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So a couple of my long time players missed the first game in the new campaign, but should make it for the next one, coming up in January. I asked what they had finally decided to play and one said, "A Wizard, of Human origins." Which prompted the other guy to say, "What, like Australopithecaster?" I was slain.
I just got back from my friend's all Goblin game. Imagine you're playing Pokemon Silver on your Gameboy from back in the day, but with Goblins. When we kill something, we hear a "ping!" in our heads and our "bank" is updated. If you attack a boss that has something you want, you can see it floating above its head. It's literally a classic Pokemon game with elements of "Delicious in Dungeon" and smatterings of other anime and manga things thrown in. Not my style of game, but I'll keep attending. It's only fair since he's playing in my new campaign and our friendship goes back over 30 years now. And I had a good time meeting his gaming crew. Everyone brought food LOL.
That sounds suspiciously like a plan to me. Hmm. Playing in a buddy's all Goblin campaign tomorrow. I've missed the first couple of games but I'll be caught up tomorrow. Wish me luck as Buck Damnitbuck makes his Druidic debut!
Horrifying.
We had a Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett stop by. That's fantastic!
I'm a secret tree hugger so I don't rake my leaves as over a hundred species of tiny organisms winter under them. And yes, each spring I battle them as they lay siege to my house.
Happy belated BDay wishes Cal! Thank you!! No game this weekend, but last weekend's launch of my new campaign went well. I can tell NONE of the players were aware of the dos and don'ts of Appalachian horror lore LOL. They're terrified of the forest, now. What's everyone doing this weekend? Oh, and Happy Halloween!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAL! Thank you!
Good luck with your game, Cal! And happy birthday! Thank you very much!! I just realized my game is completely ready to go. I planned on working past midnight. Now I'm not sure what to do!!!
Good luck to all of those undertaking physical endeavors! I will not be one of them. HOWEVER, unless I jinx myself with this post tomorrow will be the launch of my new campaign, "The Bones of The World". I'm starting off with our traditional Halloween game AND it's the day before my 63rd revolution about the sun. The stars are right for this weird admixture of Appalachian, Korean, Japanese, and Central European folk-horrors into what I hope will be a creepy, dramatic game. Ever get so caught up in a creative groove you end up making something that will likely never see actual use in the game but it makes it all better for you regardless? I did that this week. Waaaaaay back in 1988 I ran an all nighter type one shot game featuring a demi-goddess I'd created on the spot, Dath, Bastard Daughter of Lolth. It was a fantastic game with comedy and heroics that would bring a tear to the eye. S'anyway, a 3.5e race I'm going to incorporate into the setting are Ghost Elves, from Dragon Magazine #313. I tweaked a bit here and there and then suddenly Dath became their patron goddess and I was up way past sunrise creating her. I also dredged up the Whisper Gnomes from 3.5e's "Races of Stone" to further populate this new land they're exploring. I may take the fan-converted Birthright's Shadow Halflings and throw them into the pot, too. I have 27.5 hours to put the finishing touches on things (this is also the third utter rewrite of the inaugural game since I began feeling the familiar itch to take my place behind the GM screen again back in January).
I didn't make it to the game today. I woke up around 5 this morning with...gastronomic distress. Yeah, we'll call it that. I've grown accustomed to the taste of Imodium, I think. Blech.
I completely forgot this part; after defeating the Cyclopes, a nosy old man kept harassing with questions about why were we there, why did we fight the monsters, how come this and how come that, and so on. Then he reveals himself to be Poseidon, magically fixes a boat and sends us on to the next part of the campaign. Anyway, what's going on with everyone this weekend? I'm playing in a different friend's game on Sunday, which should be interesting. Sort of an all Goblins as PCs/anime style game. I am skeptical...LOL
How was the game, Cal? It was fun! He has a bad habit of just pitting us against opponents in long, dragged out fights that literally take the entire five hour sessions to complete, but this one had a lot of roleplaying with only a random encounter fight at the end (5 seventh level players against eight Cyclopes, with one of them being a Mighty Cyclops). I play a Fighter with the Two Weapon Warrior archetype so distance combat really isn't his forte. While most of the party hung back and lobbed arrows and spells, Sijjiin went tear-assin' (that's a southern phrase for running like hell, for those who don't know LOL) into the fray. I guess I'm just unable to simply say, "I move to hit the Cyclops". Instead, I get pretty descriptive with how he's moving and any special things he's doing in combat (that's what being a lifelong GM does to a person). He was knocked into the negative HP range three times but each time he was healed he went right back into the fracas. He killed one Cyclops outright and did the most damage to the Mighty Cyclops. And now they're calling him Leeroy Jenkins and I couldn't be happier LOL.
Game tomorrow! Woot! It's my friend's campaign and I get to be a player. No responsibilities beyond rolling dice and killin' stuff! How about you all?
It was the lad's birthday on Tuesday, so he has a party at a trampolining place with his pals tomorrow. Other than that, possibly galloping through the storm, brandishing my black runesword at the clouds and laughing maniacally. In the distance, Deep Purple begins to play...
No games here, but two next weekend! And I'm rewriting the inaugural game of my new campaign to be the traditional Halloween game we've always played. I'll be running it on the 25th, my birthday eve, so it's a good sign that we'll have a good time. How about y'all??
Maltino?
Oops. I was out of town all day yesterday and forgot it was Friday. What's happening, everyone?
And hiking requires zero effort? I'm all about economy of motion but I'm not seein' it.
Yeesh. Feel better soon, man!
Godspeed, Erik.
Brilliant lol
Oh my goodness. I followed his Kirthfinder project for a long time.
Hey all! What's shakin'? Not much happening here this weekend. The roommate is a roadie for my son's band and they're leaving tomorrow until Sunday evening. I'll probably do some catch up on the housework and deal with some black mold that's trying to get a foothold in my bathroom. Other than that I'll be tweaking the opening game of my new campaign to run as both the debut and my annual Halloween game for later in October. How about y'all?
Today, September 18, marks the 40th anniversary of the first AD&D game I ever played. I don't know why I remember this date more than many others, but I do LOL. Forty years ago I sat in on a game with an ex-player's character sheet and was told, "Just do what we tell you and you'll catch on." I ended up leading the party through a homebrew dungeon and becoming the first party to ever make it through to the end. I guess I did, indeed, "catch on".
The city I live in has a population of about 72K. Our DMV, the "Office of Driver Control", has always been really efficient and fast moving. I see the trope of the snail's pace DMVs and thank my lucky stars ours isn't like that. But, moving on. What's going on this weekend? The game I was supposed to play in last week didn't go on, so I'm still sitting here, staring forlornly at dice. Tonight or tomorrow my ex is coming over for Chinese food and "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" as she's several episodes behind and the season finale was last night (I sure miss seasons that lasted 26 episodes instead of ten). Anyway, that's the weekend here at Sweet Home Calabama!
Just add obsessively trying to lick every human being to death and you have my dog Archie.
I'll probably visit our local plasma place next week, myself.
Greetings, fellow droogs! What are the plans for this weekend? I'm playing in a friend's brand new all-Goblin campaign Saturday afternoon. I'm a week behind on the start of the adventure, but they're just gonna love Buck the Gardener!
I think this was me in college...
......Aaaaaaaand the game has to be postponed due to other peoples' illnesses this time, unplanned family events, no one available to drive my player from south of Memphis, Tennessee here (he's had like 5 strokes since 2013), and one guy who is in Africa for his job got his trip extended by three weeks unexpectedly. I am gonna make those snacks lament so hard when we get this thing going!
What are everyone's plans this weekend? Saturday I put the helmet back on and begin DMing again after two and a half years. I figure I have 10-15 years left on this planet and I want to spend it doing what I love with people I can at least put up with! The debut adventure of the "The Bones of the World" campaign kicks off Saturday! Wish me luck!
Not a lot going on this weekend here. My kid's band is playing in town and I might go see them, but the venue allows smoking and I really don't like being around that much smoke for three hours. I'll probably doing some household stuff and finishing up the inaugural adventure for the new campaign next Saturday.
Look, we're all adults here, right? How about some GALrogs, eh? Amirite? Hey, kids. I'm on the slow today because of a bunch of medical nonsense where I lost my prescription pain med of over a decade. You know, cut loose without a refill so "Withdrawals? Who cares? We're medical specialists and we're bleeding this town's chronic pain sufferers dry. We're so bloody rich!" Ahem. Anyway, since I don't have to worry about failing a drug test, now, I'm trying grass candy to see if it helps. It's eased my pain a lot, thank goodness, but aside from feeling light headed the only non-analgesic symptoms have been cravings for pastries and Christmas candy. And blueberry muffin batter. Tomorrow night some friends and I bought the PPV of the worst, most Jerry Springer and Maury Povich thing you could see, Appalachian rednecks beating the crap outta each other in the ring. It's called Red Neck Brawl TV, and it's as horrible as you might imagine. So we're gonna drink Paul's very expensive booze from the distilleries of Ol' Kintuckeh, eat Ro-Tel Velveeta "cheese" dip and chips along with a LOT of mozzarella sticks (they were ON SALE! Geeze, wouldja...just...ahem)... S'anyway, everybody have fun this weekend. Everybody wang chung this weekend.
Oh, man. This is fantastic!!
Classic CoC this time, instead of Delta Green. I have some friends who play Delta Green, but gimme that old time Lovecraftian religion at any time. I love classic CoC.
In the ongoing saga of "What Ailment Does Cal Have This Week?" I have H1N1 influenza, also called Flu A or swine flu. It's not been a terrible bad case but enough to just knock me out of being at all useful to the world for a week or so. I think the worst of it's behind me but I still have some stubborn chest congestion and a mild sinus infection. I figure at my current rate I will have had nearly all diseases known by science by the end of the year. In better news, my new campaign is on track for its debut game on August 31st. I have some small details to hammer out and then building them into a coherent adventure. But I haven't been excited about GMing in a long time and I have high hopes for the game and for myself. What's everyone else got going on? Oh, and I echo Andostre's sentiment about Orthos finding a gaming group! That's great news!
Howdy! No game for me this weekend, but work on my upcoming campaign continues. A friend invited me to play in his new campaign (he'll be playing in mine) and their first game is the 16th but I have plans for that night already with my brother and a friend from college. But my tentative launch date is August 30th, so we'll see how it goes! What about all youse other scallawags? Big plans this weekend? OH! I almost forgot. Yesterday I got spend some time with one of my dearest friends over Guinness and pizza. We hadn't seen one another since 1983. Nothing like good times with a good friend to fortify one's soul.
Howdy! No game for me this weekend, but work on my upcoming campaign continues. A friend invited me to play in his new campaign (he'll be playing in mine) and their first game is the 16th but I have plans for that night already with my brother and a friend from college. But my tentative launch date is August 30th, so we'll see how it goes! What about all youse other scallawags?
The blackberries here have already peaked and only the bushes remain. Growing up on a farm as a kid, we had a hilltop pasture that had nearly an acre of wild blackberries. We'd have an all day sort of berry picking and then my mom would can homemade blackberry jam. ...*sniff*... No, I'm not homesick or nuthin'...
Fantasy Monster: Susinal Agathion, devourer of unclean things. Excellent!
I haven't complained yet here – Facebook blocked my account because its bots are morons, so no blogpost links there. Bastards.
I'm not gaming any more (long story) Oh no! I hate to hear it!
It's Friday, my droogs! What's going on? No games for me this weekend, but I've set a date for my return to the GM screen of August 30th. That'll still give me some time to put the bits and pieces of the adventure together without feeling pressure. So what's everyone doing this fine, blistering hot weekend?
The fact that there are bald-faced hornets means that, logically, heavily bearded hornets must also exist. I needed that. LOL Bald-faced hornets used to be really common around here. As a kid I remember seeing nests all over the woods where I grew up. Sorry I wasn't here to get the weekend party started yesterday. Wednesday required a trip to the ER. I finally feel strong enough to get out of bed and do a few things around the house today.
*de-beverages
Well, as is the pattern for most of my friend's games, it was a combat from beginning of the session to the end. 8 hours of combat, probably a dozen rounds all told. This is what happens when almost NONE of the spellcasters bother to plan the next round after the current one ends and do not know what their spells do when it's their turn. There were five spellcasters in the party and only one of them was prepared each round. The GM's girlfriend basically plays because it's a thing they can do together and she has to have everything explained every round. Everything. Every round. All that aside, there were some pretty fun moments. We ended up fighting who we thought was the BBEG, former Indiana Jones' foe Mola Ram. My character, being a good aligned character who is not a Paladin but always admired them, charged him and after surviving the heart extraction attempt stole The Hand of Kali from Ram. While the rest of the players then took turns doing their best to bring him down, HIS boss, the little kid prince from "Temple of Doom" morphed into a Rakshasha. My character dashed toward him and, using the Hand of Kali, NEARLY tore out his heart but he made his save by 1 point. Then my character got his butt handed to him in a to-go box by being dropped from 72 HP to -5 in one round. The next round he was healed up enough to get back in the fight but was then overcome by a mental attack causing him to experience his worst nightmares, collapsing to the ground screaming it terror, where he stayed the rest of the fight. That left ONE full-time combatant, the Ranger. But, eventually the heroes prevailed and we found the object of our quest and got the hell out of the Rakshasha's Playboy Mansion of Doom. And thus endeth Season One of "The Quest for The Black Unicorn".
The leader of the rock band my son plays in has the last name deFrance (it's also the name of the band). I keep a list of their tour dates on my PC entitled "Tour deFrance". I kill me. We're gaming tomorrow, the season finale of my friend's PF game. Then he'll probably take a break and I'll run the first game of my new campaign in August. I've got everything pretty much ready to go except for the writing and scribbling part. What's everyone else doing?
Well, I'm borrowing a trawler and heading over to Boston harbour to try and get all that tea back out. I saw Whitesnake in concert on Saturday, July 4th, 1987. They were opening for Mötley Crüe, so it was an insanely great party atmosphere with a packed auditorium. David Coverdale strode onstage and grabbed the mic, and in that unmistakable voice shouted, "Happy Birthday, you traitorous bastards!" Cue crazy happy concert mayhem.
Next, a tape worm made of...heh...
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