Session reports and discussion of real games with real people
I finally finish up my review of this issue, Alternate Dungeons, with +Steven Marsh‘s Random Thought Table. Dungeon Fantasy is full of entertaining tropes, some used for amusement, some for simplification, and some for the one true purpose of absolute and total mayhem. Alternate Dungeons takes this and attempts to come at you sideways. The previous reviews…
After a six-week hiatus, +Erik Tenkar , +Peter V. Dell’Orto , +Tim Shorts , +Joe D , and a new player Reece, playing Bronan the 3rd level fighter. We carefully negotiate the 5% slope, assuming Bronan the level 3 fighter (yay, more meat shields!) cannot detect it. After securing healing potions and whatnot, we head to something that looked like a New Yorker…
+Erik Tenkar asked about hirelings. +Peter V. Dell’Orto wrote about them as well. A comment over on Erik’s blog feed made me think back to a campaign I ran (the Blasingdell campaign, the origin of Sterick the Red). It was a Fantasy game, before Dungeon Fantasy was a GURPS line. It was a map centered on the town…