We had our first genuine player character death last night at Dead in Thay, and I would have been disappointed if it didn’t happen. This week was “Room 10.” In the Dead in Thay megadungeon, Room 10 should be known as a killer. The party is 6th level, and they open a door and there’s a lich and […]
SS Placeholder – now Pony Express
Note: The adventures of the SS Placeholder are very much not in line with social justice or safe spaces or whatever. We’re really clear about this– our characters are utter degenerates in all senses of the word. The Captain is pretty much Zapp Branigan, mostly Id and Ego walking around sometimes wearing pants. Alain is […]
Dead in Thay – Sessions 2 and 3
I forgot to write up the session from last week, and this week’s adds a significant combat, so it’s a good time to do so. This week brought some lapses into murderhobo’ing, but it was overall a good session and my table did all right.
Strategicon: Gamex 2014. The Games We Played This Weekend
Once again, Mike and I do a post-mortem after Strategicon weekend! This was one of the best gaming weekends for me at a convention– every RPG I played was exceptional, and the worst/most disappointing one I played was actually the one I ran (Threadbare… still a work in progress!)
13th Age: My First Session
I played 13th Age this weekend in an online game a friend of mine ran. He’s learning the system and, more importantly, working on his pacing in preparation for running games at GenCon. I’ve played with this DM in the past, so we have a lot of DM-player trust built up, which is very important […]