{"id":10849,"date":"2007-06-16T20:54:09","date_gmt":"2007-06-17T03:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/06\/16\/there-egypt-did-i-ever-tell-you-about-the-time.html"},"modified":"2007-06-16T20:54:09","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T03:54:09","slug":"there_egypt_did_i_ever_te","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/16\/there_egypt_did_i_ever_te.html","title":{"rendered":"“There — Egypt! Did I ever tell you about the time —?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Played our second session of the Primetime Adventures “Strange Allies<\/a>” last night with Doyce and Margie and Randy. Great fun, dealing with a desert djinn in Egypt, right in time to win the Second Battle of El Alamein. <\/p>\n

The episode synopsis (it’s Ep 1, since last time was the Pilot) is here<\/a>. I think we’re getting the hang of the conflict system, and I, at least, felt like it was a riproaring, interesting, creative, fulfilling story — even though Roger’s getting more and more scared (and even though it wasn’t a “big episode” for him).<\/p>\n

It’s almost as much fun doing the logs as doing the game (but not quite as much). Wikipedia is my friend, and coming up with all the historical cross-references after (and even during) the game is triffic fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Played our second session of the Primetime Adventures “Strange Allies” last night with Doyce and Margie and Randy. 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