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Lords of Waterdeep, Friendless Shut-in Edition.

I picked up the iphone game Lords of Waterdeep last week, in part to see me through trips down to Northfield.   It is one of those games like Ticket to Ride and Elder Sign that seem like they transition…

Castaway Diary, days 25, 26, 27, 28.

House rule: Grappling, while being a huge pain in the backside, is lacking a few rules; specifically how to attack a person who is in a grapple/has the grappled condition when you’re just standing there ungrappled, with a battle-axe, but…

Castaway Diary, day 25

Finally a new day! Oh, what interpersonal conflicts will today bring? /cackle /wigglefingers   Nope, instead of fights between player characters, this session moved the story on a bit. Smuggler’s Shiv’s history was revealed a little bit and while the…

Castaway Diary, day 24, concluded.

  A character death. Or was it… MURDER? Where better to hide a dead barbarian than among a whole pile of dead barbarians?   Nah, it wasn’t murder, just your average vicious undead attack and disadvantageous terrain combined with some…

Castaway Diary, day 24 continued even further.

Well, after last week’s carnage – having pulled what seems to have been the entire barbarian camp into one massive fucked-up melee – this week’s session was bound to be quieter. When you’ve ascended the top of the skull throne,…

Castaway Diary, day 24 cont.

  ALL COMBAT, ALL SESSION! It was a cracking one too, which – in combination with last week’s session – left 25 barbarians, four skeletons and one giant lizard dead. No Player or NPC friendly casualties, although they came awfully…

Castaway Diary, day 24 cont.

Woo. Lots of combat last night – only six rounds of combat with the cannibals, but it was pretty intense with the charging and the impaling and the biting and the shooting and the skeletons and the spiders. That was…

Weekend Away Report

Update Courtesy of JC.   A couple of weeks ago  the “Magnificent 7” packed up and headed into the hills  to our secluded, and (nearly) child / wife / partner / gimp proof retreat.  With 3 full days and nights…