We were scheduled to play this upcoming Friday, but Dad may be out of town. Eric’s wife Tonya broke her hand; Dad will help her while she’s recovering from surgery– if she has surgery. Since she’s near Riverside, he won’t make it back in time for Friday’s game if she does need an operation.
I’ll try and keep you posted.
UPDATE: So far, it looks like she’ll be able to dodge surgery, so Dad’s still in town.
New log entry is up. Let us know if you’ll have any problem making the game.
Also, if you want to scheme between sessions on how we want to deal with our inconvenient would be king, we can knock around ideas in comments.
FOOD NOTE: Dad has offered to make jambalaya for us, since pizza has been disagreeing with him. If that doesn’t sound good (say, for the kids) we can call for pizza as well.
I flew to Las Vegas to join Chris and Jarred at David and Nicole’s for a weekend of board gaming. We started from the moment we got to Dave’s house, and played through the weekend. We got in a lot of games…
Saturday we started with Blind Justice, where you play trial lawyers in the 80s. It’s a solid game; Jarred continued his winning streak, making it to the end while we were still struggling in district court.
We also played a few games of Guillotine, which was good silly fun. Many heads were collected…
I’ll be out of town this weekend (and Jennifer will probably be sleeping the sleep of the righteous). We’re next on Friday, October 27th, unless something crops up. If something does, let us know.
(I’ll put the loot list on the wiki, so people can make comments & discuss individual items. When I do, I’ll edit in a link here.)
UPDATE: As you’ve probably already noted, I haven’t gotten around to the loot list, though I did get up the recap. Hopefully I’ll get the loot up next week.
I’ve updated the game log, but I’m a little hazy on the exact sequence of when we went up to heal the books. I think we did that first…
Let us know if you’ll have a problem making it Friday.
The game log has been updated, but I think I may be missing an early room or two.
Hopefully we’re all eager to play and able to show– let us know if you’ll have a problem.
Aim for an ending Good advice for creating a punchy game with a strong conclusion, without railroading.
EnWorld thread with lots of good game pitches. Specifically for a Chicago Gameday, but the pitches are well crafted.
Is D&D getting overwhelmingly complex? An interesting discussion.
[All Systems] Process of Character Creation. Lots of specific detail– great for inspiration and a teaser for lots of specific games.
[Design Theory] Fun outside of conflict scenes, about character development scenes and other places where the rules get thin.
Not roleplaying, but…
FUMBBL :: Online Blood Bowl League. From this post, Do you fumbbl?
Gameblog. A Finnish guy babbles about his board gaming, much like my After Actions.
We gathered a different group tonight; Emily and Jennifer D were able to show, since I wasn’t scheduling against their classes. Unfortunately, Jerret and Dad were both feeling ill, so they weren’t able to make it. My Jennifer was much peppier and joined us for the first couple of games.
We started with a game of Killer Bunnies. After mighy struggles, a micro black hole and other warfare, Jennifer D had the magic carrot.
Then we moved on to Medici. I did pretty well on the first day of trading; on the second Emily and I both crossed 100. The game wound up ending much closer than it looked after the first couple of rounds– I think we each finished between 120 and 145, with Emily the victor.
We finished up with a fun game of Fluxx— after some play and a lot of resets and low draw rates, Ben finally pushed himself and me to victory with the goal 5 Keepers.
Playing Ball— good advice on how you can enhance the enjoyment of everyone at the table.
Zombie Nirvana, a weblog with interesting downloads. The d20 CE seems like a Perfect 20 attempt, but it might have other stealable stuff.
Transitioning to Collaborative Roleplaying. An article about gradually sharing the GM’s responsiblities around the group.
Collaborative Campaign Setting, a huge world where everyone contributes independent bits. Hardwired d20, but it’ll be interesting to see what happens.
From “Frame me a scene”, great ways to frame a good scene.
The rule of three about description in RPGs; used by Zelazny when writing. You can extend that idea, such as: Detailing planets like Lucas does in Star Wars: “Pick a dominant color. What does the society seem like on the surface? What is one thing it defies expectations?”
Quirky alternate character generation for Amber diceless. Very parlor game like… it’d probably take a while, but it could be very cool. (Part one of a larger, not yet ready system.)
An invasion of family will keep us occupied this weekend, so we’re looking forward to Friday the 29th for our next get together. The Dragons Talons exploits will be updated in their log, hopefully soonish.
Let us know if you have any problem with the 29th or anything else.