Strategicon: Gamex 2013 RoundUp

Mike and I went back to Strategicon this weekend for Gamex (OrcCon is in February, Gamex is May, and Gateway is on Labor Day weekend). I previously wrote a round-up of our gaming experiences, so decided to do so again this week. We both played the same system more than once this weekend– I played […]

Magic from the Arco

My Fate players and I finally got together on Saturday. We sat down and created characters for the PCs, a couple of NPCs, and some setting concepts. We have Garosh, the heir to a doomed barbarian tribe. Garosh is big, beefy, all muscle, but a keen hunter, especially out in the wilderness. He’s also got […]

Role Reversal

Seems like everyone did our work for us– enemies and allies alike. And unfortunately, we did  theirs, too. Armos came for us in the early dawn. He brought an orcish mercenary troop with him. He might have beaten us, if we hadn’t already teamed up with Venak and his soldiers. There may be no love […]

Having Faith

When we entered the Green Chapel, as I came to call it in my mind, I didn’t know what to expect. That it might be an offshoot of one of the stories in Firiel’s book was certainly not in my mind. Firiel’s book…. dear gods, what an unexpected complication! Right when we need to be […]

Partial Victory

We had three objectives at the road block, and we achieved two of them. The road is destroyed– trade to Psarios will be slowed until the bridge is rebuilt, and Erathis’ agents will need to find another choke point to hinder our efforts. Also, the Vicar of Psarios is dead, leaving a power vacuum into […]