Yes, Yet another Year End Post. I’m sure the RPGbloggers network‘s first page must crumble under that Echo Chamber effect. But I don’t quite care about that. 🙂 The Year in Review Oh man what a year. Last year you could taste the the first signs of the rapid unraveling of my mind in my […]
Nico’s Lego RPG: Assault on the Crystal King’s Cave, Part 2
See part 1 here. Cave of the Crystal Kings I set up the second and final encounter of our little game by piling books and boxes to create a ‘throne’ for the Crystal King. Chatty: All right, the king awaits your arrival. Nico: Oh Dad, wait, I’ve got these gems in the Rock Wrecker. Chatty: […]
Nico’s Lego RPG: Assault on the Crystal King’s Cave, Part 1
I was thinking how long it had been since I played a post-worthy RPG session with my soon-to-be 8 years old son Nico. A few weeks ago, I made him a Swords and Wizardry PC and we started doing a random dungeon crawl but I made the bad decision of using the 1e DMG dungeon […]
Merry Chirstmas and Happy Holidays
It’s X-mas morning and my family is doing geeky things. My daughter asked to play on the CBC kids website right after watching the Disney Parade. My son and wife are playing Wii Sports Resort and I’m just checking a few things online before joining back the fun. I just thought I’d take a few […]
Mouse Guard Diaries: Delivering the Mail, Part 4, Finale
Player Turn: In the player turn, each player gets to spend a free ‘token’ called a ‘check’ to do one thing, of his own choosing, like recovering from a negative condition, playing a scene to achieve an unmet goal or interact with the story in some way. Players each get 1 free check. They can […]
Mouse Guard Diaries: Delivering the Mail, Part 3
Fight at Raven’s Hollow With a failed Pathfinder’s check, I moved to the adventure’s first plot twist. In a home brewed adventure, the GM would have had the choice of creating a plot twist or letting the PCs succeed but gain a negative condition liked ‘Angry, Sick, Injured’. From my understanding, the GM is encouraged […]
Mouse Guard Diaries: Delivering the Mail, Part 2
The Players I had 4 players attending this Mouse Guard game: Yan: Legendary fiddler and king of crunch. Yan expects fast interaction with the game, be it Story or dice rolling. Patience incarnate he is not. 🙂 Franky: Our groups most eager storyteller and explorer. Give him a new setting and story hooks and he’ll […]
Mouse Guard Diaries: Delivering the Mail, Part 1, Mini-Review/Primer
I’ve long said that I was a mono-gamist. I heavily invest myself in one game system and I spent most of my free time on it. The fact that many consider this blog to be a D&D 4e blog lends strong support to that assertion. But lately, maybe because I’m well past my mid-30s, […]
Happy Birthday Love!
It’s become a tradition on this blog to wish the woman of my life a happy birthday. She’ll turn XX+1 tomorrow (Sunday). This year has been a particularly trying one for us and I’m eternally grateful that we made it through intact. I owe a lot of it to Alex’s resilience and willingness to believe in us and […]
Don’t Touch That! A Winter Solstice Tale
Last week, Wizards of the Coast posted a contest on their community site (which many of us call Wizbook). The contest is still open for a few days (until December 21st actually) and so far only 2 entries were sent in, mine and my friend Dave: The Game of Critical Hits fame. Entrants can win […]
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