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I got my second vaccine shot this morning, so I'm prepared to spend Saturday moaning and groaning about how I feel to anyone within earshot.
I got my second vaccine shot this morning, so I'm prepared to spend Saturday moaning and groaning about how I feel to anyone within earshot.
Embrace it.
No games here. How about everyone else?
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Rise of the Runelords resumes at the new early morning time frame. (My brother is now working half days in the evenings on Sunday, so we're trying to keep moving through with a session before he goes to work.) Then I have the next PFS scenario set up before one of our players will be unavailable due to clinicals for her degree. Building up to Eyes of the Ten, going to work on the other characters in the weeks she is unavailable in.
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This past week, both my Pathfinder and my Rapscallion games were cancelled due to their respective GMs not feeling well.
I started my 8-session series of Trophy Gold, "Delving Dungeons Deep." For the first incursion, I started with my conversion of the Pathfinder module The Godsmouth Heresy.
And on Friday, I played Masks: A New Generation. This was the second session of a two-shot run through Magpie Games Curated Play program. It was really fun, and we reached a very satisfying conclusion.
Looking at this week: We are on for tonight's PF1 "Shattered Star" game. We are starting The Curse of the Lady's Light. All systems seem to be "go" for tomorrow night's session of Rapscallion. And I'm ready to run Session 2 of TG on Thursday.
Also: I'll be running a Dungeon World one-shot on Saturday for Magpie Games' 10th anniversary online mini-con. The game will be using Magpie's DW setting The Last Days of Angelkite. If you might be interested, check out the Magpie Games Discord, and sign up through the "#10th-anniversary" channel.
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Rise and PFS were both successful yesterday. Our lunch from Chili's was less than successful due to a botched delivery not having all of our meal. :(
Shattered Star is on hold tonight as my brother has taken on a 7 day work week for the next couple weeks as they try to get a new hire in and trained to cover a shift. The man is crazy, even if some of the shifts are only eight hours. I get that waste treatment is critical infrastructure but damn.
And my Shattered Star game scheduled for tonight has also been cancelled.
Games here at Sweet Home Calabama are still on a hiatus. What is everyone else doing this weekend?
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I found out my best friend from high school through college still lives in the area so we'll probably end up catching up on stuff.
I found out another part of our crew also lives nearby so I'll probably harass him too, just for old time's sake.
I found out my best friend from high school through college still lives in the area so we'll probably end up catching up on stuff.
I found out another part of our crew also lives nearby so I'll probably harass him too, just for old time's sake.
That's the best kind of harassment.
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That's the best kind of harassment.I found out my best friend from high school through college still lives in the area so we'll probably end up catching up on stuff.
I found out another part of our crew also lives nearby so I'll probably harass him too, just for old time's sake.
It turns out the whole crew lives within fifty miles.
Now I feel like an a%+@**# for taking this long to find them.
Time wins again.
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It turns out the whole crew lives within fifty miles.
Now I feel like an a%$#*%~ for taking this long to find them.
Well, none of them reached out in all this time, so you still get the kudos.
Another no-plans weekend. I might build a "bookshelf" for the kids' fort that they've set up under our back patio.
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It turns out the whole crew lives within fifty miles.
Now I feel like an a%$#*%~ for taking this long to find them.
Well, none of them reached out in all this time, so you still get the kudos.
Another no-plans weekend. I might build a "bookshelf" for the kids' fort that they've set up under our back patio.
In fairness, I had a nickname and only a few people actually knew my name, and my last name is Welsh, so it's not the easiest name to spell.
I've lived in this town since 1994 (except for one year in St. Louis and then moved right back). I didn't find out I had a nephew who lives here and not far away from my house until sometime around 2013.
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Games here at Sweet Home Calabama are still on a hiatus. What is everyone else doing this weekend?
I had a very fun and very busy weekend!
Friday: We had my daughter and her fiancee over for our standing Friday Night Take-Out. This week, we ordered from our favorite Indian restaurant.
Saturday: I GMed a one-shot game of Dungeon World set in the campaign setting The Last Days of Angelkite for Magpie Games' 10th Anniversary online mini-convention. Tech issues gave us a bit of a late start, so we only got about two hours of actual play in. While we didn't get to the cliffhanger I'd planned, we did have a really fun time. The highlight: The party discovered the still-smouldering ruins of a small farming village right at dusk, with signs of a massacre but no bodies. They then found a tamped-down area in a wheat field with about a dozen hastily-dug graves, each with a body under only about a foot of dirt... but just as the sun set, the bodies all rose from the graves and attacked!
That evening, we had some old friends over for dinner. It was the first dinner party we've held in over a year! My wife and I and our friends are now three weeks after our last COVID vaccination dose, so it's officially safe to have them over as guests. Man, I've missed having visitors!
Sunday: We live in a wine-producing area. My wife and I and a different couple who are also vaccinated spent the day at a Wine Trail event called "Bacon on the Lake-In": We went to six wineries and had a tasting at each, alongside a small plate of food. The food theme was "Bacon." My wife and I ended up buying a case-and-a-half of wine from the various wineries. We also stopped at a farm distillery... but it's a mushroom farm. They distill their own vodka from locally-grown maize, and produce a line of mushroom-infused vodkas. I'd never had anything quite like those, but they were amazing, so we also brought home three bottles!
All-in-all: A great weekend!
Howdy, all. No game again this week at Sweet Home Calabama, which is fine because I just got my second COVID shot and I'm waiting on the mutation to begin. What's everyone else up to?
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Good luck with your new superpowers, Cal! Here's hoping you get something useful. Not something like invisibility-when-nobody-is-looking.
My daughter's birthday is today, so we're doing a few fun things for her. I have a few projects to finish up if I have time.
I've really enjoyed Wandavision and Falcon and Winter Soldier. I haven't seen today's episode of the latter yet, though.
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Oh yeah! Today is the day that I'm considered fully immunized! I think this means that I never have to wash my hands again! I'm pretty sure I have that right.
One of the projects I mentioned is creating a character for a PbP recruitment on this board. The GM said that a full character sheet isn't necessary, just a fleshed-out concept, which I've given, but other people in the Recruitment thread are posting full concepts, so I'm wondering if that will hurt my chances of being selected. I've asked the GM if what I posted was sufficient for a submission, but I think they missed my question.
If I have time, I could just go ahead and create the character, but that's rarely a fast process for me, because of my personality and the gigantic number of options PF has. Plus, this campaign is for gestalt PCs and is using the Elephant in the Room feat tax rules, which is added complexity. And to be honest, I really don't want to take the time to create such a complex (for me) and specialized PC for a recruitment that has a lot of submissions already, meaning it's less likely I'll even be selected.
Today was really nice weather-wise, so I did a bunch of gardening: Mainly getting our front beds ready for planting, putting down mulch in the between-bed paths, and erecting the climbing trellises for the tomatoes.
I won't actually plant anything until mid-May and the danger of killing frosts has mostly passed. I mean... we had snow for much of the past week!
As for gaming, I had a pretty busy week!
Monday: Our Pathfinder game resumed with the start of The Curse of the Lady's Light. Our GM decided not to use the Web Enhncement, so we didn't encounter the intrigue in Magnimar nor did we have any trouble on our three-day journey by ship to the Lady's Cape.
Tuesday: Our game of Rapscallion continued! Our crew of scurvy pirates are in Lastport, and caught wind of a high-stakes card game at the home of the Harbor Master. My character, the Swashbuckler, decided to take it upon himself to case the place, as we have a little heist to pull off while we're at the game: We need to retrieve an enchanted undergarment from the Harbor Master's wife's bedroom... Thus began "The Negligéeper"!
Thursday: I ran Session three of my conversion of the PF module The Godsmouth Heresy in the RPG Trophy Gold. It was super-fun!
This morning, I had been scheduled to run a one-shot game called "Batman: The Final Rogue" for a local online comic convention. Alas, as of game-time, I only had one player sign up, and this game really needs at least at least three players (facilitator included), so I had to cancel.
I hate that you had to cancel the game. You were pretty excited about it. But hey, the "negligeeper!" That's a lot of win right there! LOL
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I had a pretty sweet week at work, we got about 15 pallets of pavers down with another 20 to go.
We recently got a playstation 5 so I'll be playing with that all weekend. Next weekend we get our first doses of covid-19 vaccines and then after we're fully vaccinated I'm starting a Call of Cthulhu game with one or two of my brothers. And since he's such a big fan of Lovecraft and Boothill I got him the Old West setting Call of Cthulhu book.
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I played Boot Hill a few times back in the AD&D 1e days. I had a blast every time. My character was Clem Whitaker, Scourge of the West. He was the invention of my DM and was an alternate universe version of my Anti-Paladin character.
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My brother still has all the books, I figure if nothing else Down Darker Trails will provide some fun setting material and inspiration for his Boothill games.
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I don't play a ton of Call of Cthulhu these days, but I did pick up the supplement Harlem Unbound a few months ago. It details New York City during the Harlem Renaissance. It's fantastic! It's really making we want to run a mythos game in that setting, but using one of my preferred cosmic horror RPGs: either Cthulhu Dark or Trail of Cthulhu.
As for Old West stuff, I was in a "Weird West" campaign back in 2019 that was set in a fantasy reinterpretation of the American West. We used Fate Core as the system. It worked pretty well, but we should have done more noodling on the game mechanics for magic.
You'd probably also like Terror Australis.
Well... this is an interesting development!
I just got off a Zoom call with a friendly acquaintance of mine who's a published indie RPG game designer. He asked me if I want to collaborate on a new TTRPG he's designing!
He asked me because he knows I'm a fan and long-time player/GM of Pathfinder who still loves the setting but is no longer all that keen on the rules themselves.
His design goal is to publish a GM-less story-game where the players could pick up a modern fantasy RPG module and more-or-less run it straight out of the book without having to do a bunch of stat conversion. For the rules, he wants to use the Firebrands system by Vincent & Maguey Baker.
Firebrands is an RPG consisting entirely of a bunch of minigames that are each specifically targeted at a particular kind of scene. There's no unified mechanic, although one of our other design goals will be to incorporate d20 rolling. (We'll probably use an OSR-style "Roll under your stat" resolution.)
I told him: "Hell to the yeah!!"
We're hoping to be able to publish a playable beta version in itch.io for their "Community Game Jam", which means we'll need to submit by the end of June.
I'm pretty stoked about this!
That's awesome, Hal!
Nice! Definitely keep us updated.
The gaming drought continues at Sweet Home Calabama. What's it like where you are?
This week was really good for gaming!
Monday: Played in our PF1e game of "Shattered Star". We're on the Lady's Cape and have made peaceful contact with a tribe of boggards... our gnome rogue took "Boggard" as a language at character creation as a joke so he could make fart noises and claim it's a language, but it came in really handy! We are acting as peacemakers between warring factions, and learned that their priest of their horrific frog-god is dead. My cleric of Desna is now working to try to convert the boggards into revering the Starsong, and to possibly shift the tribe's alignment from chaotic evil to chaotic neutral...
Tuesday: Played in our Rapscallion game. The "Negligéeper" is in full swing!
Thursday: I ran the fourth and final session of my conversion of The Godsmouth Heresy to the RPG Trophy Gold. It was really, really fun, and my players very much enjoyed it. Next sesson, we'll start with a round of the "Hearthfire" downtime rules and then we'll start the next incursion.
As usual, I'm not planning to do any gaming on the weekend so as to spend time with my non-gamer spouse. She has some work-work she needs to do, so I'll probably work on that game design project while she's in her office.
our gnome rogue took "Boggard" as a language at character creation as a joke so he could make fart noises and claim it's a language
That's definitely a person I'd want at my table.
Not much going on for me this weekend. Plenty of chores to do.
The grizzled, battle-weary game master sat on the rickety chair just to the side of the saloon doorway, leaning it back against the wall with the front legs of the cane bottom chair a few inches above the old and warped boards that made up the porch. The wind was hot and dry and carried with it large icosahedron-shaped tumbleweeds with natural 1s showing on every side. "How much longer is this dry spell going to last?" he thought to himself as he absent-mindedly polished his trusty old six-sider. With a sigh, he put it back in its holster, something he'd long ago fashioned from an old Crown Royal bag, its once rich colors now faded and the seams starting to fray. Lowering the front legs of the chair down he stood and walked back inside the saloon, fishing into his pocket for a couple of old tarnished coppers. He met the barkeeper's gaze then slapped them down on the bar and in a gruff but low voice said, "Mountain Dew. No ice."
So, there's my whole weekend summed up right there. What about the rest of you?
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You're time traveling to the old west to invent Mountain Dew.
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You're time traveling to the old west to invent Mountain Dew.
Somebody hadda do it...
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You're time traveling to the old west to invent Mountain Dew.Somebody hadda do it...
Personally, I'd rather go back in time and assassinate the creator of Mountain Dew, but we all know that would only lead to Methtastic Dew or something. Time travelling is a cruel mistress.
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Sunday is Mother's Day. Call your moms.
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No gaming for me this past weekend: My wife and I went on our first road trip since December 2019! We drove down to NYC to spend Mother's Day with her mom, and also to attend our niece's First Communion mass, and subsequent party.
It was a whole lot of fun!
The only reason we decided to attend is because we're vaccinated against COVID, as are all of the adults in the family.
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PFS was a rousing success Sunday night, after an epic dragon battle in Rise. I was able to run in person thanks to our remote player bowing out, which lead to some hilarious handouts being found in my prep folder. The game was derailed for a bit thanks to that. This coming weekend is our Disney World trip, so I'll be hanging out at the resort rather than gaming for the most part.
Another weekend in the diceless void...
Whatchoo got goin' on?
My past week in gaming...
Our Pathfinder "Shattered Star" game continues! Our party has found their way to the dungeons below the Lady's Light and have found signs that a troop of Gray Maidens have already come this way, but we haven't yet encountered them directly. We found a strange sarcophagus...
Our Rapscallion game also continues! Our band of salty sea-dogs we are searching for the whereabouts of Captain Penelope, one of the notorious Pirate Kings, who hasn't been seen in several years. She is rumored to have been the most recent possessor of the Warden's Sextant, one of a trio of enchanted navigational aids that are supposed to grant a ship passage through the Warden's Waters, a vast area of the sea plagued by a permanent maelstrom and sea monsters. We found a map to an uncharted island where Captain Penelope was supposed to have a secret lair. After fighting a sea serpent, we found the island and anchored in a cove with an abandoned pier, where found the ruins of a small keep... and a trail that led deeper into the temperate rain forest that covered the island. The trail led to a strange village of buildings sized for people that are ten feet tall... and realized that it's a village of yetis (which we immediately dubbed "Yetisburg.") It had been established that yeti pelts are currently high fashion in Queensport, and yeti-hunting was a dangerous but lucrative business... but now we know that yetis are reclusive intelligent (and telepathic!) creatures that just want to be left alone! We're hoping that they can give us a lead on Capt. Penelope next session.
And my Trophy Gold series continued last night! We are in our second session of the incursion, "Hester's Mill", where our desperate treasure-hunters learned that the villagers didn't actually defeat the tyrant usurper Lord Ghaldren in the field of battle... they had summoned a horde of demons to fight that battle for them, but then had to pay a heavy price that resulted in the town's abandonment. They crossed paths with a cryptic hunter who may be more than he appears, and investigated Gallows Hill, which they found infested with ghouls! And what is that... thing watching them from the trees?
I'm actually following the progress of your games like my mom did "Days of Our Lives".
By the way, your "Spirit of 77" playlist is terrific. I had never heard of the band Starcastle before. They have a new fan now.
I'm actually following the progress of your games like my mom did "Days of Our Lives".
By the way, your "Spirit of 77" playlist is terrific. I had never heard of the band Starcastle before. They have a new fan now.
Glad you like it!
I'd never heard of them, either. I found them by searching for "Prog Rock bands 1977" and they came up.
I love that the song sounds like putting the music of Yes, Emerson Lake and Palmer, and Kansas into a blender...
I'm actually following the progress of your games like my mom did "Days of Our Lives".
By the way, your "Spirit of 77" playlist is terrific. I had never heard of the band Starcastle before. They have a new fan now.
Glad you like it!
I'd never heard of them, either. I found them by searching for "Prog Rock bands 1977" and they came up.
I love that the song sounds like putting the music of Yes, Emerson Lake and Palmer, and Kansas into a blender...
Exactly! I listened to the whole record later. It was seriously the ultimate 70s prog rock band because they combined everyone from the era together on one album.
Greetings and salivations! The Great Nerd Drought of 2021 continues unabated here at Sweet Home Calabama. I won't go into it because frankly, At the suggestion (direct orders, actually) from my therapist, I'm trying to avoid posting negative stuff as much as I can. My group is foaming at the mouth to get together and make the shiny rocks sing their clickety-clackety songs but at present, we just don't know when that will happen. In the meantime, a former player sent me a set of dice from Only Crits that have little rubber duckies inside them. How can one be sad with rubber duckies lying around?
So, how about the rest of you'ns? Gaming, gardening, goat-roping, or anything else going on this weekend?
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My past week in gaming...
Our Shattered Star game continued, with our party exploring a strange artificial underground river while riding in magical canal boats. We docked on a small island with a beautiful crystal statue... which animated and attacked us. That was a knock-down, drag-out fight that took pretty much the whole session.
It also reminded me why I'm no longer a fan of D&D-style combat. The combat took two hours of real time to resolve, but I thought was extremely boring. Most of it was, "I swing... *rolls*... and miss." Or "I cast a spell... creature either saves for no effect or is immune... and nothing happens."
Both our Rapscallion and my Trophy Gold games were cancelled this week due to various things that prevented a quorum from assembling.
I received two pieces of gaming material in the mail!
My copy of Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft for D&D 5E arrived! I don't really play 5E these days, but I've always loved the Ravenloft setting. Also: I have a huge amount of respect to the contributors of this book... including ex-Paizo writers Wes Schneider, Crystal Frasier, and Jessica Price. Other authors I really respect include Whitney Beltran, Ajit George, Jeremy Crawford, Banana Chan, and others. I haven't had a chance to sit down and read it yet, but I'm really excited to do so! A quick skim shows that the book has a LOT of generic content for dark fantasy/horror gaming that's not system-specific, so a lot of this should be easy to adapt to other games. (I'm considering starting up a Trophy Gold game set in Ravenloft...)
The other thing is one I purchased on a bourbon-infused whim. The Green Knight RPG is a product of A24 Films, as a tie-in to their forthcoming dark-fantasy film The Green Night, a retelling of the Arthurian legend of the same name. The game came in an old-school box set that was printed to look like it's been distressed over the years. The box, however, didn't contain all that much: a 32-page stapled rulebook/module, a folded glossy legal-sized one-sided map, four glossy character sheets and a d20. The die at least seems high-qualtiy: It's black with green numbers, and I believe was manufactured under contract by Q-Workshop. I haven't dug into the rules yet, but at first glance, it looks like it only uses the d20 with a neo-OSR "roll under" mechanic. In hindsight, I probably shouldn't have wasted $35 on a game I'm probably never going to play, but I have spent far more on dumber things in the past.
As for weekend plans: I am taking my first out-of-state road trip this weekend, leaving tomorrow morning. I'm heading to New Hampshire to visit family, including my 81-year-old mother. We talk on the phone weekly, but this will be the fist time we've seen each other since December 2019.