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My weekend was...
Friday night - play an NPC in a 5E game with a couple of coworkers in suburban Cincinnati.
Saturday - drive home in a snowstorm. Get stuck for 2 hours behind an accident blocking all west-bound traffic. Stop at Zelda's house to crash.
Sunday - start to drive the rest of the way home, stop to get a tire patched. Get home and played Pathfinder: Kingmaker on the computer for a few hours before crashing.
Monday - take the day off work. I had worked or driven multiple hours for work on 5 straight weekends. I needed a day off.
So this weekend...Um...probably RotRL with Aiymi. Zelda is going to be out of state for the weekend.
Glad you're feeling better, Cal!
My Wednesdy night D&D game got canceled again this week, but my Thursday night game is on.
We're play-testing a new game called Swords of the Serpentine, which is based on the GUMSHOE system.
Lookg forward to trying it out! [/QUOTE
Thanks! I've never played anything with the Gumshoe system. Keep us up to date with how the game goes.
My weekend was...
Friday night - play an NPC in a 5E game with a couple of coworkers in suburban Cincinnati.
Saturday - drive home in a snowstorm. Get stuck for 2 hours behind an accident blocking all west-bound traffic. Stop at Zelda's house to crash.
Sunday - start to drive the rest of the way home, stop to get a tire patched. Get home and played Pathfinder: Kingmaker on the computer for a few hours before crashing.
Monday - take the day off work. I had worked or driven multiple hours for work on 5 straight weekends. I needed a day off.
So this weekend...Um...probably RotRL with Aiymi. Zelda is going to be out of state for the weekend.
At least you weren't part of the accident!
At least you weren't part of the accident!My weekend was...
Friday night - play an NPC in a 5E game with a couple of coworkers in suburban Cincinnati.
Saturday - drive home in a snowstorm. Get stuck for 2 hours behind an accident blocking all west-bound traffic. Stop at Zelda's house to crash.
Sunday - start to drive the rest of the way home, stop to get a tire patched. Get home and played Pathfinder: Kingmaker on the computer for a few hours before crashing.
Monday - take the day off work. I had worked or driven multiple hours for work on 5 straight weekends. I needed a day off.
So this weekend...Um...probably RotRL with Aiymi. Zelda is going to be out of state for the weekend.
No, but I did get there before the state police had their traffic redirection and what-not set up. Semi was on its roof under an overpass.
Wow!
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We're supposed to get some snow this weekend, I'm pretty excited.
We're supposed to have below freezing temperatures next week but no snow or any other inclement weather is forecast. I'm disappointed.
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Fortunately I'm well compensated for every snowfall so the more the merrier.
Cool!
Howdy y'all. What's going on this weekend? No game for me and my group as it's our "off" weekend. What about the rest of us?
Yeah, if you don't enjoy the group it's just no fun at all. Skip it and day drink.
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Aiymi's solo RotRL campaign in just a few minutes.
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My wife, daughter, and I drove down to my wife's folks' place in Brooklyn today. Our daughter's winter break is over, and she returns to college in Westchester County tomorrow.
We beat the big winter storm that's supposed to dump two feet of snow on our town. The storm is supposed to be a rain event here in NYC... the temperature is in the mid-30s.
As for gaming... As an exercise for my game-design muscles, I'm working on converting some of the PFRPG classes to other game systems. Tonight's project: Converting the Witch base class for PFRPG into a playbook for Dungeon World.
I'm absolutely no good at things like converting classes or creating them. I'm not great at building classes mechanically, but I can add all sorts of flavor to them. I guess I look at them as living beings rather than a pile of numbers.
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Yup, we got about 6-8 inches of snow, so yup, I worked 17.5 hours.
Aiymi's solo RotRL campaign in just a few minutes.
How was the solo game?
Aiymi's solo RotRL campaign in just a few minutes.How was the solo game?
The highlight was going up a creature named Koruvus. He's a medium-sized three armed goblin. Originally written he's a 2nd level fighter. I changed him to a 3rd level barbarian and tweaked his stats some. The characters were 3rd level before this encounter.
In the middle of the fight, right after he hit them with his breath weapon...yeah...Aiymi had an idea. Due to some details and background knowledge the characters received from Shalelu earlier in the campaign, her wolf shaman druid figured out that this was Koruvus, the goblin champion of the Seven Tooth Tribe. And earlier they found a temple to Lamashtu in the catacombs. The druid put two and two together and went with some bluff...
In her best Mother-Is-Angry voice...
"Koruvus! Stop that right now! Lamashtu wishes to talk to you!"
Koruvus is not a bright creature. WIS 8, INT 3. He failed his sense motive check (even though he shouldn't have received one while raging, he's a very devout creature of Lamashtu, and that's the exact string that Aiymi decided to pull on, so kudos to her), and ran his happy little butt down to the shrine to have a conversation with "mother". Meanwhile, the party took some time to heal up a little and set up an ambush for his return.
It didn't go well for him when he got back.
LOL I'm sure. Sounds like a great time!
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Tonight's installment of Waterdeep: Dragon Heist is cancelled due to the GM's boss sending him on an unexpected business trip to NYC tomorrow morning.
And I'm really looking forward to tomorrow night's session 2 of ourSwords of the Serpentine playtest!
I have no clue.
Zelda's youngest is 12 today, so I might be over there tonight, but we're expecting snow on Friday, Sunday, and Monday, so the weather is really going to dictate it all.
I'll be working Sat/Sun/Mon but at least I get to go shopping with my mom tomorrow :)
Might also suck it up, get up early, and go hit the local lodge's SFS scenario before work Saturday afternoon - still thinking on that one.
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Swords of the Serpentine was a blast last night!
We completed the formal playtest two-part adventure, and I've submitted the player feedback form. We're having so much fun with the characters, the rules, and the setting, that we've deiceded to keep playing it!
The rules and the setting together really nail the "swords-and-sorcery" feel. As we played it, the adventure would have fit perfectly in a Lankhmar anthology or a collection of Thieves' World short stories: We had a big fight on the high seas against pirates, a mystery involving somebody buying up human corpses, political intrigue, research in an ancienct library containing magically-corrupted tomes, and second big fight against cultists who'd summoned a wierd hideous monster.
In this world, sorcery is real, but casting spells causes eldritch forces from beyond to gain a toe-hold in reality, which corrupts both the world and the sorcerer's mind/body/soul. (I am playing a sorcerer.)
I am really, really looking forward to the final version of this game, and I am planning to buy both the electronic and physical books the day it's released.
As for the weekend...
My wife has been in Chicago on business this week, and is flying home tonight. I'm driving to Syracuse to pick her up. Tomorrow, we have an all-day pizza cooking class at a local bakery that looks to be a whole lot of fun!
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Tomorrow night is our regular game night (every other weekend for us). They're still in the Land of the Lost and trying to find a way home. They defeated The Colour Out of Space (but only just barely) and in doing so gained the trust of the Tengu Druid who had been stuck in the Land for 15 years. He'd made it his home and the domain he protected so he didn't want to leave The Land, as he called it. But he did give them directions to where they might find a Pylon by which they might escape.
It's in a fortress inside a vast valley called by the Druid The Great Grave. The fortress is the home of someone he called "He Who Sits Above the Dead". So they have to make their way through the valley to the fortress, dealing with encounters along the way and then getting past the BBEG, who I made an Antipaladin who had been exiled there for several years. He's carved out a small fiefdom of sorts with the aid of the Sleestak he's subjugated and is aided by a Sleestak Cleric. I really want to thank Indagare and Asmodeus' Advocate for their help in making the Sleestak a Pathfinder compatible race and creating the Sleestak Cleric. I think my guys will finally have a challenge they can't just cake walk over.
Stay tuned!
What are y'all up to this weekend?
NWN quests, mostly. Ran my event last night - a party of adventurers was commissioned by a War Wizard to investigate islands created by a Far Realm spire that erected itself out in the sea offshore from Suzail. Went down, fought aberrations and mutants, had a telepathic conversation with a Far Realm spy, and found the core of the island and decided "nope screw this" and shattered the island's root, destroying its anchor and sinking it then running back to their ship to return to the safety of the mainland.
Going to be in another one tonight, this time playerside. My hellbred elf paladin/swordmage is part of a group of adventurers who were tricked into a ritual that sent them to the Abyss, where they had to fight in an arena against captive devils for the fiends' amusement, then escaped with the aid of a treasonous balor who had a grudge against the arena/prison's master. Doing so locked us into a debt to said balor, which he cashed in to point us toward a cult associated with the master of his rival (he has yet to reveal who that master is) and ordered us to destroy it. My paladin is pretty cool with smashing up fiendish cults in general, but is probably going to be researching how to boot this balor in his own backside once she's paid her end of the debt.
Sunday is going to be relaxing day, as it's the only day I don't have to work. Overtime season is agony.
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Getting ready for 7-24 inches of snow arriving Monday. (I'm assuming it's gone up since last I checked)
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Bring more snow! Bring more snow! Bring more snow!
I really, really am in the mood for a recreation of the Blizzard of '78.
Also Zelda and the kids came over last night, so we had a Ruins of Azlant session.
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On the plus side, the boss gave me a Dave and Buster's Power Card, so if I survive until next weekend I have somewhere to take the family to celebrate our survival.
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What are y'all up to this weekend?
My wife isn't a gamer, and she often works out-of-town, so weekends tend not to have much gaming going on for me.
Today has been cooking-focused. As a Christmas present, my wife bought us a cooking class at a local organic bakery. The class was: PIZZA! We learned a bunch of techniques for making pizza crust and baking pizzas. It was a hands-on class, so we each made three or four small or personal-sized pizzas, and we all ate some to comment on them. I make homemade pizza pretty often, but I learned a LOT of new tricks. And we met some really nice people, too!
We brought home three-and-a-half pizzas and seven balls of pizza dough for later.
Tomorrow, our church is holding its seventh annual chili cook-off after the service. Both my wife and I have entries ready. I made my vegan black bean chili, and my wife made a chili con carne inspired by all of the cities she's been to for work the past year. Tomorrow morning, we'll heat up the chilis and then and put them in slow cookers to keep warm during the service.
Pizza and chili...I'll be right over.
Crap. I'd written out a long, detailed post about how my game in the Land of the Lost went last night then suddenly it just disappeared as I was writing it. So, being too lazy to rewrite everything, this is what happened:
Party attacked by a Titanoboa in the middle of the night. Nearly lost the Investigator.
Party enters the valley called "The Great Grave" and beat the tar out of a Hellfire Behir. I think that if it had gotten a better initiative roll things would have been different.
Enter the keep of the individual known as "He Who Sits Above the Dead", an Antipaladin who had been trapped in the Land for quite some time and had grown a bit starkers.
Defeated the Sleestak scrubs. Explored the keep, finding nothing but Sleestak tracks coming and going. So deeper into the keep they went.
Found the throne room, which contained nothing but a 20' tall dais made of black marble surrounded by piles of corpses in various stages of decay. It smelled bad.
Sitting upon the throne was a Sleestak with golden scales and wearing a white breastplate. Immediately the Slayer vaults up the stairs and attacks. The Sleestak (actually an Altrusian, the forerunners of the Sleestak) turns to dust upon being struck by the Slayer.
Confused the rest of the party mill around when suddenly they can't hear anything at all. The Antipaladin had silence cast upon himself as the focal point and had moved into the room invisibly. He surprised attacked the Priest (3PP class) and nearly killed him using Improved Vital Strike with one blow.
The fight was on. The spellcasters were helpless because of the Silence spell. Karakhul the Antipaladin wades into their midst using Great Cleave to eventually attack everyone. The spellcasters retreated to the doorway out of the room when they realized they could hear again.
Spells were cast.
The REAL Altrusian appears and attacks the Priest. The Altrusian Sleestak is a Cleric of Orcus, having been converted by Karakhul in years past. The Priest is not looking well at this point.
More fighting. More Vital Strikes.
Finally, after a pretty harrowing combat they bring down both Karakhul and the Cleric. They find the Pylon, figure out how to use it, and go home.
They arrive home and find it's 15 years into the future and their home city is under siege by a great army made up of many races. They find out the general of this army is not who they thought he would be.
Whew. That was still pretty long. But that's it.
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What are everyone's plans for the weekend?
For me...
Last night's D&D 5e Dragon Heist game was fun, even though we didn't get into any fights! The PCs have acquired the deed to an abandoned tavern in Waterdeep, and we've been working to fix it up so as to re-open it under our management. Of course... after sinking 1000 gp into renovations, we realized that it's haunted by the ghost of its previous owner! At the same time, our earlier exploits got the attention of several factions, and we've been contacted by some of the movers-and-shakers of Waterdeep. Plus: My character went to the opera. She loved it.
Tonight's Swords of the Serpentine game is canceled because the GM's wife slipped on the ice in their driveway this morning and broke her ankle. Ouch!
At the invitation of a friend, my wife and I are going to a local contra dance tomorrow night! With a live Americana band! Yee-haw!
And sometime this weekend, I'm planning to do a little research for one of the games I'm going to run at this year's PaizoCon: I'm watching Smokey and the Bandit! (Also on deck for more research: I'm going to watch Convoy.)
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We've got the Giantslayer group this weekend.
And the Giantslayer group is adding kids...what am I doing?
This is my group's weekend off. Our next game night is scheduled for the 9th of February, though there's a small chance I'll postpone it to go watch my son's band in Little Rock. My brother is planning to go to that show, but I'm torn between hanging out with him or gaming.
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Savage Tide should be restarting this weekend!
The same thing I do every weekend.
Try to take over the world?
Working tomorrow night and then probably just chilling at home and working on PbP stuff Sat/Sun/Mon. I do need to get over to visit my parents during that time while I'm off and I'm technically signed up to play in Sunday's local SFS scenario but it probably won't happen since everyone suddenly remembered that that's also Super Bowl Sunday.
The same thing I do every weekend.
This group was 6 adults in their 40's. Looks like we're adding 3, maybe 4 12-15 year olds to the mix.
I don't know if I'm good enough to do this.
The hardest part will be keeping the younglings engaged. Are they related to any of the adult players? If so maybe they can help ride shotgun.
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Yes, kids of the parents.
Contra dancing last night was a bust. We were told that GPS lies about the location, but the written directions were also wrong. (They skipped a turn!) We eventually figured it out (via GPS) and got to the location half an hour late. The place was a private home we'd never been to, with no sign (hand-written or otherwise) on the door. It was NOT the home of the person who'd invited us, and we didn't even know the owners' names. We knocked, but nobody answered... possibly because we could hear appropriate music coming from inside. Opening the door and walking in to a stranger's house did not feel appropriate. I tried to call our friend, but we were in the middle of nowhere, and there was no cell signal. After knocking several times and standing in the -2F cold for five minutes, we just drove back home.
So instead of dancing, I made cocktails for two, and we watched some Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on Netflix.
What is "contra dancing"?