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Next Game: Friday February 24th?

Update: Kev comments (in thread)

Unfortunately we are going to be leaving again this week, things did not go well last week so stuff got pushed back. Sorry guys.

Do we want to run a session, and just have Erisorn trapped by duty, his fellow clergy, or something? Does a delay work better for anyone else? (After all, if we’re going to be missing multiple people, we definitely want to cancel.) What does everyone want to do?

Original post follows:
Since it looks like Dad and Kev will be out of town this weekend, we’re looking forward to a solid session two weeks from now. We finished just after dinner with our steely companion; now the Talons are preparing for a descent into the labyrinth beneath the old “Portal Wars” town, to find the secret of the portals– perhaps a hint how to shutdown the Chaos Knight’s bridge and portals.

Prepare for kobolds, bandits, and darker powers deep in the labyrinth.

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Gaming questions

I’m wondering where everybody is on our gaming plate. Right now, I feel pretty happy with our Dragon’s Talons game– I’m enjoying playing Kogor and the interactions of the team. With the missing weeks (especially in January, but also last weekend), I’m interested in some solid play of our characters. I think we’ll have a good March for gaming.

Despite that, I’m also interested in other gaming. First, I’d like to apologize for the way we handled game selection last time; there was too much of cloakroom dealings. It wasn’t clear or straightforward, and I’m largely responsible.

I was interested in a system different from D&D and lobbied pretty hard to ensure that the next game wouldn’t be a version D&D. That was very unfair to Ben– again I apologize. Our current game is going very well– the extra books around the table, Dad’s increasing mastery of the rules, and not playing a spell caster have all been very helpful to me. I’m enjoying the game much more and I’m not burning out on D&D.

I have a few questions:

  • Is anyone else interested in playing other games?
  • How would we work in other games? Alternating weeks, an alternate night, or in some other way?

I was going to leap into asking what people want to run/play… but that would be assuming an answer to the above, wouldn’t it? If there is a desire for playing further games, I’ll start up another thread asking for volunteers, requests, pitches, scheduling issues– whatever remains to be decided, if anything.

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Next week on: The Dragon Talons

Next game night is Friday, February 9th. If you have any problems, just let us know.

As a side note: does the planar invasion theme work for everyone? [Threat to the whole plane vs. Dragon’s Talon’s foe comes from Chaos against them?]

If it does work for you, do you want to deal with the NPCs (etc.) directly– like a bigger version of the Cormyr politics plot? Or do we want to keep our part of the plot to ourselves, with random “chaos streams” errupting across the world– so all those people Erisorn alerted are tied up with their own crossover plane problems?

I (as one player) don’t want to fight beside Eliminster and other characters that greatly overshadow the Dragon’s Talons. In part it’d be due to the loss of spotlight, and in larger part it’d be due to combat complexity, the need to ramp up the bad guys to match, and so on. I don’t mind Kogor’s dying in heroic combat versus a demi-god (or its minions)… but I would mind dying as “collateral damage” in an attack sent at a big ally.

What do you think?

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D&D Resources

UPDATE: Flag Framing and The Conflict Web— two tools to make improvising in any game system easier (and more powerful).

Dragon Generator Makes dragons in two picks and one click! (Works in IE only).

Links for GMs Lots of general GM resources.

EN World’s Online Gaming Toolbox, requires login to see them, but they’re pretty extensive. Unfortunately, some links are broken.

A guide to creating detailed cultures and fantasy races.

Handy PDFs for D&D; mostly variants and interesting house rules.

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Next Game: Friday February 3rd

Dad’s off to Chuck’s to be with him before surgery and during recovery. We’re off for the next two weeks– right now, it looks like we’ll return Friday, February 3rd. That’s quite a hiatus– if there’s anything we need to solve in downtime, we’ve got plenty of time to discuss it.

If you have any problems with making the session– or even suspect that you might– let everyone know as soon as possible.

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Last minute breakthrough

We’re on for gaming Friday night, 6:30 pm. Be there or be a quadrilateral with 4 equal angles and 4 sides of equal length. Both a rectangle and a parallelagram man!

(Seriously, if you can’t make it, call as soon as you know.)

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Because I’m foolish

I understand that there’s some interest in how the In the Face of Darkness campaign ended, where I lay the blame, and the like.

Quite simply, I put most of the blame on me. I should have noticed that two characters had very similar core competencies: Hand-to-Hand butt kicking, and should have encouraged differentiation– or at least discussion– about that overlap. I was also pissed by Mike’s willful slanting of every action to try to harm/ kill/ distrust Wes’s PC based on real world player conflicts.

Over the years I’ve babbled on many sites about the experience.
Defining moments as a GM (see points F&G), Gm’s responsibility in Player v. Player conflict, Breaking Characters, and Character Death. My earliest reaction was here, where Ginger asked “Name one lesson you learned in gaming that you will (hopefully) never have to learn again.”

Plus, I answered a GameWISH abou my opinion on bitching in general, which is a different pet peeve I had.

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Next Game: Friday Jan 6th

As far as I know, the stars have aligned for a January 6th game night. Let me know if I need to brush up on my astrology.

If I remember correctly, we left off in the basement of ther tower, shortly after Erisorn laid the smack down on the Blood Mother. Oh yeah, something about Kelmvor being pleased– maybe a vision.

So, any idea what we’re up to next?

UPDATE: (from another post) — WotC cross book Indexes
Prestige Class Index, Class Index, Feat Index, Spell Index

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Friday December 30th Cancelled

Tonya’s working a half day Friday, so we’ll spend Friday night with family. The following week (Friday January 6th) should be a go– our Sacramento visit has been rescheduled for later in the month.

Happy New Year!

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For your spell casting ease

Wizard’s has an index with the location of all spells in the Spell Compendium and Player’s Handbook. Spell Index. Among the cool features: you can sort by school, class & level of the spell, type of target, and more.

Though, double checking, sorting by caster class/level doesn’t work very well.