See part 1 here. Before getting into the actual dungeon crawl, as pointed out by Yan in the comments yesterday, I realized that PM was the only PC moving at a speed of 4 squares (20′). He was wearing Scale Mail, which has the same AC bonus as a Chain Shirt, only cheaper and bulkier. […]
DM Chronicles: The legend of the Broken Dice, Session 2, Part 1
Way back in October, I played a one shot adventure using Paizo’s Pathfinder #1, Burnt Offering. I wrote the session’s log here. We reconvened last Sunday for another session in a day long geekfest of Dim Sum, Anime and D&D. So on Sunday Morning we arrived at PM’s palace of Cats (he has 2) in […]
Adventure Prep: The Newbie group, an Encore
Back in late October I posted an adventure prep article about doing a Demo D&D game for a group mostly made of D&D newbies based on Paizo’s Pathfinder #1 : Burnt Offering. The game was very entertaining, featuring crazy stupid goblins and some of the worse dice-craft I had ever seen in a game. A […]
Pathfinder #5 preview: Crawl that Dungeon!
Tonight features a double post because I’m taking off tomorrow night… It’s Valentine’s Day! (No I still haven’t received #4 if you were wondering) The fifth Installment of Paizo’s Pathfinder series, Sins of the Savios sets out to recreate the high-level massive dungeon crawl experience of classic D&D adventures. It features a multi-part dungeon based […]
Pathfinder #4 preview: Wolfgang Baur must really hate me
This is a continuing series of short posts on Paizo’s Pathfinder adventure path magazine. The image is Copyright 2007 Paizo Publishings. Yeah I haven’t done one of those in quite some time (Dec 7 to be more precise) for a very good reason, I never got my #4 issue of Pathfinder (written by none other […]
Character Genesis: New characters for Pathfinder #1.
A few months ago, I prepared a demo D&D game for PM, his friend Vince, and Franky’s brother Mike, all newbies to RPGs or D&D 3.5 in general. Franky had joined to even out the group and act as the expert on the players side. Our game session, based on Paizo’s excellent Pathfinder #1 adventure, […]
A very Goblin X-mas
What would be X-mas morning without a Goblin Song…. (Taken from the Paizo Blog) (Sung to the tune of Jingle Bells) Sneaking through your yard, Going through your stuff, Hope you didn’t like your dog; we got a little rough! Tied him to a stump. Lit the stump on fire. Maybe you’ll wake up in […]
Mini-Fluff: Pathfinder #3 Preview
This is a continuing series of short posts on Paizo’s Pathfinder adventure path magazine. The image is Copyright 2007 Paizo Publishings I got issue #3 of this amazing OGL compliant adventure series about 2 weeks ago. Time for another capsule review/preview. Issue number one was about Crazy Gobbo’s and an insane Assinar. Issue number #2 […]
DM Chronicles, Session 7: Of Performing Crunch and Norming Fluff, Part 1
Image Source: Paizo’s Pathfinder, Lamia Matriarch, copyright 2007 Paizo publishing (under Fair Use). Please note that this post features spoilers of Paizo’s Pathfinder #2, more precisely the nature of it’s boss monster. Previously in Phil’s game: The heroes vanquished the last Child of Sehan, squared off against a Succubus (and won), dodged deadly traps and […]
DM Chronicles, New Player Intro: The legend of the Broken Dice
This post features extensive spoilers for the 1st Pathfinder Adventure path adventure “Burnt Offering” Last night we played the introduction D&D game I talked about earlier this week. It was a good game and while I completely realize that I might be expecting too much from D&D, it could have gone better…. but this time, […]
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