{"id":6933,"date":"2004-11-28T13:37:08","date_gmt":"2004-11-28T20:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/11\/28\/various-and-sundry-gaming-notes.html"},"modified":"2004-11-28T13:37:08","modified_gmt":"2004-11-28T20:37:08","slug":"various_and_sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/28\/various_and_sun.html","title":{"rendered":"Various and sundry gaming notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

More weekend miscelleny …<\/p>\n

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  1. Friday night was the wrap-up of Doyce’s Grimm Therapy<\/a> game (and, for the nonce, Sorcerer<\/a>). Nice conclusion, as a younger brother was rescued from Faerie (against his will), and the fiendish plots of Doctor Blackheart (who turned out to be an attention-needy demon of my own character’s) were foiled … for now …\n

    When we were done, Doyce said, “Well, that can be the end of it, or we can go one more session, because I can think of something really horrible that could happen.” Hrm. No need to play through Really Horrible Stuff, as far as I’m concerned. And, of course, there’s nothing to say that we won’t come back to this some time in the future.<\/p>\n

  2. Saturday was Margie’s game<\/a>, and that was a lot of fun, too. Some very big battles (three ships against three ships, and, later, 40-odd camel-riding corsairs against the four of us and nine other NPCs), so we ran pretty late — but we were successful beyond any expectation (including the module writer’s), due to (a) truly crappy rolls for the GM, and (b) a web wand that we (mis)used to great effect. <\/p>\n

    Margie still handled it well (large group actions are never easy, esp. in D20), though we probably needed (a) more use of the battle map, and (b) a bit more sanity on our part.<\/p>\n

    At the very least it let us get rid of some Thanksgiving leftovers (more about which anon).<\/p>\n

  3. In the shuffles between PCs, I’d lost track of the die roller I’d been preferring (Amicron Dice Roller<\/a>) and could only find one (RPG Dice<\/a>) that works similarly, but less prettily. I found it again, but also this one (Aroooo’s RPG Dice Roller<\/a>) that looks pretty nice, and has some dedicated screens for a slew of systems (albeit a kind of clunky Filemaker interface). FYI.<\/p>\n
  4. Today (Sunday) we’d dithered between starting a new serial in my IDC<\/a> game (which was going to be the first one that I’d actually built from scratch). Problem was, I’ve not gotten the module finished. During the course of Doyce and Margie’s games, I scribbled quite a few notes around the first major scene (which would probably run longer than a single sitting, anyway), but wasn’t quite happy about it. Plus, starting a new module with the holidays about to disrupt everything didn’t sound like a good idea. <\/p>\n

    So Doyce, at the last second (by phone, after Midnight), agreed to finally run us in some Dogs in the Vinyard<\/a> action.<\/p>\n

    Alas, snow ensued, discouraging Randy from coming down. And, to be honest, everyone has some RL stuff to get done (and cleaned and buffed and polished and put away and set up). So it’s a gameless day today, and likely just as well. \ud83d\ude42<\/ol><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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