Mon - December
29, 2003
Gaming and More
I ran the second session of
my Lord of the
Rings game yesterday afternoon. I think it went
well, people seemed to have a good time. After the game we went to Rainy Day
Games and I acquired the following
games:
GURPS SWAT, Chief
Herman's Next Big Thing
and
Lightspeed (both from Cheapass Games), and
for Spycraft: Shadowforce Archer, Modern
Arms Guide, The Archer Foundation, Soldier/Wheelman Class Guide, Gentlemen's
Agreement, Pan-Asian Collective, Fixer/Pointman Class Guide, European
Commonwealth, Faceman/Snoop Class Guide, African
Alliance,
and The
1960s. Whew! I now have everything
for
Spycraft other than the Game Control
Shield.
I've been going through
the
Spycraft stuff since then and will be for some
time.
Posted at 02:39 PM
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Sat
- December
27, 2003
LotR
I worked on my
Lord of the Rings game tomorrow on the train on
the way home this afternoon.
Posted at 07:17 PM
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Sat
- December
20, 2003
New Acquisitions
Last night, I picked
up The
Shop and
Most Wanted, two new supplements
for
Spycraft. I also picked up two Hip Pocket games
from Cheapass Games, Safari
Jack and
TimeLine. I also worked more on
my
Spycraft game this morning and
afternoon.
Posted at 01:49 PM
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Thu - December
18, 2003
HeroQuest
I received my copy
of Dragon Pass: Land of
Thunder and a second copy of
the Hero's
Book. They're both great books and bode well for
further
HeroQuest
support.
I worked more on my
forthcoming
Spycraft campaign the last two
days.
Posted at 07:20 PM
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Mon - December
15, 2003
Three Games
I Sunday the group met at Brennan & Mila's. I
helped a new player, Chuck, make a character for
my Lord of the Rings Roleplaying
Game and talked to Matt about his character. I
also playtested some Savage
Worlds combat with Brennan, as he's thinking of
running a fantasy game and is undecided about whether to
use Dungeons &
Dragons or
Savage Worlds. He's still undecided. When I got
home I worked on my upcoming
Spycraft game (probably not starting until
spring, or something like that).
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Sat
- December
13, 2003
HeroQuest Playtesting
This afternoon, Reza, Bryan, John, and I playtested
some alternate conflict resolution house rules I got from
the
HeroQuest mailing list. They worked quite well,
I'll be adopting them. The barn's DSL conked out at the end so we lost
Reza.
Posted at 08:12 PM
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Thu - December
11, 2003
Cyberthulhu
We finished up John's cyberthulhu one-shot last night.
The ending was very confusing, but Dave's character ended up becoming Hastur, or
something like that. It was a little less focused than the prior session, I
think, but still fun.
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Thu - December
4, 2003
Cybercthulhu?
We began John's one-shot game of cybercthulhu last
night. It seems very promising, even if it might not be cthulhu-esque. John did
a very good job of doing a netrunning session that involved all of us. I'm
looking forward to next week. I'm playing Benny "The Jet" Urquidez, a
professional gambler.
Posted at 07:55 PM
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Sun - November 30, 2003
LoTR
I ran my first
Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game session this
afternoon. Philip's playing a Silvan loremaster/magician, Mila's playing a
Hobbit rogue, Brennan a Sindar ranger, Heidi a Dunedain noble, and Reza a rider
of Rohan. I thought it went well, a good start to the campaign.
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Fri - November 28, 2003
HQ and LOTR
I played in Bryan's
heroic
HeroQuest twice, once Wednesday night and this
afternoon. One thing's for sure with the higher point total, there's a vast
difference between PCs abilities. There's 2-3 levels of mastery difference
between my character and Bryan and Reza's
characters.
I've also been getting ready
to run The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying
Game for the Saturday group this
Sunday.
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Sun - November 16, 2003
Spycraft
I've been reading the
main
Spycraft rulebook most of the day. I think
they've done a good job capturing the genre, even though it is a d20 game. We'll
see how it works in play.
Posted at 08:07 PM
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Sat
- November 15, 2003
HeroQuest
I ran
HeroQuest this afternoon and it went well, I
think. The players triumphed fairly easily because 1) they had a good idea I
hadn't anticipated (augmenting Bryan's character up heavily beforehand), and 2)
I rolled poorly. So we pressed on and they formed a heroband, The Spears of
Orlanth, and obtained a
wyter.
Posted at 07:20 PM
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Thu - November 13, 2003
HeroQuest
I worked out the adventure for this
Saturday's
HeroQuest game tonight. This is the
combat-oriented adventure. I hope it goes well.
Posted at 10:02 PM
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No Man's Land
We finished
playing No Man's
Land, a
Call of Cthulhu adventure, last night. It was a
very CoC session: Philip's character fell unconscious and then was sucked into
the ground when the church we were fleeing got sucked in, my character had his
right leg torn off by ghouls and died, Bryan and Reza's character (they were
sharing one) burst into flames and died, we were being chased by ghouls and left
Philip's 2nd character behind as he fell unconscious (and it turned out he had
the paper with the chant to reseal the gate so we had to come back and recover
the paper from his dismembered corpse), my second character was shot and killed
by Bryan's second character as my character was possessed and trying to eat the
paper with the chant, and Bryan's second character was killed in the final
battle. Thus only John's character sealed the gate and survived, permanently
disfigured, with multiple personality disorder, and with only 8 Sanity left. All
in all, a very successful CoC adventure.
Posted at 10:41 AM
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Mon - November 10, 2003
Evernight
Last Wednesday night we played another session
of
Evernight. I thought it went well, we had a nice
bar brawl (where I got to point and laugh at an NPC) and then went to clear out
some undead that had been attacking refugees. We took the main bad guy out
pretty quickly (considering how tough he was) because a) Bryan kindly spent lots
of his bennies up front, and 2) I got a massive 5-wound hit on him early on. He
was operating at two wounds from Incapacitated from that point on.
Posted at 07:56 PM
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