentile to see if either is possible as soon as I get my hands on some percentile dice...
But meeting the King of Salkiria warrants rewards for killing undead- bounties I should say, assignments along the Ghostwalk to continue fighting undead and being given a formal "mission" to find out who or what is responsible for the recent undead activity...oh and Pi The Wizard- a former PC turned NPC before she even got played much, is warning the King of an impending Yuan-Ti attack and will be headed to Manifest to warn them as well (which I have to get most of the players out of Sunday as well as get them to the Salkirian Capital of Donaree...).
Oh, and Pi and her companions warning the King about the Yuan-ti is ENTIRELY dependant on whether or not she and they survive the Yuan-ti tainted ones and possibly purebloods that have been pursuing Pi from Sura-Khiri, the land of the elves, clear across the subcontinent to Salkiria.
Yes, I have 8 players, I wasn't kidding.
Yes, I'm a new DM.
No, I don't think I've totally lost my mind.
Oh and the other game I'm in is on wednesday and there's a hiatus until November on what would be a potential Saturday game- homebrew Mercenary campaign. The guy that's helping run that campaign though is supposed to help me by guest playing my NPC Marshall, but again, won't be in town until November, so I'll have the reigns of the NPC and his Cleric of Tephaneron cohort. I'm about to just give control of Pi over to the Player who's cleric is escorting her, but I think I can handle it. But I am very likely to give control of the NPC monk over to the player who is playing a monk- not to allow confusion between the two, but because he is very good at playing an Arrogant and foolhardy character.
I've only got 8 pcs and for this next session a total of oh 6 major NPCs, not to mention baddies.
Needless to say I'll be prepping tonight and tomorrow on this, worst thing about it is that I'm in Huntsville while my dice bag is in Tuscaloosa. Doh.
Yeah, I'm a little bored and felt like shooting the stuff with you my fellow board surfers. I'm running my regular Friday night game tonight and will probably wrap up "There Is No Honor", the first installment in the Savage Tide.
So, what about the rest of you? Are you gaming and if so what's the adventure/setting/system?
Tonight, I played a regional Living Greyhawk module. (ULP5-08 Flotsam and Jetsam)
Tomorrow, I'm taking the day off from gaming, got to do a bunch of data migration for work.Sunday, I'm starting There is No Honor. I should have 5 of my 7 players present. I'm guessing they get through the island by the end of the first game session.
Lets see....being the only gamer in the ENTIRE country of Qatar (at least I haven't found any others in like 6 months)...I will be surfing the web....reading other players campaign logs...and sobbing myself to sleep...hope you're all happy you sods! J/k
Be safe all.
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Lets see....being the only gamer in the ENTIRE country of Qatar (at least I haven't found any others in like 6 months)...I will be surfing the web....reading other players campaign logs...and sobbing myself to sleep...hope you're all happy you sods! J/k
Be safe all.
Move. Any one of us would have you. Where the heck is Qatar? Move to America! Plenty of gamers here!
FH
Lets see....being the only gamer in the ENTIRE country of Qatar (at least I haven't found any others in like 6 months)
When I was deployed Al Udeid Air Base back in 2004, there was a notice for a D&D game posted by the new chow hall in Coalition City. Of course, I didn't notice it until I was about 3 days from rotating out (story of my life). There's probably still several gamers there and at the Army post up the road toward Doha. However, if you aren't in the service, you'll probably have a little trouble getting through the gate. :)
Oh, eat at the Shebestan in Doha. Outstanding food.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.
Oh, while I won't be playing this weekend, my group will meet up on the 21st to spend some more time traipsing across Faerun in my Caravan campaign. I'll be spending a good part of Saturday watching Oklahoma beat Texas.
(At least that's how I want it to turn out)
Lets see....being the only gamer in the ENTIRE country of Qatar (at least I haven't found any others in like 6 months)...I will be surfing the web....reading other players campaign logs...and sobbing myself to sleep...hope you're all happy you sods! J/k
Be safe all.
I've been to Qatar - that place is HOT! Too hot for DnD even.
Me? Sunday, Rappan Athuk, Lanny Mac and his Blacklock Loreseekers push deeper into level 3.
failed his will save or die vs a bodak eye (I rolled a friggin 4+.)
erm, I meant Fortitude save, which is still low enough to fail the dc of 15...
Yeah, I'm a little bored and felt like shooting the stuff with you my fellow board surfers. I'm running my regular Friday night game tonight and will probably wrap up "There Is No Honor", the first installment in the Savage Tide.
So, what about the rest of you? Are you gaming and if so what's the adventure/setting/system?
I'll be a player in a D&D game Saturday morning, Age of Worms campaign arc, Greyhawk setting. Hopefully, the rest of the PCs won't continue to feed themselves headfirst into Allen's meatgrinder ... or at least they will fill out and sign off on thier Last Will and Temperament before jumping face-first into another axe.
*Thankfully, Savage Tide is the fallback campaign arc should the PCs suffer sufficient casualties as to have a majority of them elect to bail on the campaign ... the downside is, I'd wind up GM'ing two campaigns in the same day from the start of the Savage Tide until completion or another party stompage like what happened with the Red Hand of Doom ...
After the session and a dinner break, I'll be running a primarily ad-lib post-kind-of-apocalypse 4th edition GURPS campaign until we close the hosting game store or I butcher them all and get lynched. (The players have grown rather fond of thier characters...) The villains they first encountered last session are a wierd hybrid of Confederacy and Nawzi, with a dash of Vlad the Impaler. The villains are based (rather loosely) on the Cowboys gang depicted in the movie Tombstone. Sadly, the PC group doesn't really have any one comparable to Wyatt Earp or his brothers. {The group's doctor, played by a RL woman, *is* a Doc Holliday - she's been quietly building up per earned xp to become a stealth bad-ass.) The bad guys DO have a Curly Bill and a Johnny Ringo.
Too bad Ringo - in the 21st Century - knows how to use a .30 LMG and a sniper rifle to go with his pistols ... at least one character is going to get shot in the face without a chance to avoid the shot ...
Not playing tonight as such but a couple of the gang will be coming over for a STAP creation session!
So shortly, we shall be cracking open the books, putting Pirates of the Carribean on in the background and guzzling down a bottle of vin rouge with a pizza!
:)
Sounds like everyone had good times a'hatching for the weekend just past. How did that weekend go ?
Mine : (first game of the day Saturday) 3 PC deaths in the Whispering Cairns of the AoW, all due to player stupidity with a 4th one missed out on due to the miss chance from concealment. My dwarf cleric watched the spray from outside, winced, went sotto voice to summon the town guard, drank the big hairy bandit dude under the table, got the necessary information and strolled on out of the tavern.
(second game of the day Saturday) No PC deaths [it's real danged hard to smoke characters when the doctor's player has her character stay under cover, comes out when the bodies stop falling & patches up the one guy who took waaay too many .30-06 bullets for normal long-term health], although the one character won't be doing a danged thing anytime soon (currently stable at -85 hit points; normally has a frightening 26 hit points) and one or two others suffering from one or two bullet wounds as well. They had fun - blew away 30 mooks and one of the two major main bad guys.
Gaming wise, not a bad weekend. My D&D character didn't get wasted 'cause of the other players being stupid, my GURPS characters didn't get wasted 'cause THEY mostly weren't stupid.
I'm in gaming dead zone right now. Haven't played in two weeks and won't play for another two weeks. However, I plan on re-starting my SCAP mid-week game after Oct 21st, which had been put on hold for a couple of months due to RL conflicts.
Move. Any one of us would have you. Where the heck is Qatar? Move to America! Plenty of gamers here!
FH
Heh thanks for the invite FH (after all I AM a card carrying member of the church of his Fakeyness!)...but seriously the only reason i'm in this place is:
Large TAX FREE salary in US dollars (which is a big deal for us Canuks)...did I mention it was TAX FREE??????LOLThanks for the posts from people who have been to Qatar! Unfortunately not only am I NOT in the service...i'm not even a US citizen. And although I do have a Canadian passport, lets just say that since it says place of birth BEIRUT....most american officials hate me...coupled with the fact that i have a six inch metal rod in my right ankle along woth 6 titanium pins (old sports injury...long story), they just LOVE me whenever any sort of metal detector is involved LOL...did i mention I hate US airports LMAO!!
Seriously i'll try the mentioned eatery...maybe i'll get lucky...and if ANY of you guys should come to Qatar (Tiny peninsula of a country in the persian gulf off of Saudi Arabia) then please let me know!
Until then...be safe all.
Speaking as an American official ;) ....you'd be welcome any time at my gaming table, RR. The weather in El Paso is kind of like Qatar, but the tax thing.....well.....we do have a Canadian!!
Speaking as an American official ;) ....you'd be welcome any time at my gaming table, RR. The weather in El Paso is kind of like Qatar, but the tax thing.....well.....we do have a Canadian!!
Thanks F2K! I Do have cousins in Galviston and Houston (not entirely sure how that is from El Paso), but if i'm ever down there for a visit (to cool off from Qatar's heat lol) i'll be sure to look you up. Who knows, maybe i'll run into Steve (the Canadian LMAO! j/k =p).
Until then, be safe all.